Re: [expert] Dumb question...

[D. Stark - eSN]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> How do you change the login screen from the goofy penguins to a "normal"
> login box (you know... type your username instead of clicking on a penguin
> icon...)

You mean get rid of the GUI in favor of a good ol text login?

To do that, edit the /etc/inittab file. Change the value in the line
"initdefault" from 5 to 3. Next reboot, it'll stop doing that. OR, to
make it change without a reboot, as root, type "init 3" and it'll drop
out of the X login.

And don't forget: to get back into X from a runlevel of 3, type 'startx' 

-- 
Derek Stark
Linux Admin - eSN
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Re: [expert] Bloody 3com network cards

[D. Stark - eSN]

Franki:

Did you have the isa-pnp kernel module installed? That's what that error
is nagging about. I've used the etherlink III's in the past without too
much fuss (I think I had to pass an IRQ in my modules.conf, but if the
actual card driver is in the kernel, it should figure that out).

Derek

Franki wrote:
> 
> Thanks mate,, but I have decided to get a new PCI network cart, something
> like the realtec in my current server.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ybnorml
> Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2001 9:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [expert] Bloody 3com network cards
> 
> I'm not sure the 905 can be installed in ISA mode.  If this is a 509, go to
> 3com's site and get the utility to set it up for ISA mode and not PNP.  I
> did 300h and IRQ 10.  That has worked for me.but then I had a 509 in LM
> 7.1 working for the longest, when I dual booted into Windows then back to
> Mandrake it wouldn't work.  This happened with two 509 cards.  I replaced it
> with a 905 and it's fine for the time being.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Bloody 3com network cards
> 
> Hi all, I have a server with a Etherlink III Isa network card..
> 
> and although it is showing up in the hardware configurator, it isn't
> working, and if you try to change the defaults, it comes back as "cannot
> find isa-pnp module."
> 
> I just recompiled because I had that problem with the old one.. I don't
> understand what the problem is.
> 
> IT has the driver for the card, and when I compiled it, i made sure that isa
> cards were supported, and this card in particular.
> 
> Has anyone found a way around this? or should I just get another card,
> prefferably PCI...
> 
> Its using the 3c905 driver, is that correct?
> 
> regards
> 
> Frank

-- 
Derek Stark
Linux Admin - eSN
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Re: [expert] Hard disk busy

[D. Stark - eSN]

Biagio LUCINI wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, D. Stark - eSN wrote:
> 
> > Did you install Mandrake 7.2 with the 'hard drive optimizations'
> > flagged? It may be having issues with the power management or something.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Derek
> >
> 
> Well, usually I don't, because I know that it can corrupt the HD, but I
> can not be 100% sure. Is there a way tho verify whether I was mistaken?
> 
> Regars,
> Biagio

use hdparm -v /dev/hda

to see what your settings are. here's the rather default set:
/dev/hda:
 multcount=  0 (off)
 I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq=  0 (off)
 using_dma=  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 nowerr   =  0 (off)
 readonly =  0 (off)
 readahead=  8 (on)

All except the dma thing, which I enabled for the huge performance
boost. Whether its safe for you or not who knows. 
-- 
Derek Stark
Linux Admin - eSN
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Re: [expert] Hard disk busy

[D. Stark - eSN]

Did you install Mandrake 7.2 with the 'hard drive optimizations'
flagged? It may be having issues with the power management or something. 

Regards,
Derek

Biagio LUCINI wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone! I hope that you can help me a problem I have
> with my laptop: since I bought it (one month ago), twice while the system
> was in use the harddisk started to spin withouth any reason and the kernel
> stopped writing in it, with the message "ide 0: busy" (or something
> similar). The only fix was to power off. Do you think it is an hardware or
> software problems? I am running Mandrake 7.2, with the default kernel (the
> ide control should be, but I cannot bet on it, a PIIX4 by intel). Any
> idea about possible ways for a better diagnosti than just waiting for the
> problem to happen again?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Biagio

Re: [expert] Alternative to postfix

[D. Stark - eSN]

Whoa whoa whoa, postfix is an MTA. It only delivers mail to remote hosts and
recieves mail. It does not 'download' mail per se. I'm concerned you're trying to
fix the wrong thing. Can you be more descriptive as to the nature of your
original problem?

Derek

Irwan Hadi wrote:

> At 03:36 PM 2/8/01 +0100, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote:
> >I've been trying to get postfix to work on a server that I'm running, but
> >after much twiddling and much lingering about I can't seem to get to download
> >the mail from the server,  I've posted mails about this on this list before,
> >but didn't get any answers that worked for me.
> >
> >So now I've decided to use another mailserver, but when trying to start
> >sendmail it just starts up postfix...  What can I do?  How do I fix this ?
>
> Have you edit the /etc/rc.d/inet.d ?
>
> BTW why don't you ask your problem at postfix mailling list
> first subscribe it by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> at the body write
> subscribe postfix-users
> reply the confirmation message, and post your question to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] experts, where are they?

[D. Stark - eSN]

Yeah, do this:

dmesg > diag.txt && fdisk -l >> diag.txt && df >> diag.txt

and send us the text file.

Derek

Rusty Carruth wrote:

> donald hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been trying a couple weeks to get this answered.
> >
> >   I can boot graphically, but NSB or Failsafe it gets to something about the
> > SWAPPER end then  some  lines of code, then
> >
> >   Aieee kernel Panic
> >   ...[code]
> >   in sync swapper not syncing
> >
> >
> >   and the computer totally locks up.  I can't find any 'swapper' even doing a
> > 'text find'.
> >
> >   Please, any help out there?
> >
> >
>
> that would probably be kswapd - unfortunately I tried 'man kswapd' and came
> up empty.
>
> How about posting the exact error message(s) (and some context!)?  Otherwise
> we're just shooting in the dark with our eyes closed!  Given that, I'll take
> a random shot:
>
> What does your fstab say is your swap partition?  Is it mounting correctly?
>
> rc
>
> Rusty Carruth  Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Voice: (480) 345-3621  SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE
> FAX:   (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116
> Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825
> ICBM: 33 20' 44"N   111 53' 47"W

Re: [expert] Abit be6 motherboard with hpt366 UDMA onboard crashes during boot. the sequel

[D. Stark - eSN]

I'd say IRQs. When I had my BIOS issues, I wouldn't get that far. It 
just wouldn't find the HPT at all, so I think you've properly eliminated 
that as a possibility.

When the abit boots up, and after the HPT366 bios screen, it'll show you 
a black screen with all of the PCI devices found by the BIOS, along with 
thier IRQs. Look to see if there are any IRQs being shared. If there 
are, you may need to shuffle your PCI cards around so it does not try to 
busmaster the HPT controller. BTW, I think the HPT will be called a 
'mass storage device' and will be listed twice with the same IRQ. That's 
okay.

Read your Abit manual about the PCI cards, and which shares and IRQ with 
which.

