Re: [expert] Mandrake Clubs
Brian: Gold and Platinum memberships are targeted at corporate sponsors -- as in folks with big bucks to spend. I don't think that they get any special benefits beyond those of a Silver member. -- cmg No, they have a seprate thing for "corprate sponsors". The "standard" is $2,500. You have to call mandrake to get a quote on Silver or Platinum. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/corporateclub/benefits Corprate club is a completly different animal than the "regular club". For those who do not want a corprate-club account, but would like a "regular club" account, don't get anything special if they get Gold or Platinum. I think this should be changed... And it works like an umbrella membership for all employee systems. Only with a "corprate club" membership. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Clubs
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2003 09:03 am, Brian V Bonini wrote: Not exactly a tech questions but: Where can I find a list of differences between the different club membership levels, assuming there are differences? Brian: The Club FAQ gives some help, although IMHO it could be more complete: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1294&mode=nocomments -- cmg I agree they need to be more clear. They explain "Standard vs Silver and above". But not Silver vs Gold, or Gold vs Platinum. It would be nice to get some special stuff as a Gold or Platinum user, like real ftp of iso's instead of bittorrent... :) -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?
Glenn Burkhardt wrote: I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. This time it was my ".bashrc" file. I might have just powered off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of shutdown. After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my shell prompt had changed, and discovered that the file was full of ASCII null characters. I've seen this happen a couple of times before on other machines. Then the file "/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc" had been similiarly trashed - full of zeros. And, it seems that the file size was larger than usual. I've been using the XFS filesystem on these machines for a couple of years now. Is this a failure of the disk drive, or should I switch to ext3 ?? Thanks. If you do not cleanly shutdown your machine your filesystem will not be fully commited to disk... And you will have problems like this. What version of mandrake? mdk8.1 had a problem with not shuting down clean even when using the halt command. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Easiest way to transparent proxy / bridge ???
Bryan Whitehead wrote: diego wrote: I have a MDK 8.2 machine conected to internet through eth1 (adsl) and to a laptop through eth0. Which is the easiest way to make the laptop reach internet with all services (not only http)? BTW, If you really insist on a *real* bridge then look no further than this site: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-Bridge-netfilter-HOWTO.html -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Easiest way to transparent proxy / bridge ???
diego wrote: I have a MDK 8.2 machine conected to internet through eth1 (adsl) and to a laptop through eth0. Which is the easiest way to make the laptop reach internet with all services (not only http)? If you really want to export all the services from your laptop like a webserver (http) then the easiest way is to unplug your MDK 8.2 machine from the ADSL and plug it into your laptop. If you mean you want to be able to reach all services on the internet from your laptop through the mdk8.2 machine, then just add a rule to your nat tables postrouting chain (I'm assuming your ADSL has a real address and is set up for NAT while your laptop has a fake internal address). iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE If you want a service to pass thru your nat (aka destination nat / forward) then: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $HOSTIP -p tcp --dport 25 -j DNAT --to $MAIL_SERVER:25 $HOSTIP is your mdk8.2 machine and $MAIL_SERVER would be your laptop. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] File access error fixed with mount -o remount ?
I have run across a problem with files that seem to become randomly "broken" but after a "mount -o remount" the files start working normally again. I emailed the lkml even tho the kernel is a distro kernel hoping someone has at least an idea on what area of the kernel would *most likley* cause this problem to happen. The kernel running is "2.4.19-35mdkenterprise". This is a distro kernel that is basically 2.4.19+patches. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /export/project/mam/jshupe/mam_ta/gizmos/ft/Makefile cat: /export/project/mam/jshupe/mam_ta/gizmos/ft/Makefile: Invalid argument [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]$ ls -al /export/project/mam/jshupe/mam_ta/gizmos/ft/Makefile Makefile -rw-rw-r--1 jshupe optint 1.2K Jun 24 16:40 Makefile Other files in the same directory do not have this problem. the filesystem is mounted like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /proc/mounts | grep project /dev/sdb1 /export/project xfs rw 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /export/project1 xfs rw 0 0 This fixes the problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mount -o remount /export/project [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /export/project/mam/jshupe/mam_ta/gizmos/ft/Makefile [Makefile contents print out with no errors or data curruption] I attached the boot up logs if needed. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux version 2.4.19-35mdkenterprise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 SMP Wed Jul 9 15:03:47 MDT 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 000a (usable) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 3ff77000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 3ff77000 - 3ff79000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 3ff79000 - 4000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fec0 - fec1 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fee0 - fee1 (reserved) BIOS-e820: ffb0 - 0001 (reserved) 127MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000fe710 hm, page 000fe000 reserved twice. hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f reserved twice. Advanced speculative caching feature not present On node 0 totalpages: 262007 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 225280 pages. zone(2): 32631 pages. ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fd550 ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELLWS 530 0.8) @ 0x000fd564 ACPI: FADT (v001 DELLWS 530 0.8) @ 0x000fd598 ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELLst_ex 0.04096) @ 0xfffe62b8 ACPI: MADT (v001 DELLWS 530 0.8) @ 0x000fd60c ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELLWS 530 0.8) @ 0x000fd678 ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELLdt_ex 0.04096) @ 0x ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 Unknown CPU [15:1] APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 Unknown CPU [15:1] APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x03] disabled) Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: DELL Product ID: WS 530 APIC at: 0xFEE0 I/O APIC #2 Version 32 at 0xFEC0. Processors: 2 Building zonelist for node : 0 Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux-enterpris ro root=805 devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1694.864 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 3381.65 BogoMIPS Memory: 1032304k/1048028k available (1395k kernel code, 15340k reserved, 486k data, 152k init, 130524k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 3febfbff , vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 12K, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled CPU: After vendor init, caps: 3febfbff Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 3febfbff , vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 12K, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled CPU: After vendor init, c
Re: [expert] 9.1 vs 9.2RC2 ???
boot to a rescue disk, then run xfsrepair. you may not have todo anything morethan that to get your xfs fs working. Magnus Wirström wrote: Hi everyone During a power failure my 9.1 installation got trashed to beyond repairs. Strange because I was using XFS, But power was flickering for some secs before going out, probably messing XFS up. Anyway ... Now I have to reinstall Mandrake again and I am wondering if I should go with 9.1 again or is it worth a try with 9.2RC2 ??? is there any downs with 9.2RC2, big bugs or does it work good enough to replace 9.1 already, also is it possible to update to 9.2 final thru Mandrake update function ? I'm really happy if I get some quick answer Thanks Have a nice day Magnus Höstrusk och grå moln - köp en resa till solen på Yahoo! Resor på adressen http://se.docs.yahoo.com/travel/index.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS
Lawson, Jim wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) XFS has a dump utility... non of the other FS's do (JFS or Reiserfs). There is a dump for ext2/3 but you'll have to use snapshoting with LVM or ELVM to keep dump from hanging (unless you want to umount the filesystem before dumping...) If you care about real backups go with XFS. It's also (in my tests) faster than the others... -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything isworld writable?
