Re: [expert] mdk8.2 with japanese user
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 18:00, J. Grant wrote: > Hi, > Similar to how i setup my mdk8.1 machine to work with Japanese in KDE > etc I have now been trying to do the same on 8.2. However X either > crashes or the whole system crashes while starting X. If it does start > kinput does not work. > > I used the same technical info as last time, modifying the .i18n file > and the KDE fonts etc. > > Has anyone got 8.2 working sucessfully with Japanese input/display? Are you trying to have english kde with japanese input, or do you want all japanese? do you want for one user or all users? i ask because a friend and i were trying to get japanese input set up with 8.2 when it first came out and it was pure hell. the goal was one user all in japanese and another with english and japanese input. we never got it working. have you tried localedrake? -- iirc, we set it for japanese and then he edited the resulting i18n file (in /etc/sysconfig ?) to change most everything back to english, but leaving the xinput and one or two other variables to jp. I'll see if i can get his .i18n file, and post it. as for kde, i think he had to change some font settings in the control center in order for it to start properly (running the cc from a different window manager, i assume). on the bright side, at least mandrake's ghostscript can finally handle japanese. -- Chris Spackman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's right if he had class he'd be using Windowmaker *grin* > sorry couldn't resist the barb buut be my wm starts faster > than yours hehe. *grin* And I bet my fluxbox starts faster than your window maker. (insert maniacal laugh here) -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] i18n and KDE problem on Mandrake 8.2
nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem: > KDE doesn't respect locale setting (LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ALL...) > Description: >1. I installed Mandrake 8.2 using its CD1 and CD2. During its > installation, I chose Simplified Chinese (zh_CN.GB2312) as > installation language, and also chose other languages (includeing > en_US) to be available after installation. >2. After installation, as expected, KDE uses Chinese fonts for > display. Then I decided to switch back to English fonts without much > success: I changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n to use en_US, and I don't have > local .18n; I also changed /etc/menu-methods/lang.h to make lang() and > languages() return en_US only. Now, running "locale" shows the > following: [snip] Quick thought, and perhaps obvious, but have you tried either running localedrake or changing the language settings in the kde control panel? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help with USB Camera/gphoto/mass storage problem in Mandrake 8.2
David Joham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, shutting off devfs seemed to do the trick. One question: > > when you delete the files using your file manager or the command line, > does your camera realize that they're gone, or does it still think that > they're there. It seems like my camera insists they are still there > until I delete the pictures from the camera itself... Glad that got it working. To be honest, i have never tried deleting the pics from the computer. I always just copy them over and then delete them later using the camera. That way i can check that they are okay before deleting them. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help with USB Camera/gphoto/mass storage problem in Mandrake 8.2
David Joham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get my new Olympus digital camera to work with Mandrake > 8.2 and I'm having some problems. I'm hoping someone can help me out. [snip] > At this point, it looks like a USB problem rather than a gphoto > probelm. [snip] > At this point, I'm clueless as to what to do next. I've tried this on > two separate computers with the same results. One computer had a > "recommended" install while the other had an "expert" install with just > about everything under the sun installed. I'm new to USB (this being my > first USB device) and also to gphoto2 so if there is an obvious > solution, please be kind :) [snip] I get that `missing mass storage driver' message too, but it doesn't seem to matter. Do you have to use gphoto2? Would you be adverse to merely mounting your camera as a usb storage device and copying pictures from it to the hard drive? Sorry, but i cannot help with gphoto2. It looks like you are using devfs. Have you tried without it? Maybe someone knows an easy way to find where devfs puts newly mounted usb storage devices, but i could never figure it out so i dumped devfs. Under the traditional dev system, my digital camera is /dev/sda1. The fstab entry looks like this: /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev 0 0 so, mount /mnt/camera cp /mnt/camera/blah/*jpg ./ is all you need. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] multi-user, multi-lingual??
"J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > change your runlevel to shell and login individually, thats a work > around not a fix (c) Okay, thanks. We did that today and kde works, in english for one user and japanese for another. Gnome seems to be having some problems, but that isn't a huge concern and i half think we left a stray config file somewhere that might be causing the trouble. > ps I am assuming your window manager is configured correctly If by `correctly' you mean kde control center is set to english for one user and japanese for the other, then yes. > pps why is your return address overriding the mandrake one? good question. i do not know. i am using gnus and the reply-to is set in the .emacs or .gnus file. shouldn't be a problem, but maybe it is? I changed it manually this time (to point to the list). did it work okay? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] multi-user, multi-lingual??