Derek.

stuart simpson wrote:

> From: "stuart simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >
> Subject:
> Date: February 1, 2001 8:46 PM
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks to everyone that answered my first request.  I have tried several 
> of your suggestions, but to no
> 
> avail. :(
> 
>  
> 
> I have included information on what I have tried, and how I tried it, in 
> the hopes that somebody will catch my mistake, if any.
> 
> I have included a copy of
> 
>  
> 
> 1)  first message to this mailing list
> 
> 2) my lilo.conf,
> 
> 3) dmesg file when computer boots ok, ( hpt366 disabled)
> 
> 4) dmesg file ( partial ) when computer crashes during boot
> 
>  
> 
> In case this helps.  I have what seems to be the latest bios for
> 
> the abit be6-2 motherboard, and the hpt366 ( which is in the same bios 
> update )
> 
>  
> 
> my computer's bios is set to non-pnp, as the irqs for my network card 
> and the
> 
> soundblaster live compatibility mode had to be set as fixed.  when I 
> make the os pnp, my mouse cursor
> 
> disappears.  ( windows 2000 )  yikes. 
> 
>  
> 
> If anybody has any more suggestions, please feel free to solve my 
> problem.  :)
> 
>  
> 
> Stuart 
> 
>  
> 
> Hello there, I just recently installed mandrake 7.2, and it doesn't work
>  if my onboard  hpt366 pci card is active in the bios
>  > >
>  > > details
>  > >
>  > > abit be6-2 ( original ) 08/08/2000 updated bios (UH)   with hpt366 
> udma (hpt bios 1.25)
>  > > soundblaster live value
>  > > matrox g400 dual head
>  > >
>  > > ide0  master:  20 gig quantum ( boot drive, with windowsME, win2k,
>  > > mandrake 7.2
>  > > ide0 slave:  zip drive
>  > >
>  > > ide1 master plextor 8x cdrw
>  > > ide1 slave  panasonic dvd-cd rom
>  > >
>  > > udma ( hpt 366 )
>  > >
>  > > ide 230 gig udma66 quantum
>  > > ide 33 gig udma 33 quantum
>  > >
>  > > all drives work ok in windows 2000, ME
>  > >
>  > > The computer boots, and detects everything in linux, but when it 
> gets to
>  > > the udma drives it stalls.
>  > >
>  > > if I deactivate the hpt 366, then the system boots okay.  This  is one
>  > > workaround, but this means I can't use my bigger h/d with linux at all.
>  > > I tried reading the udma mini howto, and I've tried passing the values
>  > > into lilo via boot up, but this doesn't seem to help.  Should this 
> work?
>  > >
>  > > There are messages upon bootup that the IRQ for the hpt is unresovlable
>  > > or something and it will check later . . . seems strange.
>  > >
>  > > could it be
>  > >
>  > > 1)the pnp settings in the bios?
>  > > 2)an unfortunate irq problem?
>  > > 3)???
>  > >
>  > > I don't see the crashing upon bootup mentioned anywhere in the howto
>  > > files, so I am not sure what is causing this.  I would understand it
>  > > better if the drive wasn't recognized.  but it seems to be recognized,
>  > > only the system crashes after that.
>  > >
>  > > do I have to recompile the kernel for it to work?  What would I have to
>  > > activate to make it work properly?
>  > >
>  > > It seems that the hpt366 stuff  is already active in the kernel, since
>  > > the device is recognized and all . . ..
>  > >
>  > > Help!!
>  > >
>  > > any input would be appreciated.
>  > >
>  > > Stuart
> 
>--
> 
> --
> 
>  
> 
> UPDATE: 
> 
>  
> 
> I have tried updating lilo by adding the lines to /etc/lilo.conf
> 
>  
> 
> 1)  append="ide2=dma ide3=dma"
> 
>  
> 
> or
> 
>  
> 
> 2)  append "ide2=noautotune ide3=noautotune"
> 
>  
> 
> and the computer still stops booting at the same point
> 
>  
> 
> I have also checked in windows 2000 ( triple boot ) the i/o range of the 
> hpt card in the hardware settings:
> 
>  
> 
> for ide2
> 
>  
> 
> A) $cc00-$cc07
> B) $d000-$d003
> C) $d400-$d4ff
> irq 11
> 
>  
> 
> for ide3
> 
>  
> 
> D) $d800 - $d807
> E) $dc00 - $dc03
> F) $e000 - $e0ff
> irq 11
> 
>  
> 
> according to the udma hpt366 mini howto, you pass parameters
> 
>  
> 
> append="ide2=A,(B+2),[opt irq] ide3=D,(E+2),[opt irq]"
> 
>  
> 
> I tried appending the line, again separately
> 
>  
> 
> append="ide2=0xcc00,0xd002 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02"
> 
>  
> 
> and this still didn't work
>  
> so I 

Re: [expert] X and monitors - how to switch?

[D. Stark - eSN]

Here's my two bits. First off, the warnings about hosing your monitor 
don't apply as much as they used to. These days, monitors are smart 
enough to notice that if a particular refresh rate or scanmode is too 
much for it to display it will blank the screen and tell you as such.

But go ahead, plug in the new monitor. Any generic KDS or above will be 
able to deal with the specs in the XF86Config for the old one.

If you want a half way decent set of specs to use that should give you 
85Hz refresh at 1024x768, use these. They've been safe on every 17" 
monitor or larger I've come across in the last 2 years. You may want to 
go runlevel 3 just to test if you're the cautious type.  : )

In your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, find these lines and replace them 
with the values I have here.

HorizSync 39.0 - 78.5
VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0

Your new monitor manual should tell you exactly what the min and max 
are, but these are conservative enough to work most anywhere and still 
look good.

Derek

Tom wrote:

> On Friday 02 February 2001 12:47 am, Joseph Red wrote:
> 
>> Just fyi, sometimes win9x *wiil* mess up.  Especially if you go from
>> a new, big, spiffy monitor to an old 14".  You end up booting in safe
>> mode. 
> 
> 
>Windoze runs any monitor on the low end.  don't believe that?. pull 
> up the various 'monitor.inf's in a text editor.  Most all monitors are 
> spec'd in 'monitor.inf'.  'monitor2.inf thru 7 somethin', only deal 
> with strange, different, exotic, etc hardware.  Bottom line is windoze 
> runs an Ilyama the same way it runs a MagView.  High end/low end, they 
> all get the same treatment from Billy.
> 
> 
>> As for X, I'd choose a low-end
> 
> 
>   I agree,  just about anything, even the $150 17" I bought recently 
> will do " 1024x768 @ 70 hz "  Bottom line is that your video is a 
> product of your monitor/video card (or integrated chipset)/ 
> motherboard/ etc.  dwelling on the monitors specs is mostly pointless.

Re: [expert] Problem starting Apache

[D. Stark - eSN]

Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE wrote:

> I can not get Apache to start on bootup in Mandrake 7.2. 

Cheat. Use the ncurses 'ntsysv' tool. Actually, I think there's a X 
'tksysv' you can use to start things. Roxen and Apache are two totally 
different packages, BTW.

>Also, I would like to run SSL and have squid do PAM auth in SAMBA. 

>Is it possible? If so send me in the right direction and I will RTFM. Thanks!

? SSL where? The web server? You want authentication with squid using 
SAMBA-based NT passwords?