Ok. Did a little playing here, using /var/lock/subsys/* as my determination point. kernel: everything world writeable kernel-secure: normal perms (most everything world readable except syslog IIRC) kernel-enterprise: normal perms Enterprise is broken also. Please see my previous post. Also, it doesn't seem to be only reiserfs related. NFS has the problem also when no reiserfs is on the system. XFS filesystems do not seem to have this problem. As I said before, I can rekickstart some test machines with any combo of filesystems to test. I'm willing to test new kernels. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything isworld writable?
David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any number of processes which used to write files that were writable only by themselves (leafnode as user news, mailman as user mail and so on) are now writing their files in a world readable setting. My security logs this morning started reporting files in /var/spool/news, /var/lock/subsys, /var/run, /var/lib/mailman/lists and so on as being writable. Checking those directories, I find sure enough that everything is -rw-rw-rw- -- clearly, this is not acceptable! Can someone please look into this and fix it and issue a new kernel? This needs to not continue to happen. When I su to the user IDs in question and do a umask command, I see 0022 like it should be - so I can't see any reason why this should be happening. I have the same problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ uname -r 2.4.21-0.24mdkenterprise [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ touch test [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ls -al test -rw-rw-rw-1 driver sa 0 Jul 23 14:25 test [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ pwd /var/tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cd /export/home/build/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] build]$ touch test.touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] build]$ ls -al test.touch -rw-r--r--1 driver sa 0 Jul 23 14:27 test.touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] build]$ pwd /export/home/build [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cd ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ touch test.touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -al test.touch -rw-rw-rw-1 driver sa 0 Jul 23 14:27 test.touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ umask 22 /var/tmp is reiserfs /export/home is xfs /home/driver aka ~ is nfs mount to a Solaris 8 server. xfs doesn't seem to have the problem here is on -smp of the same kernel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ uname -r 2.4.21-0.24mdksmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ touch test [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ls -al test -rw-r--r--1 driver sa 0 Jul 23 14:30 test [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ pwd /var/tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cd ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ touch test.touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -al test.touch -rw-rw-rw-1 driver sa 0 Jul 23 14:31 test.touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ umask 22 /var/tmp is xfs /home/driver aka ~ is nfs mount to a Solaris 8 server. This machine has no reiserfs. xfs has no problems, nfs still does. let me know if you need more test cases, I can rekickstart test machines with any combo of filesystems -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] DVI graphics card work with Mandrake?
I'm looking for a graphics card that will work out of the box with mandrake 9.1. In otherwords, I don't want to download some binary driver, or rebuild X, or do some weird kernel hack The cards I've been looking at are these: ATI Radeon VE VGA and DVI ATI FIRE GL X1 1-2 VGA and DVI nVidia QuadroFX 500 VGA and DVI nVidia QuadroFX 1000 VGA and DVI nVidia Quadro NVS 280 VGA and DVI The card will be driving a 20" flatpanel UltraSharp 2000FP from Dell. I don't really have a problem with hacking the XF86Config-4 file, but I don't like having to hack in external drivers... Do any of these cards have opensource/xfree drivers that ship with mandrake that are "good enough" ? BTW, They do not need todo fancy 3D/OpenGL, all the apps will be basic 2D stuff... -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java and font problem on ML 9.1
I have this exact problem. And I havn't been able to figure it out. the most annoying part is the newest jbuilder looks like crap now Guilherme Cirne wrote: I sent the message below to the Newbie list but unfortunately nobody could help me. I apologise if anyone is reading it for the second time. Hi all, I have a font problem in java apps running under ML 9.1 which is very hard to explain so I have screenshot showing exactly what I mean. I can send this to anyone who is willing to help. Basically what happens is this. The height of the default java font (Dialog) is not being calculated correctly under ML 9.1. So all components, like buttons, are much higher than they should be. I know that Dialog is just a link which by default points to Lucida Sans and this can be changed in the jre font.properties file. But the strange thing is that if the font of a particular component is set to Lucida Sans directly then the height is calculated correctly and the component looks like it should. So the problem isn't the Lucida Sans font. This can be seen clearly on the screenshot which I made. This only happens on ML 9.1. On 9.0 it works as it should. I have also tried different jre's like Blackdown's 1.4.1 and Sun's 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 beta and they all have this problem. So this is a ML 9.1 specific issue. I have also performed various installations of ML 9.1 on different machines and the results are the same. So if anybody has seen this and can help me I would be very grateful. And don't forget, I can send anyone a screenshot which makes it much clearer to see the problem. TIA, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel bug still not fixed
As I cut and pasted main.c from this e-mail it wouldn't compile... do to a number | (pipes) showing up. What I got was i get no |'s when cut/paste... using mozilla mail. The main.c file has no |'s in it. #include #include int main ( ) { | | | | printf("hello world\n"); } (I had to edit this to make them visible in the e-mail.) but when I removed them. #include #include int main ( ) { printf("hello world\n"); } That is correct. it worked fine here on 9.1 with gcc3. It's possible I guess that your e-mail client inserted the pipes or mine did when cutting or pasting... not sure. The important part is that it compiled, and ran, as expected. What I'm running. Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-18mdk (stock) libgcc1-3.2.2-3mdk gcc-cpp-3.2.2-3mdk gcc-3.2.2-3mdk gcc-c++-3.2.2-3mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa | grep gcc gcc-3.2.2-3mdk gcc-g77-3.2.2-3mdk gcc2.96-cpp-2.96-0.82mdk gcc-objc-3.2.2-3mdk gcc2.96-c++-2.96-0.82mdk gcc-colorgcc-3.2.2-3mdk gcc-cpp-3.2.2-3mdk gcc2.96-2.96-0.82mdk gcc-doc-3.2.2-3mdk gcc-java-3.2.2-3mdk libgcc1-3.2.2-3mdk gcc-c++-3.2.2-3mdk my uname -a Linux jamlin.linuxpda.biz 2.4.21-0.18mdk #1 Wed Jun 4 12:38:37 MDT 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux If you note I'm not using the enterprise version of the kernel. I'm instead using the standard. Since in my case our workstations don't seem to benefit from it at all. (ie no performance change, or other gain) I use the enterprise version of the kernel because I have over 900MB of ram. some machines have 2GB or more. Machines running the regular kernel (smaller amount of ram) have the same problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux mirror.jpl.nasa.gov 2.4.21-0.18mdksmp #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 09:48:52 MDT 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat main.c #include #include int main ( ) { printf("hello world\n"); } [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gcc -g -o main main.