A friend and i are having some trouble getting 8.2 to use English for one user and Japanese for another. localedrake seems to change the entire system -- it usually writes /etc/sysconfig/i18n (but i found a ~/.i18n file once). So running an english only system or a japanese only system is not a problem. But when the main i18n file is set to english and the ~/.i18n file is for japanese, kde will not load, it just crashes back to the gui log-in screen. Any ideas? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Photo Printing
Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know the printer works. I just need a graphics package that will allow > me to print photos. Maybe this isn't what you are looking for, but . . . xpp knows how to print jpg files (don't know about tif's). have you tried that? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Package for Printting Unicode document
Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Which packages in mdk 8.1 needed to print a utf8 html > page and retain its WYSIWYG , ? I got several pages > using utf8 and truetype font Times-New Roman. It is > displayed correctly in both Mozilla and Konqueror but > when print out, it is not, I am not even remotely an expert, so forgive me it this is not helpful. I am answering mostly just because it seems that no one else is going to. I do not think this can be solved by installing an rpm. You may need to take a look at ghostview, which i understand does the postscript conversion for printing. If you save a web page to a file with mozilla, does it then display correctly with gv or another ps viewer? If not, you might need to install the proper fonts for ghostview to use for displaying and printing. How to do that would involve reading some of the ghostscript documentation --- personally, i have yet to install any fonts for printing. (It is on my list of things to do, but for the moment i do not need it, so i have not done it.) I hope this at least is not wrong and gives an accurate idea of where to start. If i am totally wrong, at least that might give someone a reason to stand up and tell you so. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] floppy access in 8.1
"Doug Gough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used the Gnome floppy formatter to format the disk. I also went to another > machine running mdk8.1 with KDE, and used the KDE formatter to create a ext2 > floppy. Neither will mount by typing mount /mnt/floppy. However, if I use > explicit commands: > > mount -t ext2 /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy > > it mounts and works fine. That sucks.. and it's great because it works. > What will my Junior Highschool students do though? Well, they will probably > use dos formatted floppies, so it's no big deal. Seems like you've already noticed this, but i think the fstab entry somehow defines the floppy to have a fat filesystem - which is why you get a `wrong filesystem' error when you try mount /mnt/floppy. Also explains why it works with a dos / fat disk. I've heard that the fat filesystem is actually better than ext2 for floppies (don't know why, its just something i've heard). Is there a pressing need to use ext2? If not, why not just use fat floppies? But if you need ext2, hopefully someone can explain the changes you need to make to your fstab for ext2 to be the default. If i had to guess, i would suggest trying this in your fstab: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,sync,exec,noauto 0 0 BUT this is just a guess. hopefully someone can confirm this one way or the other. Maybe, if you want to use both fat and ext2, a filesystem type of `auto' instead of `ext2' would work? the mount man page has some info on that. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE
"J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > They have control centre etc in english and japanese, seems to change > the setup when i log out of kde after chainging, rather fancy eh? Well, it is a good start at least. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE
"J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps my situation is similar to yours. [snip] > Do you know of any HOWTOS on this issue? I am considering writing one, > as I can not find one. I don't know of any. Last I checked -- probably close to a year ago -- everything dealing with japanese in linux was very old. Like pre-Mandrake even. One thought --- have Mandrake specific tools like the control center been localized for Japanese yet? I mean, even if you can get kde working alright with kinput and all menus in Japanese, are the important Mandrake tools still going to be English? I would be willing to help a bit with getting Japanese mandrake going, let me know if you want some help on the howto. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE
"Jones,Daniel E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am told (no personal experience) that TurboLinux does Japanese quite > well. I have seen it in the shops here but have never been impressed by them. They are expensive and seem to be a lot like Caldera - going their own way, with no concern for the open source community. Unless you really don't like Red Hat I would suggest them before TurboLinux. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (Way OT) Quake 3
Tal Amir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > where can i get final release of Quake III from ? The final point release should be available from id's ftp site. i think it is 1.31 or something like that. It is a big collection of bug fixes and game tweaks. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (Way OT) Quake 3
Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, yes, you can go in and create a game, and the multiplayer, and all > that... but what you end with is still a deathmatch. The game itself > isn't there. > Very dissapointing. single player --> skirmish --> game type clicking on game type cycles through free for all, team deathmatch, tourneyment, and capture the flag. that isn't the case with the game you have? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (Way OT) Quake 3
The version i have - got it back when it first came out, also in the tin box - has much more than just deathmatch. The opening screen, after the movie, has single player, multiplayer, and a few other options. In both single player and multiplayer, you have the option to create a game (it might be called `skirmish' in the single player menu). When you create a game, you choose the game type - click on where it says (iirc) `deathmatch' and you can cycle through the other game types. There should be at least team deathmatch and capture the flag. Don't forget to update to the lasted point release. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE
How badly do you need Japanese? Does it all have to be japanese, or do you just need to write the occasional japanese document? I gave up trying to get Mandrake to do all Japanese - but didn't try that hard, because I don't need menus in Japanese, I just need to occasionally read and write some email or a letter in Japanese. My solution to this was to switch to emacs. emacs can input / read / save Japanese just fine and with LaTeX and the CJK package, creating and printing documents is not a problem. Email can be done with emacs and gnus. If you need more than that - ie a completely japanese-language system, I am afraid I cannot help much. I had most of the same problems you are having. Red Hat makes a japanese version, but it isn't as good as mandrake. IMHO, Mandrake should consider a real Japanese version - they are much better than Red Hat on the desktop and Asia isn't nearly as entralled with MS as the States are. I could probably get my office to try Mandrake if it was in Japanese. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X Login Manager
Roberto Armenteros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For some reason i dint find any file named desktop on > /etc/sysconfig but when I checked /etc/X11/prefdm i > saw a reference to this file. Weird!!! If memory serves, I didn't have the file at first either - something somewhere must default to kdm if the file doesn't exist. Or maybe it has something to do with choosing run level 3 at install. Anyhow, I have just WINDOWMAKER in mine, no DESKTOP= part at all. Again, iirc, startx ignored the file when it said DESKTOP=WINDOWMAKER and would always start KDE. Granted, this is startx from runlevel 3 and not a graphical login manager from level 5, but should it really make a difference? Does `DESKTOP=' include the meaning `and use the associated gui login manager'? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sony usb Camera