Derek

RE: [expert] Fw: hpt366 hinders boot, system crashes or freezes

[D. Stark - eSN]

When you first boot up, down at the bottom will be the bios revision.
There'll be a two letter code in it. Shipping boards come with the NV or NJ,
or maybe even RU versions. In any event, go QQ.  : )



Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Red
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 4:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Fw: hpt366 hinders boot, system crashes or freezes


I'm not sure which bios it is currently, I *just* installed it.  I did
check, and I was confused.  I actually have a be6-2 as well, which means the
info I presented is even more relevant to the original question:)  I'm not
using the HPT controller yet, need new drives first:), but bios upgrade is
next on my list of things to do.

Joseph Red
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


- Original Message -
From: "D. Stark - eSN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:50 AM
Subject: RE: [expert] Fw: hpt366 hinders boot, system crashes or freezes


> What mobo bios are you running? If you're not running the QQ version,
you'll
> want to upgrade. It's the one I'm using, and my BP6 is using the HPT just
> fine.
>
> Derek Stark
> IT / Linux Admin
> eSupportNow
> xt 8952
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Red
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Fw: hpt366 hinders boot, system crashes or freezes
>
>
> I just installed a BP6 w/ the hpt controller.  While perusing the manual,
it
> states that certain PCI slots share resources with the hpt controller.
You
> might want to check into that.
>
> Joseph Red
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "stuart simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:01 PM
> Subject: [expert] Fw: hpt366 hinders boot, system crashes or freezes
>
>
> > > Hello there, I just recently installed mandrake 7.2, and it doesn't
work
> > > if my onboard
> > > hpt366 pci card is active in the bios
> > >
> > > details
> > >
> > > abit be6-2 with hpt366 udma on board
> > > soundblaster live value
> > > matrox g400 dual head
> > >
> 
>
> > > There are messages upon bootup that the IRQ for the hpt is
unresovlable
> > > or something and it will check later . . . seems strange.
> > >
> > > could it be
> > >
> > > 1)the pnp settings in the bios?
> > > 2)an unfortunate irq problem?
> > > 3)???
>
> >
>
>
>

RE: [expert] Fw: hpt366 hinders boot, system crashes or freezes

[D. Stark - eSN]

What mobo bios are you running? If you're not running the QQ version, you'll
want to upgrade. It's the one I'm using, and my BP6 is using the HPT just
fine.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Red
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Fw: hpt366 hinders boot, system crashes or freezes


I just installed a BP6 w/ the hpt controller.  While perusing the manual, it
states that certain PCI slots share resources with the hpt controller.  You
might want to check into that.

Joseph Red
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


- Original Message -
From: "stuart simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:01 PM
Subject: [expert] Fw: hpt366 hinders boot, system crashes or freezes


> > Hello there, I just recently installed mandrake 7.2, and it doesn't work
> > if my onboard
> > hpt366 pci card is active in the bios
> >
> > details
> >
> > abit be6-2 with hpt366 udma on board
> > soundblaster live value
> > matrox g400 dual head
> >


> > There are messages upon bootup that the IRQ for the hpt is unresovlable
> > or something and it will check later . . . seems strange.
> >
> > could it be
> >
> > 1)the pnp settings in the bios?
> > 2)an unfortunate irq problem?
> > 3)???

>

RE: [expert] Password issues

[D. Stark - eSN]

I can offer you no advice per se, but I applaud your moxy. Good luck.
Hey...let me think. In bash, maybe try something like this?

for account in users.file
do
  $userName = (awk statement)
  $passWord = (awk statement)

  useradd $userName -s /dev/null
  echo $passWord | passwd --stdin $userName

done

I know lots is missing, but it might be a start. Or, just tell them all that
they compromise company security and need to fix it, dammit.  : )

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jorge Ramírez Llaca
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Password issues


I'm in the process of migrating all my NT servers to Linux Mandrake 7.2

Currently, there's a PDC holding all the user's network folders and a couple
of SDC's running a variety of services, including IMAP, SMTP, LDAP, web
cache, printing, etc.

All my users authenticate against the NT domain. So far I think i've got
this covered. I already cracked all my users passwords (using l0phtcrack
2.52). Right now I'm in the process of writing a couple of migration scripts
that will add the users, first to Linux and then to Samba 2.07, then move
all the files from the NT file server to the Mandrake server and finally
their mailboxes to a second Mandrake server. After taking the the NT PDC
offline I'll reconfigure Samba to act as a PDC on the file server and as a
SDC on the mail server.

If all goes well, my users won't notice the change. Or at least that's my
goal,a completely transparent migration experience (at least for them).

My problem is that some of my users have very weak passwords and Mandrake
won't allow them. I intend to address that issue sometime soon but I need to
migrate them ASAP. So the question is: How do I instruct Mandrake to accept
whaterver silly thing the users have chosen as their password.

Can anyone help me please?

RE: [expert] Telnet

[D. Stark - eSN]

/etc/motd will only be displayed after you have logged in. it won't post a
message BEFORE you log in.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Russello
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Telnet



/etc/motd

anything in that file will be displayed when a connection is made either
through the terminal, ssh, or telnet

> This is probably such a basic question I'm almost afraid to ask. :)
>
> Can anyone tell me where Mandrake pulls the information that is shown when
> a telnet connection is made? ie: When I telnet I see the following:
>
> Welcome to 
> Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586
> Kernel 2.4.0 on an i686
> login:
>
> I would like to customize this. Can anyone tell me where to make the mods?
> Thanks...
>
> -Chris
>
>
>

Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away

RE: [expert] Telnet

[D. Stark - eSN]

/etc/issue.net

check your rc.local to make sure the file isnt being rewritten at every boot
like on a RedHat box.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Spencer
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Telnet


This is probably such a basic question I'm almost afraid to ask. :)

Can anyone tell me where Mandrake pulls the information that is shown when
a telnet connection is made? ie: When I telnet I see the following:

Welcome to 
Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586
Kernel 2.4.0 on an i686
login:

I would like to customize this. Can anyone tell me where to make the mods?
Thanks...

-Chris

RE: [expert] Free programming language

[D. Stark - eSN]

I'm fairly certain that egcs (the GPL gcc included) does not require you to
hand out your source...only source to CHANGES you've made to egcs. While I'm
thinking about it, Debian includes egcs, and if its in Debian, its most
certainly free as in beer. Read the README that comes with it; it'll say for
sure. Might also be worth your time to read the GPL if you're truly
concerned.

Also, this is a perfectly valid thing to ask the compiler developers.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SJN
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Free programming language


Thanks for the reply.

Actually I am trying to avoid falling into a quicksand. I don't want later
when I have written the program in a specific linux-based programmig
language, the original author of the programming language impose royalty or
license fee.