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:773984 766368 7616 0 52 412204 -/+ buffers/cache: 354112 419872 Swap: 20971364002096736 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gdb ./main GNU gdb 5.3-22mdk (Mandrake Linux) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"... (gdb) break 6 Breakpoint 1 at 0x804834c: file main.c, line 6. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/driver/main Warning: Cannot insert breakpoint -2. Error accessing memory address 0x4000af50: Input/output error. The same program may be running in another process. (gdb) When you say "it worked fine" what do you mean? Yes, the program runs just fine. but I cannot trace the program in gdb, set breakpoints, or step thru the program I've also tried the UNI-proccess kernels and have the same problem. None of the machines are "upgraded" machines, mandrake was installed fresh via kickstart. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel bug still not fixed
Mandrake 9.1 kernels (including the latest) still have problems when trying to use gdb. If I use any kernel from mdk9.0 the problem goes away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat main.c #include #include int main ( ) { printf("hello world\n"); } [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gcc -g main.c -o main [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gdb main GNU gdb 5.3-22mdk (Mandrake Linux) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"... (gdb) break 6 Breakpoint 1 at 0x804834c: file main.c, line 6. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/driver/main Warning: Cannot insert breakpoint -2. Error accessing memory address 0x4000af50: Input/output error. The same program may be running in another process. (gdb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux mulan.jpl.nasa.gov 2.4.21-0.18mdkenterprise #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 11:44:12 MDT 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ Since our linux workstations are used heavily for development of internal software this creates serious problems for maintaining our workstations. We noe have to hack around getting older kernels installed so the workstation isn't useless. Please fix this problem. If Mandrake would like to witness this problem for themselves, I can arrange for a visit to the lab in pasadena, ca. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel patch (2.4) breaks automount
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I think i have a workaround still checking to make sure. ok, false alarm. My test machines /etc/amd.conf file got corrupt. :( Didn't notice till I rekickstarted it and then it magicaly worked... but after looking at backups, I saw the problem. Sorry for the confusion. :) -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel patch (2.4) breaks automount
Bryan Whitehead wrote: The new kernel patch breaks am-utils amd service. Normally amd workd like this: cd /net/// and it works. Now, /net is totally broken. :( It does not work at all. Do you have a workaround? I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I think i have a workaround still checking to make sure. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel patch (2.4) breaks automount
The new kernel patch breaks am-utils amd service. Normally amd workd like this: cd /net/// and it works. Now, /net is totally broken. :( It does not work at all. Do you have a workaround? I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems
Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 15:30, Bryan Whitehead wrote: [snip] I can understand if you just don't have the driver, but when it's there in the regular kernels, and I can't install the damn machine, what the hell? Scsi drivers and network drivers should always be included. At least you can get the system installed and up for post-config. The way it is now I'm screwed, all new dell's shipping (the 550 series we buy) have the LSI mpt series 320 SCSI cards. (mptbase and mptscsih need to be modprobed). [snip] AIUI, hitting F1 at the installer's LILO splash screen and typing "expert" at the ensuing LILO prompt gives you, amongst other things, the opportunity to load additional filesystem modules from a floppy for use by the 2nd stage installer; while this is designed for third-party modules, I don't see what would prevent it from loading native kernel modules as well. Perhaps just copying the mptbase and mptscsih modules from a working install onto a floppy would give you what you need for your subsequent installs? Or have you already tried this method? The modules are not even _compiled_ for the install (BOOT) kernel. So I cannot. I can't pull mptbase and mptscsih from 2.4.19-24mdk and insmod them into a 2.4.19-24mdkBOOT kernel (version mismatch). I need mptbase and mptscsi to be built with the BOOT kernel. Too top it off, if I rehack stage2 so the modules are inserted (after I hack stage1 with a working kernel - like 2.4.19-24mdk), other parts of stage2 don't remember to update /etc/modules.conf right, so the initrd images are broke - cannot boot after install. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel and glibc updates?
[snip] Uhm...from what I read there it's a portmap/RPC problem...good thing I don't run portmap anywhere :) It is a RPC library problem in glibc. This is just an example of the impact. named uses RPC stuff extensivly also... so if you run a DNS you might want to worry a bit. Combo remote exploit using portmap/rpc problem and kernel root is not good Agreed. I keep up with this stuff, I have over 100 machines to keep secure... ;) I usually keep up with this stuff too...but since I don't use portmap I didn't pay attention to it when it went through bugtraq (if it did go through it). I saw it thru CERT. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel and glibc updates?
Vox wrote: This time Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: Are we going to be getting kernel updates for the local root problem? Vincent and the kernel dudes are working on this...some time next week you'll get them. Meanwhile you can do, as root: echo "/path/to/non-existant/file" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe And you'll be protected. Or the new problem with glibc? Uhm...haven't heard about this one yet. here is a better link: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/516825 Redhat is confirmed Vulnerable. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-089.html -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel and glibc updates?
Vox wrote: This time Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: Are we going to be getting kernel updates for the local root problem? Vincent and the kernel dudes are working on this...some time next week you'll get them. Meanwhile you can do, as root: echo "/path/to/non-existant/file" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe And you'll be protected. Or the new problem with glibc? Uhm...haven't heard about this one yet. http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20030318.html :-D Basically an rpc problem... effects things like portmap and stuff. (I not 100% sure portmap is directly open but others seem to think so) Combo remote exploit using portmap/rpc problem and kernel root is not good I keep up with this stuff, I have over 100 machines to keep secure... ;) -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kernel and glibc updates?
