Re: [expert] Plugger on 7.1
Seems to be working for me. I didn't "install" it per se, I just copied my files from a working 3.2-on-7.0 install, though. Craig Woods wrote: > > Greetings, > > Just out of curiosity, has anyone been successful with the installation > of Plugger 3.2 on LMDK 7.1? I have set this guy up on ALL earlier > versions without any problems. It does not seem to work on 7.1. Is it > broken, Mandrake team? After both kinds of install, RPM and manual, I > get the same error when attempting to use the pluggin: "open > /dev/sequencer: No such device" But when I take a look, there is such a > device, two of them, as a matter of fact. "/dev/sequencer" is there as a > character device, and "/dev/sequencer2" is there as a symlink to > "/dev/music". "/dev/music" is also a character device. > > These devices are owned by root, and have the audio group. Do you think > this is a permissions issue? If anyone has been successful in setting up > plugger, I would love to hear how you have done it. There is precious > few resources for documentation on the /dev/sequencer. > > thanks for any help rendered, > Craig -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] MP3 Files
Sarang Lakare wrote:
>
> nice script! I really like it!
>
> but hey, how do i add some spacing in between those songs?
>
> -sarang
This puts 2 seconds of space as it is.
To change the amount of space, add
-padsize=20k
or whatever. (At 16-bit samples, stereo = 4 bytes/sample, and 44.1
samples/second, there should be about 200 bytes per second, so a padsize
of around 400 should be roughly equal to the default . . . but this is
all theory, you understand; I've never actually messed with it myself.
That lovely script does nothing but capture the music porition of the
CD-writing HOWTO into a simple script.
As noted by another correspondent, it falls apart if you have files with
spaces in the names (I don't--I have another scripts that substibutes
underscores for all such file names becuase spaces are inconvenient in
Linux in a number of ways), and it fails for a CD-RW (unless it happens
to be new).
(But why on earth would you burn CDs for your car/office/Walkman on
CD-RW??? It never occurred to me that anybody would. Certainly *I*
never would.)
My "unmsdos" script, by the way, and it's campanion script, "uncrnl",
are attached.
The "rated names" part of the unmsdos script was this totally quirky
concept that even I later ditched for having a sort of "attachment" at
the end of a file name, noted with a leading :, that I didn't want the
script to munge.
Many of you may find it "overly eager," it takes out all "funny"
characters; that is, all characters magic to the shells, from file names
to make them easier to work with. If the file is a text file, it
changes CR/NL sequences to NL. I run it over fils that come from the MS
world to "Linuxify" them. You may love it or hate it . . . it works for
me.
It is quite handy to run over your mp3's before running my writecd
script, but could mess you up if you already have them in data bases
with their current names.
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#! /usr/bin/perl
if ($ARGV[0] eq '-c') # Special CD-ROM mode
{
$cdrom = 1;
}
if ($ARGV[0] eq '-n')
{
shift;
$putname = 1;
}
foreach (@ARGV)
{
# unmsdos accpets a "quoting" convention of angle-brackets to
# quote names. If it has 'em, strip 'em. If it has the leading,
# but not the trailing, bracket then save this one and come
# around again. First see if we are continued from before.
if ($pending)
{
$_ = $pending . ' ' .$_;
$pending = "";
}
if (/^$/)
{
s/^$//;
}
else
{
$pending = $_;
next;
}
}
$path = $_;
$path = "." if (! /\//);
$path =~ s|/[^/]*$||;
s|^.*/||;
$newname = $_;
if ($cdrom)
{
next if (length > 12 || /[a-z]/); # 12 = 8.3 (12345678.ABC)
goto justLowercase;
}
# If it's one of my "rated" names, seperate out the rating part.
# Always take out leading paths for file renames.
$prefix = "";
if (/^(.*\/)?(\w+-\w+-\w+:)?/)
{
$prefix = $&;
$_ = $';
}
# name conversions.
$newname =~ tr/\x80-\xFF/\x00-\x7F/;
$newname =~ s/[\x00- ]/_/g;
$newname =~ s/[[\]]/_/g;
$newname =~ s/\&/+/g;
$newname =~ s/\s/_/g;
$newname =~ s/^~/_/g;
$newname =~ s/^\+/p_/g;
$newname =~ s/([^.])~/$1-/g;
$newname =~ s/;/@/g;
$newname =~ s/[ `'"!&*$;]/_/g;
$newname =~ s/\$/_/g;
$newname =~ s/[:{}|()]/-/g;
$newname =~ s/^-/_/;
$newname =~ s/\?/q/g;
$newname =~ s/#/=/g;
$newname =~ s/\\/_/g;
justLowercase:
$newname =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
if ($putname)
{
print "$newname\n";
next;
}
$newname = $path . "/" . $newname;
$_ = $path . "/" . $_;
if ($newname ne $_)
{
print "$_ -> $newname\n";
if (-e $prefix . $newname)
{
print STDERR "$newname already exists; can't rename\n";
}
else
{
if (rename($prefix . $_, $prefix . $newname))
{
$_ = $newname;
}
else
{
print STDERR "Rename to $newname failed.\n";
}
}
}
# Changes to file contents . . .
$_ = $prefix . $_;
if (-T $_ && !cdrom)
{
if (system('uncrnl', $_)/256 == 0)
{
print "Uncrnl'ed $_\n";
}
else
{
print STDERR "Uncrnl $_ failed.\n";
}
}
}
#! /bin/tcsh -f
# set echo
if ("$1" =~ */*) then
set plc = $1:h
set file = $1:t
cd $plc
else
set file = $1
endif
mv $file }$file}
tr < }$file} > $file -d '\r'
Re: [expert] Custom batch file startup
faisal wrote: > > Can i have linux show my customly made batch file in the startup services > like it shows sendmail,httpd etdc etc ? If I'm following what you want, then call it from the rc.local file in /etc/rc.d. It won't show as a service at startup, but it will run it. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] MP3 Files
This converts 'em.
I play the CD's I create this way on my car stereo. No problem.
Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
>
> Sridhar G wrote:
> >
> > I've a couple of MP3 files. How to write these files to CD as a normal
> Audio
> > CD.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Sridhar
>
> Here is a script of mine. I call it
> makecd. Just copy it into a file and make it executable. Then you just
> give it a list of mp3's on the command line and it writes it. The
> script make some assumptions, but change it to change those assumptions
> should be easy.
>
> assumes:
> 1. You already can write regular data CDs. This means that you have
> SCSI cd-writer, or (more likely) you have SCSI emulation going.
> 2. Your CD-writer is on SCSI device 0. This is almost certainly true if
> you have SCSI emulation ('casue you have either an IDE or parallel-port
> writer), and almost certain false if you have a true SCSI system.
> 3. Your CD-writer can write at 4x speed. If it's recent and it's SCSI
> and/or parallel, this is probably the case, though if you have a slow
> CPU the mp3 decoding might not be able to keep up, and a slower speed
> might be called for. If you have a parallel-port writer, you probably
> can't go past speed=1.
>
> Here's the script, far smaller than the explanation:
> cut
> here--
> #! /bin/csh -f
>
> foreach fn ($*)
> mpg123 -s $fn | cdrecord dev=0,0 speed=4 -audio -pad -swab -nofix -
> end
>
> cdrecord dev=0,0 -fix -eject
>
> --
>
> Hey Brian!
> Question, will this convert the .mp3 to .cda format or will it just place
> the mp3's on a cd? I was under the impression that the later would take
> place and that you had to, at some point, convert the file type (or else not
> be able to use the cd in a normal cd player).
>
> Mike
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Re: [expert] MP3 Files
Sridhar G wrote:
>
> I've a couple of MP3 files. How to write these files to CD as a normal Audio
> CD.
>
> Cheers
> Sridhar
Here is a script of mine. I call it
makecd. Just copy it into a file and make it executable. Then you just
give it a list of mp3's on the command line and it writes it. The
script make some assumptions, but change it to change those assumptions
should be easy.
assumes:
1. You already can write regular data CDs. This means that you have
SCSI cd-writer, or (more likely) you have SCSI emulation going.
2. Your CD-writer is on SCSI device 0. This is almost certainly true if
you have SCSI emulation ('casue you have either an IDE or parallel-port
writer), and almost certain false if you have a true SCSI system.
3. Your CD-writer can write at 4x speed. If it's recent and it's SCSI
and/or parallel, this is probably the case, though if you have a slow
CPU the mp3 decoding might not be able to keep up, and a slower speed
might be called for. If you have a parallel-port writer, you probably
can't go past speed=1.
Here's the script, far smaller than the explanation:
cut
here--
#! /bin/csh -f
foreach fn ($*)
mpg123 -s $fn | cdrecord dev=0,0 speed=4 -audio -pad -swab -nofix -
end
cdrecord dev=0,0 -fix -eject
--
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Re: [expert] CDDB servers?
Here's an odd thing . . . if I add freedb.freedb.org to my server list, then kscd segv's whenever it tries to access the data base, from QString::find(). Since it's compiled without debug info the details of the bug are elusive. I could, if I were more enthusiastic, build a debug version and track it down and/or contact the kscd folks, but I thought I'd first see if somebody was already familiar with this and if it's already been fixed. It's easy to work around, of course; I just don't use freedb.freedb.org. Fran Parker wrote: > > freedb.freedb.org > us.cddb.com > > What one doesn't have the other seems to have. > > Not all the cddb 'libraries' are the same. > > Bambi > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > Has anyone got a list of CDDB servers? The ones I have in my CD player set > > up appear to be defunct. > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > > > -- C^2 > > > > No windows were crashed in the making of this email. > > > > Looking for fine software and/or web pages? > > http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley > > > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="unnamed" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] starting XWINDOWS???
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > Joseph Jenkins wrote: > > > > If you could send me your file that would be great. Also what monitor did > > you choose? > > A generic one; I played with generic monitors capable of 1280x1024 until > one worked. My apologies; I didn't mean to send the mail with the attachment to the entire list. I'll try to be more careful in the future. At least it was a relatively small attachment.
Re: [expert] starting XWINDOWS???
Joseph Jenkins wrote: > > If you could send me your file that would be great. Also what monitor did > you choose? A generic one; I played with generic monitors capable of 1280x1024 until one worked. > > Thanks, > > Joseph Jenkins > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian T. > Schellenberger > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] starting XWINDOWS??? > > Interesting. I have a Dell 7500, with Rage Mobility Pro, running 7.1. > > I did have a little more trouble getting X configured, but I don't > remember the details. > I do have it working now, but I have a 1280x1024 LCD, and the 5000 > doesn't. (I don't believe that there's any other laptop, by any > manufacturer, that does, actually--certainly there wasn't when I first > bought it in November.) As I recall, my XF86Config file from 7.0 > *didn't* work as-is, though. But I might be mis-remembering; Mrs. Price > from "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" ['Your memory, Mrs. Price!'] models my > memory pretty well. > > FWIW, I can mail you my config file if you want. > > Joseph Jenkins wrote: > > > > Sorry about the subject I repliet to someone else's. > > The video card is: Rage Mobility-p AGP > > The monitor is a: Laptop screen > > The version of Xwindows is: 3.3.6 > > The computer is a: DEll Inspiron 5000 > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glyn Millington > > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 7:53 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [expert] How do I get cron to shutup? = XWINDOWS??? > > > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:05:37AM -0400, thus spake Joseph Jenkins: > > > I am having some problems with X-windows, I just did a clean install and > > > went to 7.1, now whenever my machine starts up it tries to run X and > then > > > dies. I didn't have this problem with 7.0, that installed and > everything > > > ran fine. I compared all of the setting for x-windows and they seem to > be > > > the same, between the installs. Is there I can get more logging when I > > try > > > to start X-Windows? The only log that I am looking in is > > /var/log/messages, > > > is there another one that I should be looking in to see if there are > > > messages? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Joseph Jenkins > > > > Hey Joseph, > > > > If you want to start a new subject, give your email A NEW TITLE. > > It makes it easier for the people who can help to offer help. > > > > Which version of Xwindows are you trying to fire up? > > > > IN haste > > > > Glyn M > > > > -- > >** > >* "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * > > * Douglas Hoftstatder* > >** > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection # ** # Server flags section. # ** Section "ServerFlags" # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a bett
Re: [expert] starting XWINDOWS???