I have bought a commercial development kit last time where i end only using
0.1% of its capability. I'm not a good programmer. Looking at it I don't
want to chunk out huge some of money to invest in a commercial language that
i won't fully utilise. And certainly I don't want to fall into the trap of
"free license" and i don't mean GPL here. I remember coming across a "free
license" agreement that is really NOT free at all.

have a nice day fellow linuxians :)

Joe
RLU# 186063


> -Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Stark - eSN
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 9:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [expert] Free programming language
>
>
> He's right. Anything YOU create in C (or C++ or Perl or whatever)
> belongs to
> YOU, regardless of who wrote the compiler/interpreter. Understand, though,
> that any libraries you dynamically link to (or perl modules) of course
> aren't your own, and may fall under some other license. Just because you
> develop with OSS doesn't mean that you have to produce OSS. I take it you
> want to create something to be sold?
>
> For a scripting style language (quick prototyping and useful in cgi), I
> recommend perl. There are others, but none with perl's flexibility. There
> are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice, eh?
>
> For programming, take your pick, but Mandrake comes with gcc,
> which is thier
> ANSI compliant C compiler. If you use that, all your C or C++
> (use gcc++ for
> that) programming books from school will be worth something.
>
> Derek Stark
> IT / Linux Admin
> eSupportNow
> xt 8952
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Free programming language
>
>
> On Friday 26 January 2001 08:16, you wrote:
> > Hi Linuxians,
> >
> > I need a list of free programming language and scripting language
> available
> > for Linux. Free as in for any purpose. Don't want any hanky panky free
> > license.
>
> Huh?
>
> If you mean GPL, it is there to prevent ugly little comedies like theft of
> someone's college homework program making a commercial killing significant
> enough to produce some of the world's richest folks.  Perl has
> two licenses
> and you may use either.
>
> The only restriction on the free license is that if you modify/distribute
> the
> software you obtained under the license, you have to pass on the
> freedoms to
> use, modify, distribute and distribute modified versions to those you
> distribute to as well.
>
> If you did a development install of GNU/LM, you have many of the languages
> on
> your machine. Others are available by searching www.freshmeat.net,
> www.google.com, and www.sourceforge.com.  In addition, you might
> want to try
> searching
>
> "computer operating systems"
>
> because there are other experimental systems out there--lots of them, that
> often have pet languages.  Many of those systems and languages are totally
> free--uncopyrighted and ready to be exploited, free as in beer, not as in
> speech.
>
> Civileme
>
> >
> > If anybody have it, can you pass me the list together with
> where to obtain
> > them.
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance.
> >
> > Joe
> > RLU #186063
>
>

RE: [expert] Sound on a DELL laptop

[D. Stark - eSN]

Use the windows control-panel system icon to find out your IRQ, hex, and DMA
settings. Then use sndconfig to manually set it up. As root, of course.



Derek Stark
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick Thompson
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 10:20 AM
To: Mandrake Experts
Subject: [expert] Sound on a DELL laptop


I have Mandrake 7.2 on my DELL Latitude CP (233MHz) and it works well
apart from the sound. Windows seems to sugest it is a Crystal PnP Audio
System. Is there a driver available for this in Mandrake?

Thanks,
Nick.

RE: [expert] d/ling docs from the web

[D. Stark - eSN]

Let's not forget wget.

I imagine getleft is a lot like it, but wget comes with most every distro
that has come out in the last few years. It can do complete mirrors of
remote pages, but be warned that pages with javascipt to open new pages will
fail. Unless Getleft is superhuman, it might not fair any better. But I've
never used that one.

wget is really handy to d/l hard-to-get links, because it has infinite
re-try and timeout capabilities. Works well on ftp as well, and has a tiny
memory and cpu footprint. the glory of the command line!

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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PS: The list is MUCH faster lately.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Haim Ashkenazi
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web


Hi

I mainly use 2 tools for this. search freshmeat.net for 'Getleft' and
'htmldoc'. the first can download a whole web page including pictures and
the second can convert them to postscript or pdf (both from hard disk or
directly from the web).


On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0800, Homer Shimpsian wrote:
>
> I know I can't be the first person to want for this.  I've been searching
> since the web was created.
>
>
> Does anyone know of a way to d/l and concatenate all the different web
pages
> in an online manual to enable one to print the sucker?
>
>
> like this site:
> http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/
>
>
> I imagine the difficulty in programming such a thing is when there are
links
> on the page that are not part of the manual.  A TSR that allowed U to
> highlight the relevent links wound't be to impossible, right?
>
>
>
>
>

Have Fun
--
Haim

RE: [expert] Free programming language

[D. Stark - eSN]

Interesting question for which I have no answer.

Here's the tcl home page. If such a beast exsists, it'll be here:
http://www.scriptics.com/

Derek Stark
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Sourmail
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 8:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Free programming language



> There are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice,
> eh?

Silly question maybe, do the same sort of things exist for Tcl/Tk ?

Thanks,

Thomas.

RE: [expert] Free programming language

[D. Stark - eSN]

He's right. Anything YOU create in C (or C++ or Perl or whatever) belongs to
YOU, regardless of who wrote the compiler/interpreter. Understand, though,
that any libraries you dynamically link to (or perl modules) of course
aren't your own, and may fall under some other license. Just because you
develop with OSS doesn't mean that you have to produce OSS. I take it you
want to create something to be sold?

For a scripting style language (quick prototyping and useful in cgi), I
recommend perl. There are others, but none with perl's flexibility. There
are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice, eh?

For programming, take your pick, but Mandrake comes with gcc, which is thier
ANSI compliant C compiler. If you use that, all your C or C++ (use gcc++ for
that) programming books from school will be worth something.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Free programming language


On Friday 26 January 2001 08:16, you wrote:
> Hi Linuxians,
>
> I need a list of free programming language and scripting language
available
> for Linux. Free as in for any purpose. Don't want any hanky panky free
> license.

Huh?

If you mean GPL, it is there to prevent ugly little comedies like theft of
someone's college homework program making a commercial killing significant
enough to produce some of the world's richest folks.  Perl has two licenses
and you may use either.

The only restriction on the free license is that if you modify/distribute
the
software you obtained under the license, you have to pass on the freedoms to
use, modify, distribute and distribute modified versions to those you
distribute to as well.

If you did a development install of GNU/LM, you have many of the languages
on
your machine. Others are available by searching www.freshmeat.net,
www.google.com, and www.sourceforge.com.  In addition, you might want to try
searching

"computer operating systems"

because there are other experimental systems out there--lots of them, that
often have pet languages.  Many of those systems and languages are totally
free--uncopyrighted and ready to be exploited, free as in beer, not as in
speech.

Civileme

>
> If anybody have it, can you pass me the list together with where to obtain
> them.
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> Joe
> RLU #186063

RE: [expert] A Proactive Solution

[D. Stark - eSN]

Its possible for you Win9X dual-boot to share swap space with linux, as
well. Tho why you'd want to is completely beyond me. Maybe when disks were
smaller and more expensive...

Derek Stark
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Stodden
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] A Proactive Solution


John Wolford wrote:

> The moral of the story: When installing Mandrake, make sure that it can't
see any other swap
> partitions during the install. (Could it use the old swap, if it wanted
to? Could they share it? I
> don't know.)

You only need one swap partition per system - all Mandrake installs
of whatever version will recognise and use that one swap partition.
It's not sharing, because only one of your Mandrake installations can
be active at any one time.

--
Regards,

Ron. [AU]

RE: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition?

[D. Stark - eSN]

Did you mean to put the space bewteen / and usr?

ie:

tar cf - -C / usr | tar xvpf -
   ^
   right there?

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Pop Qvarnström
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition?


even cooler..? :)

cd to /mnt, then do
tar cf - -C / usr | tar xvpf -

:o)

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:47:21 -0800 (PST)
 David Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cool:
>
> # tar cf - /usr | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfp - )
>
> [note - only one 'verbose v' cause you don't need it
> scrolling
> at you twice.]