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:27:37PM +1100, Jason Pearce wrote: > Hi people, > I am haveing some problems setting up my Sony dsc-s70 > digital camera ,I have read a couple of articles informing me that > I should use usb-storage mod which I have . > So I opened Hard Drake and saw it listed under Disks Listed as > sony mass storage device ,but now it is not . > It is listed in ?other devices as Sony Corp.dsc-f505 Cybershot Digital > Camera and that it is unknown, > Has anyone had these problems? or point me in the right direction > I would be most grateful. > Regards Jason > I am no expert, so here are a few simple suggestions that might get you started or maybe just waste your time. Have you tried seeing what is in /var/log/messages just after you plug it in and turn it on? That might give you some ideas. Also, there might be some helpful info in /proc/scsi/scsi and / or /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/1 (it is a 1 on my machine, but i don't know what it might be on yours). lsmod will show you what modules are loaded --- i think you need usbcore, usb-storage, and usb-uhci. Wasn't there some problem on some machines with that last module? Anyhow, my fuji camera is recognized just fine and does show up as sda1. Works great, so it is possible. Good luck. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner msg44660/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] X lockup with audio CDs
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:00:50PM +, Nick Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > In LM8.1 w/standard KDE2.2.1: If I play an audio CD in my CD-RW drive > with the KDE cd player (not tried other players), then I get a few > messages in /var/log/messages saying something like "/dev/sr0 not ready > please insert a disk" (?). After about three of these messages X locks > up - the keyboard stops working and screen updates stop. The mouse still > moves, but the cursor doesn't change when passing over window edges, > etc. There is nothing else of interest in messages. [snip] > Any ideas what I should be looking for or at? Just a shot in the dark here, but is there a symlink /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/sr0 ? My cdr is scd0 and everyone was looking for /dev/cdrom, which didn't exist. course i never had a lock-up over that, but kde's cd player crashed and burned over it every time. Are you using the devfs=nomount option in /etc/lilo.conf ? Maybe (total guess) devfs is part of the problem? just my 2.3 yen, hope its helpful. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner msg44612/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] ide-scsi question
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:44:45AM +1100, Darren King wrote: > The problem was that I added hdc=ide-scsi to an existing append line in > lilo.conf, it already said append=quiet so I just added a comma and then > hdc=ide-scsi. Guess it didn't like that. I added hdc=ide-scsi as the > only append item and it worked fine. > > Darren IIRC, you don't need the comma. just put a space. Mine looks like this: append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=nomount" -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner msg7/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] CD writer non-root access
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:07:21PM +1030, Aristotle wrote: > Hi, > > I can only access the CD writer if I run Gcombust from root - does > anyone know of a work around? I am running Mandrake 8.1 Try adding yourself (your user id) to the cdwriter group. logout, log back in, and you should be good to go. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner msg44411/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Nvidia on Mandrake 8.1
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:35:11PM +1030, Aristotle wrote: > Hi people, > > I have installed the Nvidia drivers as per the instructions on the > Mandrakeruser.org web site, yet the X server crashes when I attempt to > run an accelerated application and the X log tells me something about > not being able to load the glX module - I have 'load glx' below 'load > dbe' in the XConfig-4 file. > > The X server runs fine until I try to play a game. > > Any ideas? just a small idea, but did you check the name of the driver to "nvidia"? from my XF86Config-4 file: # ** # Graphics device section # ** Section "Device" Identifier "Generic VGA" Driver "vga" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" Driver "nvidia" # <--- this line #VideoRam32768 -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner msg44156/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] RE: [Expert] How to fix an X lockup
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:45:09AM -0600, Praedor S. Tempus wrote: > I will try the Alt-SysRq-K option and/or the Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-B combos next > time but... > > I am not certain that even this will do anything since when Terminus goes > down, it appears that keyboard and mouse input are no longer accepted - a > really major X crash. I am not even able to do a Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc, to get to > a new login and try to fix things from there, which has been a method I am > able to use often with non-game-related crashes. > > In this extreme case, the system itself is still functional, however, since I > am able to ssh into it and get a list of runnning processes with top. At > this point, I have run "killall terminus" but the system response is "no such > process" so it appears that terminus goes down and takes X with it without > leaving any trace of itself running - thus I rather doubt the Alt-SysRq-K > option would do much if the system does accept that key combo (this sort of > lockup has made me question the whole utility of enabling the SysReq keycombo > when compiling a kernel - so far, every time my system has bitten it due to a > game, keyboard input of any kind has been impossible, including any SysRq > input). The only time i have ever needed the Alt-SysRq-K combo is when Ctrl-Alt-F2 doesn't work - it works when nothing else will (i don't have another system to telnet in from). If Ctrl-Alt-F2 works, i just ps -aux and look for either x or even kdm. Kill it and it should pop right back with kdm (or whatever). But if Alt-SysRq-K doesn't work, can you do something like telinit 3 from the telnet session? -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] log: auditin
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:43:21PM -0500, Craig Woods wrote: > Chris Spackman wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > every day i get something like this in my logs (and right on the terminal as > > well). I think it is someone trying to connect, but then shouldn't > > portsentry catch it and block it? [snip] > > Chris, > To be concerned about a possible system intrusion is ALWAYS wise. And, > if you happen to have a broadband connection, you can never be too > cautious. What log is this message showing up in? Have you looked at > auth.log, syslog, and secure files. Using the IP addr in your message, > SRC=193.204.135.164, nslookup gives the machine name as > "intrigila.dm.univaq.it". Do you know it, have you been to some site > similar in name? Can you check for open ports, doing a port scan from an > outside machine? Try doing a tcpdump. Can you check for any bot activity > on your box. A Sub7Server Trojan zombie/bot usually needs port 6667 to > be established. Try a "netstat -an | grep 6667" If you have it open, get > offline immediately, and close it down. Firewalls can be anywhere from > real good to real bad. You should run an IDS in conjunction with your > firewalls, such as snort. > > If you need or want more info, just let me know. I would be happy to > help you with a good IDS installation. > > Craig Woods > > PS Chris, please post this msg to the Mandrake expert list, and you can > take it offline, if you need some help from me. (I hope this is what you meant by post it to the list) Thanks a lot for the info. netstat does not show anything on port 6667. The messages are logged to /var/log/messages and are also written to the terminal. Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:50795 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:60000.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 (my ip address):50799 210.130.xxx.xxx:110 TIME_WAIT udp0 0 (my ip address):33059 205.188.xxx.xxx:4000 ESTABLISHED udp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* raw0 0 0.0.0.0:6 0.0.0.0:* 7 raw0 0 0.0.0.0:17 0.0.0.0:* 7 The only stuff above that i don't know about are ports 50795 and 17. The two outgoing should be icq and the mail daemon, right? (the rest of netstat showed nothing suspicious - ie nothing around 6667) nmap -sS shows only this: Port State Service 25/tcp opensmtp 631/tcpopenunknown 6000/tcp openX11 and nmap -sU shows everything closed: The UDP or stealth FIN/NULL/XMAS scan took 3 seconds to scan 1448 ports. All 1448 scanned ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) are: closed Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 3 seconds But both of those are done from this machine. If they replaced the nmap binary, they also fooled the daily security check, as well as the rpm database (which reports no change in files for package nmap). Anyhow, is it possible that the auditin message is a kernel warning activated by iptables (is that the packet filtering name now?) and these are just random scans? But then why wouldn't portsentry catch them? Aside from trojans, is there anyway i could be cracked when i am not running any services? The sendmail-type program is one possibility, but other than that, how would someone crack a box that is not accepting connections? (aside from malicious local users). thanks for you time. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) PGP signature