Interesting. I have a Dell 7500, with Rage Mobility Pro, running 7.1. I did have a little more trouble getting X configured, but I don't remember the details. I do have it working now, but I have a 1280x1024 LCD, and the 5000 doesn't. (I don't believe that there's any other laptop, by any manufacturer, that does, actually--certainly there wasn't when I first bought it in November.) As I recall, my XF86Config file from 7.0 *didn't* work as-is, though. But I might be mis-remembering; Mrs. Price from "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" ['Your memory, Mrs. Price!'] models my memory pretty well. FWIW, I can mail you my config file if you want. Joseph Jenkins wrote: > > Sorry about the subject I repliet to someone else's. > The video card is: Rage Mobility-p AGP > The monitor is a: Laptop screen > The version of Xwindows is: 3.3.6 > The computer is a: DEll Inspiron 5000 > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glyn Millington > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 7:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] How do I get cron to shutup? = XWINDOWS??? > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:05:37AM -0400, thus spake Joseph Jenkins: > > I am having some problems with X-windows, I just did a clean install and > > went to 7.1, now whenever my machine starts up it tries to run X and then > > dies. I didn't have this problem with 7.0, that installed and everything > > ran fine. I compared all of the setting for x-windows and they seem to be > > the same, between the installs. Is there I can get more logging when I > try > > to start X-Windows? The only log that I am looking in is > /var/log/messages, > > is there another one that I should be looking in to see if there are > > messages? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Joseph Jenkins > > Hey Joseph, > > If you want to start a new subject, give your email A NEW TITLE. > It makes it easier for the people who can help to offer help. > > Which version of Xwindows are you trying to fire up? > > IN haste > > Glyn M > > -- >** >* "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * >* Douglas Hoftstatder* >** -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] MDK 7.1 and the backspace key
I'm only having trouble with X. And I have the same feeling you do--and something, moreover, is different w/r/t X in 7.1 than it was in 7.0 and all previous Linux versions I've used, going back to the kernel 1.0 days when I used slackware. I just wish I knew what. kf wrote: > > >From what I've been able to discern playing around with this stuff is that > there's different keyboard mapping programs for the console and for X. In > fact there's several, perhaps conflicting, programs for X. I've been > wresting with keyboard mapping for awhile and can't get it to work right. > > Are you experiencing this in X or at the console or both? > > kf > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > = > = Sorry for the delayed response; I was on vacation. There was a like a > = week's delay between my original post and when it showed up on the list > = . . . > = > = Anyway, > = > = My /etc/sysconfig/keyboard already looks like that. > = That's why it works in the console window, I presume. > = > = Tried to make that clear in the original mail; guess I didn't. > = > = I have worked around it by chaning my stty back to ^C, and mapping my > = SysRq key > = to END, and using XTerm's keyboard mapping to map END to ^C, but this > = seems like > = a really byzantine way to have to go about it. > = > = Any other ideas about what process might be (mis-)translating the darn > = key for me? > = > = > = Ivan wrote: > = > > = > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: > = > > I've installed MDK 7.1 (from scratch--new hard disk). I was previously > = > > using 7.0. > = > > > = > > The backspace is doing that incredibly annoying Linux thing of acting > = > > like a del key. > = > > Since I use del an interrupt key (so I can map it to SysRq), this is > = > > extremely annoying. > = > > > = > > My /etc/sysconfig/keyboard is setting the Backspace to Backspace, and > = > > thus it works as I want in the console. > = > > > = > > Under X, "xev" shows that backspace generate a backspace, and delete > = > > generates a delete, but they both do the same thing. I've tried running > = > > the International Keyboard program, and not running it. > = > > > = > > This is really getting in my way, I *really* hope somebody can help me!! > = > > > = > > -- > = > > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > = > > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > = > > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > = > > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. > = > > = > Have you tried editing your /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file to read > = > > = > BACKSPACE=BackSpace > = > > = > I think that is how it should work. In 7.0 it had different syntax that > = > required it to need the ^H option, so you might try that too. I looked at the > = > startup services as they were starting to see if the boot was actually doing > = > the right thing. The nice thing is that this won't completely disable your > = > system so you can try different things if BackSpace doesn't work. > = > > = > Hope this helps. > = > Ivan > = > = -- > = "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > = Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > = Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > = Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. > = > = > > -- > Familiarity breeds contempt. >-- Publius Syrus (42 B.C.), Maxim 640 -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] "No authorized users logged in"
Thank you very much, Scott Kindley and Gavin Clark. Here's the deal . . . Because I chose high security, the ctrlaltdel in my /etc/inittab on the firewall machine was specified with the -a option. I have now removed that option, which will no doubt fix the problem. (The other alternative of *having* an authorized user logged in doesn't really solve my problem; the whole point is that this machine should not normally have *any* users logged in, and it's somewhat physically inaccessable; I don't want to every have to give it more than the three-finger salute if I can help it.) PS: The security concern doesn't bother me. I want this machine to have high security w/r/t to the network, but I am completely unconcered about physical security, to the point that the root password is taped to the keyboard. Scott Kindley wrote: > > > > I'd like for CTL+ALT+DEL to reboot it even if *nobody* is logged in. > > > > > > To make a a short story long . . . > > > > (snip) > > > > > > So . . . > > > > > > What controls this? How can I change it? > > > > > > -- > > > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /etc/inittab > > excerpt from man inittab: > > # What to do at the "3 finger salute". > ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -rf now > > Hope this helps. > Scott -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] "No authorized users logged in"
Does the lack of response mean that I won at "stump the band" here? "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > On my gateway/firewall machine, I get the message "no authorized users > logged in" when I try to reboot, unless root is logged in. > > I'd like for CTL+ALT+DEL to reboot it even if *nobody* is logged in. > > To make a a short story long . . . > > I'm sure that the problem is that the security level is set to high; > that's because it's a firewall machine, and I want high security w/r/t > the outside world, but I want "running with scissors" security w/r/t to > the physical world. > > (In fact, as a reflection of this, I have a *very* secure > password--randomly generated from a maximal character set--but I have > the password taped onto the front of the box. If a bad guy is already > standing in front of my firewall, I've got much bigger problems than the > security of my *computer* system.) > > The keyword is physically inaccessible (difficult to get to, that is), > so logging in as root just to reboot is a real pain. Frequently I wind > up just hitting the power switch, but this is obviously a less than > ideal way to reboot on a regular basis. > > So . . . > > What controls this? How can I change it? > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] chown problems
There was a long thread on this earlier in the group. I was shocked at the behavior (HP-UX, for one, doesn't have it, and I'm pretty damned sure that the first Unix I used [BSD 2.1 as I recall] didn't), but apparently Linux has always worked this way. (PS: There are other, less drastic, ways to plug the security vulnerability with SUID root files; HP-UX plugs it by always turning off the SUID bit when a chown is executed. Seems reasonable to me. It does seem likely, however, that you can run somebody else out of disk quota by giving him files over & over, so I gues there's argument to made for the Linux approach.) Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:14:09PM -0700, Anton Graham wrote: > > Submitted 04-Aug-00 by Charles Curley: > > > OK, how do I give away a file? > > > > Only root can do this. The reasoning is as follows: I compile my own copy > > of a program, chmod 4555, and then give it to root. Now I have an > > unaccounted for suid process that can do anything it wants to. > > > > For the same reasons, you can only give files to groups of which you are a > > member. > > They are members of the same group, although in neither case is it the > default group. > > cgi:x:98:nobody,ccurley > > -- > > -- C^2 > > No windows were crashed in the making of this email. > > Looking for fine software and/or web pages? > http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley > > -------- >Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] are there any dos emulators??
My experince was that win4lin was rather flakey. (See the Maximum Linux review-- "It's great--when it works." The reviewer's experiences and mine were quite similar. It *is* fast, though. But I don't think it has anything to do with what I *think* Agrwal was asking. Hoyt wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Agrawal Sachin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:13 AM > Subject: [expert] are there any dos emulators?? > > > Are there any dos emulators that can read files from linux partitions??? > > > > for instance having a program on a linux partition run with a dos > > emulator..?? > > > > Win4Lin for TreLOS at http://www.trelos.com. For $49, it's an excellent > product, and if you only need the MS product computability, better than > VMware. > > Hoyt -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] cron for users
crontab myfile.txt loads myfile.txt into the cron table; this is the classic way to load it. And if crontab -l shows it, it's there. crontab -e won't help him. Alas, though, I don't know the answer. It works fine for me. FWIW, here was my test: Edit .crontab; insert the following (substitute with your user name!): * * * * * date >> /home/bts/t crontab .crontab crontab -l touch t tail -f t If this doesn't work for you, check /var/log/messages and see if it shows anything. You probably want to un-do this after you finish . . . Andrew George wrote: > > run crontab -e > then you get a VI style screen to put in your cron entries > I'm not even sure what crontab myfile.txt would do > the entry should go into /var/cron/username > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Gavin Clark wrote: > > > > > hi, > > > > I can't get cron to work for users. > > > > I added /etc/cron.d/cron.deny with no entries > > > > I ran #crontab myfile.txt as the user > > #crontab -l shows it worked > > > > 15 * * * */usr/bin/lynx -dump http://server.com/myscript.php > /dev/null > > > > but when the time comes nothing happens. > > > > I just want lynx to trigger a php script every minute - every 30 seconds > > would be better. > > > > what's the trick? > > > > thanks, > > Gavin > > > > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] copy /
faisal wrote: > > If i copy my whole root partition on another harddrive i have everything > under root partition > then if i boot from that other harddrive will it work > ofcourse i will point my lilo towards that partition ! Sure, no problem. I have a single partition, with /, /boot, /usr, and /home all in a single parition. Works great. Don't have to worry about whether you got the size ratios right. Tastes great. Less filling. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert]
1 > >Drive SectorsPerTrack 63 > >Drive Size 15374499840 bytes > >Drive TotalCylinders 1986 > >Drive TotalSectors 30028320 > >Drive TotalTracks 476640 > >Drive TracksPerCylinder240 > > > >Since it works for version 7 and does not work for version 7.1 there is an > >obvious regression problem with the install code. > >What I am asking is for a fix or a work around that does not cause me to > >lose my other things. There is no way I will remove Windows 2000 form the > >drive. > > > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Woods > >Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 9:46 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [expert] > > > > > >Gilbert, how did you set up the partitions on /dev/hda? If LMDK > >7.1 can not > >find a valid file systems, I suspect that you set these up with another > >utility. Also tell us about your hardware, esp. hard drive type, IDE > >controller chip set, video card, and anything else you might think is > >relevant > >to your set up. > > > >Craig Woods > > > > > >Gilbert Baron wrote: > > > >> Excuse if this should be on newbie but I think it needs an expert to > >answer > >> it. It also may appear twice. I had a system problem and think it did not > >> get posted the first time. > >> > >> Trying to install version 7.1 I get at the set up file system step > >> Error can't find valid files system. > >> The C: drive (hda) is already set up with a Ext2 Boot and Ext2 > >for system > >> and Swap. > >> > >> If I try to install Version 7.0 there is no problem.. > >> > >> This seems an obvious regression bug in Version 7.1. > >> > >> The same thing happens if you install 7.0 and try to upgrade to 7.1. > >> > >> Is there any fix for this? > >> Can anyone say what to do? > >> > >> TIA > > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] partitions
Reply-to address screwed up . . . mail bounced . . . Here's what I wrote: > Why on earth would ou use a DOS environment to make the paritions? Use > fdisk or DiskDrake during the install process itself. > > I'm running Linux on a hard drive that has never been touched by > Microsoft software, and it now running Mandrake 7.1. No problem. > > Now, if you want to _preserve_ existing MS-DOS or Windows data the, yes, > you'll have to start in those environments, but if you want to preserve > that data, this presumably isn't a major problem. > > Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > > > So it seems that we're still stuck in the DOS environment when creating > > these partitions. Is there a Linux equivalent to Partition-Magic so we > > never touch anything related to MS? Which also leads to this question -> > > When installing LM-7.1, I had DiskDrake create the Ext2 partitions. Is > > there a new version of Ext2? I ask because my Partition-Magic could not > > read those partitions. Also, how is it that DiskDrake could make a Swap > > Partition greater than 128Mb? > > > > Seve > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > > > On 7/30/00, 7:45:24 AM, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding > > Re: [expert] Partitioning Rules - ?: > > > > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 08:41:04AM +, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > > > Where could I find some answers on the limits of partitioning your HD? > > > > i.e. Number of primary & logical partitions allowed. > > > > > > > > Seve > > > > > I posted a writeup on this list a while ago; check the archives. > > > > > Several of the responses in this thread are incorrect. You can have zero > > > to four extended partitions in the MBR. How deep you can nest extended > > > partitions is up to the operating system that interprets the data and the > > > version of fdisk that writes it. I believe Mess-DOS can only go one deep, > > > so you can only get 16 partitions with Mess-DOS. > > > > > -- > > > > > -- C^2 > > > > > No windows were crashed in the making of this email. > > > > > Looking for fine software and/or web pages? > > > http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Fwd: cdrom not working: SW or HW fault?
I tried to reply directly, as requested in the post, but that mail bounced. Try running the install disk--don't actually *do* anything, but make like you are installing the O/S (any O/S). Boot off the CD-ROM if you can. If that works, then you know it's something with your O/S setup; if that fails, it must be the hardware (assuming that it previously worked that way for you to get your initial install). > Marco Fioretti wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a pc running Mandrake 6.1, with an ATAPI > > cdrom drive NEC CDR-3001. The drive always worked fine > > until yesterday, when it quit on me right in the middle of an RPM installation. > > Now I get the errors described below 90% of times, no matter which > > cdrom I try to read. Even when mount succeeds, I just get the top directory > > listing, but trying to cat some files, or open it via kfm times out, takes a > > lng time, or just leaves me with a blank > > > > The reason I'm posting this is: could it be some SW/configuration fault (like > > some file I canceled by mistake/something which is looped on itself..)? How > > could I find out? > > > > I'd really hate to have to fetch money for a new drive right now > > Any help is really appreciated, > > > > Marco > > > > I I try to open it by clicking on the KDE icon, I get: > > KFM error Could not mount > > Error log: > > >file:/dev/cdrom%3A%20Input/output%20error%0Amoun...ou%20must%20specify%20the%20filesystem%20type%0A > > > > If I try from the console, as root, I get: > > > > [root@polaris marco]# m /etc/fstab > > /dev/hda1 / ext2defaults1 1 > > /dev/hda5 swapswapdefaults0 0 > > /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto >sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto >user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 > > none/proc procdefaults0 0 > > none/dev/ptsdevpts mode=0622 0 0 > > [ > > [root@polaris marco]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/ > > mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, > >or too many mounted file systems > > [root@polaris marco]# umount /mnt/cdrom/ > > umount: /mnt/cdrom/: not mounted > > > > In both cases the led blinks a few times and then dies, and no noise > > whatsoever > > comes from the drive > > --- > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] MDK 7.1 and the backspace key
I've installed MDK 7.1 (from scratch--new hard disk). I was previously using 7.0. The backspace is doing that incredibly annoying Linux thing of acting like a del key. Since I use del an interrupt key (so I can map it to SysRq), this is extremely annoying. My /etc/sysconfig/keyboard is setting the Backspace to Backspace, and thus it works as I want in the console. Under X, "xev" shows that backspace generate a backspace, and delete generates a delete, but they both do the same thing. I've tried running the International Keyboard program, and not running it. This is really getting in my way, I *really* hope somebody can help me!! -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Boot services
Ivan wrote: > > I would like to execute two commands at boot: > > fan -n > powertweak > > How does one do this or where do you find this out? > > Ivan Trail > > Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day, Set him on fire and he'll be warm > for the rest of his life! /etc/rc.d/rc.local -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Partitioning Rules - ?
Mark Weaver wrote: > > what if you have a head crash on that disk. Your reserve install isn't > going to do anything then. Having separate partitions isn't going to do anything, either, if the drive is really physically toasted. That's why there's no substitute for backups. But if the file system is just messed up it gives me a staging area to recover with the file system editor and what-not. And by using fewer paritions I don't wind up spending lots of time playing the partition-juggling game, which has never been a favorite of mine. > > -- > Mark > > ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** > > > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > > > > In my experience, using a total of more than 16 partitions does not work > > very well. > > I would recommend not going over /dev/hda16. You will notice that this > > is as many as are pre-created for you in the /dev directory, and even > > when I did mknod's to extend these, I had trouble. > > > > I'd actually going from a setup of using lots & lots of paritions to a > > minimal setup that puts almost everything on /. The main reason I used > > to have lots of paritions was to protect me in case of a disk disaster, > > but what I'm doing instead (now that I have such a big drive) is > > reserving a parition of 1G that I can use to put a new install as a > > "rescue parition" in case of disaster. > > > > Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 08:41:04AM +, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > > > Where could I find some answers on the limits of partitioning your HD? > > > > i.e. Number of primary & logical partitions allowed. > > > > > > Get a book about basic computing for DOS. 4 primary, max. 1 of the 4 may be > > > an extended which can contain basically an unlimited number of logic > > > partitions. Practically you can not create more than 63 partitions on an > > > IDE disk and 16 on an SCSI disk. At least not with linux. > > > > > > Alexander Skwar > > > -- > > > Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com > > > Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys > > > ICQ:7328191 > > > > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] missing partitions
*If* you have a hardcopy output of your partition table, you can use fdisk to re-create the identical table and most likely the data itself is ok. I have done this successfully before. If you don't have a hardcopy output, you can try to remember it; otherwise, I hope you made backups frequently. max wrote: > > hello, > > I seem to have lost my linux partitions from my laptop. I had > Mandrake 7.1 installed on hda5 to hda10 with windows on hda1, the windows > partition is ok (hence me writing this in outlook). On booting up LILO > loaded but only displayed 'LI', so I rebooted with a dos disk and ran 'fdisk > /mbr' which fixed the windows partition. I then booted off the Mandrake disk > and tried to mount the linux partitions but it couldn't find them, on > running fdisk in linux it only reported hda1, hda2 (which wasn't there > before) and hda5 (which it couldn't mount). I have run out of ideas on how > to fix this so I was hoping someone on this list could help. > > Thanks > > Max > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Partitioning Rules - ?