RE: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!

[D. Stark - eSN]

Gar. I should have asked for motherboard model as well.

Derek Stark
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Stark - eSN
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 8:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!


Here's my two bits:

I'd check your BIOS, and maybe your hard drive jumpers to see if LBA is
turned on (probably is), and if you have some alternate disk layout. What
brand is the drive? Model and size, too, if you could.

Derek Stark
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 6:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!


Well...maybe I am being a bit Mule-ish about all this, but here's another
reason why I "need" to know what happening and how to fix it manually.
"If" I can get PM to read the disks from Windows, OR from DOS there is the
risk that once the partitions problem is fixed things will have changed
"inside" those partitions and the kernel no longer sees things as its
expecting to find them, panics, and subsequently refuses to boot at all.

New problem...partitions no longer overlapping, but kernel has no idea
where the boot info is cause it's not where it was the last time it was
read into memory.

This has happened to me in the past and because of this I'm extremely
hesitant to use partition magic, or for that matter diskdrake.

Very like what is going to happen is that since the "data" on these
partitions is backed up on another disk already I may find myself
reinstalling just to get this situation resolved should it become too much
of a problem for the OS to handle. Still, I'm at the same place, at least
for now, I need to know "how" to fix this the hard way so that I can take
care of it. I have a feeling that this isn't the last time that I'll see
it.

Mark

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ron Stodden wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:09:21 +1100
> From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand...diskdrake doesn't complain, nor crash, nor bail with
> > an init error that is so non descript that it's error means next to
> > nothing usable at all to the user. Bah...hum bug! I don't often spend
this
> > much time bashing and bitching about Windows stuff cause this just ain't
> > the place for it. And neither is falling back to a real dumb program
> > "hoping" that it's doing the job correctly and fixing the real problem.
> >
> > All that being said...as I stated before PM is not the answer for this
> > situation.
>
> In common with many others, DiskDrake is NOT mature enough to be
> relied upon, period.Where did all your overlapping partitions
> come from, might I ask? DiskDrake?Others have reported this
> in these mailing lists.   Pay attention.   Failing that, look at
> http://deja.com
>
> You have PM, but don't seem to be aware that the Windows PM or the PM
> CD both give you the option to generate a pair of floppies.  These
> boot DOS, have a DOS-based GUI and contain all the PM functionality
> except those crazy wizards.  It is these you should use for Linux
> operations, not Windows.
>
> It seems you want to learn the hard way.  That is one of your
> options.   Wisdom does not come cheap.
> You will eventually concede I have given you a valuable lesson.
>
>

RE: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!

[D. Stark - eSN]

Here's my two bits:

I'd check your BIOS, and maybe your hard drive jumpers to see if LBA is
turned on (probably is), and if you have some alternate disk layout. What
brand is the drive? Model and size, too, if you could.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 6:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!


Well...maybe I am being a bit Mule-ish about all this, but here's another
reason why I "need" to know what happening and how to fix it manually.
"If" I can get PM to read the disks from Windows, OR from DOS there is the
risk that once the partitions problem is fixed things will have changed
"inside" those partitions and the kernel no longer sees things as its
expecting to find them, panics, and subsequently refuses to boot at all.

New problem...partitions no longer overlapping, but kernel has no idea
where the boot info is cause it's not where it was the last time it was
read into memory.

This has happened to me in the past and because of this I'm extremely
hesitant to use partition magic, or for that matter diskdrake.

Very like what is going to happen is that since the "data" on these
partitions is backed up on another disk already I may find myself
reinstalling just to get this situation resolved should it become too much
of a problem for the OS to handle. Still, I'm at the same place, at least
for now, I need to know "how" to fix this the hard way so that I can take
care of it. I have a feeling that this isn't the last time that I'll see
it.

Mark

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ron Stodden wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:09:21 +1100
> From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand...diskdrake doesn't complain, nor crash, nor bail with
> > an init error that is so non descript that it's error means next to
> > nothing usable at all to the user. Bah...hum bug! I don't often spend
this
> > much time bashing and bitching about Windows stuff cause this just ain't
> > the place for it. And neither is falling back to a real dumb program
> > "hoping" that it's doing the job correctly and fixing the real problem.
> >
> > All that being said...as I stated before PM is not the answer for this
> > situation.
>
> In common with many others, DiskDrake is NOT mature enough to be
> relied upon, period.Where did all your overlapping partitions
> come from, might I ask? DiskDrake?Others have reported this
> in these mailing lists.   Pay attention.   Failing that, look at
> http://deja.com
>
> You have PM, but don't seem to be aware that the Windows PM or the PM
> CD both give you the option to generate a pair of floppies.  These
> boot DOS, have a DOS-based GUI and contain all the PM functionality
> except those crazy wizards.  It is these you should use for Linux
> operations, not Windows.
>
> It seems you want to learn the hard way.  That is one of your
> options.   Wisdom does not come cheap.
> You will eventually concede I have given you a valuable lesson.
>
>

RE: [expert] RAID

[D. Stark - eSN]

First off, any SCSI card will do, though some won't do well with hot swap.
Look into each one seprately and make your decision.

Second, under linux, Mylex cards are the BOMB. They've had some availability
issues lately though. We use DPT cards, but since Adaptec has bought DPT, we
aren't expecting any more kernel updates to thier software. So we'll
probably go Mylex with any new machines and when the time is right to
upgrade the current boxen.

We use software RAID here in our shop on a good number of machines, as well.
Mainly the mirroring RAID 1 variety. This is with RH 6.2, but I don't think
there should be many differences, if any, between RH and Mdk.

Its almost scary how well it works. After using the RedHat GUI installer to
do the basic setup, we were more or less done. It just worked. This was on
an HP LPR, but we've had good success with Dell 2450s as well.

We tried to do some very NASTY things to it. Pulled one of the two drives
out while running. The kernel spit out some ugly warnings all over the
screen (mainly due to SCSI bus errors), but the machine continued to
function perfectly. We shut the machine down, pulled /dev/sda, and it booted
off of sdb like nothing was wrong. Took out a completely identical
unformatted drive and tossed it in hot. I created the proper fdisk
partitions, and used the hotadd commands to rebuild the array. Shut down the
machine, pulled the original sdb out, and booted off the freshly created
drive. Again, it worked.

Setup is important. Don't make one huge raid partition. Make a bunch of
small /dev/md devices, one for each partition. You'll have less chance of
data corruption should one drive or the other go down in some strange way.
But then, that same advice applies with *any* server implementation.

The long and short of it is, the software raid for scsi is VERY mature. If
you recompile your kernel, there are certain things you NEED to have
compiled in, and certain things that NEED to be in the inital ramdisk. Just
read the docs that come with the package. I will lose no sleep at night
because of the software RAID running at the office.

This is by no means an endorsement on either my behalf or my employer's. My
advice is to set up software raid on the machine before it enters production
and play with it as we did. Find out how fault tolerent it is, and what
you'll need to do do recover.

Derek Stark
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Homer Shimpsian
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 8:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] RAID


Can someone explain to me their RAID experiences in Linux?

How would hot swapping work?  Do U need specific software with a SCSI raid
controller to handle this?