[expert] log: auditin
Hi, every day i get something like this in my logs (and right on the terminal as well). I think it is someone trying to connect, but then shouldn't portsentry catch it and block it? Jun 25 08:03:12 musashi kernel: auditIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:90:XX:03:f7:96:00:05:XX:52:58:1c:08:00 SRC=193.204.135.164 DST=(my ip address) LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=46 ID=59607 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4412 DPT=111 WINDOW=32120 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 the src ip address is usually different, but there are a few addresses that appear frequently. I am not running any internet services at all - xinet is not even installed. I have the firewall (from the control center) set up, with only a hole for ssh (which i haven't installed yet). So, what is this and is it something to worry about? -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] Installing NVidia drivers in Mandrake 8.0
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:48:35AM -0500, Sergio P.Korlowsky wrote: [some good advice snipped] > > And I am using the latest NVidia drivers, > > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.tar.gz > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1251.tar.gz > > Wish you luck! > > Sergio Korlowsky or get the src package and rebuild it the install it and the glx package. I did that here and have had almost no problems here (yeah, so it has crashed once or twice, but man is tribes 2 sweet) -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] Fwd: [newbie] Linux "compatible" vid cards
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:16:24PM -0700, John wrote: > > > Excuse the forward the mail got bonced! > > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a video that will work in Linux that > is not Nvidia based. I have a geforce 2 mx 32MB right now that likely will be > going back to Best Buy as I cannot get it to work in LM8.0. I would like to > get something that can offer close to the performance of the geforce 2 mx > with roughly the same $100 price tag! > > Thanks for any suggestions, > John W > > --- I have been playing around with video cards a lot recently. Actually I just put in a geforce 2 yesterday because my old voodoo 3 just doesn't have the oomph to handle tribes2. The nvidia card set up with no problems here - what kind of difficulty were / are you having? Recommendations based on my very limited experiences: If you are not playing Tribes 2, then the voodoo 3 will work fine but there are problems with changing resolutions while in runlevel 5 (same problems that the nvidia cards have?) so you have boot to runlevel 3 and then startx. A bit of a pain perhaps but the card handles Q3A and UT with no problems. The matrox g400 is my recommendation if you aren't overly worried about 3d. it works great, is reasonably stable (ymmv) and can also handle Q3A, UT, and SoF with no problems, although a game with lots of people might result in unacceptable framerates. Both those cards can easily do a 12?? x 10?? desktop at 16 bit. Sorry, i don't have any experience with any other cards except the nvidia i got yesterday, so cannot say how the matrox or voodoo compare with ati or other cards. If you are planning to play Tribes 2, i would suggest sticking with the nvidia - others might work, but not as nearly as well, from what i've seen. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] grip in Mandrake 8.0
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:35:50PM -0500, Paul Cox wrote: > I beleive it's because of patent issues with the .mp3 format. I think > mp3 encoders are supposed to pay a 'usage fee' to the patent holders for > using it, and obviously lame and bladeenc don't do that. =) It's a grey > area legally. You can always download them and install them yourself > though. Or use oggenc that does come with 8.0. I tried it in 7.2 and xmms used a lot of cpu time to deal with the .ogg files, but under 8.0 there aren't any problems (here at least). -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] SYS MAIL
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:58:27PM -0500, Craig Woods wrote: > Hello, > > Since I have not posted for quite some time, let me give a > congratulations to all the hard working people at Mandrake. Your LMDK > 8.0 is a complete success. You worked your butts off, and it shows. > Thanks to all. > > If I could get some direction on a simple matter, I would be most > appreciative. What service and/or daemon runs system mail? This is the > mail written to root about cron jobs, and other system info. I have > noticed that I am not getting this mail, and there is no > "/var/spool/mail/root" file being created. I tried a "touch" to create > this file but still no data is being written to it. I can not seem to > locate a man page or any other documentation about this internal mail > process. Thanks for any help or pointers > > Craig Woods On my machine, it is postfix. Make sure it is running. The only change i had to make was to get roots mail delivered to my normal account. That was an option in one of the postfix config file (in /etc/postfix/ iirc). It says something like: # who gets roots mail # root = marc uncomment, change the name and you are set. Also are you sure the cron jobs are set up correctly to send mail to root? -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] Nedit commands keys problems
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:25:57AM -0400, Jay DeKing wrote: > I was using gEdit, but switched to nEdit because it has more features. > The only thing I really don't like about nEdit is that the editing > window is always white. In gEdit you can change the window color. Actually, there are command line options to change the foreground and background colors. I haven't played with it much, but i think it has to be done at start. At least i've never found how to change the colors when you are already running it. Try man nedit or nedit --help, the commands will prolly show up. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] Delete vs. Shred
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:20:41PM -0400, Eric Krout wrote: > What's the difference? Can 'delete'd files still be recoverable by > experts, but 'shred'ed ones cannot? > > Thanks, > Eric Well, they say that the only way to be 100% certain is to steamroller the disk, but I think its safe to say that shred makes it harder for the experts to recover the data. In my very limited understanding, delete makes no effort to actually delete the data - it just marks that disk space as available. So the data is still on it, unless some other process writes data over it. Shred overwrites the data several times and then marks the space as available. Or so I hear ... -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:28:01PM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: > That's why I didn't even bother to test their KDE 2.1.1 before making my > announcement. Furthermore, while their Mozilla 0.8 (based on the Feb. 17, > 2001 version) installs and works perfectly (except for Mozilla's fonts bug in > Preferences), their Mozilla 0.8.1 installs with two major error messages, > neither of which I understand: > > 1) runtime mismatch > 2) leaking context Actually, I am using the .8.1 binaries from mozilla.org and i get the "leaking context" message everytime i close mozilla. So far, no harm, .8.1 seems to be working just fine. So maybe it isn't a problem with those particular rpms? Are these serious problems? -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] Editing GUI log-in dialog
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:00:47PM +1000, Phil wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to edit the users that appear in the GUI log-in dialog, the one that's > headed "Welcome on Localhost". I've seen a menu item that allowed the dialog > to be edited but I can't find it now. > > Can someone refresh my memory? > > -- > Regards, > Phil > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Are you using kdm (the kde gui logon manager)? If so, isn't there a setup screen in the KDE control panel? I haven't used kde in a long while, but seen to remember it being in there. Let's you choose whose names / icons are shown and set the background and all that. Sorry I can't be more specific. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:56:54PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > this is driving me nuts. for reasons not relevant here, i have done > a reinstall of 7.2 4 times in the last 24 hours. some of the time, > as a non-root user, i can play mp3's. the rest of the time (using > the mpg123 program), i get a "permission denied" error. not aware > of having done anything sound-related during or after the install. Just a thought, but have you tried any other programs for sound? Like play or xmms, etc? I only ask because I had some problems with mpg123 when i first installed 7.2. Sound was working fine, it was mpg123 that was having problems. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
Re: [expert] any opinions on SBlive Platinum?