In my experience, using a total of more than 16 partitions does not work very well. I would recommend not going over /dev/hda16. You will notice that this is as many as are pre-created for you in the /dev directory, and even when I did mknod's to extend these, I had trouble. I'd actually going from a setup of using lots & lots of paritions to a minimal setup that puts almost everything on /. The main reason I used to have lots of paritions was to protect me in case of a disk disaster, but what I'm doing instead (now that I have such a big drive) is reserving a parition of 1G that I can use to put a new install as a "rescue parition" in case of disaster. Alexander Skwar wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 08:41:04AM +, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > Where could I find some answers on the limits of partitioning your HD? > > i.e. Number of primary & logical partitions allowed. > > Get a book about basic computing for DOS. 4 primary, max. 1 of the 4 may be > an extended which can contain basically an unlimited number of logic > partitions. Practically you can not create more than 63 partitions on an > IDE disk and 16 on an SCSI disk. At least not with linux. > > Alexander Skwar > -- > Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com > Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys > ICQ: 7328191 -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !
> > Any modern drives that do this? E.g.? If this is a real concern > (must be pretty rare as I've never seen it mentioned in dd disk > mirroring discussions) he could still dd the whole drive if he took > the precaution of backing up the first xx bytes off the disk being > copied to. I thought drives were pretty flexible/forgiving, I've > temporarily made a 6.4 gig drive into a 16meg drive with totally > wrong settings in bios and it worked fine. Any modern drivers that do this? Probably not. I'd probably save off the first 4k or so to a safe place, just to be paranoid, though. Actually, it's typically something that's done in deference to older BIOSes, to get around cylinder limits & so forth. And saving off the first bit "just to be safe" was all I was suggesting in the first place. This bit me years ago with my computer-before-last; I wiped out the start of /dev/hda, and the disk geometry was screwed up. I eventually managed to reconstruct it, but it was one of those painful memories that make me gun-shy about such things ever since. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !
Dave Lers wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, kf wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > = - Original Message - > > = From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > = > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating systems > > = > present on that drive. > > = > On an harddrive that is not as same as this harddrive in capacity. > > = > is there some software like this ? > > = > > > = If it is a new hd retail box there should be software on the included floppy > > > I've done this with floppies before, but never with hard drives, so I'm > > not guaranteeing anything at all... you're on your own with the results. > > Having said that, you might try > > > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count= > > > I'd be very curious to know if this works for you. > > A simple > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc > > works great, super backup method, all you need to do is swap drives > (plug hdc in where hda was). You want both drives as master, 1 per > channel. The drive you are writing to needs to be the same size or > bigger. Since my drives are almost identical I haven't played with, > don't know how to, utilize extra space if copying to a noticeably > larger drive. This should work fine *if* the new drive is bigger and the block sizes are the same, but you would want to copy off the first xx bytes someplace safe and copy them back in case they contain drive geometry (some drives store this _on_ the drive). But it is perfectly safe to partition them each the same, with extra space left at the end to use later as you see fit, and use dd to copy each partition, and then set up the MBR anew. Of course, that's not what you asked for . . . > > There's also a disk upgrade howto, for copying over to a bigger drive, > ( http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html ) that I > used with reasonable success (I messed up somewhere but was able to > recover). Its not simple and straight forward, there's got to be a > better way. > > Note: I've only used these methods with Linux only disks > > Ghost worked great on my windows disk but I couldn't get it to work on > my Linux disk. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Getting off this list
Easiest is to go to the web page . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi- > > I've tried about 5 times to get off this list by emailing Majordomo, and I've > also tried sending mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the intro > email suggests. The latter email bounces with a "User unknown". Majordomo > silently fails to remove me. > > Well, I'll be getting a DSL line in here pretty soon and changing email > addresses. So if the list admins don't mind the bounces, I don't mind staying > on the list. > > Otherwise I would appreciate it if someone would take me off this list, and, > since I plan to resub when everything is settled again, if someone could look > into the functioning of majordomo and the existence of the owner-expert > address that too would be nice. > > The bounced email is available on request for debugging purposes. > > Thanks, > > Steve Salkin -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] cron stuff
Just specify a time that's not on a even hour . . . is that not working properly or something? Read the man page on crontab(8), it has examples like these: 23 0-23/2 * * * echo "run 23 minutes after midn, 2am, 4am ..., everyday" 5 4 * * sun echo "run at 5 after 4 every sunday" Of course I don't have a clue whta "Oanacron" or "cron.hourly" are, but if you do things the old-fashioned way, there's as much flexibility as you could possibly hope for. Vic wrote: > > I wonder how you make your cron daemon do things > in less increments than just on the hour? > > I can make my system play a sound (a bong) to strike > the hour by putting play bong.wav in my 0anacron > file in the cron.hourly directory, but I want to > have some other things happen like maybe every > 30 minutes or on specific dates like appointment > reminders if this is possible. > > Thanks > > Vic -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] FreeBSD
Simon Robertson wrote: > > Fellows, > > Create a mount point for mandrake (ie.'/mandrake') an add to /etc/fstab > this: > > /dev/ad0s'x'/mandrake ext2defaults0 0 > > Then reboot. You should not need to mount, it will be automatic at > bootup. That's going to get his Mandrake installation to be able to see his FreeBSD parition? Seems to me it might do the reverse, but I don't think that's what he's asking for. > Simon > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > > > So FreeBSD *is* installed there, and it boots up ok? > > > > Perhaps you could show us both the output of fdisk, > > and the exact mount command you are using (including the > > line from /etc/fstab if you aren't doing it completely > > by hand). > > > > Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > > > > > > Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > > > > > > Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I've recently decided to start playing with FreeBSD and in >preparation, > > > > > I recompiled my kernel so I would have support for ufs so I could read > > > > > my BSD partitions. When I add the partition under linuxconf, whether I > > > > > give it ufs or auto for the filetype, it can't seem to mount the BSD > > > > > partition giving the error wrong filetype. Does anyone have any BSD > > > > > experience and wouldn't mind giving me a little guidance? Thanks, Mike > > > > > > > > Stupid question, but ... has your BSD partition _ever_ been formatted > > > > ??? > > > > Linuxconf, or fdisk, or whatever, will only add the partition in > > > > the partition table(s) on the disk, it will not make a filesystem ... > > > > (this is not specific to ufs, it would be the same with _any_ > > > > filesystem type). > > > > Even with M$-DOG, you have to execute fdisk _then_ format. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > 74 Annemasse France > > > > old Linux fan > > > > > > Actually, that's a pretty good question... I let the FreeBSD installer > > > do most everything, just answered the questions. I went into the fdisk > > > version that it provided and set the BSD slices, then set the mount > > > points (tried both selecting myself and letting it set default); the > > > only clue I got about formatting was that it gave a warning message that > > > if I selected another filesystem besides '165', that I would need to > > > format it myself and it would just set the partitions up. I guess I > > > could set up the partitions as ext2 from Linux and then try assigning > > > mount points from the setup disk? > > > > > > Mike > > > > -- > > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] I'll be back
They do, though I assume that the sysadmins could turn it off if they wanted, for some reason, to do so. "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: > > How would I go about proving/disproving whether our Exchange servers still > support SMTP/POP3? When they switched us over, they killed my old POP3 > account that was on a UNIX box somewhere on campus. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Todd Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 6:40 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [expert] I'll be back > > > > > > Outlook and Exchange both do POP and SMTP. Exchange has its > > own MTA and will > > either handle SMTP independently or it will forward to an > > SMTP gateway. > > > > > > John Aldrich wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > > Outlook 2000 DOES do threading. I'm using for this list > > now. I have to use > > > > Outlook as my company has standardized on M$ Exchange. > > > > > > > Does Exchange not do POP and SMTP? > > > John > > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] FreeBSD
So FreeBSD *is* installed there, and it boots up ok? Perhaps you could show us both the output of fdisk, and the exact mount command you are using (including the line from /etc/fstab if you aren't doing it completely by hand). Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > > Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > > Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I've recently decided to start playing with FreeBSD and in preparation, > > > I recompiled my kernel so I would have support for ufs so I could read > > > my BSD partitions. When I add the partition under linuxconf, whether I > > > give it ufs or auto for the filetype, it can't seem to mount the BSD > > > partition giving the error wrong filetype. Does anyone have any BSD > > > experience and wouldn't mind giving me a little guidance? Thanks, Mike > > > > Stupid question, but ... has your BSD partition _ever_ been formatted > > ??? > > Linuxconf, or fdisk, or whatever, will only add the partition in > > the partition table(s) on the disk, it will not make a filesystem ... > > (this is not specific to ufs, it would be the same with _any_ > > filesystem type). > > Even with M$-DOG, you have to execute fdisk _then_ format. > > > > -- > > Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 74 Annemasse France > > old Linux fan > > Actually, that's a pretty good question... I let the FreeBSD installer > do most everything, just answered the questions. I went into the fdisk > version that it provided and set the BSD slices, then set the mount > points (tried both selecting myself and letting it set default); the > only clue I got about formatting was that it gave a warning message that > if I selected another filesystem besides '165', that I would need to > format it myself and it would just set the partitions up. I guess I > could set up the partitions as ext2 from Linux and then try assigning > mount points from the setup disk? > > Mike -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Macromedia Director
www.shockwave.com, of course. Vic wrote: > > Say what? Cool! > > Hey do you know where I can get a copy of > Shockwave for linux??? > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > SysAdmin Day is Friday > > > > > > posted 3:29pm EST Tue Jul 25 2000 - submitted by Blaze > > NEWS > > Friday, July 28th is officially SysAdmin Appreciation Day. Give thanks to > > your system administrators. You know they work hard and log long hours, so > > check out Sysadmin.com for details. > > > > > > > > Eric Peters Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > System Administrator Network Operations > > Inherent Technologies Inc. > > office (503)224-6751 ext 224 > > -------- -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Setting up autofs
Are you quite certain? The fact that fstab has it doesn't say anything about it being a link. Please paste in the results from ls -l /dev/cdrom for us. John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:38:33AM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: > > > anyway, now my problem is that autofs dosn't work.. nor does normal mount > > > work! when i say "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", it says kernel > > > cannot recognize /dev/cdrom as a valid character device.. any help? > > > > /dev/cdrom is always a link. Do you have SCSI or IDE? If you have SCSI, it > > should be a link to /dev/scd0, /dev/scd0 being a _b_lock special device with > > major 11 and minor 0. > > > Not on my system. I've looked. Under (Sorry) RedHat 6.2, I'm using a > SCSI CDRW, from which I installed linux. Looking in /dev using ls -al > there is NO link to /dev/scd0 or anything like that. Plus my cd > mounts as /dev/cdrom from /etc/fstab. > John -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] ANNOUNCE: MacMillan & Mandrake good or evil? on forum
Philomena wrote: > > MacMillan is the company that exclusively markets/sells the commercial > Mandrake distribution that you would purchase that has all the extra CDs > and the book. . . . in America, right? In Europe doesn't Mandrake market their own? > > philomena > > At 07:29 PM 7/19/00 +0200, you wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 08:06:55PM +0200, Denis Havlik wrote: > > > Gardner from MacMillan will answer some questions too (i hope), so shoot. > > > >Excuse my ignorance, but what/who is MacMillan? > > > >Alexander Skwar > >-- > >Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com > >Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys > >ICQ: 7328191 -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] A few things to set MS straight
Hey, I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but some of this is just silly. Chris Loper wrote: > > Hi there > > I got a kick out of some claims made by dennis (see below). > > First off Microsoft has NEVER developed any product I know of including > the almighty Windows. While its true they have enhanced and integrated > virtually everything they've purchased the fact is almost everything in > the MicroSoft product line was initially developed elsewhere. That's a pretty remarkable claim . . . and where is Windows supposed to have been developed, then? > I've installed Windows on several machines, I don't see how you can say > its less complicated than Mandrakes or Redhats, or Calderas, of SuSE's > install utilities. No need to re-partition. No option to do so. In general, fewer choices; simpler to use. Of course, if it won't install, you're SOL. I have only a 50% success rate with Windows 98 installations (3/6), but if it works at all, it's very easy to do. And since you can't do anything about it, you just buy a new computer if it doesn't work. Easy! [Lots of sensible observations snipped.] -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] MDK7.0 and CD-Writers
Actually, I can burn supermounted CDs on my 7.0 system, too. I built my own kernel with IDE-SCSI support built in (rather than as a module) and it magically made all my supermount problems go away. I didn't expect that, really, but it was nice. Civileme wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > OK - I have just found the CD-Writing FAQ's on the web. No doubt I will > > > find my answers in that. > > > > > > Sorry to bother the list, although it would be better in setup if when the > > > CD-Writer was detected (LILO append='hdc=ide-scsi' was set automatically), > > > also to set /etc/fstab to /dev/scd0 rather than /dev/cdrom which is > > > sym-linked to /dev/hdc (in my case)! > > > > . . . or to change the symlink, which seems like the more obvious fix to > > me. > > And one that I suggested to Mandrake for 7.1. I'm not running 7.1, > > though . . . does anybody know if this got addressed in 7.1? > > It was addressed with a vengeance. Even supermounted drives will burn cds, but it > is a bad(tm) idea to leave a blank in a supermounted burner for a long period of > time--the power saver and the supermount interact to produce a kernel panic in > those circumstances. > > However, if supermount is not used, the alias in /etc/conf.modules does not > identify ide-scsi and it isn't modprobed. This has been identified and will be > dealt with, I have heard from our outstanding developers. > > Civileme > > Civileme -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] "No authorized users logged in"
On my gateway/firewall machine, I get the message "no authorized users logged in" when I try to reboot, unless root is logged in. I'd like for CTL+ALT+DEL to reboot it even if *nobody* is logged in. To make a a short story long . . . I'm sure that the problem is that the security level is set to high; that's because it's a firewall machine, and I want high security w/r/t the outside world, but I want "running with scissors" security w/r/t to the physical world. (In fact, as a reflection of this, I have a *very* secure password--randomly generated from a maximal character set--but I have the password taped onto the front of the box. If a bad guy is already standing in front of my firewall, I've got much bigger problems than the security of my *computer* system.) The keyword is physically inaccessible (difficult to get to, that is), so logging in as root just to reboot is a real pain. Frequently I wind up just hitting the power switch, but this is obviously a less than ideal way to reboot on a regular basis. So . . . What controls this? How can I change it? -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] How to access DOS files with no XFREE available , no GUI
Gil Baron W0MN wrote: > > I moved this to newbie list where it is probably more fitting. > > I got the instructions below but I do not know how to get the files I > downloaded (to my E:\linux folder to copy them to the root so that I can > proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am sure there is some > simple command but I do not know what it is. You just the "cp" command under Linux. To do this you have to have a mount point set up for the Windows partition, which you hopefully set up at installation time. > > TIA > > > -Original Message- > > From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 12:54 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [expert] FW: xfree86 RPM not found > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gil Baron W0MN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: AA/MandrakeExpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:35 AM > > Subject: [expert] FW: xfree86 RPM not found > > > > > > >I sent this to newbie list and perhaps that is where it > > belongs but the list > > >does not seem to be responding. I am in dire need of help > > here so I am > > >sending it here. Please excuse me if incorrect. > > > > > >-Original Message- > > >From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:29 AM > > >To: AA/MandrakeNewbie > > >Subject: xfree86 RPM not found > > > > > > > > >I downloaded the inst and ext iso images for Mandrake 7.1 > > > > Did you run md5sum? > > Well, if you didn't have linux already, you probably could not > > have. > > > > > > >I burned the cds > > >I created the Boot disk. > > >I did the install but when it got to the xfree86 configure > > portion I got > > > > > >Error found xfree86 RPM not found. > > > > > so continue the install to the end without X > > Then > > goto > > ftp://ftp/linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake > > > > but do it with an ftp program or netscape, not MSIE which will > > bomb. > > > > There under 7.1 under RPMS search for packages beginning with > > the name XF and download them then start linux (without X) > > login as root and copy the files to /root and > > > > # rpm -ivh XF*.rpm > > > > If you get complains about missing libraries try the same > > command line with --nodeps added after the -ivh and surrounded > > by spaces. > > > > Once that is complete > > > > # Xconfigurator > > > > will start installing the X > > > > What has happened is that your download is corrupted, or your > > media is bad or your cables are loose to the CD or the burner. > > > > I just finished an install of about 28 minutes where I was a > > spectator except to tell Linux-Mandrake's install program a > > few IPs and what printer I was using. And this was no > > ordinary hardware but some REALLY tough choices. Win98 would > > have called for no fewer than 5 driver disks and still messed > > up (I had two ethernet cards and 98 could see either one, but > > missed them both when they were both installed. And when I > > tried to use the install hardware wizard -- It revolted (no no > > no, I have to detect that for you)) 98 never did install. > > > > Civileme > > > > > > >Huu? where is it and what did I do wrong and can I > > recover without > > >another complete install. > > >This takes forever as it is over 1900 megs for the developer > > version. > > > > > >TIA > > > > > > > > >-- > > >Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ > > >44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 > > >"Hierro candente, batir de repente" > > > > > > > > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] CD Burning for all users
Sarang Lakare wrote: > > Hi, > > I can burn CDs on my machine only as root. Thats very unconvenient. How to > let any user burn CDs? Maybe this should be default in the system. > > -sarang I have the same experience, and (now that the kscd problem is solved), this is one of only two issues keeping my setup from acheiving complete perfection. (The other is the problem with samba printing.) I've set permissions for various /dev files to be quite liberal, but so far this has availed me not. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] CD burner Howto..