Can anyone recommend a SCSI RAID controller for use with Linux Mandrake 7.1?


Thanks for your advice.  HA, Loadbalancing, redundancy, fail-over oh yeah

RE: SV: [expert] RPM Updates

[D. Stark - eSN]

Ron said:
"...you do a rpm -Uhv *.rpm in the directory you have all your recently
downloaded
packages.  Well, you are going to fail dependancies on packages that you
will eventully install anyway, further down the list. "

Um, isnt that why you can put multiple rpms on ONE COMMAND LINE?

Or were you just joking and I missed it? Its been One of Those Days.

Derek Stark
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RE: [expert] problem with gcc

[D. Stark - eSN]

ecgs-c++ and anything that it says it requires

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tib
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] problem with gcc


Which c++ packages?


Tib

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, pgeorges wrote:

> Tib a écrit :
> >
> > Why am I getting this message? I've compiled and installed plenty of
other
> > programs, but what's this garbage I'm getting?
> >
> > checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc  ) works... no
> > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler
cannot
> > create executables.
>
> You simply did not install the C++ packages.
>

RE: [expert] glibc upgrades and accidental reboot

[D. Stark - eSN]

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.

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Spackman
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:01 AM
To: Mandrake Expert List
Subject: [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] Linux worm...?

[D. Stark - eSN]

This poses a question that I have about mandrake: do they continue to issue
security fixes after a new version is released? ie: how long do they
continue do do updates?



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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Danen
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 11:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Linux worm...?


On Thu Jan 18, 2001 at 09:59:15AM -0800, Dave Sherman wrote:

> Since Mandrake is Redhat based, I would assume that we ARE vulnerable to
> the same attack, until and unless Mandrake publicly says otherwise.
> Hopefully Mandrake will announce something, one way or the other, soon.

Not true.  While I haven't seen the worm itself to know for certain
one way or the other, I've been told it specifically targets RH 6.2
and 7.0 machines.  This would leave other distributions alone.
*However*, since I wouldn't ask anyone to rely on that and/or use it
as an excuse, the simple response (for any distribution) is simple:

1) Subscribe to vendor security mailing lists.  Announcement lists of
   a security nature are generally small bandwidth with infrequent
   posts.

2) Update update update!!!  If an update is released, it's for *your*
   health, not ours.  We don't do this kind of work for fun (I know
   I'd rather spend my time doing other things than back-porting fixes
   to 6.0!).  There is a reason why security updates are released.

In other words, all versions of Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to present *with
appropriate security updates applied* are not vulnerable.

I posted previously the relevant web pages that indicate the
vulnerabilities this worm takes advantage of have been fixed last year.

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Current Linux uptime: 1 day 18 hours 15 minutes.

RE: [expert] ram issue(continued)

[D. Stark - eSN]

Except I think the fella is using grub.

Chronos:

First off, run this from a command line:

[dstart@fweeble ~]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf

Just the cat part, mind you. If you DON'T have a file called /etc/lilo.conf,
you installed grub as your boot loader. All of the great advice everybody
has offered up to this point is for naught. Were I you, at this point, I'd
say screw it all and reinstall, this time choosing LILO as your boot loader
(why did Mandrake include grub? freedom of choice?). Were I you. Who knows,
it may solve the ram issue. If it doesn't then Chris' great advice below
will work.

You're a newbie, I betcha. Don't worry, we all start somewhere. I was lucky
enough to room with a net.god in college. I know sending people to
LinuxDoc.org is my answer to most tech questions, but you might want to
spend some time reading up here:

http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/gs/

also:

http://63.209.80.231/en/doc/72/en/ref.html/index.html (mandrake users
manual)

Seriously, a good place to go to keep from killing yourself. If you would
like a good deadtree guide, check out O'Rielly's
_Learning_the_UNIX_Operating_System_. It's a very good book to get you up to
speed on the basics. From there the specifics become a lot easier to handle.
Make sure to learn to use 'grep' and 'less' as well. They're your friends.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Spencer
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] ram issue(continued)


On 18 Jan 2001, chronos . wrote:

> Hi all,
> I`m running mandrake 7.1 and I have 128 for ram but it only sees 64 of my
128. I went to mandrakeuser.org and found the following- edit tittle linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hda1 then append mem=128M to the end of
it. The problem is I type pico then tittle linux and it gives me a new file
then I type kernel etc. and all it does is places a file in my home
directory under root. Ctrl W does not work. When I type pico kernel etc. by
itself it says unexpected token (h and exits. How do I edit this file ?
There has to be a way to edit this. Keep in mind I`m no genius here so I
need pretty much exact instructions on what to do. Ie type pico then
whatever I need to edit the file.

Chronos,

I have seen you post this question numerous times and I've seen people
answer you with some very good answers. With all due respect, there comes
a time when you need to think for yourself and work with the instructions
that have been given to you. You want to edit a file? How would you do it
in DOS? Typing in 'edit' isn't going to magically open up the file you
want to modify. Typing in edit  will. These are basic concepts
of computer usuage that, no matter what operating system you are using, do
the job.

That said I am going to settle this once and for all. If you have problems
following these instructions then I cannot help you any further.

If you are using KDE or Gnome, login as root; Go to Programs->Editors->and
pick whatever editor you want. Go to File->Open; Change the directory to
/etc (ie: if the default is /root, go up a dir level to /, then click on
/etc). Double-click on the file lilo.conf. About 10 lines down you will
see something that looks like this:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdx
initrd="/boot/initrd-2.2.17-mdk.img
append " hdg=ide-scsi ide3=autotune ide2=autotune"

See the append line? No, its not going to look exactly the same as whats
in this email but thats the line you're looking for. Inside the quotation
marks INSERT the mem=128M statement. So that now it will look something
like this:

append "mem=128M hdg=ide-scsi ide3=autotune ide2=autotune"

Do not change anything else. Save the changes and exit the editor. Now
open a terminal window and type in: lilo and hit your enter key. If you
get errors you made a typo. Follow the instructions about and fix your
error. Re-run lilo when done. Once you get no errors, reboot your
machine.

If you are not running KDE or Gnome, then login as root. Type in the
command cd /etc. Then type in the command pico lilo.conf. Make the same
change as described above. Make sure you run lilo after editing the file.

Linux isn't much different than Windows or DOS. Most things work exactly
the same way. Have you ever editted a file in Windows? Doing it under
Linux uses the same principles.

-Chris

RE: [expert] Creating Boot disk after kernel upgrade?

[D. Stark - eSN]

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html

everything you wanted to know about bootdisks (but didnt know you needed to
know)

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of TK Kim
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Creating Boot disk after kernel upgrade?


Currently, I am booting into linux with a boot floppy created at the
installation.  I am about to upgrade to 2.4 kernel and I would like to find
out how to create a boot disk once the upgrade is complete.  The order of
things to do seems to me critical although I am sure of exactly how.

Thanks for your input.



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RE: [expert] Linux worm...?

[D. Stark - eSN]

Its amazing what turns up when you read the Mandrake SECURITY UPDATES page.

7.2 is safe from the worm, but 7.1 is vulerable. 7.1 and earlier need to
stop by

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/

and fix thier crap.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Sherman
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Linux worm...?