Are we going to be getting kernel updates for the local root problem? Or the new problem with glibc? It's been days now :P -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems
Leonardo Diciolla wrote: Hi Bryan, I do have the same problem but I didn't make with installing MDK 9.0. As you were successiful would you write how did you do finally get MDK 9.0 installed? I'll see what I can do to write up a document. It's pretty involved. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems
That I do not know authoritatively. I did find this in Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/mdkinst/lib/modules.description: mptscsihFusion MPT SCSI Host driver so it looks like possibly yes. I just checked, nope. > cd Mandrake/mdkinst/lib > packdrake --list modules.cz-2.4.21pre4-6mdkBOOT | grep mpt > processing archive "modules.cz-2.4.21pre4-6mdkBOOT" > -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems
Todd Lyons wrote: Vox wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:07:47PM -0600 : It's a quandry. Support the old at the expense of the new? Or support the new and alienate a community of loyalists? I wish there was an easy answer. Why not make CD1 installer for big boxes and CD2 installer for small boxes? that way you get the best of both worlds :) Interesting proposition. I think complexity is the limiting factor. Two different install images to maintain is a lot to ask of someone who's already working his tail off (Pixel). Blue skies... Todd Actually no, you just need 2 stage2 images. One for s--t machines with no memory and one for people with real hardware. ;) The bigger of the stage2 images can be live-only to save space on disk1. Then you need a stage2 that can handle either: almost no drivers, and all of them. (Right now stage 2 can't handle installing a new kernel into it with a ton of drivers (as i did). It simply couldn't inderstand how to insmod mptbase and mptscsih. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Whitehead wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:20:23AM -0800 : After finally getting 9.0 installed (5 hours later), I noted that there is much less scsi drivers built for the BOOT kernel then other kernels. Why is this? Can't stage2 just have every kernel module built for completeness? What the hell is the point of including the mpt drivers in all the other kernels except the install kernel? Space is at a premium. Mandrake already takes a little bit of heat because we require 64 Megs to do an install (can do it in 32, but then it can't inflate the compressed ramdisk image and hence cannot unmount the CD so only CD1 can get installed). Care to up the minimum system requirements to 96 Megs? We rule out nearly everything old in the process, which is one of the things that attracts people to Linux in the first place. Maybe not Mandrake so much, as we tend to be flashier (ie bigger footprint). I understand, but network and scsi drivers should all be included. Maybe improve the hardware detection stuff so you can not worry about much of the hardware setup till install is done? Or maybe force a live install if the memory is too low, only can install the first disk but they can install other software later. Chances are with a machine with only 64MB of ram is just going to be a dumb terminal. It's a quandry. Support the old at the expense of the new? Or support the new and alienate a community of loyalists? I wish there was an easy answer. I think as many drivers as possible should be included. or at least have a way to have every driver available. I can't be spending 5 hours per install cause I have to manually hunt for drivers, and tweak stage1 and stage2 to work. I can understand if you just don't have the driver, but when it's there in the regular kernels, and I can't install the damn machine, what the hell? Scsi drivers and network drivers should always be included. At least you can get the system installed and up for post-config. The way it is now I'm screwed, all new dell's shipping (the 550 series we buy) have the LSI mpt series 320 SCSI cards. (mptbase and mptscsih need to be modprobed). Many there is a simple way to make rebuilding a stage1 disk and update stage2 so it can use any kernel? like "mkstage1 --type network --device /dev/fd0 2.4.19-24mdksmp". Another problem was once I got stage1 fixed stage2 wouldn't run the command "modprobe mptbase; modprobe mptscsih". So I had to hack that in. Then it didn't notice the scsi device was mptscsih so the mkinitrd was crap once the install was done... I didn't know where to begin to re-hack stage2 to get it working - without breaking a ton of other crap. Is this fixed in mdk9.1? That I do not know authoritatively. I did find this in Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/mdkinst/lib/modules.description: mptscsihFusion MPT SCSI Host driver so it looks like possibly yes. This was also in mdk9.0, but the driver was missing in stage2. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems
Know what sucks about getting to use some of the latest and greatest? Installing. We just got a Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz w/ 2GB RAM (533Mhz bus) with a mpt scsi/raid card (scsi320). Mandrake has the driver, except in the BOOT kernel for install. Any idea the hell it is to rebuild a stage1 of mandrake with a kernel that has mpt drivers? I do. (Not to mention the hacks one must do on stage2) After finally getting 9.0 installed (5 hours later), I noted that there is much less scsi drivers built for the BOOT kernel then other kernels. Why is this? Can't stage2 just have every kernel module built for completeness? What the hell is the point of including the mpt drivers in all the other kernels except the install kernel? Is there an easier way? (I sure hope I just did it the wrong/hard way) Is this fixed in mdk9.1? -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Whitehead wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:41:18PM -0800 : Will Mandrake 9.0 work out of the box with this card? or do I need todo some extra hacking? I only need 2D. No hardware 3D needed. 2D should be supported in 9.1 (I'll assume that was a typo). Did the RC's work on this card or have you not had a chance to test it? If you wanna swing by the office, I can burn you a set of CD's for RC2 (but Final should be out very soon, so it's worth waiting to test those download CD's IMHO). No I ment 9.0 The only problem I have with mdk9.1rc1 is am-utils (amd) is missing and I cannot remove msec... :-P I'll be giving rc2 a try next week, hope it's not too late. :) -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0
Will Mandrake 9.0 work out of the box with this card? or do I need todo some extra hacking? I only need 2D. No hardware 3D needed. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 help?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: If you are the one with the different drivers, try and isolate that by dropping back to theirs. If it is not the drivers, it sounds like it could also be a heat issue ie, program segfaults when things get a little warm. What's the cooling like on your machine? Hi Greg. I've tried both 3123 and 4191 drivers. I also ran memtest for about 12 hours/24 passes on my 512 megs of DDR Ram. No errors reported. System temp is 27 C. CPU temp is 50 C. After 12 hours of running memtest, it was 52 C. What is your video cards temp? an over heating video card will segfault / crash / lockup. I had this exact problem, getting a fan for the video card fixed the problem. It could also be a bad video card, after it overheats many times it might just be shot. :( I've had the game segfault right after booting up, like 2 mins into the game, and I've had it run for 2 hours, with the machine having been on all day. In single player or across the LAN. Seems to be totally random. Tribes 2 and Rune also crash, back to the desktop. Whats really odd is that not even one of my WineX games, including a hog like Warcraft 3, crash. They all run perfectly. But are they pushing the video card to it's limit? These 3 games run fine under 9.0 on my 2 sons comps (Geforce 2 cards). I even tried renaming /lib/i686 to i686.old and copying their i686 folders to mine, then running ldconfig. Made no difference, same error. I'm really at a loss. Try swapping cards? -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] drakbackup