"Alan N." wrote: > > Hoyt wrote: > > > > Maybe www.linuxforum.org/plug/articles/scsiemu.html will help. > > > > Hoyt > > > > This is *EXACTLY* what I was looking for..! Thanks! > > However, I do have question for anyone here.. > > I know that the CD rom is hdc.. > > This how-to says to add hdd=ide-scsi to lilo.. > > But, I allready HAVE a hdd, being an atapi zip on ide 2 which is shared > with cd. > > IDE 1 has 2 HD's.. Master ( 8 gig, win/beOS ) >Slave ( 7 gig, linux ) > > IDE 2, Master ( CD ) , slave zip100. > > Do I need to make this say hde=ide-scsi?? Yes, of course, hdd was only an example. It's hdc for me (I have no actual CD-ROM, just the CD-R which I use a CD-ROM. (It's a laptop, in case you were wondering.) > > Thanks. > Alan > > -- > - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Running RedHat Linux 6.2 and/or > BeOS 5.0. No Windows involved > --------- -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] writing from win to linux
How can you possibly stuff files from Windows to Linux without any tool? That is, what civilme is warning you against is the situation where you are booted under Windows, and you are storing a file into an ext2 partition. In order to do this, you must be running a tool since Windows doesn't know how to communicate with ext2 paritions . . . "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 09:28:33 -0800, >Civileme wrote: > > >http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm > > > >And be sure to read the FAQ and related stuff. You do not > >have to copy the directory to a FAT32 partition to be able to > >read it from WIN. I do think that it is singularly dangerous > >to write anything from win to linux, even with this tool, but > >reading should be (comparatively) safe. > == > Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:42:07 > > Oh my,..Is this really bad to do, Civileme? I have been stuffing file > after file up into linux for several months..Without any tools , just > straight from a fileI thought that win would not be acceptable to > this, but Linux could handle it ok? > > I have not noticed anything that seems like a problem that I > can attribute to this after many megs...with the possible exception of > some tar.gz files from the internet,(winmodem) are no longer zipped > so zxvf will error not a" g zipped file" ... I can untar them with xvf > and they are ok. > > Your words "singularly dangerous" makes me think I may be > "unwittingly" staggering toward the abyss? don't the floppy's write to > Linux from vfat without problem? why would this be different? > > The above seems like a lot of questions, but really it's just > one "should I cease this practice?". > > Thanks > Olly P > Biloxi > Mississippi -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] qt dependancy problem and usb query
I do not believe the qt 2 is fully upward compatible with qt 1, so I'd suggest installing qt 2 without removing qt 1. Ivan wrote: > > Hello. > > I am trying to install the latest version of nethack which requires the > qt 2.1.0 or better. When I try to install the package there is a list > of decpenancies about three miles long that will be broken. Most of > then are kde apps. They all want libqt.so.1. After the list the core > dumps (?) . My question is: will it totaly mess things up if I upgrade > with out looking for dependancies? I would think that an upgrade should > be backwards compatible. There are two that need qt-egcs-10x. > > Also I wonder how functional usb support for modems and zip drives are > in 7.0. has any one had any luck? > > If anyone cares to you could tell me what file the fsck -l looks for. I > think it is a secret. > > Thanks for the use of your "brainwidth" > > Ivan -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Printing over LAN
I can get the files over to the Windows machine on Samba, but they don't actually print. I know they get there becuase they show up in the Windows printer queue, but then they vanish shortly thereafter without actually printing. Whereas files printed from Windows itself go into the queue and vanish only when they print. I don't see any error messages under Windows when this happens. On the flip side, I am unable to print in the other direction over Samba; in this case, I do get an error message under Windows (although it's an "undetermined" error) . . . Any ideas about what either of these might mean? Vincent Danen wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Breno F Basilio wrote: > > > I was wondering if it is possible to print from Linux over a LAN to a ¨Windows¨ > > printer attached to a Windows machine. I have an HP DeskJet 820 Cse ¨For > > Windows¨ attached to a Windows machine on my LAN, but I can´t seem to be able > > to print to it from Linux over the network. I add the printer using DrakConf > > (choosing a printer that is as close as possible to mine), and send a job to > > test it, but no luck so far. I might not be possible, but I was wondering if > > anybody knows a way. > > It sure is. I've got a Canon that's specifically designed for > Windows (one of these 6-in-1 scanner/fax/copier/printer/kitchensink > type deals), and I print to it from all of my Mandrake boxes just > fine. Do you have Samba installed on the Mandrake machine? Is the > Windows printer shared (preferably with password, for security)? Is > Samba *running* on the Mandrake machine? > > If you're trying to do it with just lpr, it won't work (as far as I > know) because Windows doesn't have an lpd. Using Samba, however, > works awesome. I have Windows printing to a LaserJet4 shared on a > Mandrake machine, and all my Mandrake boxes printing to the shared > Windows printer. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net > Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 > Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org > > Current Linux uptime: 3 days 3 hrs and 08 mins. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] PCMCAI mdemm problems
I might be off base here, since I don't use drakconf or any of that other GUI rot (I've found that it saves me time in the long run to just read the HOWTO on whatever I'm going to do and then write the scripts myself). But . . . at least with my setup, PCMCIA devices are handled in a completely different way from all the other devices. Have you tried simply using the modem? When you insert the PCMCIA card, it should set /dev/modem to point to the proper device, and from there you ought to be able to use PPP to set up your networking without the necessity to do anything further. (Actually, you can even set it up so that your networking is set up automatically when the PCMCIA card is inserted, but I don't believe that there is a GUI mechanism to take advantage of this capability of this at all. Moreover, the Mandrake scripts sort of mess up the intended line-mode mechanism; I have older scripts I've recovered from an earlier distribution I had (Caldera, I think), and could send it to you if you want. Gary wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have just installed Helium on my lapton which has a PCMCIA modem card (a > 3Com 3CX0M56B Modem). When I went to set this up in DrakConf, under > HardWare configurations, it froze at detecting modems. The install did not > recognize this card at all. How do I get this card recognized as a modem? > What steps do I have to go through. > > Thank you for your help. > > Regards, > Gary -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] X problems in 7.0
My default value for $DISPLAY is :0.0 rather than unix:0.0 Perhaps this accounts for it? I don't have a clue, I must admit, what xbobo is. Are you running this on the local machine in fact? What if you change DISPLAY to :0.0? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi. I've been looking around for the answer to this little problem and > haven't fount it, so if this has been answered before just point me to > the link, ok? that's good :) > > Have you tried to start xkobo on MDK7.0? it won't let you. The error > message is > > Xlib: connection to "unix:0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > xlwin: can't open display > > Yes, i know that doing a "xhost +localhost" makes it work, but the > Remote-X-Apps HOWTO mentions that xhost is vulnerable to ip-address > spoofing and similars, and mixing the xauth authentication model with > xhost is not a good idea IMHO (kinda defeats the purpose). > > And the X forwarding of openssh suffers from that too: if i connect to > each other as root, i can forward connections, but not as user. > > So, what shall i do about this? > > - > "We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows" > Steve Ballmer on their new .net service > Jaime Herazo B. at the Colegio Cristiano J. Vender Murphy > -- -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] backround processes
Deryk Barker wrote: > > Thus spake Ellick Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [...] > > If I remember correctly, ulimit has a rather poor manpage. > > I'll say. Basically it says see bash. Which limits its utility a bit. I, for one, get: > ulimit ulimit: Command not found. Why? Becuase I use tcsh . . . Besides the whole ulimit thing, as noted elsewhere--indeed the idea of banning all background process--makes an awful lot of Unix rather useless. Unix is designed for forking process, and this happens in lots of places where you might not expect it. Perhaps the original poster could clarify just why he wants to do this? If it's really only specific applications you want to limit, then either delete them from the system or deny execute permissions to world, and add the "blessed users" to whatever group you assign to those files. If you truly want to ban "&" then the only way to do that is to get the source to bash (or whatever shell you choose) and delete the code that handles the "&" character. This will still break programs written in shell script that use &, but most programs will be ok because they will call fork() explicitly. Then you'd have to remove (or deny permissions to) all other editors on your system. You'd also have to remove the c compiler (and probably perl and other languages as well) since they could still write a fork() function themselves. And prevent access to the internet, for with such access they could download working versions of all the stuff you were busy trying to break . . . And all this just to remove functionality that's fundamental to Unix. Ah dunno. Seems odd to me . . . > > > It can control > > mem usage/processes, but is enforced by your shell(bash). I was trying to > > use it to control runaway processes such as Netscape, and nasty cookbook > > lockups such as a fork bomb or malloc bomb. I think that if > > a program tries to fork bomb in a clever way, or a malloc bomb, it may be > > able to act faster than the shell can stop it. > > I had to use this recently because we had students writing forking lab > assignments which ran away. ulimit did actually control this. > > -- > |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| > |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | > |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | > |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Lock up with append mem=96M in lilo
Do you have separate video memory or does it come out of the main memory? If the latter, then you ned to subtract your video memory; 88M would be safer than 96M. Ken Thompson wrote: > > I changed hard drives and installed LM 7.1b3 and found that it had only > recognized 64Mb of memory. > No problem, just add append "mem=96M" to lilo.conf, I thought to myself, HA... > I ran lilo and re-booted and the system locked at "bigmem" with a line > something like 0k available in all categories shown. > This seems kinda strange as this machine was running LM 7.1b3 perfectly until > I changed HDD's. The only difference in the installations is the X-server > version, the old HDD had XF-3.3.6 and the new one had XF-4.0 > > The system is: > Celeron 433 (66Mhz clock speed) > Abit mainboard > Fujitsu 10.0Gb HDD > 3 - 32Mb PC-100 SDRAM modules > Soundblaster AWE32 > RIVA tnt 128 video > Realtek 8129 NIC > Zoltrix 33.6 hardware internal modem > > The old HDD was a Western Digital 36400 6.4Gb > > Nothing has been changed on the system except the hard drive.. > Is there a glitch connected to XF4.0 that trashes the mem append in lilo? > Any sugestions to fix this problem, or any work arounds? > > Another thing, hardware configuration seems to always set the NIC to > I/O 220 with IRQ 5 - - - that's standard soundcard settings, hm! > I tried to change it and am only offered "-1" in either field. > Ran linuxconf and set the NIC to ne2k-pci (where I've always had it working > before), closed, applied changes, rebooted - can't start eth0. > I looked in conf.modules and removed all reference to the earlier listings, > still no go. Removed card from system, booted and removed everything from > linuxconf and conf.modules related to eth0 and ne2k-pci. > Shut down and re-inserted the card and booted the machine. > Kudzu found the card and I let it configure it and finished the startup. > Still can't start eth0. Screwed around with it until early morning and gave up. > Any ideas? Could this also be something with XFree 4.0? > I had no trouble setting up memory or NIC when using XFree 3.3.6. > I may have to go back to 3.3.6 and see if I still have the trouble. > Sorry for the long post but this is very strange and has me baffled. > -- > Ken Thompson > Electrocom Computer Services > 1801 Wayne Dr. > Payette, Idaho 83661 > Ph. (208) 642-7101 (888) 642-7101 > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.nwaa.com > Computer Sales - Service and Repair > Internet Web Site Design -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1