Since Mandrake is Redhat based, I would assume that we ARE vulnerable to
the same attack, until and unless Mandrake publicly says otherwise.
Hopefully Mandrake will announce something, one way or the other, soon.

Dave

At 10:43 AM 01/18/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone heard about the latest exploit by script kiddies and what
>they're doing to RedHat machines? I was wondering if Mandrake 7.2 machines
>are vulnerable in the same way.
>
>--
>Mark
>
>"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
>"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
>
> Linus Torvalds

Dave Sherman
SoftServ Business Systems, Inc.

"Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."

RE: [expert] Linux worm...?

[D. Stark - eSN]

I should have added that I'm not sure about the rpc vulnerability that came
with.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Linux worm...?


Has anyone heard about the latest exploit by script kiddies and what
they're doing to RedHat machines? I was wondering if Mandrake 7.2 machines
are vulnerable in the same way.

--
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds

RE: [expert] Linux worm...?

[D. Stark - eSN]

I don't think so by the wu-ftp versioning. the vuln was in 2.6.0 and
earlier. mdk7.2 comes with 2.6.1-7.



Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Linux worm...?


Has anyone heard about the latest exploit by script kiddies and what
they're doing to RedHat machines? I was wondering if Mandrake 7.2 machines
are vulnerable in the same way.

--
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds

RE: [expert] Server Installation

[D. Stark - eSN]

DONT tell it to use the master boot record when you do the install. Do it by
hand afterwards.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laurent Duperval
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Server Installation


On 17 Jan, Luca Braglia wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The system I have is a pentium 200 Mhz with one hard disk ( master ) and I
> dual boot with grub between windoze 98 and workstation MDK 7.2 .
> Now I have another hard disk ( slave ) wich I would like to fully dedicate
> to linux in a server installation.
>
> My question is:
>
> it is possible to do a server installation on the second hard disk without
> compromizing the actual system ( W98 and MDK 7.2 ) so that I will be able
to
> choose to boot between windoze, MDK workstation and MDK server ?
>
> The server installation will be used for didactical purpose only and not
as
> a real server.
>
> Thank you so much for any reply
>
> Best Regards
>
> Luca
> http://home.sunrise.ch/braglia
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

It should be. I haven't tried it but just boot with your LM CD and install
to the other disk. You may want to modify you  LILO or grub configuration by
hand to add the new boot partitions for your server.

L

--
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Laurent Duperval   "Montreal winters are an intelligence
test,
Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed
it."
Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228   -Doug
Camilli
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Penguin Power!

RE: [expert] DNS anomally host mail.

[D. Stark - eSN]

Are you typing in the fully qualified domain name? ie: mail.home.net (or
similar)?

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Collins Richey
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 7:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] DNS anomally host mail.


I have experienced the same result on 7.1 and 7.2 (just installed today).

My home pc network consists of a WinME PC connected to the att@home (cable)
network and a secondary PC that is dual boot Win98/linux.  Everything works
well on either linux or Win98 - dns location of urls, netscape, mail, etc.,
except.

att@home uses a single host for the POP3 incoming mail and the SMTP outgoing
mail, and this host is named 'mail'.

When I ping mail on either windows, I get the appropriate ip address for
'mail'.  Running on linux I get 'host not found', and thus I have to hard
code the ip address in Kmail, etc.

Any clues?

Thanks,
Collins Richey
Denver area

RE: [expert] ram issue

[D. Stark - eSN]

Assuming Tom B. is correct about the file:

[root@fweeble /]: pico /boot/grub/menu.lst

you may need to re-run grub so that it recognizes the changes. I'd read the
doc that Tom B. pointed out.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of chronos .
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] ram issue


Okay, and how do I get to this file to edit it ?
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:52:07 -0600 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:11 pm, chronos . wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I`m running mandrake 7.1 and it only sees 64 of my 128 of ram. I went
>> to mandrakeuser.org and found the following- edit tittle linux kernel
>> (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hda1 then append mem=128M to the end of
>> it. How do I find this file to edit it ? I understand the basics of
>> pico and ctrl W does not find the file. So how do I find the file
>> that linux uses and how do I edit the file to make my corrections ?
>> Thank you, Chronos
>
>
>/usr/share/doc/grub-doc-0.5.95/menu.lst
>
>  I believe you're lookin to edit
>   /boot/grub/menu.lst
>--
>Tom Brinkman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
>
>

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RE: [expert] Removing SCSI devices?

[D. Stark - eSN]

No, you're clean now. Outlook isn't FORCING me to respond in HTML.

It's considered rude because we of the linux world often use high power mail
clients. Like 'mail' or 'pine' or 'elm' : ) Those clients show the mail as
straight, unrendered HTML. So when HTML-ified mail comes in, it looks tacky,
and you are possibly turning away some very smart people who just don't have
the time to scan through the HTML to figure out what you're getting at.

Live and learn,

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kim TK
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Removing SCSI devices?


Sorry about that...didn't know and wouldl like to know why sending html
mail is considered rude?

TK

PS:is this still in HTML format?


>From: b5dave
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [expert] Removing SCSI devices?
>Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:22:39 -0500 (EST)
>
>Okay, I'll be the bad guy.
>
>Yo, Kim TK, sending html mail to a list is considered by many to be rude,
>offensive, a bad idea, in bad taste, and may also be a loss of face on
>your part.
>
>You will have a better chance of getting help by not offending the people
>you are seeking help from. I'd suggest you try to figure out how to turn
>off your html mail; the world would be a better place. :-)
>
>Peace,
>dave.
>
>
>
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RE: [expert] Removing SCSI devices?

[D. Stark - eSN]

Hrm...you shouldn't be getting a kernel panic. Can we 
have a bit more info?
 
Is there a lilo.conf entry for something bootable on 
the old drive?
Does plugging it 
back in stop the panic?Is the drive 
mentioned in the fstab?
Do you 
have a reason to keep the SCSI card in the machine?
Everything is terminated properly?
Does 
the kernel panic give you any info whatsoever? Or just 
PANIC..blah...blah...blah?
Derek StarkIT / Linux AdmineSupportNowxt 8952 


  -Original Message-From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On 
  Behalf Of Kim TKSent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:49 
  AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [expert] 
  Removing SCSI devices?
  
  Nothing important was left on that SCSI drive.  It had a FAT32 
  partition and a EXT2 partition with an older version of Mdk was 
  installed.  So for the current Mdk7.2 system, nothing that required for 
  boot up is residing on that drive...
  thanx
  
  >From: "D. Stark - eSN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  >Subject: RE: [expert] Removing SCSI devices? 
  >Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:59:16 -0500 
  > 
  >Looks like something important (/boot?) was left on that scsi 
  drive. Where 
  >was it mounted at? 
  > 
  >PS: Sorry about the html reply to this fellow. Outlook in all 
  its wonder 
  >won't let me change it to plain text. 
  > 
  > 
  >Derek Stark 
  >IT / Linux Admin 
  >eSupportNow 
  >xt 8952 
  > 
  > -Original Message- 
  > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kim TK 
  > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 9:50 AM 
  > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  > Subject: [expert] Removing SCSI devices? 
  > 
  > 
  > My system(Mdk7.2) was installed with SCSI option. However, 
  since I 
  >decided to remove the SCSI drive, I just removed the 
  drive(while SCSI 
  >adapter is still plugged in) then immediately I get the kernel 
  panic at 
  >boot. 
  > 
  > What do I have to do for the system to boot up when the SCSI 
  drive( and 
  >adapter) is removed? 
  > 
  > Thanks 
  > 
  > 
  > 

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RE: [expert] Removing SCSI devices?