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 02:36:55PM -0600, Chubby Vic wrote: > Hello. > > I am considering upgrading my sound card from > AWE64 ISA to the SBLive Platinum. > > Does the wavetable midi still sound as good > (or better) than the old awe64 or does it > even use the same kind of synth? > > I should have asked if it works with > linux to begin with in the first place sorry. > > If so, how do all you sblive users like it? > > Thanks Well, I just upgraded from an old ISA soundblaster to the SB Live Value (not the platinum). Works great, but I can't really say about the midi stuff. Just turn on kudzu (in drakeconf --> startup services) before you switch cards and it will set up the new card on reboot. Then run sndconfig and you should be set. For some reason, kudzu did not remove some of the old sound stuff. It doesn't cause any real problems, just on boot it tries to configure the old isa card, doesn't find it and exits with an error. No big deal because the computer continues right on booting and later sets up the new card. Like I said, this is for the SB Live Value, but I would think it should apply to the Platinum as well. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner PGP signature
[expert] licq security update
I just updated licq to the packages mentioned in the security notice. Now licq -p qt_gui won't work. First it said: 18:41:20: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt_gui): /usr/lib/licq/licq_qt_gui.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. looks like someone named it licq_qt-gui.so instead, so I copied both the .so and .la to the name in the error message (ie with an underscore, not a dash). Then, licq responds with: 18:49:21: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt_gui): /usr/lib/licq/licq_qt_gui.so: undefined symbol: focusNextPrevChild__14QMultiLineEditb. Has anyone else seen this? My system is a pretty generic 7.2 with only a few of the unsupported packages, but one of them was licq. licq -p gtk_gui seems to work but crashes on exit. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] Cron error
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:11:47AM -0800, Expert User wrote: > Ever since I have installed LM 7.2 I'm getting this mail to root > with subject: Cron run-parts /etc/cron.daily > (sent by cron Daemon) > > -- Contents of mail - > DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified > Reading active file failed, exiting (see syslog for more information). > Has fetchnews been run? > - > > What is the problem. > > I'm running LM 7.2+ in High security setting. I had the same thing. Since I am not running any database servers or whatever, removing the offending file from /etc/cron.daily/ fixed things. This may or may not be an acceptable solution, (it might be a major security hole for all I know) but it definately stops that annoying mail from showing up everyday. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] syslog playing up
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:59:49PM +, Tom Strickland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:06:49PM +0100, Matthias Grund wrote: > > >Another problem: > > >Recently the computer started freezing at startup unless I did the following: > > >1) start as single user > > >2) start syslog: > > > # /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start > > >3) carry on the startup (ctrl-d) > > Change the priority at which syslogs starts to a higher one by moving > > Sxxsyslog to S11syslog for example. > > I'll try this, but I'm curious about why it's started doing this. I > think that it might have something to do with my accidentally shutting > down inetd in the belief that xinetd replaces it completely. When I > saw the computer saying that it had shut down logging, I restarted > inet. Since then, I've had problems. > > Any ideas anyone? > > tom I start and stop inet all the time and have never seen this problem. How did you start / stop it? -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] cd-rw install help
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:02:20PM +, Larry Marshall wrote: > Vic wrote: > > > > Why did cdrecord screw up a cd that I tried to > > make and xcdroast did not? > > You got lucky? I haven't looked closely at xcdroast but all of the > GUI cdburner programs I've looked at use cdrecord to do the real > work. All they do is hand cdrecord the proper commandline > parameters. > > What was being suggested to you by someone else, and I concur, is that > this extra layer of "version 0.95" coding causes more trouble than its > worth. cdrecord has been stable for quite a while. > > Cheers --- Larry > I agree - I usually just use cdrecord (an hour or so with the man page and maybe a website or two was more than sufficient for getting up to speed with the basics) and mkisofs - in the opposite order of course. But there are times that the gui makes it easier. I very infrequently need to make a hybrid cd. I really don't do it enough to make RTFM every time worthwhile. In this case and others (bootable cd's, reuseing cd-wr's, etc) I like gcombust. It allows me to get done what i need to, without me having to try to remember or look up how to do everything each time. So, for some uses, that 0.95 code is sometimes worth it. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] cd-rw install help
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:50:20AM +, KompuKit wrote: > > someone PLEASE help me..get my HP 9150i cd-rw to function > correctly...I have scsi emulation > I can access , mount , and use it regularly... > but...when I bringup x-cd-roast it can't find it...or set it up...it > says something about permissions not being set properly...and/or > scsi emulation not activated... > /var/log/messages...says it is > > it functions correctly in windows... > > what is wrong... > -- > Registered Linux User: 167369 > <= http://www.kompukit.com => > [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 > Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org > WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns > (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) > (US EST) Just a newbie guess, but what are your permissions? For the device and for the programs that x-cd-roast (and other guis) need? This includes at least cdrecord and mkisofs. If you are trying to burn as a regular user, they probably aren't set correctly. Add your regular user account to the 'cdwriter' group. also, what is the output of cdrecord --scanbus? mine looks like this: [16:48:17 chris]# cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'CREATIVE' 'CD-RW RW8432E ' '1.05' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * just some thoughts. someone else might have some better ideas. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] USB Zip on LM72 -- Please help
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:41:04AM -0500, A V Flinsch wrote: > On Saturday 24 February 2001 05:55, you wrote: > [snipped] > > use fdisk to delete partition 4, then mkfs to create a new file system > > > > -- > Alex > (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) > Thanks again. I tried deleting the partition and creating a new one with diskdrake, but then it said the new partition would be sda1 - which looked like a bad thing, so I didn't continue. Time to rtfm for fdisk. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] USB Zip on LM72 -- Please help
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:53:23PM -0500, A V Flinsch wrote: > On Friday 23 February 2001 13:26, you wrote: > > Dear friends: > > [original request snipped] > > Would very much appreciate your help. > > > > Benjamin > > you need to load the following modules (note you may need usb-ohci > instead of usb-uhci depending on your usb controller) I have mine listed > in /etc/modules, you might prefer to tack tem on at the end of rc.local > > insmod usbcore > insmod usb-uhci > insmod usb-storage > > then add the following to /etc/fstab > /dev/zip/mnt/zipauto user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0 > > (note /dev/zip is a symlink to /dev/sda4, and I used auto as filetype > since I have a few ext2 formatted zip disks) > > create the /mnt/zip mountpoint > > and all should be good > > -- > Alex > (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) > Thank you very much. I wasn't even thinking about my usb zip drive, but followed your directions and it was working in no time. took me a minute to figure out that it is sda4 on my machine also. I guess this is the standard dev? Just out of curiousity, how do you format a zip with ext2? Diskdrake defaults to vfat. Much thanks. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] firewall
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 04:41:53PM -0800, Michael O'Henly wrote: > I'll second the suggestion of pmfirewall. It's very easy to set up and does > exactly what it's supposed to do. [snip] > -- > Michael O'Henly > TENZO Design I would suggest using portsentry in addition to something like pmfirewall. It comes with 7.2 and is easy to set up. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman www.openhistory.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] DENY 127.0.0.1 in logs??