out of four computers. > > > > > > 2. The way to start the install program from a DOS prompt is > > > broken - doesn't work at all. > > > > > > 3. The install program starts up running in high resolution, if > > > it sees you have a card that can do it. Unfortunately, it > > > doesn't ask if your monitor can support it, and thus my screen > > > turned to hash, and I was unable to install the program. > > > (Thankfully I had a multisync monitor on another system that I > > > robbed long enough to do the install.) THis should default to > > > 640x480, and ask / let you try higher rez if you want. > > > > > > 4. Setup properly detected my 3com 509 network card, then set up > > > the wrong drivers for it! (Had to change from whatever it had to > > > the 3com 509 driver, what a concept.) > > > > > > 5. Setup did not install the 75dpi or 100dpi fonts, which gave me > > > all sorts of error messages when X tried to start. > > > > > > 6. My monitor type and card must have been screwed up somewhere > > > in the detection, as I couldn't even get 256 colors at 640x480 > > > working on one system. When I tried running the XF86setup, it > > > core dumps when you tell it to list devices. > > > > > > 7. "Automatic setup" is definitely not what anyone should use. > > > It skips many important steps. Also installs junk packages, and > > > doesn't install ones that should be installed by default (IMHO). > > > > > > 8. The KDE/X stuff looks like it was pre-configured for 1024x768 > > > rez. WHen you're in 640x480, some things are off the screen, and > > > other boxes are so large you can't even get to an OK or CANCEL > > > button! Even in Win95, it defaults to the lowest common > > > denominator, and every window is accessible. > > > > > > I think that any of these things would cause a newbie to give up, > > > if they didn't have persistence. I am not a Win95 (or microsoft) > > > fan, but for the average user, their setup works a whole lot > > > better. From reading the comments here, it seems that 7.0 didn't > > > have some of the big nasty bugs that 7.1 has. > > > > > > Bob > > > > > > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] FW: xfree86 RPM not found
But many, many other people have installed 7.1 and they had X. This makes us all suspect that your CDs really *aren't* the same as the pre-pressed ones you buy, *or* it depends on your hardware somehow. The only alternative explanation that comes to mind is that some sort of magical spell was cast on your system. Gilbert Baron wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Joerg Mertin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 10:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] FW: xfree86 RPM not found > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:29 AM > > To: AA/MandrakeNewbie > > Subject: xfree86 RPM not found > > > > > > I downloaded the inst and ext iso images for Mandrake 7.1 > > I burned the cds > > I created the Boot disk. > > I did the install but when it got to the xfree86 configure portion I got > > > > Error found xfree86 RPM not found. > > 1. You did not tell on what Stage you have this error ? > I am sorry. I thought I provide the information. > I put in the boot disk, I followed the instruction to do the install for > New. > I used Custom and Development. > The error occurs at the Configure X step. > This is the gui installation, as plain as I can be. > I get this error every time. Xfree code itself is there because I did a > select individual packages once just to see and it did not work that time > either. > > 2. What Install method did you use ? > > I don't know what you mean unless it was customize and development. That is > what I choose. > > 3. Did you complete your install correctly ? > > As far as I could. At the point of the error you are stuck. It tries over > and over and the ONLY choice is to select exit install. After that I have an > installation but with no GUI. > > 4. what Hardware do you have (Graphic Card etc.) ? > > That is not relevant. I have a Viper II card and a 500 MHz P III if it > matters. > > 5. If you're unable to ake a Graphical Install, make a Text-Install ? > > Yeas I got a text install but no xfree86. If that can be installed by text I > don't know how. After all, I am new here. > > Not beeing happy about something is Ok. But you can belong to those people > who would like to make a change about it, so provide Informations if you > request help. The way you did it, is just wrong. > > I did my best to provide information. it think this now give all you need. > If not, tell me exactly what more you need. As I said, it is just as though > I wane tot he store and got the cds except I burned my own from the iso > images. The inst and ext. > All the code packages load but when It gets to the part o configure x it > give that error. There is something wrong with the RPM or it is missing and > I don't know how to recover. That is what I need OR THEY NEED TO FIX the > files. HOW could they release this with obviously no testing. > I did the EXACT same thing on version 7 and it installed fine but my video > is only VGA so that is why I want 7.1 > > Also is there any other source of help that is faster. it seems to take AT > LEAST 3 hours for a message to appear after posting it and then of course at > least 3 hours for the reply plus the time for someone to decide to reply. > Slowest mailing list I know of. > > Provide some Informations, and we might help you. > > I am NOT blaming list members for this, just the list owner. Maybe there is > a reason for it? > > TIA > > If I sound frustrated, I AM. I guess I am to used to plugging in the windows > CD and walking away and coming back 45 minutes later with a new system! > Soory about that, bad week I guess. > > Cya > -- > The "cutting edge" is getting rather dull. > -- Andy Purshottam > > | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| > | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work)| > | Stardust's LiNUX System : http://www.solsys.org | > | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Data, Voice & Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | > > PGP fingerprint: 6D E9 7B 04 57 7B 65 42 B7 7A D0 AA 69 95 7C E1 -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] MDK7.0 and CD-Writers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK - I have just found the CD-Writing FAQ's on the web. No doubt I will > find my answers in that. > > Sorry to bother the list, although it would be better in setup if when the > CD-Writer was detected (LILO append='hdc=ide-scsi' was set automatically), > also to set /etc/fstab to /dev/scd0 rather than /dev/cdrom which is > sym-linked to /dev/hdc (in my case)! . . . or to change the symlink, which seems like the more obvious fix to me. And one that I suggested to Mandrake for 7.1. I'm not running 7.1, though . . . does anybody know if this got addressed in 7.1? > > John > > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Having just loaded M7.0 I am stuck getting the CD-(re)Writer to work. The > > unit is a Plextor 8/4/32A and I had to set > > > > hdc=ide-scsi > > > > in the loader, and > > > > insmod ide-scsi > > > > to include the module, whereupon I can mount and read a conventional CD. > > > > However when writing I clearly need to make a filesystem somehow before it > > is written. How do I do that? Is there a recommended piece of software? > > Obviously it won't do it at the moment. > > > > The CD was from a PC-Plus (UK mag) cover disk and if I am happy with it I > > will put up 7.1 etc. My other systems are all RH5.2. I was intending to > > upgrade to the latest 6.x but the optimised Pentium kernel etc was > > attractive since I do a lot of numerical calcs. > > > > BTW despite requesting NO Graphics, in particular NO KDE, I still find > > various packages installed such as > > > > kdelibs-1.1.2-14mdk > > kdesupport-1.1.2-11mdk > > > > but no other and > > > > XFree86-libs-3.3.6-4mdk > > XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-4mdk > > xloadimage-4.1-4mdk > > xpm-3.4k-7mdk > > xscreensaver-3.18-3mdk > > xtraceroute-0.8.14-7mdk > > > > and probably others that I haven't yet spotted. Any reason why? I > > want to run the system without X using another machine as the X server. > > > > Comments svp. > > > > John > > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Modem problem
You mean /dev/modem? If so, then, no, you have to link it yourself . . . unless you have PCMCIA modem; the PCMCIA services *are* clever enough to set up the link for you. Sarang Lakare wrote: > > thanks for the advice.. but I do know all about ttyS? (thats the reason i > sent mesg to "expert ;) > > neway, the reason i said that was because I wanted to know how the > /dev/cdrom link is created.. shoudln't there be a program which > asks/searches for modem on all COM ports and creates the link? (or let me > know if there is one). it'll make life a hell lot simpler for a newbie. > > apart from that, I still don't know why kppp said modem found and all ATI > strings were blank! > > sarang -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > X would not start. > > > > *That* is the problem. > > > > /tmp should contain only temporary files; it should be perfectly safe to > > wipe out the entire contents of /tmp and reboot, but with 7.0 it is not. > > what is the permission of your /tmp dir ? 1777 ? need them for xfs. > > > Again, this is apparently fixed in 7.1, and moreover I don't think it > > has anything to do with the "clean up /tmp" code; it's a bug in the X & > > fontserver packages, so I'm not blaming you (unless you put those > > packages together as well). > > -- > MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com > San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel This is a problem I reported months ago; civilme diagnosed it, and it was apparently fixed for 7.1; it's not a problem that is causing me active difficulty. (It was causing somebody else active difficulties which is how this thread re-surfaced.) My /tmp dir has 1777 permissions now; I believe that I gave it such permissions as soon as I re-created it, but I could be mistaken. I *do* know that re-booting did not fix the problem, but re-installing the X font server package did; would it have reset the permissions to 1777 for me? Seems implausible, but one never knows . . . -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Overlay trouble
What in tarnation is a Dyamic Drive Overlay, and why would you expect it to work? Has it worked with other versions of Linux or only with Windows? > Nick Meyer wrote: > > I just got my Mandrake 7.1 CD's, I went to do the upgrade, and it > tells me "No root partition found." I'm like, ok, this isn't good. I > reboot, and do an install so I can use DiskDrake. That's when it hits. > The only thing DiskDrake (and the whole system) recognizes is the > Dynamic Drive Overlay "partition." I rebooted the computer and used a > floppy to boot so I could be absolutely sure that the overlay software > loaded properly. It did, and still, Mandrake only recognized the DDO > partition. Is there any remedy to this short of trying to remove the > overlay? > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > Nick Meyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.zophar.net > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] MDK7.0 and CD-Writers
This has nothing to do with MDK per se; check out the HOW-TO, but the short answer is that you need mkisofs and cdrecord or something like that. BUT!! MDK7.0 has a corrupt version mkisofs as originally shipped, so be sure you upgrade that from cooker or someplace. You can download a test program from my home page to verify if you have a bad version of mkisofs or not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Having just loaded M7.0 I am stuck getting the CD-(re)Writer to work. The > unit is a Plextor 8/4/32A and I had to set > > hdc=ide-scsi > > in the loader, and > > insmod ide-scsi > > to include the module, whereupon I can mount and read a conventional CD. > > However when writing I clearly need to make a filesystem somehow before it > is written. How do I do that? Is there a recommended piece of software? > Obviously it won't do it at the moment. > > The CD was from a PC-Plus (UK mag) cover disk and if I am happy with it I > will put up 7.1 etc. My other systems are all RH5.2. I was intending to > upgrade to the latest 6.x but the optimised Pentium kernel etc was > attractive since I do a lot of numerical calcs. > > BTW despite requesting NO Graphics, in particular NO KDE, I still find > various packages installed such as > > kdelibs-1.1.2-14mdk > kdesupport-1.1.2-11mdk > > but no other and > > XFree86-libs-3.3.6-4mdk > XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-4mdk > xloadimage-4.1-4mdk > xpm-3.4k-7mdk > xscreensaver-3.18-3mdk > xtraceroute-0.8.14-7mdk > > and probably others that I haven't yet spotted. Any reason why? I > want to run the system without X using another machine as the X server. > > Comments svp. > > John -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It seems pretty obvious that they DIDN'T think about it. > > i did the implementation of ''Clean up /tmp'' and i don't see what is > the problem ? you can have problem if you have a cron who delete the > .X* files when X running but since it is only in the initscripts there > is _no_ problems. > > > It's been fixed in 7.1 anyway, as I understand it. > > -- > MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com > San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel In 7.0, I deleted my /tmp partition and created a brand new one. Then I rebooted. X would not start. *That* is the problem. /tmp should contain only temporary files; it should be perfectly safe to wipe out the entire contents of /tmp and reboot, but with 7.0 it is not. Again, this is apparently fixed in 7.1, and moreover I don't think it has anything to do with the "clean up /tmp" code; it's a bug in the X & fontserver packages, so I'm not blaming you (unless you put those packages together as well). -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Cannot install 7.1, why!?!?