[cnip] I will beat on tape for backup. MY tape drive faithfully backed up once a week and I rotated 6 tapes to stay current. (MAC fileserver 80). This is how all "tape backup sucks" stories start. Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of it was corrupted to make the rest inaccessible. OK no problem, data is on tapes, let's reload OS--- done reach for tape Oops--tape is unreadable reach for two week old tape--E gee that one is no good either Tapes sent to data recovery service--well whattayaknow They charged quite a bit to give me the bad news that six years of work was lost. Someone didn't verify the backup, same problem can happen with a CD. You must verify the backup was good or the backup could be a waste. The employer was too cheap to give me a separate workstation, so it was my six years of work that was lost. For the same reason, it was risky to try restoring from tape though I had always done one file a month. Anyway, the tapes were stretched and dirty and the drive was unusable. Just like new CD's need to be bought for backups, new tapes must be also. I have been burning CDs since that time, even when the burns were at 1X. Civileme CD's (almost) are worthless for real backups. I backup around 300GB a night in just incrementals. Full backup is well over 3TB. CD's are fine for small data size backups, but that doesn't make tape backups bad. This is done with one tape robot, 2 drives, and amanda (only one drive is used right now because of a limitation in amanda). Once a Raid box died (one of the three power supplies caught on fire and burned up the disks). It happened at 6pm, we had everything back online from tape backup within 8 hours (with a spare Raid box). A total of 1.1TB of data was restored. Try doing that on CD! If each CD was 700MB how many CD's would I swap? well over 100. How long would it take todo a full backup to CD? A fellow Sysadmin backs up 3-5TB in incrementals a day. 8 drives in 2 cabnets with 2 robots. All tape. I know your talking about small backups when your say CD. However, if done properly, tape still wins. Such a small backup size can easily verify each tape for each backup. Before you start beating on tapes, use better procedures for your tape backup system. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] unsuccessful in setting up dhcp
Jorris Graad wrote: I have 2 NICs, the eth0 is configured by dhcp, but I set the IP add that I got from dhcp server as static IP add. And I set eth1 with 10.0.0.1. I want to set a dhcp server by eth1. when I tried to start dhcp with dhcpd -d -f, the result was: try dhcpd -d -f eth1 being specific about what interface to use will solve your problem. Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0pl2 Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Wrote 0 leases to leases file. Listening on LPF/eth1/00:a0:4b:03:f4:87/10_0_0_0 Sending on LPF/eth1/00:a0:4b:03:f4:87/10_0_0_0 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:60:97:a4:8b:94/192.168.0.19.220/32 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:60:97:a4:8b:94/192.168.0.19.220/32 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.17 from 00:40:26:97:59:3a via eth0: ignored (not authoritative). DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.20 from 00:01:80:20:4d:41 via eth0: ignored (not authoritative). I can't figure out why dhcprequest was going trough eth0.??? my /etc/dhcpd.conf is: default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 7200; option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1; option domain-name "graad.org"; ddns-update-style interim; log-facility local7; shared-network 10_0_0_0 { subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 { not authoritative; range 10.0.0.5 10.0.0.55; } } subnet 192.168.0.19 netmask 255.255.255.255 {not authoritative;} please tell me if I made some mistakes and can someone explain me about ddns-update-style and authoritative parts. thanks for advance, Ivo. _ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert]STOP the presses!! WAS: And the fun continues (it's deadagain)
[snip] I'm getting these. I'm using my work address for this discussion. I agree that port 25 is dead. The question is: Why & How? The line in /etc/services is fine. It's uncommented. smtp IS included in bastille-firewall.cfg postfix "is" running. Is postfix listening on eth0 ? netstat -tl | grep smtp I have no clue as to what closed that port! And I've rebooted a couple of times. So what ever is doing it, is persistant! BTW: I "can" get messages out. Just not in. Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] printing from an XP machine to a CUPs printer
John Haywood wrote: As the subject says, I've got a client machine running XP which can browse the server, see the shares, see the printer, but when trying to access it says that permission is denied, or somesuch (in Windowsspeak) Now, the server has the printers defined with guest access, client-side drivers (which Windows detects and installs correctly), and the client can access the home and general-access shares on the machine (after I set ZoneAlarm to allow my internal network to function) Any ideas where to go from here? Websites welcome, but I'm pretty googled out right now cheers I have the same setup. This is what I used at home: [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. browseable = yes [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes read only = yes write list = @adm root richard driver I dunno if that's "right", but it works. I remember that unless a user was listed in the "write list" I'd get some wierd error about permission, even when I was able to see the printer and install it on XP. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel 2.5.50 on Mandrake
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Crawford wrote on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:08:21AM -0500 : Is anyone using kernel 2.5.50 with Mandrake 9.0? I've tried to compile, both using the stock 9.0 .config file from /boot, and doing my own menuconfig and xconfig, but can never get past make dep without multiple errors. I've updated the required stuff in the 2.5.50 Documentation/changes file, but it didn't seem to help. Maybe I left something out, but I was careful to be sure make dep seems to be deprecated in the 2.5 series. Just do make oldconfig make make modules make modules_install make install Now having said all that, I haven't been able to get a 2.5 kernel to boot successfully since 2.5.47. They changed the modutils. Go look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/people/rusty/modules/ and get version 0.9beta. I was not able to make it work, but maybe you'll have more time and better luck. I have 2.5.50 running fine... except for a couple snags, amd is kinda broken and the alsa-oss drivers are not automatically loaded for compadibility. In addition, the new modutils don't correctly work when they call the older utilities. (for some reason the .o.gz modules will not get decompressed automatically by the old modutils when called from the new modutils) :( don't for get to apply the patch in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/people/rusty/modules/ for 2.5.50. There is one reject you have to fix by hand. All in all 2.5 seems nice, just needs much polishing. The modutils changes are the biggest pain. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] devfs Issue
FRLinux wrote: Hello, I've been playing around devfs on Mandrake 9.0 and yet cannot make it work the expected way. The goal is to get a winmodem recognised as /dev/ttyHSF0. It is an integrated device on a Sony Vaio (connexant chipset). All works well without devFS but i have decided to make it work with it. The main problem I have is the device not being recognised. I use drivers provided by http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ . This provides a tar.gz where you just need to install modules by make install. You then run hsfconfig to get the modules compiled on your current kernel. It will then create a devfs config file called /etc/devfs/conf.d/hsf.conf . The script is saying that all worked well : Compilation and installation of HSF modules succeeded. Your HSF modem should now be accessible as /dev/ttySHSF0 Now, the modules are compiled but the device is not. Here's what contains hsf.conf : LOOKUP ^(ttySHSF|modem$) EXECUTE nice /sbin/modprobe hsfserial REGISTER ^ttySHSF0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink $devname modem UNREGISTER ^ttySHSF0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink modem When the hsfserial module is loaded a symlink should be created in /dev called "modem". What does /dev/modem point to? Now, problem is the laptop contains only this : ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Whereas devfs declares this : /dev/ttyS0 -> tts/0 That's com1 on your PC... the regular serial port. which is declared right here : [root@localhost root]# cat /etc/modules.devfs |grep tts alias /dev/tts* serial alias /dev/ttyS* /dev/tts alias /dev/cua* /dev/tts So finally here's the 10.000$ question : What device am i supposed to declare to finally get my modem device correctly declared and installed with DevFS. I've spent a couple of hours on the machine and also on the web following most of the newsgroups messages but no luck so far. what is /dev/modem pointing to? also, make sure hsfserial is being loaded... when it is loaded look at your /var/log/messages for devfsd saying it creating a device link... send that output... :) Thanks for any reply (with a solution ;) Steph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed
Eduardo Mendes wrote: Hi Many thanks. 1) scp --vv gives: Executing: host xxx.xxx.xxx.xx, user eduardo, command scp -v -t /home/eduardo/ SSH Version 1.2.33 [sparc-sun-solaris2.6], protocol version 1.5. Standard version. Does not use RSAREF. bertie: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh1/ssh_config bertie: ssh_connect: getuid 1105 geteuid 0 anon 0 bertie: Allocated local port 1023. bertie: Connecting to xxx.xx.xx.xxx port 22. bertie: Connection established. bertie: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version 3.2.0 SSH Secure Shell (non-commercial) bertie: Waiting for server public key. Connection closed by remote host. lost connection Your trying to use a ssh version that is too old. ssh v 1.2.33 (commercial) only supports protocol version 1.x, not 2.0 that is used with 3.2.0 ssh. upgrade your ssh client on the client side. if regular ssh works, then your remote machine has fallback turned on (it will fire up sshd v1.x when a ssh 1.x client connects) but it's misconfigured for the scp fallback part. 2) I can't use strace. /dev/log problems 3) No telnet, no ping on the machine. Any suggestions? Many thanks Ed On Wednesday 20 November 2002 05:48 pm, Tru64 User wrote: Hi, Enable debugging (option -vv) to see exactly why the connection is being denied. Or better yet, run "strace -o output.file ssh rest_of_command" That should trace the whole call, and u will be able to see where the problem occurs. Can u ping this machine? telnet to it? Other basic network stuff/firewall? _Thanks Richard Mollel --- Eduardo Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I am trying to scp some files from one host to another but no success. shh deamon is running as can be seen below: ps -ef | grep sshd root 10890 1 0 09:13 ?00:00:00 sshd root 14620 14542 0 15:35 pts/400:00:00 grep sshd However when I try scp 9611947.PDF eduardo@(ip address):/home/eduardo/ I get Connection closed by remote host. lost connection What am I doing wrong? Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] automount lmontel
Brian Schroeder wrote: I am getting numerous messages (in /var/log/messages) from automount, trying to mount /home/lmontel. How can I find where this is coming from and stop it? automount[1163]: attempting to mount entry /home/lmontel automount[1975]: >> mount: special device /local_home/lmontel does not exist (Note: the automount map has the entry "* localhost:/local_home/&" to catch anything not explicitly mentioned earlier) Brian. _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com If you running KDM with the little penguin faces it will look in every user home directory for what "face" it should use. That will cause automount to mount every user home directory on your machine. If user lmontel does not exist on your machine, then delete the account. You could also just make a directory in /local_home called lmontel :) -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Creating network install bootable cdrom
aining the network install image. 2. Generate an autoinstall floppy 3. Generate a second iso image containing auto-install info 4. Use the second CD to automate installation on other workstations. The only question remaining is how to convert a bootable floppy image to a bootable cd image. Any ideas? Thanks, Lieven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] autofs not unmounting
Milos Prudek wrote: Hi, I was looking forward to use supermount but it does not work very well in Mandrake 9.0. Details in separate post. So I tried autofs. Autofs in Mandrake 9.0 mounts drives automatically, but does not unmount them when timeout expires. They must by umounted manually. auto.master: /mnt/etc/auto.drives --timeout=20 Ignore bropken man pages and do this: /mnt/etc/auto.drives --timeout 20 the = doesn't work. use a space. I have over 20 linux workstations with autofs working fine. Took awile to track down this problem. auto.drives: zip -fstype=vfat,user,rw,umask=7007 :/dev/sda4 cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/scd0 floppy -fstype=vfat,user,rw,umask=7007 :/dev/fd0 win -fstype=vfat,user,ro:/dev/hda2 fstab: /dev/hda6 / reiserfs notail 1 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,nosuid,ro,user 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy noauto noauto,nosuid,user 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win vfat noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 This autofs problem did not appear in my previous Linux systems. Anyone else can confirm this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TCP NFS for Linux?
Jane Gray-Luhr wrote: Anyone heard of a beta NFS for Linux that is built with TCP protocol? Linux can already to nfs over TCP on client side. Server side is still in development. You can patch your kernel yourself tho to play with server side NFS TCP. read nfs.sourceforge.net -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] newbie list can not help me/please I need fix screenconfiguration problem.
make sure the xfs service is running. run: service xfs status too see if it's running. run: service xfs start if the xfs service is not running. if this doesn't help there may be a problem with you XF86Config-4 file. run "drakx" and reconfigure your X server. rhp.mac wrote: > > -- > De: "rhp.mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Asunto: screen blinking all time/sorry about this question:newbie list can > not help me. > Fecha: lun., 30 sept 2002 14:08 > > > sorry, expert list users, > > > my monitor blinking black all time. > > I am running mandrake 8.2 ppc. > > monitor:apple imac/pawerbook 800x600. > > Grafhic card: ati mach64 > > xfree86 server:mach64 > > xfree86 drive: ati > > I run KDE version 2.2.2 > > please may you help me? > > thanks for all help > > > rhp > > > > -------- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SNF 7.2 Question
Erick Arturo Perez Huemer wrote: > Sirs, I had to join a mailing list to ask this. Forget me if i am not in > the correct mailing list. > 1- Is this a list to discuss advanced config/troubleshooting issues of > Mandrake Single Network Firewall 7.2 ? > > Thanks, yes, but this list also includes all versions of Mandrake as well for "advanced config/troubleshooting issues". ask away... -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quota on XFS problems
Bryan Whitehead wrote: > gikoreno wrote: > >> I tried using the normal kernel (i.e. the non secure one), and it >> didn't make any difference :( >> The quota tool still doesn't work as expected. I'm still thinking it >> has to do with that "if" statement because I don't see what else it >> could be... >> >> Is there anyone running LM 8.2, all partitions XFS, msec level 5, >> kernel-secure-2.4.18.8, or the normal kernel 2.4.18, etc... that has >> quota running the way expected (as a user)? > > > (home machine) > > [driver@beavis ~]$ quota -v > Disk quotas for user driver (uid 501): > Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit > grace > /dev/hde1 20190640 3000 3200 10352 00 > [driver@beavis ~]$ uname -a > Linux beavis 2.4.18-beavis #1 Fri Jul 19 16:30:23 PDT 2002 i586 unknown > [driver@beavis ~]$ rpm -qa | grep quota > quota-3.01-0.5mdk > [driver@beavis ~]$ id > uid=501(driver) gid=501(driver) groups=501(driver),80(cdwriter) > [driver@beavis ~]$ > > Note, I am running a custom built kernel. 2.4.18 + XFS patches. (no > other changes) > > Note: at work quota works on mandrake 8.1 without any problems, > including over NFS. One more note, I'm running at msec 3. msec 5 might be your problem. You do have you stuff set up "paranoid" and that means giving as little info as possible Why not try a lower security level? maybe that's the problem? -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quota on XFS problems