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:06:37AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: > Chris Spackman wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Is it possible that someone on the network is actually broadcasting to > > everyone their attempt to connect to localhost? What is this? Could it be > > coming from my box? > > The loopback address is NEVER (unless the rules have changed) supposed to appear > on a physical net. That's why it got my attention. > Use a sniffer tool to capture these packets, get the MAC address of the sender. > If this MAC is not yours (see your ifconfig output), then look for packets with > that MAC and a real IP and get your ISP involved now that you've done the grunt > work of finding the broken machine(s). Alternatively (assuming the packets are > not from you), complain to the ISP who should have sniffers... Good idea. Good a time as any to learn about sniffers and a real good reason to. Actually, I have told the isp, but am not totally convinced that they even know what a sniffer is. Thanks for the help. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) web site: www.openhistory.org gratuitous quote: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] DENY 127.0.0.1 in logs??
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:04:30AM -0500, Matthew Micene wrote: > On Thursday 08 February 2001 03:13 am, you wrote: > > the deny line looks a little like this: [snip] input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 > > 127.0.0.1:2301 255.255.255.255:2301 [snip] (#32) > > Is it possible that someone on the network is actually broadcasting to > > everyone their attempt to connect to localhost? What is this? Could it > > be coming from my box? > > You've hit the nail on the head, someone on the network is sending > broadcast packets from localhost for some reason. Let's disect the packet > to see what is up. > > input DENY eth0 -- This is coming from outside the firewall, assuming that > eth0 is the NIC you have connected to the cable modem. So its someone > else's misconfigured box. Yes, eth0 is the external nic. The fact that it hit eth0 sort of made me think that it wasn't me. > PROTO=17 127.0.0.1:2301 255.255.255.255:2301-- These are UDP packets, so > its a UDP broadcast of some sort. Port 2301 is listed as belonging to > Compaq Insight Manager, and have seen some posts about people seeing > similar broadcasts from boxes with this utility installed. It sounds like > a misconfigured Compaq Server somewhere on the cable segment. Yes, I have seen stuff on the net about this 2301 spamming everyone. I told the isp, but they are taking their own sweet time doing anything about it. Thanks alot for the help, I was afraid that I might have been spamming the whole network. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org gratuitous quote: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
[expert] DENY 127.0.0.1 in logs??
Ok, this one is interesting, I think. I have a cable modem, which is connected to a local (172.x.x.x) net and masqueraded on the internet. (I think that is how it works). Anyhow, some idiots on this internal net have services broadcasting to everyone and so are constantly filling my logs with "DENY 172.16.xxx.xxx blah blah blah" messages from the firewall. The vast majority of these are on port 2301. Recently however, things have taken an interesting twist, with a new address showing up - 127.0.0.1, also on port 2301. Now I don't think that this is from my machine, because it only happens when I am physically connected to the network (ie, i plug in the ethernet cable). Only. No other time. Also, netstat does not show port 2301 as open or listening on anything. the deny line looks a little like this: [snip] input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 127.0.0.1:2301 255.255.255.255:2301 [snip] (#32) Is it possible that someone on the network is actually broadcasting to everyone their attempt to connect to localhost? What is this? Could it be coming from my box? -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org gratuitous quote: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] OpenGL doesn't work on my Matrox G200
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:10:49AM +0100, Joseph Markham wrote: > Dear Friends > > I've got a Matrox G200 8Mb AGP video card on my PC with LM 7.2 installed. > > When I try to run an openGL games such as Quake, the game starts but crashes soon >after. I've tried Xfree 3.3.6 and Xfree 4.0 as a server but to no avail. I've tried >other openGL games with the same result. > > Any ideas how to check my openGL installation? and what's wrong? > > Joseph > > HYPER PC > Tel/Fax +356 - 451979 > Mobile +356 - 79 - 451979 > http://markhamj.freeyellow.com/ Have you checked Loki's site for FAQ's on opengl or 3d in general? Their 3d setup instructions are pretty thorough. Sorry, I don't have the url at hand, but it is pretty easy to find if you go to http://www.lokigames.com Might at least help you narrow down where the problem is. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org gratuitous quote: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] Article about Mandrakesoft's "new direction"
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:10:48AM -0500, philomena wrote: > I have an SBLive! card, and had no problem with SuSe and sound in 6.4 > and 7.0. I would download the current emu10k driver (not a patch, the > actual driver)from creative, compile, and sound was beautiful. On the > other hand, until Mandrake 7.2, I had tons of problems with Mandrake and > sound - but, it does works fine now with 7.2. So, sound card results > vary from from person to person, even with the same card, and you can't > say that SuSe has no sound. > > philomena Since we are stilling going on about this: I used SuSE for several months. Really liked it, sound worked fine. Yast was annoying but useful. The backup utility was great (hint, hint, mandrake). Only switched to Mandrake at 7.1, mostly because I heard that it set up cd-burners correctly (it did, just fine) and doesn't have yast. And I agree, there was nothing in the article that makes me think that Mandrake is going to stop publishing their distro. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org gratuitous quote: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] I am not asked which CD's I have in 7.2 with expertinstallation!