For the Unixly expert but hardwarily newbie among us, how does one go about underclocking (or overclocking, or in general didldling with the clock)? Is there a reference you could point me to? Armand wrote: > > "David G. Thiessen" wrote: > > > > Xperts - > > > > I have tried every possible way to install 7.1 but every time it > > crashes, saying > > something to the effect of "Out of memory" > [snip] > > Thanx, > > Dave > > My friend had a similar problem so I posted about it and Civilme gave me > a good reply (below). But the problem turned out to be, in this case, > something misconfigured in the bios and all my friend was able to tell > me was that he unchecked the "no OS". I'm guessing that he meant the > non-pnp OS option and what he really did was disable the pnp capable OS > function in the bios. > > HTH, > > Armand > > Armand wrote: > > > > I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my friend's computer and then he changed the > > CPU and upgraded to PC133 memory. Now when I tried to install it says > > Segmentation fault can't find memory and when I press enter on the OK > > button it throws me into a prompt #. Any suggestions? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Armand > > -- > > Linux 2.2.16-9mdk > > Sat Jul 1 12:45:00 MDT 2000 > > I had sigsegv problems with two boards. Both cleared with mild > underclocking(95% rate0. Both were FIC PAG2130 with VIA MVP4 > Chipsets. Now that you mention it, I had a Soyo with intel i810 > chipset that required certified memory and underclocking to > work--even in windows. > > PC133 memory and 133 Bus clocking often overdrive the AGP or put > it into a fall-back to 66MHz... At this time, I don't think 133 > is ready for prime time. > > Try backing off the bus clock. The timing requirements of 7.1 > are pretty narrow windows around the specs in several areas, > especially IDE and main memory. Slowing down slightly, like from > 133 to 124, might give it the space needed. (And it will > certainly make your system more reliable). > > The speed of a non-working computer is irrelevant. > > Civileme > > -- > Linux 2.2.16-9mdk > Thu Jul 6 23:40:00 MDT 2000 -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > > Try it at > > > > http://forum.mandrakesoft.com > > > > Our own version of slashdot > > > I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on > that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use this mail list! > John It seems pretty obvious that they DIDN'T think about it. It's been fixed in 7.1 anyway, as I understand it. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
Mark Weaver wrote: > > Have you tried re-creating this directory? sorry if you already stated > this in an earlier post. I don't have that one in my inbox any longer, but > it seems to me that would be the next logical step in the process. > > I would think that /tmp would be an important part of the file system and > a server such as "X" wouldn't be able to run without it. Maybe I'm > speaking out of turn here, but where else would it write the temp files to > if not to /tmp. I'm not sure about the permissions, but it's worth a try. No, no. In 7.0, Manrake put PERMANENT files into /tmp. Contrary wo what Chmouel said, it FAILED if /tmp was deleted and re-created, even if X wasn't up at the time, and even if you rebooted. The easy fix is to re-install the font server. (Of course, you must also re-create /tmp and all that, but the Mandrake bug was much worse than that. It does appear, however, that it's fixed in 7.1.) > > -- > Mark > > I love my Linux Box... > REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. > Registered Linux user # 1299563 > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > > > On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > > > > Maybe a question for the cooker list? I don't really know how else to > > > direct a question to the Mandrake team. > > > > > Maybe, but I've had the distinct impression that some of > > the Mandrake team hang out in this list apparently the > > ones who hang out either don't know the answer or choose to > > remain silent on that one No idea which. :-) > > John > > > > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Linux still wont boot
"Bruce E. Harris" wrote: > > I am at a loss. The kernel upgrade problem still exists. > > created a new lilo.conf on another computer (had to make the floppy ext2 > since my desktop under linux will not read dos partitions). I can not get > vi to work, even /bin/vi (file not found). I got the new lilo.conf > installed, but can not run lilo to install it. I did find lilo, even cd > into the directory where it lives and tried lilo and ./lilo, (file not found). > > Help please > > Bruce You need soemthing like /mnt/mydisk/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/mydisk/etc/lilo.conf -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] PPP Dial on demand, HD, and multiple IPs
I'd check log files for activity, and do a top. Maybe try different run levels to see which run-level adds the problematic daemon (most likely) to the mix . . . "Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: > > Hello, > > #1. I recently got pppd set up to dial on demand (without the aide of diald). Seems >to be working ok. However, today, I was just walking into my room, and I heard the >modem dial out. There was -no- client of any sort running on either the linux box, >or the one computer that is attached to it. Nothing at all! Is there a way to fix >this? > > #2. I posted some stuff before, but no one has replied to this. My hard drive is >accessed at least once every 3-5 seconds. Nothing is connected to the web, no >clients are accessing anything, and nothing is being logged. Why is this? How can >this be fixed? > > #3. I will be getting a high speed internet connection soon with a handful of IPs. >How do I make my machine answer to more than one IP address? I have one machine set >up as a router, and another as a http server. Both will need to be configured for >this. > > Thanks > > Bob > > P.S. Please CC your reply to me directly, as it seems to take 3 days before I can >see the reply. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Help in log analyzing
I suspec that you just need to remove the floppy line from your fstab file; this is probably caused by supermount trying to check the floppy and constantly discovering that you don't have one. James Sparenberg wrote: > > Hello, > The following is an intresting error in my kernel log file.. Seems it > doesn't like my floppy drive. Understandable in a way. I don't have > one. What should I be turning off to get this to disappear. You see since > I don't have one I surely can't be changing the disk ever few seconds. Or > can I? > Jul 1 02:05:23 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), > sector 0 > Jul 1 02:06:03 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) > Jul 1 02:06:03 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), > sector 0 > Jul 1 02:10:47 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) > Jul 1 02:10:47 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), > sector 0 > Jul 1 02:15:11 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) > Jul 1 02:15:11 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), > sector 0 > Jul 1 02:15:52 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) > Jul 1 02:15:52 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), > sector 0 > Jul 1 02:15:58 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) > Jul 1 02:15:58 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), > sector 0 > Jul 1 02:17:13 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) > Jul 1 02:17:13 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), > sector 0 > Jul 1 02:17:54 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) > Jul 1 02:17:55 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), > sector 0 > Jul 1 02:18:22 dreams kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) > Jul 1 02:18:22 dreams kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), > sector 0 > > The second is from my syslog and it seems to be asking for a file that I > can't find an example from on any of my boxes I have access to. In. inetd . > > Jul 1 02:12:56 dreams inetd[913]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 02:13:01 dreams inetd[914]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 02:13:06 dreams inetd[915]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 02:13:20 dreams inetd[916]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:26:15 dreams inetd[2020]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:27:53 dreams inetd[2021]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:28:42 dreams inetd[2022]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:28:44 dreams inetd[2023]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:30:57 dreams inetd[2029]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:31:03 dreams inetd[2030]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:35:26 dreams inetd[2034]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:35:29 dreams inetd[2035]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:35:30 dreams inetd[2036]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:35:48 dreams inetd[2037]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:36:22 dreams inetd[2039]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:36:28 dreams inetd[2041]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > Jul 1 15:36:30 dreams inetd[2043]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file > or directory > >I'm running Mandrake 7.0 on a Pentium 233mmx Soltek motherboard with > intel chipset (older chipset I don't remember model) Seagate 6.1 gig > udma33 Ide hdd Soundblaster 16 , Cirrus Logic 5480 VGA and 3c905ctx > ethernet.The cdrom is an LG 24x model unknowable (it's all in Korean I > don't know which is the model number) Kernel is 2.2.16-8mdksecure. Hope > this is enough info. Again, no floppy... yet hope to install a 120mb soon. > > Nightwriter -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Network Blues
The /24 means "the first 24 bits are the network." (Put another way, that's the network mask.) This can also be written / 255.255.255.0; means the same thing, but /24 saves typing. I doubt that this explains your problem, but if you are posting about a difference, it might help to see what yours says. Ken Thompson wrote: > > Can someone explain the /24 (192.168.1.0/24 ) in the nfs export line in fstab? > I have noticed it in several posts and it's the only thing I can see different > than mine. I have been having trouble getting my linux to linux network to > operate correctly and after following all the instructions, man pages, HOWTO's, > tutorials and answers from the kind people on this list, to the > best of my understanding, I still have a glitch. > I CANNOT get a two computer network to mount bi-directionally. > I can get computer 1, (boss) to mount the exported directory on computer 2 > (darkstar) but am unable to make darkstar mount the exported directory on boss. > While looking at the configuration of "boss", I set up "darkstar" the same way > (with the right addresses and directory names, of course) FTP, Telnet, ping ALL > work both ways OK. The error I get is connection refused.. Both at start up > and each time I try a different setting and then restart netfs, I'm outta my > league at this point, can someone give me a hand with this? TIA. > -- > Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services > 1801 Wayne Dr. > Payette, Idaho 83661 > Ph. (208) 642-7101 (888) 642-7101 > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.nwaa.com > Computer Sales - Service and Repair > Internet Web Site Design -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] postdrop mail error
I got this error today when trying to post from trn: postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/166343.1621: Permission denied I haven't seen this before, and I'm not aware of having changed anything lately. It has been a while since I happen to have mailed from trn. Any clues? -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] adding user groups
Or just edit /etc/group. It's so easy that the GUI could only make it harder (which is why I've never used one for this). Thompson wrote: > > Try using LinuxConf and let me know what happens. > > Hope that works, > Matt > > >From: "Joseph S. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [expert] adding user groups > >Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:47:28 -0400 > > > >M Thompson wrote: > > > > > Are you using LinuxConf to make these changes? > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > >From: "Joseph S. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > >Currently running latest version of Mandrake and am trying to add > >groups > > > >to selected users so that I can then give seleted users access to > > > >restricted directories. > > > > > > > >As root using KDE's user function (add, edit, delete) I select a user, > > > >tag the group tab and add the desired group. when I exit it prompts me > > > >to save changes, I agree but no go. users groups will remain the same. > > > > > > > >Anyone got any clues.? > > > > > > > >TIA > > > > > > > >Joseph S. Gardner > > > > > > >Matt, > > > >Nope, (don't think so) using the graphical that is available under the > >"K"=>"configure"=>"other"=>user admin" (I think) > > > > > > > >-- > >Joseph S. Gardner > >Senior Designer / Technical Support > >Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Linux is like a wigwam... > >No windows, no gates. > >Apache inside > > > >Registered linux user #1696600 > >ICQ #63389227 > > > > > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] LM7.1 - Blank screen during shutdown
Richard Oldham wrote: > Shutdown from KDM often provided no visual display of what was going on so > when the hard drive had ceased operating for a short while I would key in > "shutdown -h now" and press enter (just in case), all blind, and switch > off after a further period of apparent inactivity. This behaviour was not > cured by manually configuring "XF86Config" or "drakeres" (by rejecting the > probed settings) for 8MByte of Videoram or by following a recommendation to > set the Option "sw_cursor" in "XF86Config". The "sw_cursor" option did give > me 's for password input in KDM login screen for the very first time and > did seem to reduce the occurrences of the blind shutdown problem but it's not > fixed yet. > This is by no means a "correct" solution or anything, but . . . You might try some of the following to see what happens: a) CTL-ALT-F2 to get a console window, then log in as root and do a shutdown -h now. b) When confronted with the blank screen from the KDM shutdown, type CTL-ALT-F1 and/or CTL-ALT-F2 to get the/a console window. c) Rather than using the KDM shutdown, issue the shutdown command from a shell. d) Try running X 3.3.6 rather than X 4.0. Personally, I did a chmod +s /sbin/shutdown and just shutdown myself (with "halt" and "reboot" aliases; it saves the spurious extra step of logging off from KDE. Either way, however, X does successfully switch back into console mode for the shutdown). If this approach works for you, then you can probably make a script to shut down in a way that works for you by having a "halt" script like this: chvt 1 shutdown -h now (chvt changes to a virtual terminal; it's like CTL-ALT-1 in a script.) -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: Sort By Thread (WAS: [expert] missing SSH ?)
I use Netscape with the sorting by subject, and it seems to work quite well for purposes of this mailing list, at least. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just a quick comment, and I'll probably get blasted for it, but I haven't > found a mail client for Linux that does "View by Thread" as well as MS > Outlook. Netscape is horrible, I don't think Polarbar does it, and I > haven't been happy with other clients I've tried. > > > On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > > > I think that if we all had our mail clients set to display by THREAD, > > we'd have seen the responses. However, you can't FORCE people to read > > by thread. I, for example, prefer to read by date/time of arrival. > > John > > > > > > - > This message was sent using MI-Webmail. > No matter where you are, never lose touch. > Get your Email using MI-Webmail. > http://www.monmouth.com/ -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron: closing the cover doesn't work
On the flip side, I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 and I want it to *stop* suspending when I close the lid. Under Windows, I can get it to not suspend on the close of the lid, but I can't find a BIOS setting from the setup to control this, and the effect of the corrected behavior under Windows doesn't "carry over" into Linux . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know why my Dell Inspiron 3500 would have stopped turning itself > off when I close the cover? It used to be that when the cover was closed, it > would go into sleep mode. Now when I close the cover, it goes to the first > Linux console but remains on, which drains the batttery like you wouldn't > believe. I'm pretty sure it's because a process died but I'm not sure which > one. > > Any help appreciated. > > L > > -- > Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, > U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." > Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
Sevatio-- Most likely [EMAIL PROTECTED], since that seems to your ISP's domain, right? Jomar Villafane wrote: > > Why don't you ping it and get the IP address? > > J > - Original Message - > From: Sevatio Octavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:20 AM > Subject: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To? > > > I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with AT&T's Cablemodem > email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the > > POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just "mail"? So > if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for > > POP3 & SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't get > through to their crappy support center. > > > > Seve > > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] text:disk full
Use "du" to see who is chewing up the space. (If you can get xdu on, it's even easier, but probably not after you've already run out of space.) Still, putting all those applications when only 1gig was left, and allowing for space for /var, /tmp, etc, I'm not surprised you'd be running into space difficulties. maiplace wrote: > > Oops, sorry about html. > > I have lm 6.5. installed to half capacity of 2 gig hda3. > I usually run korganizer, staroffice5.1 from turbolinux, and recently, cbb > and then karchive. First problem occurred when working w/staroffice which > suddenly did not allow me to enter data into spreadsheet cell. Then seemed > OK when restarted staroffice but reported no room when I tried to save work. > Then I fiddled w/ karchive which window SOMEtimes only show what I want > archd. finally, I checked kdisk??? and surprise, hda3 was full to capcity. > > I dont know what to check.what could fill it up so fast? > Now no X (blank srcn & dim flashes), no console on restart. X failed, else > OK on shutdown (crt-alt-del). > > Anyone any idea? > NOTE: I also installed kudzu early w/dependency properly linked.Runs OK evry > start. > > Thanks in advance. > > _ > NetZero - Defenders of the Free World > Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Can't print from Drake 7.0 to Windows (or in the other direction)
Ok, I've been having a similar problem, and thanks to this advice (well, actually I had to do chmod -R a+rw /var/spool/lp before I could really get it to work, but close enough), I'm now able to get my file over into the queue on the Windows box (yay!). But I can't get the file to actually print--it shows up in the printer queue (on the Win98 box) for a while and then it vanishes from the queue again, but it never actually prints. In fact, the printer is a Canon BJC-6000, and it never even brings up the little green pop-up "progress window" that the (Windows) printer driver pops up when the Canon prints. Does anybody have a clue? Of course, there's no BJC-6000 listed, but I tried both the "Canon BJC-600 and BJC-4000" and the "Canon BJC-610 (UP)" and neither works. ALSO, similarly, I have my printer exported *to* Windows via Samba, using the automatic lp feature, and it's known to Windows in the sense that the Windows printer setup recognizes it as a Samba printer and set it up, but when I try to print to it, nothing whatsoever happens. Although in this case Windows acts a bit more clueful than Linux did; it notices that there was an error (albiet and "undetermined" one) and grays out the printer for on-line use. Any clues about that appreciated. Phil Edwards wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > Since upgrading from 'Drake 6.1, I have been unable to print from my Linux box > > to a printer attached to a Windows machine elsewhere on my network. The printer > > does work, other machines can print to it. > > > > I had the exact same problem after doing a fresh install of LM7.02 onto my > LM6.1 box at work > > > I have Samba 2.0.6 installed (not from rpm) in /usr/local/samba and I have > > changed /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/smbprint to point to > > /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient. For kicks, I've even tried setting "chmod -R 777 > > /var/spool/lpd/lp". > > > > This is so, so, so close to the solution > > > When I try to print, no packets are sent to the remote machine, therefore I > > have concluded that the problem exists on the local 'Drake 7.0 box. > > > > Absoutely right!!! > > > Help! > > > > Okay, then, seeing as you asked so nicely. > > I had a printer set up called "carolq", because it was attached to Carol's PC. > LM6.1 printed to it with no problems, LM7.02 didn't want to know. > > After a couple of hours scratching around, I ended up in /var/spool/lpd/carolq. > In that directory I found a hidden file called ".config". This file had it's > permission set such that it was only readable by root. This is unfortunate, > since the printer daemon runs as its own user, lpd. A quick "chmod 666 .config" > solved the problem for me. > > Oh, you also need to be aware that if you do anything at all to the setup of > this printer using printtool or any of the other nice GUI front ends, it will > set the permissions back to 600 on your ".config" file, so you'll need to fix > it again. > > Please let the list know if this fixes your printing problem. I'm about to > install 7.1 on my laptop, so I'll check what happens when I set printers up > there. > > -- > Phil Edwards > Technical Services Engineer > == > Travellog Systems Phone +44 (0)1444 459016 > The Priory, Haywards HeathFax +44 (0)1444 456655 > West Sussex, RH16 3LB mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > United Kingdom http://www.travellog.co.uk > == -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] HP drivers/Outlook