gikoreno wrote: > I tried using the normal kernel (i.e. the non secure one), and it > didn't make any difference :( > The quota tool still doesn't work as expected. I'm still thinking it has > to do with that "if" statement because I don't see what else it could be... > > Is there anyone running LM 8.2, all partitions XFS, msec level 5, > kernel-secure-2.4.18.8, or the normal kernel 2.4.18, etc... that has > quota running the way expected (as a user)? (home machine) [driver@beavis ~]$ quota -v Disk quotas for user driver (uid 501): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/hde1 20190640 3000 3200 10352 0 0 [driver@beavis ~]$ uname -a Linux beavis 2.4.18-beavis #1 Fri Jul 19 16:30:23 PDT 2002 i586 unknown [driver@beavis ~]$ rpm -qa | grep quota quota-3.01-0.5mdk [driver@beavis ~]$ id uid=501(driver) gid=501(driver) groups=501(driver),80(cdwriter) [driver@beavis ~]$ Note, I am running a custom built kernel. 2.4.18 + XFS patches. (no other changes) Note: at work quota works on mandrake 8.1 without any problems, including over NFS. > Thanks > > gikoreno > > > > --- On Mon 07/29, Bryan Whitehead < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > From: Bryan Whitehead [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:54:56 -0700 > Subject: Re: [expert] Quota on XFS problems > > > Don't use a secure kernel. The secure kernel does not give out quota > > information to users. > > > > gikoreno wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > This is a repost from the newbie list, so sorry about that, I haven't > > > > > had a reply yet. > > > > > > I am running LM 8.2, and all my partitions are XFS. > > > I am also running the system with msec level 5. > > > The machine's Kernel is : kernel-secure-2.4.18.8 > > > > > > Today I setup quotas for my users. I added the lines that were needed > > in > > > fstab, and the quotas are being enforced. For some reason it only > > works > > > certain times... "edquota" opens up an editor, in which I > > make the > > > changes and then save and quit. Is there a better way of doing this? > > One > > > that works every time? am I missing a step? > > > > > > > > > My problem is that I would like my users to know what their current > > > quota is, and for some reason typing quota doesn't work (the users > > for > > > which I tried this command do have quota enforced). > > > > > > If a user types "quota", > > > they get something like: > > > "Disk quotas for user XXX(uid ): none" > > > > > > If they type "quota -v" they get something like: > > > << > > > Disk quotas for user XXX (uid ): > > > Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace > > > /dev/hda5 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > > /dev/hdc7 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > > >> > > > > > > Yet, if I check their quota as root, I get the accurate values. > > > In other words, the quota command works as expected only if I am > > running > > > it as root. > > > > > > I am guessing it might be that quota can't read something that > > contains > > > the quota info when it is run as a user. What else could it be? What > > > > > should I try? > > > > > > I read the XFS info about the quota system on SGI's site (and in the > > > > > docs), but they all seem to imply that it should be possible to run > > the > > > quota command as a user and get the proper result. An edquota is > > > supposed to work every time... > > > > > > My third and last question is that I would like the quota info to be > > > > > displayed for each user when they log on through ssh. How do I make > > that > > > happen? > > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > > gikoreno > > > > > > > > > > > *Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > > > * > > > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > > > > > > > -- > > Bryan Whitehead > > SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology > > Phone: 818 354 2903 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > *Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > <http://www.excite.com/?PG=Email&SEC=Signature>* > The most personalized portal on the Web! -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0's kernel?
Todd Lyons wrote: > Bryan Whitehead wrote on Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:51:27AM -0700 : > >>>You do realize that using this patch pretty much prevents the machine >> >>>from being used as a high capacity server. It allow the kernel to be >>This is totally untrue. In fact the preemptive kernel has been added to >>the 2.5 series and will be in 2.6 because it results in better >>preformance and lower latency. Much of userspace is spent in kernel >>space getting IO done. A preemptive kernel allows any process to be >>interrupted even while in the kernel. For example, when X needs to draw >>some stuff to the video card, that is done at a lower level in the >>kernel. A non-premptive kernel would not be able to interupt the process >>while it was in kernel space. The preeptive kernel can. > > > How is interrupting I/O to redraw the desktop a benefit in performacne? The thing is, the IO your interrupting IS the desktop redrawing itself, when a higher priority task needs the CPU, like nfs, apache, or a database, the IO from the desktop can be interupted to handle something else at a higher priority. When any userspace program, wether it's X, xmms, apache, oracle, or makes a call to a kernel level routine, the CPU that the routine is running on is tied up till the routine is done. Even if it's just doing nothing - or it's doing something that will take a long time. As the plain vanilla kernel is now, it's only prempting a process when it's running in userspace. So when a process is running in kernel space it has exclusive rights to the entire machine - it cannot be interupted. Even when a high priority task needs todo something. The side effect of course is everything feels smooth and snappy because IO that is 100times slower than RAM and the CPU gets interupted todo something else instead of just waiting for data. So overall the system will be faster for all processes combined. If your desktop apps are running at the same priority as your services (such as apache or nfs) then your desktop apps will be able to intrupt your services more offen than before - as before they'd only be able to interupt in userspace. But if your services have a higher priority than your desktop then you should have better preformance. > In "perceived" performance, yes. In raw I/O? I don't see it. I do > trust your opinion though Bryan, I would just like a little > clarification. I will go read those URL's. > Raw IO does increase. It's just your desktop (actually the schedular) is allowed to interupt more offen. Setting priorities on processes is very important in a preemptive kernel to make sure low priority process don't get to interupt. The schedular will not interupt a process for a lower priority task in kernel, or userspace! (before a premptive kernel - interupting in kernel space was just a dream) The best explination is the links tho... the best being on http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/ Of couse searching on goolge is good also. ;) >>Some more stuff to read: >>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5833 <- kernel locking >>http://vig.pearsoned.com/samplechapter/0130224960.pdf <- Sample chapter >> on Solaris Kernel internals >>http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/ <- more links of how linux preemptive >> kernel works > > > Looks like interesting reading. > > Blue skies... Todd -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quota on XFS problems
Don't use a secure kernel. The secure kernel does not give out quota information to users. gikoreno wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This is a repost from the newbie list, so sorry about that, I haven't > had a reply yet. > > I am running LM 8.2, and all my partitions are XFS. > I am also running the system with msec level 5. > The machine's Kernel is : kernel-secure-2.4.18.8 > > Today I setup quotas for my users. I added the lines that were needed in > fstab, and the quotas are being enforced. For some reason it only works > certain times... "edquota" opens up an editor, in which I make the > changes and then save and quit. Is there a better way of doing this? One > that works every time? am I missing a step? > > > My problem is that I would like my users to know what their current > quota is, and for some reason typing quota doesn't work (the users for > which I tried this command do have quota enforced). > > If a user types "quota", > they get something like: > "Disk quotas for user XXX(uid ): none" > > If they type "quota -v" they get something like: > << > Disk quotas for user XXX (uid ): > Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace > /dev/hda5 0 0 0 0 0 0 > /dev/hdc7 0 0 0 0 0 0 > >> > > Yet, if I check their quota as root, I get the accurate values. > In other words, the quota command works as expected only if I am running > it as root. > > I am guessing it might be that quota can't read something that contains > the quota info when it is run as a user. What else could it be? What > should I try? > > I read the XFS info about the quota system on SGI's site (and in the > docs), but they all seem to imply that it should be possible to run the > quota command as a user and get the proper result. An edquota is > supposed to work every time... > > My third and last question is that I would like the quota info to be > displayed for each user when they log on through ssh. How do I make that > happen? > > Thanks in advance! > > gikoreno > > > *Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > <http://www.excite.com/?PG=Email&SEC=Signature>* > The most personalized portal on the Web! -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0's kernel?