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:38:50PM +0100, Alen Salamun wrote: > Hi! > > I didn't, and I installed expert installation over 10 times now. Always the > same. Like I have "jed" selected, but the package is not installed (since it > is on CD 2) and I am never asked for CD 2! > > Bye, Alen I have only installed 7.2 two or three times, but to the best of my knowledge, the installer asked which cd's I had each time. These were expert installs using iso's downloaded from mirror sites soon after 7.2 was initially released. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] changes to suid root files
Sorry, I should have mentioned in my original post that I checked the md5sums from /var/log/security/suid_md5sum.today and .yesterday against the the entries in a list of md5sums that I made just after installing the system and ALL are identical. But they were reported as having changed. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
[expert] changes to suid root files
Anyone know why the following files would occasionally show up in the security check as "removed suid root file" and "added suid root file"? /usr/X11R6/bin/xman /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock /usr/bin/Wnn4/jserver They also (today at least) show up with different checksums. I have had this happen maybe 5 times now, always with these specific files. At first, I thought a cracker might be responsible and did a full reinstall. But then it happened within a few hours of the re-install, when the machine had spent less that an hour connected to the intranet (internet access is through another machine). I have no idea why or how these files could have been modified, and jserver at least seems an unusual choice for a backdoor (since you are unlikely to find it on too many machines). Anyone else seeing this kind of thing? -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] glibc and reboot (con't)
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:25:18AM -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Yes. Try compiling a kernel, if it errors out in different places, > your problem is hardware. Try 'cpuburn', if you get reboots/errors, > it's hardware. Otherwise boot your install CD and choose upgrade to fix > unknown problems with your install. Random reboots are almost always > hardware tho, overheating, cpu/cache/ram, HDD errors. Clean out > the dust bunnies and re-seat everything. It can also be power. Either > the house current or the computers power supply. If that's the case, > you need an UPS, and/or a better power supply. A quick way to test > overheating problems is to take the case cover off, and point a table > fan into the box. If the reboot/error problems subside, you need to > improve cpu heatsink/fan and/or case ventilation. > -- > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Thanks for the advice. I cleaned everything up and moved the room heater and everything seems ok now. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) web site: www.openhistory.org gratuitous quote: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] glibc and reboot (con't)
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:54:51PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Check the cpu fan/heat sink for dirt - quite a common cause of reboots, > particularly with K6 chips in my experiance. Also make sure the box is > well ventilated - one of my machines reboots if the room temperature > goes over 28 degrees centigrade and the second case fan is not on - the > powersupply fan is not up to the job and the box internals get quite > hot. > > BillK Thanks a lot, that kind of confirms what I was thinking. I am running a k6-2 and the box is as venilated as I can make it in a cramped Japanese apartment (in others words, venilation could be better). This was prolly the case. I was hoping that the general cold of the apartment would help keep everything cool. (Japan has not discovered insulation yet, so the temp in the apartment is generally the same as outside). Live and learn. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
[expert] using japanese language
Has there been any discussion on this list about the inputting Japanese text with LM 7.x? With 7.1, the jserver wouldn't shut down properly, it had to be killed. With my current 7.2 setup, jserver starts up and shuts down ok (at least with the "service" command) but I am having trouble using kinput to input text. I think it is an environment problem since my LC_(all of them) variables are set to US english - fair enough since that is the primary language for my system. So what do I need to do to change them? Is that sufficient for inputing Japanese? Anyone tried this or have any insights? -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] glibc and reboot (con't)
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:14:00PM -0600, Joseph Red wrote: > > If your power supply fan is not working it can cause a spontaneous > reboot. I know that's true for ATX, and suspect it's true for AT style > psu. Quick check, stick your hand in front of the fan, if it's blowing > warm air it's working:) CPU fans aften fail, esp. the cheaper ones. If > you think it's heat related, check *all* the fans. > -- > > > Joseph Red > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.cautioninc.com Thanks for the suggestion. You might be right. I went to single user mode and rebuilt the rpm db with no problem. Haven't checked all the fans yet, but the power supply fan is definitely working. Possibly the cpu intensive rpm stuff combined with a heater blowing air at my feet (and thus at the box as well) caused the computer to overheat. That might explain the two reboots within a few hours of each other. Course, I am always open to alternative possibilities. For some reason, the rebuilt db still shows the old and new versions of glibc-devel installed. Strange. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
[expert] glibc and reboot (con't)
I wrote earlier about an accidental reboot while upgrading glibc. Someone suggested using --force. Good idea, but didn't work. Someone else suggested trying to --rebuilddb, which I proceeded to try. My machine rebooted during the rebuild. This time I am absolutely certain that no one touched the reboot switch. The system rebooted itself. AFAIK, there were no power problems or any other external cause for a reboot. Also, I wonder now if I really did hit the reboot switch during the original glibc upgrade. I thought it possible at the time and accepted it as an explaination only because it seemed much more likely than a spontaneous reboot. So this is either a software problem or a hardware problem. Unfortunately, the problems don't end there. Fsck found errors on my /var partition that required fixing from single user mode. Of course, several rpm libs were listed as having problems. fsck fixed the filesystem stuff, but now I wonder just how screwed up my rpm setup is. This is coming to you from WindowMaker, so any damage that there might be doesn't seem to be affecting daily usage. Any ideas where to start sorting this out? Could it be a simple problem of overheating causing a reboot? (can that happen?) TIA -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] glibc upgrades and accidental reboot
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:16:17AM -0500, D. Stark - eSN wrote: > I'd try using the --force. > > Like, wow. I made a funny. Seriously, though, maybe --force the new one in. > It sounds like the rpm database took a little hosing. > > Derek Stark > IT / Linux Admin > eSupportNow > xt 8952 thanks, but no luck. the devel package installed ok, but rpm still shows both of them installed (3-16.mdk and 3-18.3.mdk). On the bright side, I am running X at the moment and there don't seem to be any problems at all. All the new glibc packages are installed ok it seems. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
[expert] glibc upgrades and accidental reboot
Here's an enjoyable one: I was upgrading the glibc packages today when I accidently hit the reboot button (stupid, but many accidents are). Just as glibc-profile-whatever was finishing. glibc-whatever-version was already done, as was glibc-devel-whatever, but as I said, glibc-profile was in the middle of being upgraded. Once everything came back up, rpm -qa | grep glibc showed the new version on plain glibc, the new and the old version of glib-devel-whatever, and showed only the old version of glibc-profile-whatever. Just to be sure, I tried rpm -e glibc-devel-oldversion, but it replied that the package was not installed. glibc-profile installed no problem. Kpackage does not show glibc-devel-oldversion as installed. Question - do I need to worry about this? Is there some way to fix the -devel-oldversion problem? I don't like the idea of rpm thinking that something is installed when it actually isn't. -- Chris and Yoshiko Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (English) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese) www.openhistory.org "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -The Prisoner
Re: [expert] mpg123 device still busy
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:09:22PM -0600, duane voth wrote:
> Chris Spackman wrote:
>
> > Likewise, lsof /dev/dsp showed nothing - literally, no results at all.