Kikta LCpl Jason M wrote: > > We do have the web access. However, Netscape isn't always stable with it and > I lose some functionality. Thanks. Seems rock-solid to me. You will be missing some functionality; eg, - font control - pop-up alarms But for mail, including scheduling programs on the calendar it works great for me . . . > > Jason > > -Original Message- > From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 16 Jun, 2000 01:53 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] HP drivers/Outlook > > Kikta LCpl Jason M wrote: > > > > I have two questions. First, where can I get a good driver for a > HP > > LJ 8000 and a HP LJ 4050T? I can't seem to find them on the HP website. > > Second, my organization uses MS Outlook (unfortunately). Is there a client > > available that will allow me to access my mail with minimal loss of > > Outlook's functionality? Thanks. > > > > Jason > > Also, if your employer has it set up, the Microsoft Outlook Web Access > is really nice, and runs just great under Netscape. Your employer > would, however, have to have a server set up. It's worth looking into, > though. > > (Ironically, it doesn't work as well under IE; I guess they figured if > you have IE you probably have Outlook, or something.) > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] IP MAsq / IP Chains problems on mandrake 7
Perhaps your firewall is working as expected but your hosts.allow and hosts.deny rules are denying any access? Mine look like (pretty much) like this: # cat /etc/hosts.deny # # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. ALL:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL:DENY # cat /etc/hosts.allow # ALL:192.168.101.:ALLOW You'd use whatever you use for your local subnet above. Darcy Brodie wrote: > > Hello > > i am still having trouble with this Mandrake setup. > I am attempting to setup IP Masqurading through IP Chains . > I have had this configuration previously running on a RH 5 box, and decided > to upgrade. > > I have used the PMFirewall program to create the firewall and > masqurading rules. From the Linux box, I can ping both the internal > network and the internet. However, from a workstation running win98, I > can only ping the linux box. When I attempt to ping the intetnet, I get > the following (thanks to tcpdump) > > 13:05:47.551865 192.168.67.20 > 220867-db: icmp: 192.168.67.20 udp > port unreachable [tos 0xc0] > > I have have removed all of the pmfirewall rules and tried a very basic > ip chains rules as follows > > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.67.0/24 -j MASQ > > i realize that this is probablu the simplst ip masq rules that can be > set, but I still get the same message in tcpdump > > I am using 2 network cards, 1 connected directly to my cable modem > (which gets it's ip via dhcp) This is eth0 > The second one is connected to my local network with a static ip of > 192.168.67.20 > The win98 workstation has a static ip of 192.168.67.2 > On the linux box, the DNS server is pointing to the DNS server from > my ISP > The default gateway is also pointing to my ISP's gateway > The above settings are exactly the same as what I was running on > the RH5 box, but I was using ipfwadm for my rules > > Darcy -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] RAM detection problem
Yes, but why would it have worked in the previous version of Mandrake? That's the mystery here . . . Pj wrote: > > Windows users frequently get a shock when they switch systems and find > their Windows friendly RAM isn't being correctly recognized in Linux. > The problem can be as simple as mismatched pairs. 32MB of FP and 32MB of > EDO may equal 64RAM in Windows but Linux will only recognize 32. > > My two cents.. > > Pj -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] PPP and Enlightenment/netscape image problems
You aren't using 24-bit color perchance? Dom wrote: > > First question... > I use Xisp as my dialer for my ISP, and it all works fine, except > on the console I get the message: can't locate module > char-major-108 > I don't remember ever having this problem before using > Mandrake 6 6.1 and a whole series of redhat... > I am currently using the 2.2.14-15mdk kernel and modules > as supplied with 7.01 and I've not rebuilt it... > Any thoughts...? > Apologies if anyone thinks this is the wrong place for this > question, but it only happened when I upgraded from Mdk 6.0 - > 7.0. > Basically the problem is simple, using Enlightenment with Gnome I > have problems with certain images. ie. the cursor under > enlightenment doesn't mask properly so I get a funny coloured > square behind it... the same happens in netscape when I want to > drag 'n' drop a link for example. Now this all used to work fine > before I upgraded, which is not to put all the blame on the > upgrade! I've untarred some of my enlightenment themes to find > the relevant pix and when I try to open the files, gimp says it > cant. The files all appear to be in an xbm format, if that is of > any help. I have also seen the same problem reproduced on a > machine I did a fresh install on about 2 months ago. My guess is > that some graphics libraries are missing that should probably > have been installed as standard, thus why I'm asking this here... > Has anyone else had the same problem, or know of a solution... > Thanks > Dom Savage > Research Post Graduate > University of East Anglia -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Path isn't right
Becuase you have multiple places (in startup scripts most likely) that do this sort of thing: export PATH=(/new/path/element $PATH) Armand Nossaint wrote: > > Why is my path written down three times in set? > > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ga > mes:/home/nossaint/bin:/usr/local/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/loc > al/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games > > -- Armand -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] parallel Port CD Burner
I did. I'm really glad that I've got a built-in CD-RW now, 'cause it killed the machine, but it works just fine. Go to the parallel-port page for information; it's been a while and I'm sorta rusty on it now. (Basically the parallel port devices all run either SCSI or IDE over parallel, so you load some parallel-port modules to give you an IDE or SCSI device, and from there it's just like having one that's not on a paralle port, except that it's about 1/10 as fast so you'll be lucky if you can burn at 1x without underflow. (That was my problem--I couldn't burn more than about 1/5 of a CD before I underflowed; that was on a P-166 but it had a cruddy parallel port; with the right sort of fast parallel port it's supposed to work a lot better.) John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > I'm sure this has been beaten to dealt but is it possible to run a Parallel > > Port CD Burner ( HP ) from within LM 7.1 ?? > > > > > Hmm.I would *guess* that you could, but I've never > heard of anyone using a parallel-port CDR/RW under Linux. > :-) > John -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Laptop, pcmcia, and network
Well, that depend on how you set up a regular NIC, I guess. I set up my PCMCIA by hand using the scripts from RedHat 6.0 or so, but this is not the "Mandrake way." Basically, when you plug the PCMCIA in, it should be set up as eth0; you just have to configure eth0 using whatever GUI Mandrake supplies for configuring ethernet cards. Or at least that's how it should work; that's how it worked in RedHat 6.1, anyway. Eric Peters wrote: > > allo all, > > I'm a newbie to laptops and need some help setting up the network on > it. It has a 3com pcmcia nic modle number 3ccfe57bt-d in it. And I'm not > sure what the first step is? Do you net it up like a regular nic and if so > what mod to use? > > Any help would be great. :) > > Thanx in advance, Cheers. > > Eric Peters Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > System Admin Network Operations > Inherent Technologies Inc. > office (503)224-6751 ext 224 > -------- -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] ePatents
. Please make > your check payable to the BBB Technology Company and > amil it today. > > Thank you in advance for your early payment. > > Yours very truly, > > I. M. Suing > Chief, Lawyer battalion 417 > > And what does that mean to Joe Programmer? > > JOe has to research the algorithms granted patents, the > filfe formats granted patents, and then perhaps pay an > attorney to research faster, better and further amongst > the myriad of ePatents -- and for what? > > So Joe Programmer can write, "hello, world" version 3. > > Scientists, including computer scientists, shopuld be > allowed to stand on each other's shoulders. That is > what is of highest and best interest to the public and > to science. Instead, the current patent morass and > proprietary software has computer scientists standing > on each other's feet. And, until we find a better > system and implement it, the situation will worsen > rather than improve. > > Please, go sign the petition. Please,, someone, let's > get an American version of the petition going. We are > one of the biggest parts of the problem, thanks to the > embarassment of an understaffed PTO whose policy is, > "Grant it, and let the courts decide if it is valid." > > Civileme -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] ipmasq problems on Mandrake 7.0
Don wrote: > > Sometimes the " /etc/resolv.conf" file needs to be edited to include the > DNS servers that your ISP gave you. If this is not added you probably > won't see any thing from the Internet. Below is an example of my . . . or run a DHCP server on the firewall/gateway machine, and then you just have to do this on that machine . . . (FWIW) This particularly works a lot better with Windows machines. What sort of workstations are you running, anyway? > /etc/resolv.conf file: > > search emad > nameserver 207.67.165.4 > nameserver 209.203.108.249 > nameserver 207.16.23.254 > nameserver 192.168.0.246 > nameserver 192.168.0.1 > > List the ones given by your ISP first > > ttyl, > > Don > > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > > > I wrote in to you a couple of weeks ago with a problem using ipchains / > > ipmasq on a mandrake 7.0 box. I thank you for the suggestions of > > getting PmFirewall. I have installed it and set it up by answering all > > of its questions. However, this still has not corrected the original > > problem. I can still ping either direction from the linux box (I can > > ping both the internal network, and sites on the internet), however, > > from a workstation, I can only ping the linux box. I have no access to > > the internet. I have ensured that the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is > > "1" > > > > Also, I know that there is a command to monitor the activity on a > > ethernet card, but I forget what it is. > > > > Darcy Brodie > > > > > Content-Type: text/x-vcard; name="dbrodie.vcf" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: Card for Darcy Brodie, CJL > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] HP drivers/Outlook
Kikta LCpl Jason M wrote: > > I have two questions. First, where can I get a good driver for a HP > LJ 8000 and a HP LJ 4050T? I can't seem to find them on the HP website. > Second, my organization uses MS Outlook (unfortunately). Is there a client > available that will allow me to access my mail with minimal loss of > Outlook's functionality? Thanks. > > Jason Also, if your employer has it set up, the Microsoft Outlook Web Access is really nice, and runs just great under Netscape. Your employer would, however, have to have a server set up. It's worth looking into, though. (Ironically, it doesn't work as well under IE; I guess they figured if you have IE you probably have Outlook, or something.) -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] GNU/Linux -- leader or follower?
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > > Good example, I dual boot (spending 90% of my time in Linux) my primary > > home machine. Sometimes (I do web apps/database integration ect) I need to > > work with a client who uses some ActiveX control like Crystal reports... > > damn no compatibility. Maybe Mozilla could pour a little WINE in... > > > ActiveX is proprietary, M$-Windows ONLY crap. IT would be > NICE if M$ would release the standards so that other > operating systems and browsers would support it, but AFAIK, > unless Judge Jackson's ruling holds, we're SOL! > John I certainly hope that ActiveX isn't ever supported under Linux; ActiveX is a security nightmare of unimaginable proportions and the fact that it is as popular as it is shows rank stupidity, not only on the part of Microsoft, but on the part of many others who should probably know better. For what activeX has a right to solve, Java is a better solution; for things like fully automatic updates of your system directly from your browser without extra intervention . . . good riddance. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > > > WeiQuan Tian wrote: > > > > > > Dear all: > > > > > > Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under Windows for > > > optimization of Hard disk in Mandrake 6.0 or RPM in higher version? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Wei Quan Tian > > > > No, the Linux file system is designed properly, so there's no need. > > What does "(ext2) is designed properly, so there's no need" mean? > > No filesystem can be designed to eliminate fragmentation. If > you are constantly "churning" on your disk, especially if your > disk is > 80% full, it *will* become fragged. Why? First of, there's nothing magical about 80%; it gets more fragmented (even with an optimal design) as the ratio of the size of the average file that's being created & destroyed to the amount of free space gets too large; this is more nearly a function of the absolute amount of free space than the percentage of the disk partition. This is especially true since it really doesn't affect performance in any material way if a 200M file is broken up into a few dozen 4M chunks, say; what hurts is when the 200M file is broken up into lots of 1K chunks. In fact, chances are that whatever program you are using to *process* the data doesn't really benefit by reducing the chunk size below something on the rough order of 64k, because (unless you are doing nothing but raw-copying the file) the program will have to stop and actually process the data somewhere along the way, and (especially with a read-ahead cache) the seek can happen "for free" while the processing is going on. With all of that, you probably aren't in trouble 'til the partition is at least 95% full. *And* the ext2 file system (with default parameters) never permits the file system to get over 95% full! So it forces you to leave enough room for it to avoid any serious fragmentation. (Unless you are running as root, in which case you have no business continuously creating and destroying files anyway---root's way to dangerous for that sort of task.) If you are concerned, you can run fsck; it'll tell you percentage of discontiguous blocks, but it's generally quite low, and if you were to probe further (eg, with ext2ed [sp?], you'd find that the large majority of those are very large files where they are harmless. The big advantage of the ext2 file system: The entire disk is its oyster; it has no prejudice in favor of using the earlier cylinders first, or leaving the last ones for root. Any old cylindar will do just fine. It is biased against fragmentation, though. > > Of course, high speed disks, high speed CPUs and lots of RAM > for cache will minimize fragmentation's effect... > > Of course, since I have high speed disks, high speed CPUs and > lots of RAM for cache, and the disks are < 80% full, and I > don't "churning" on my disks, I don't defrag my disks. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > As to the zie of file, I heard about this formula: 2**n, n is the bits > > of your OS. SO in our case (32 bits), it's about 2.1GB. I used IRIX 64 > > bits system, I could creat 15GB single file. > > > IRIX is a 64-bit operating system, though, correct? Linux > is still a 32-bit O/S (mostly, although there ARE 64-bit > versions for things like the Sparc or the Alpha processor.) > John Actually, this is, generally speaking, more a matter of hardware than O/S. Some O/Ss are not written to be able to handle both 32- and 64-bit environments, but most are. Even Windows runs on the Alpha, and has for some time, although I believe it takes less advantage of the possiblities of the 64-bit processor than Linux does. So . . . Linux is a 32/64 bit operating system, but the Intel x86 chips that the large majority of us run are 32-bit chips, so it's a 32-bit environment there; if you buy yourself an Alpha, you can run Linux in a 64-bit environment. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] [Expert] How can I?
John Aldrich wrote: > > > 3) A semi-Gui or full-Gui kernel re-compile script / program. > > > Make X-config (or is it Xconfig, or xconfig) anyway, > it's already there! Hmm . . . well, selecting the options is there, but here's what I have to do to build a kernel: make xconfig make dep make make modules make modules_install cd pcmcia* make config answer a bunch of questions make install cd .. make bzlilo lilo Hmm . . . I must issue 10 seperate commands plus answer a series of interactive questions, *after* I used the "GUI." Methinks a gui for the gui is still called for! Heck, I don't care if it's a GUI, but at least a standard shell script for all that would be a vast improvement. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK
WeiQuan Tian wrote: > > Dear all: > > Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under Windows for > optimization of Hard disk in Mandrake 6.0 or RPM in higher version? > > Thanks in advance, > > Wei Quan Tian No, the Linux file system is designed properly, so there's no need. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Bash Scripting
Necrotica wrote: > > I'm interested in learning a little about bash scripting. In particular, I'd > like to learn how to tell if the user logging on is logging in under X or from > a command prompt. Can anyone point me in the direction of where I can find this > information? Thanks... > > -Chris Just see if $DISPLAY is set. (Sorry: I only know csh; there it's $?DISPLAY, but probably not the same for bash.) -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Re: DISCUSION Upgrade (fwd)
Seems to me that there's been *lots* of discussion on this, but . . . 1. What I *expect* is for an upgrade to mess up my system completely, so I don't even bother trying; I just backup my personal files and do a "from scratch" install. This is based on long and unhappy experience with Linux upgrades, and also based on a personality quirk that doesn't mind the from-scratch approach so much. Of course, I *never* install "dot releases"; I only install when my system is getting way out of date or I have new hardware or a new system that really calls out for an upgrade. 2. What I would *like* for an upgrade is for it to "just work": - For all packages which are still in their pristine, "out of the box" form to simply be upgraded. - For all packages which have been in any way customized to resolve conflicts: > If the /etc config files have been modified, and the format is the same as before, they should be left alone; if the format of the file has changed, my customizations should be preserved; if this is not possible, then the upgrade should ask me to resolve the conflicts by popping up an xterm, if nothing else, and letting me use my favorite editor to patch things up by hand, while showing me the info on the changes. Note that since my favorite editor (xvile) isn't in the Mandrake distribution, this implies that the upgrade takes place in something more like my regular working environment than the usual install environment. > If I upgraded the package by installing a newer RPM, figuring out which one is newer and going with the latest one, unless the version on the new install is the same as the previous install, in which case I presumably downgraded it deliberately. > If I upgraded the package by replacing it with a tarball version, noting that and asking if I want the tarball version left alone, deleted and replaced by the package, or install the package without deleting the tarball. (Possible since I always do tarball installs to /usr/local, and RPMs never do.) - To keep a log of any conflicts or questionable cases. - To set things up so that for any packages which changed their user-level setup, a sort of "mini install" would come up for each user as they log in which would let them resolve conflicts in a similar manner. Thus, if the new KDE desktop defaults change all around, give the user with a customized desktop a chance to integrate the chnages if they want. Denis HAVLIK wrote: > > Hi, folks > > It feels strange when I have to reply to my own message but... I thought > that "upgrade" is an extremely important topic, yet no one wants to > discuss it. Does it mean that you are not interested (so we should stop > worying about upgrade) or what? I repeat: > > :~>What do you expect from upgrade? > > cu > Denis > -- > - > Dr. Denis Havlik<http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik> > Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ---oOO--(_)--OOo- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me > spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Getting telnet access working on Mdk 7
Eric Aksomitis wrote: > > Well, problem solved. For some reason by default the inet.d daemon > wasn't running. I tacked him onto rc.local, and now it works. > > One question: How is it more secure to log in as a user and su to root, > as opposed to allowing direct root access? The only thing I can see is > that your root password will be buried in the middle of a bunch of > packets, as opposed to being obviously spotted? It's more secure because the hackers already know that there's a root account; they just have to hack the password. But they don't know all the other accounts. (Though by this logic, the "nobody" account surely should be disabled as well--in fact all the "standard" accounts should.) Does anybody know of another reason? > My other question would be: why wasn't inet.d running by default?? It > was totally installed and configured. You didn't pick a server install? Also, it would be more conventional to enabled it via linuxconf or your favorite startup config, rather than adding it to local. > > Cheers > Eric Aksomitis > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > > You should not be able to telent into the root account. It is considered > > very insecure. You can telnet into a user account, then "su -" to run as > > root. (Even more secure, use ssh instead, but that's another issue.) > > > > You didn't say whether you have tried to log in as a user; if not, try > > that. > > > > What other functions are working or not working? Can you ping the beastie, > > by host name or by IP address? Get the webpage? > > -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Help!