Todd Lyons wrote: > Damian G wrote on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:42:24PM -0300 : > >>does anybody know if the final 9.0 release will include a preemptible kernel? >>i've heard great things about the pre-emptible patch for linux ... and i'm still > > > I don't know for certain that it will or will not, but I just looked > through the current Cooker kernel and I did not see the preemptible > patch applied. > > You do realize that using this patch pretty much prevents the machine > from being used as a high capacity server. It allow the kernel to be > pulled away from "unimportant" things to take care of "really important" > things like your desktop. Hardly an acceptable compromise on a server. This is totally untrue. In fact the preemptive kernel has been added to the 2.5 series and will be in 2.6 because it results in better preformance and lower latency. Much of userspace is spent in kernel space getting IO done. A preemptive kernel allows any process to be interrupted even while in the kernel. For example, when X needs to draw some stuff to the video card, that is done at a lower level in the kernel. A non-premptive kernel would not be able to interupt the process while it was in kernel space. The preeptive kernel can. Example of fully premptive kernel: Solaris, among many others Some more stuff to read: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5833 <- kernel locking http://vig.pearsoned.com/samplechapter/0130224960.pdf <- Sample chapter on Solaris Kernel internals http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/ <- more links of how linux preemptive kernel works -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to export fonts to thin client
you need to set up a font alias. Or import some font aliases from Hummingbird's website. Basically each Xserver needs a "font server". Exceed has its own "font server" -> windows. The problem is translating X font names to windows font names. Exceeed has a database that mataches them up... but the databases get outdated everytime X changes a bit (new version of mandrake or solaris...). You could configure your xfs font server to export to your network, and not just on a named pipe, and then configure exceed to get fonts from your linux box. But I think the fonts will look like crap... just like they do in X... ;) M.S. Hughes wrote: > I am running MDK 8.2 on a machine with IP address 192.168.0.5. > > I've edited my /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file to have: > > [Xdmcp] > Enable=true > > so that I may log into 192.168.0.5 from a windows machine running > Hummingbird Exceed. (There are no firewall issues here since both > machines are behind the same firewall) > > My problem is that applications like kterm and mathematica report they > are unable to find the fonts they need. > > I've checked the e-mail archives and can't find anything that seems to > directly relate to this > > I've tried editing the /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs file so that xfs uses port > 7100 instead of port -1 > > X wouldn't even start. So I changed things back and added edited the > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to contain: > > FontPath "unix/:-1" > FontPath "unix/:7100" > > and things still don't work.(but at least X still works) > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Miscellaneous 8.2 Terminal Hangs
What services are running? Are you running NIS? If so are you a client of a server? Also, are you running a firewall of any kind? Does the IP address on your machine match the name on your machine? (Do you call your machine monkey.foorbar.com but cannot do a dns lookup?) Also, how large is your log files? the delay might be the logging of a succesful login to files that take to long to append too... Rob Gillen wrote: > I believe that all the users on my system (there are only a handful) use > the default shell (bash) that would be set by using the useradd command. > > And as far as restricting the users that can login via ssh, well, I > haven't used the "AllowUsers" keyword in sshd_config, if that is what > you mean. > > Is any of that related to the problem that I've been experiencing? By > the way, I've checked the system memory using memtest-x86 and came out > with flying colors, so I guess that would most likely eminate that as a > potential source of problems. > > ROB > > > J. Craig Woods wrote: > >> et wrote: >> >>> what shell are you using? (bash? korn?) what Msec level are you at? >>> >> >> And just as importantly: what shell have you set up for the users that >> you are trying to su to? Make sure all user that ssh in, and users you >> might su to, are setup with a default shell... >> >>> On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:35 pm, you wrote: >>> >>>> I've tried to query all of you gurus before regarding various hangs on >>>> my system, but as far as I can tell, nobody has replied to my question. >>>> So, I'll give it a go again. I've read everything on the mailing list >>>> that was written in the last three months about system hangs and >>>> freezes >>>> with both 8.1 and 8.2, but none have addressed the problem that I have >>>> been seeing. Most have described complete system freezes where nothing >>>> could be done besides a reboot, but what I am seeing is a bit >>>> different. >>>> >> >> drjung >> >> >> ---- >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >> http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime
It's called being fired. If you didn't document your work where I'm at, you'd get fired. Being a professional in the workplace is what makes you valuable. Simple ethics go a long way. http://www.nspe.org/ethics/eh1-code.asp A V Flinsch wrote: > On Tuesday 25 June 2002 11:56 am, you wrote: > >>On Tuesday 25 June 2002 11:36, David Rankin wrote: >> >>>The >>>only downside is that in a year's time, I have forgotten most of the >>>details on getting everything configured. So, when I move offices >>>later this month, I will have to relearn my setup. >> >>This is the value of maintaining a daily log of changes you make to the >>system. It not only helps you, but it helps the "next guy" as well. > > > not documenting things is called "job security" > -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Troubles
actually /net is amd. It's in the package am-utils. service amd stop chkconfig --del amd On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 06:52, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Sevatio wrote: > > OS: LM8.2 > > > > Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: > > > > Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not > > registered > > umount2: Device or resource busy > > umount: /net: device is busy[FAILED] > > > > QUESTION: Where do I go to stop this nonsense? - I've tried to not have > > NFS start on boot and I've also tried to shutdown NFS but this problem > > persists. I don't even want to use NFS. > > > > Thanks, > > Sevatio > > > > Sevatio, > Are you running autofs and am-utils? The autofs creates the mount point > "/net". Turn these program off in whatever run level you boot into. If > they are running before you boot do a "service autofs stop" and then get > those bad boys out of there... > > Dr John, > The night tripper > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Filters
procmail recipe: :0: * ^FROM.*aol.com /dev/null :) On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 08:06, Jarmo Kettunen wrote: > On Saturday 06 April 2002 16:42, you wrote: > > > > A lot of spam can be blocked by the ISP... however, many ISPs are > > incompetent in this respect. My ISP uses an upstream SP to handle mail; I > > was totally unimpressed by these people, so I setup my own domains and > > mailer (postfix). Details at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/ > > HTH, > > Pierre > > Thanks for reply Pierre > > I'm sure,I saw in my past life (read when used win) some mailers where > could be set filters so,that unwanted messages were checked and deleted from > isp before downloadining...Took a little longer time,but what a heck... > I have no hurry... > > Got a do something...That @aol.com stuff is driving me nuts... > > Regards > Jarmo > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS and Linux-Mandrake
> See the 'Which is better choice ext3 or ...' thread. On md8.1 myself and > others experience corruptions. can you please go into some more detail on this? We've (JPL) have had this problem as well, but would like to know if you've been able to create a way to trigger it. And if so has the problem been fixed by the XFS folks? -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com