>
> So /dev/dsp is not being used at the times when you run lsof manually.
>
>
> > I am beginning to think this must be an mpg123 problem. Is there a way to
> > tell it to use a different sound device? What it the difference between
> > /dev/dsp and /dev/snd?
>
> I don't know how all that works maybe someone else does. But
> adding debug code to mpg123 sounds like a good way to proceed
> if you are comfortable with that. Do you know how to install
> source packages? Ex:
>
> # rpm -qa | grep mpg123 (find what version you are running)
> mpg123-0.59r-12mdk
>
> go to http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM and search for "mpg123"
>
> carefully look through the list of packages to find the find the
> Mandrake version that matches yours and click the .html link. In
> this case I found the source package in the list, but sometimes
> you will have to follow the mpg123--i586.html link to the
> binary rpm and THEN follow the src rpm link.
> I clicked on mpg123-0.59r-12mdk-src.html
>
> The big blue link at the top of this new page is the rpm (the one
> I found may be the same version you need which is):
>
> # wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/SRPMS/mpg123-0.59r-12mdk.src.rpm
> # rpm -ivh mpg123-0.59r-12mdk.src.rpm(install the source)
> # cd /usr/src/RPM/SPECS
> # rpm -bp mpg123.spec("build prep")
> # cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/mpg123-whatever (go to the build directory)
> # ./configure(config the source for your
>system)
> # make
> # make install (installs the new binary libs
>and man
> pages over your current ones)
>
> then test to see if the problem still occurs, and hack away in
> /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/mpg123-whatever as you please. Do the 'make'
> and 'make install' each time from the
> /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/mpg123-whatever directory.
>
>
> > (Just did ls -l /dev/snd and the results were:
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 3 19:39 /dev/snd -> ../proc/asound/dev/
> > but with the last two in white letters with flashing red background, which I
> > believe means that they don't exist, or at least the proc/asound/dev
> > doesn't).
>
> Same result here: /proc/asound is no where to be found, and I've had no problems.
>
> duane
>
Ok, first, thanks a lot. mpg123 is now working.
Here is what I did:
downloaded the source rpm
removed the original (thought maybe that would be 'cleaner')
followed your directions above, except that there was no configure, but
reading the install said that you have to do "make (your platform here)".
Linux had a few entries, a few for different archs, and a few for different
sound libs(?). I decided to start with the generic linux option, figuring
that if that didn't work, then I would play around with the other options.
so did: make linux
then: make install
and bingo, it works.
the question remains, however, what happened to it?
oh, and is it safe to delete all the mpg123 source stuff from usr/src/RPM/?
thanks again.
--
Chris Spackman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] webmin
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 06:59:44PM +0800, xylonite wrote: > hi all > > I try to enter my webmin page but error > > http://127.0.0.1:1/ > > try port 138 also can't > > error msg are same > -- > A network error occurred while netscape > was receving data > (network error: connection reset by > peer) > --- > > http was running > webmin was running > and i think everything was fine.. i have > using mandrake for a long time some > example for 7.1 i\'ve no problem. > # Linuxconf network access > was enable also try https: instead of http: and see if it works. -- Chris Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] mpg123 device still busy
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:05:14PM -0600, duane voth wrote: > Chris wrote: > > > Thanks for all the advice. So far no luck. Specifically; > > > > turning off the sound-at-startup option in DrakConf had no effect after > > rebooting. That is, sound was not started, but mpg123 still gave the same > > "device busy" error. (which makes me wonder - if sound still works without > > the sound service starting at boot time, what is the point of starting it > > at boot?) > > There is some on-demand loading of modules but I wouldn't trust it. > Also some daemon (I forget which) likes to unload modules that havn't > been used for a long time. If they don't get reloaded quick enough > when mpg123 plays, I could see it possibly being a race condition. > > What is that daemon that attempts to clean up "unused" kernel modules? > > > ls /pro/*/fd | egrep 'dsp|fd:' showed no processes using /dev/dsp > > Make sure you have a 'c' in that ls: ls /proc/*/fd | egrep 'dsp|fd:' > or use: > > lsof /dev/dsp > > which is much easier. > > duane > > Sorry, that was a typo - I did have the c in proc and got lots of info, just nothing about /dev/dsp Likewise, lsof /dev/dsp showed nothing - literally, no results at all. I am beginning to think this must be an mpg123 problem. Is there a way to tell it to use a different sound device? What it the difference between /dev/dsp and /dev/snd? (Just did ls -l /dev/snd and the results were: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 3 19:39 /dev/snd -> ../proc/asound/dev/ but with the last two in white letters with flashing red background, which I believe means that they don't exist, or at least the proc/asound/dev doesn't). Could this have any relevence to the mpg123 problem? Or does it simply not exist because nothing is currently using it?) -- Chris Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have recently switched to mutt. If there are any problems with this mail, I would appreciate it if you could let me know at either the above address or at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Konsole Problem
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:55:46PM -0500, D. Stark - eSN wrote: > How are you exiting out of the Konsole session? Do you hit the button in the > corner, do you Ctl-D, or do you 'exit'? > > If you hit the button in the corner, it may not be exiting the session > gracefully, and thereby not transferring the bash_history from memory onto > disk. > > It's just a guess. Try exiting gracefully with Ctl-D or exit and let us know > what happens. > > Derek Stark > IT / Linux Admin > eSupportNow > xt 8952 > I believe you are right. Don't know why, but if you exit konsole just by clicking the close button, your session will not be saved in bash history. Using "exit" saves everything. -- Chris Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