Or use "du" and then sort it numerically; eg,
du / | sort -n
Prints the largest directories, cumulatively. The "xdu" program will
show it graphically.
(find . -follow -type f -size +100k !* -exec du {} \;) | sort -r -n >
big-files
produces a noice sorted list of the biggest files;
Civileme wrote:
>
> Cecil Watson wrote:
> >
> > Help! Some how something seems to be eating up space on my hard drive!
> > I won't be able to get to the system till Monday. I have OpenSSH
> > access, but cannot find anything out of place? Anyone got any ideas? I
> > know I had plenty of room available on it?! Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Cecil
>
> For the fine-grained investigation
>
> ls -a -l -R -H (target directory) | grep ./ -A 1 | lpr
>
> My guess is you will find
>
> ~/.netscape/cache/00
> ~/.netscape/cache/01
> *
> *
> *
> ~/.netscape/cache/1F
>
> with each about 2-4Mb in them, still technically under the
> default 5000kb limit set for the cache size, but with 30 or more
> subdirectories in the cache each approaching that limit.
>
> The "cure" I use is a script
> #---cachebash begins below with the line beginning with
> #! being the first line in the file
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in `sed s/:/ / /etc/passwd | gawk /^[a-z]/ print $1`
> do
> if [ -d /home/$i/.netscape ] then
> rm -R -f /home/$i/.netscape/cache
> fi
> done
> rm -R -f /root/.netscape/cache
>
> #-End of script
>
> the sed changes the colons in /etc/passwd lines to a single space
> so gawk can see them as fields and the print $1 lists all users.
> Then the if checks if the user has a netscape cache and deletes
> it and all its subdirectories if so. The last line isn't in my
> /root/cachebash script because I don't netscape as root, but is
> included here for those who might do so inadvertantly. The whole
> script is stored as /root/cachebash and is run weekdays at 16:01
> by cron (running as root, obviously).
>
> I have seen results up to the removal of 9000 or more files.
>
> And soon, if my tests on Konqueror continue to produce the
> results I have seen thus far, this script won't be necessary,
> because I won't be using netscape. At one time I admired
> Netscape and now when it goes off my system I won't shed a tear.
>
> Civileme
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Re: [expert] Upgrading from Other Distros
Good heavens, upgrades are dangerous & complex as it is; wouldn't it just make more sense to back up your files and install from scratch? If you put your home directory (and perhaps /usr/local) on a separate parition(s), you won't even have to restore those from the backup (if all goes well), but you should backup anyway. Brian Schroeder wrote: > > Is it possible to upgrade from another distribution to Mandrake (ie. > to use the Upgrade option in the install, rather than have to do a > fresh install)? > > If so, are there any issues I would need to watch out for? > > If not, this would be a good idea for incorporation into future > versions. > > At the moment I am running Redhat 6.2 on a high-end 486 at home, and > I am thinking of moving to the 486 edition of Mandrake 7.1 when it > comes out. > > Brian. > -- > -- > Brian Schroeder | > ,-_|\ Origin Energy Resources Ltd | A great many open minds > / \ Adelaide Australia | should be closed for repairs > \_,-*_/ GPO Box 2576 Adelaide 5001 | > v PH +61 8 8217 5782 | TOLEDO BLADE > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] lilo problem
I'm only guessing what you are asking here . . . If you mean that your LILO on the hard disk went away, but you can still boot from floppy, then . . . Just boot from floppy, the log in as root, and run lilo, by typing lilo . If you mean somthihng else, please ask the question more coherently: What doesn't work? How doesn't it work? What is the *precise* command you are issuing? What is the *precise* error message you are getting? "webug :-)" wrote: > > hi ! > > my lilo does not work anymore > how do i restore the fd0 to the lilo ? > is there a short way to do that ? > please help !! -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] IpChains problems in Mandrake 7.0
Being list under policy DENY doesn't really mean anything; it just means that anything *isn't* specified will be denied. That which you MASQ will still be masquaraded. Also, it cannot simultaneously be true that: a) You have NO access from a workstation, and b) You can ping the linux box from a workstation. If your firewall were stopping you you would not even be able to ping. Most likely you simply don't have the services you are trying to access doing on the Linux boxes, which is a question independent of the firewall itself. "Darcy Brodie, CJL" wrote: > > I am trying to configure a linux box to be a firewall / masqurading > machine for access to the internet through a cable modem. eth0 is the > external nic card (ip supplied by isp via dhcp), and eth1 is the > internal network (using the 192.168.1.0 class C group). These are > communicating properly. > I have the firewall configured as follows > > echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > # clear all rules and start fresh > /sbin/ipchains -F > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ > # this prevents ICQ Time out problems > /sbin/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 160 > > When I run the rc.firewall program, I get no errors. However, when I > list the ipchains (ipchains -L), all of the above rules are listed under > teh policy DENY, and I have NO access from a workstation (although I can > 1-ping both the internal and external networks from the linux box, and > 2- ping the linux box from any of the workstations) > > Suggestions ?? -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Acrobat segmentation faults
root wrote: > > I bought Mandrake 7.0 instead of downloading so I could read the linux > EBooks that came with the distribution. I can read the EBooks fine when > I boot to Windows 98 but I can get Acrobat to work in Linux. I have > tried acroread 4 which comes on the CD and 4.05 from Adobe's web site. > Both times I followed the installation instructions. > > Any suggestions? You could always try xpdf. I've mostly switched to using it myself. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] RE: grep complexity
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > --Transcript of session follows --- > "Expert@Mandrake"@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com > 550 <"Expert@Mandrake"@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>... relay attempt failed > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] grep complexity > Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:44:37 -0400 > From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: None to speak of > To: "Expert@Mandrake"@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think that your biggest problem is not with the complexity of grep, > but with the way that the Unix command line (shells) work. The * > "globs" get expanded by the shell before the command ever sees them. > This is one of the greatest stregths and weaknesses of the Unix shell as > opposed to, say, the DOS CLI. > > Joe Sheble wrote: > > > > Could grep be any more difficult to figure out? I'll admit I'm new to > > Linux, but so far everything I've set out to do (set up a server, set up > > sendmail, set up Apache, set up PHP, etc...) I have accomplished fairly > > easy. Except for grep... All I want to do is search all the *.c file > > recursively starting from a specific directory for a specific string... > > > > grep -r -e "function something" -f *.c > > > > Isn't that what this is supposed to do? Instead of getting a listing of > > files containing the text I'm searching for and what line number it appears > > on, I get pages after page after page of 'stuff', nothing of which has > > anything to do with what I'm searching for. > > > > Yeah, I know... RTFM... I've read, and re-read the man pages for grep over > > and over and over, and so far it has remained gobblygook... The one thing > > missing in all man pages thus far are some useful examples... > > > > SO could somebody enlighten me about this mystery that is grep? > > > > Joseph (Joe) Sheble > > a.k.a. Wizaerd > > > > Wizaerd's Realm > > http://www.wizaerd.com > > 3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas > > a little bit of everything... > > > > ColdFusion Developer > > Zanova, Inc. > > http://www.ZanovaInc.com > > Moving your business forward... > > ======== > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] not able to set up udf filesystem.
Where did the "make install" install it to? Most likely it's being installed to some directory other than the Mandrake modules directory (/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk, in my case; could be slightly different for you if you installe the secure kernel or something)l. Roger Munoz wrote: > > has anyone successfully set up a udf filesystem in Mandrake 7.0? i have > tried but to no avail. I downloaded and untarred the udf-0.9.2.tar.gz. > and did the following. > > INSTALLING: > > "make udf.o"-- ok > > "make install" --ok > > "make patch"--ok > > TESTING: > > "depmod -a"--ok > > "modprobe udf", > > message: can't locate udf filesystem > > can anybody help!!! -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] chown for normal users
Deryk Barker wrote: > > Thus spake Matt Stegman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > > ... > > > > I don't think it's wrong. How would you like to have a user write a > > > > setuid script and then make you the owner? > > > > > > That's *exactly* what *he* should be able to. So long as *I* can't me > > > me the owner of "his* files, I don't see the problem. > > > > So I can: > > > > $ cp /bin/sh /tmp/sh > > $ chmod 4755 /tmp/sh > > $ chown root /tmp/sh > > $ /tmp/sh > > # > > > > Is this correct, intended behavior on HP-UX? You can do all of those steps without any error messages, but it's not a huge security hole becuase the "chown" automatically turns off the SUID bit. > Not to mention the question of quota. Can anyone "give" you a massive > file and chew up all your remaining quota? Good point. Yes, as far as I can tell, it will happily let you do this. I now see that this is more complex than I at first thought, and I am willing to concede the advantages to the Mandrake/Linux/GNU approach, though it's not what I expected. Does anybody know the history of this? -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Making my laptop a dhcp and samba client
You mean *server*?? You don't need dhcpd to be a client; just check the DHCP box in whatever gui you use for network setup; or specify it on your network options. For server, you should just be able to select it as one of the things to start up in your runlevel editor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > How do I go about configuring my Mandrake 7.0 installation so that it acts > as a dhcp client and a samba client also. As it is, I always have to run the > dhcpcd daemon (which I had to compile) manually after rebooting. As for the > samba stuff, I'm not even there yet... > > Thanks, > > L > > -- > Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, > U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." > Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] custom / server install
Well, what is "half" a GUI, then? When I did my server install of my gateway machine, I deliberately clobbered X via "expert" mode so I just guessing. Is it perhaps just a different WM than you are used to, or even X without a WM? "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > > Logically speaking, there's no reason for a server install to install a > > GUI. > > > > If you don't really want a server, you probably should pick another > > install type. > > > > The "half" GUI was probably just the text-mode graphic of the penguin, > > right? > > > > "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > > > > > just for grins I tried a custom / server install last night on a new > > > system I'm building and all I got was a text window asking for a > > > username/password which then logged me in but only had "half" a GUI > > > appearance. What's up with this, did something get dropped during the > > > install or is this all that's supposed to be there? > > > > > > > No, I actually had a couple of terminal windows going. Hmmm, strange. > > The reason for the server experiment was that I want to run a NFS/NIS setup > for the home network and was curious what I would get. > > -- > Joseph S. Gardner > Senior Designer / Technical Support > Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Linux is like a wigwam... > No windows, no gates. > Apache inside > > Registered linux user #1696600 > ICQ #63389227 -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Re: Welcome to new expert list : 7.1
Works for me now, too. The server must have just been down when I tried it before. "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: > > On Tue, 23 May 2000 - Brian T. Schellenberger, you wrote: > | "Colin L. Whipple" wrote: > | > > | > On Mon, 22 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: > | > > On Mon, 22 May 2000, Colin L. Whipple wrote: > | > > > | > > :~>It would also be nice to have a little more info about what the "hard >disk > | > > :~>optimizations" means. Just how likely is it that problems will result >from > | > > :~>checking that box? What is being optimized? > | > > > | > > Instead of giving you a fish, I'll try to learn you fishing .-) > | > > > | > > see "/etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime" file: > | > > > | > > > | > > if [ -x /sbin/hdparm ];then > | > > LIST_HD=$(grep '^hd.:' /var/log/dmesg|\ > | > > grep -ivE '(CD.*ROM|DVD.*ROM|FLOPPY|TAPE|STATUS)'|cut > | > > -d: -f1|sort|u > | > > niq) > | > > > | > > if grep -i nohdparm /proc/cmdline >/dev/null ; then > | > > action "Hard Drive optimisations disabled" \ > | > > echo "" > | > > else > | > > for i in $LIST_HD;do > | > > action "Starting Hard Drive optimisations for $i" \ > | > > hdparm -q -c1 -q -A1 -q -m16 -q -d1 /dev/$i > | > > done > | > > fi > | > > fi > | > > > | > > I suppose this answers the question? > | > > | > Not that I can tell. All that is total Greek to me. > | > | "man hdparm" to see what all that means. > | > | > Do you mean something like > | > the information at the following URL?: > | > > | > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html > > The above link worked on my machine - using KFM. ??? :). > > | > | Hard to say since I can't get that URL to work . . . > | > | > > | > Colin > | > | -- > | "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > | Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > | Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. > -- > > ___ > Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] kmail-1.0.29.1 configure can not find pgcc-c++
The original messages suggest that it is looking for g++. Maybe you should make a link to *that*. Lars Nordin wrote: > > On Thu, 25 May 2000, corey Ryan wrote: > > I had the same problem at one time. What I am about to suggest, you might know >alreadybut I will say it anyway: > > > > 1. Make sure pgcc-c++ is installed on your system. > > Done. I have pgcc-c++ from MDK v6.1 installed => pgcc-c++-1.1.3-3mdk > > > 2. If pgcc-c++ is installed on your system, make sure the location of the > > program is in your path. > > Done. > [lars@frid kmail-1.0.29.1]$ which c++ > /usr/bin/c++ > > I even tried creating a link from /usr/bin/c++ to /usr/bin/cpp to see if > configure was looking for 'cpp' but that didn't work either. > > Thanks for the help > > -- > Lars Nordin > Noble Systems Corporation -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