[D. Stark - eSN]

Looks 
like something important (/boot?) was left on that scsi drive. Where was it 
mounted at?
 PS: Sorry about the html reply to this fellow. Outlook 
in all its wonder won't let me change it to plain 
text.
Derek StarkIT / Linux AdmineSupportNowxt 8952 


  -Original Message-From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On 
  Behalf Of Kim TKSent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 9:50 
  AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [expert] 
  Removing SCSI devices?
  My system(Mdk7.2) was installed with  SCSI 
  option.  However, since I decided to remove the SCSI drive, I just 
  removed the drive(while SCSI adapter is still plugged in) then 
  immediately I get the kernel panic at boot.  
   
  What do I have to do for the system to boot up when the SCSI 
  drive( and adapter) is removed?
   
  Thanks
  
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RE: [expert] (Dumb question time) to improve the yield from my sendmail

[D. Stark - eSN]

Let me respond to this in a list of points.

1> Um, it does do Majordomo. Just set it up last week, as a matter of fact.
While it wasn't plug and play like sendmail, it didn't cause any headaches.

2> Robust isn't really an issue for most people. Sendmail is robust because
its been around since day one. It handles REALLY WIERD connections (like
UUCP and other outdated stuff) better. I'll give you that. But as a high
performance MTA, well, it shows its age.

3> Security? Of course it's not sendmail (or postfix's) job to handle system
security. It is their job not to be the weak link in your system. I think
you misunderstand what I mean by 'security'. I don't mean system security
per se; I mean vulnerability and the potential for your MTA to be a
unauthorized access point. MTA's accept mail (and any port 25 connection,
actually) from COMPLETELY UNTRUSTED sources. Postfix does 90% of its job as
an MTA without root privilages. Sendmail and all of its children processes
runs around as root all day long. Postfix is also very easy to set up in a
chroot jail, though I'll admit I've never tried to set up sendmail in one.

4>And lastly, I said it before, Postfix is hands down easier to configure.
No pansy linuxconf or obfuscated m4 needed.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 10:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] (Dumb question time) to improve the yield from my
sendmail


To tell you the truth I much rather Sendmail over postfix. It's a much more
robust program, and Majordomo won't run with Postfix. Now about this
insecure
stuff. Where? As far as I know Sendmail is a mail program. It's job is to
send and receive mail not provide for system security. Thats a job better
suited for Portsentry and Ipchains.
--
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

RE: [expert] keeping a ram song

[D. Stark - eSN]

If you cat the compact file, it'll often be a link to the REAL file. Use
wget to pull down that real file.



Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] keeping a ram song


Someone in a newsgroup once described how one could save and keep the real
file for a song or other realplay clip rather than just the compact file
that
directs your realplayer to the actual file.  It seems that the *.ram file is
copied to your system (at some point) and if you can find it, you can copy
it
to a new name and keep it.

I don't recall the actual location or what one is to look for...
Does anyone know how this can be done?

--
Praedor

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain

RE: [expert] Many Port Requests

[D. Stark - eSN]

I'd be glad to asist you with the ipchains rules. If you'd be willing to
email either the list (or me) with your current ipchains rules, without
specific IPs of course.

ipchains is a very fickle beast. A lot of times what looks like it should do
the job in fact doesnt, and its not just a coincidence that they replaced
ipchains with iptables in 2.4. Firewalling with ipchains is a big part of
what I do for a living.  : )

Derek Stark
dmstark at esupportnow.com
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mike ryder
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Many Port Requests


Go visit www.grc.com and follow the links to test your shields - it is
alarming how much detail can be retrieved with port 139 open. I was running
samba on the net gateway and ipchains did not appear to block the
information - so currently I have disabled samba until I find a better
idea - or someone can tell me the rule for ipchains that will work.

- Original Message -----
From: "D. Stark - eSN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: RE: [expert] Many Port Requests


> That's the NetBios port. Windows (95, 98, NT without WINS) pukes out TONS
of
> broadcast traffic (each machine continually announces its exsistance on
the
> network, any shares it might have, trades dessert recipies, I don't know).
> If there's an upside, I do not believe it is a routable protocol, so
nobody
> is spamming you with NetBios requests.
>
> Although, now that I think about it, someone *may* still be trying to
crack
> you on that port in theory (assuming that there was a crackable service
> running). Add two ipchains lines. One to allow all port 137 originating on
> the local network, and one right after it in the chain to disallow all
other
> port 137 traffic. Best to do it for both tcp and udp, as both can be used
by
> Windows.
>
> Derek Stark
> IT / Linux Admin
> eSupportNow
> xt 8952
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:15 AM
> To: Linux-Mandrake Expert (Request)
> Subject: [expert] Many Port Requests
>
>
> I'm getting many udp port requests through ipchains on
> 137/netbios-ns.  Is this the port NTs use for the nameservers or
> is it a cracker?
>
> Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing
>   list/newsgroup address in Cc: and my email address in To:.
>
> *
> Signed,
> SoloCDM
>
>
>

RE: [expert] Konsole Problem

[D. Stark - eSN]

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
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ajmal Ali
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Konsole Problem


I'm having a problem with Konsole (KDE2) It doesn't see to keep its history
(i.e it seems to read from bash_history but doesn't write new entries to it)

I can see the history for things i've typed durign my konsole session, but
as
soon as i shut down konsole and restart it, my commands are not stored in
bash_history. Commands I type at the console or thru KTerm are stored.

Anyone else have this problem? or know a solution?

TIA

Ali
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-- Harlan Ellison

RE: [expert] Many Port Requests

[D. Stark - eSN]

That's the NetBios port. Windows (95, 98, NT without WINS) pukes out TONS of
broadcast traffic (each machine continually announces its exsistance on the
network, any shares it might have, trades dessert recipies, I don't know).
If there's an upside, I do not believe it is a routable protocol, so nobody
is spamming you with NetBios requests.

Although, now that I think about it, someone *may* still be trying to crack
you on that port in theory (assuming that there was a crackable service
running). Add two ipchains lines. One to allow all port 137 originating on
the local network, and one right after it in the chain to disallow all other
port 137 traffic. Best to do it for both tcp and udp, as both can be used by
Windows.

Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:15 AM
To: Linux-Mandrake Expert (Request)
Subject: [expert] Many Port Requests


I'm getting many udp port requests through ipchains on
137/netbios-ns.  Is this the port NTs use for the nameservers or
is it a cracker?

Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing
  list/newsgroup address in Cc: and my email address in To:.

*
Signed,
SoloCDM

RE: [expert] SCSI harddrive and LM 7.1

[D. Stark - eSN]

Not to be a doubting thomas, but are you *sure* that its scsi? Windows will
report offboard chipsets (that it doesnt know what else to call) as scsi. I
just mention it because looking up that product number with google returns
that it is an ATA100 controller. I don't think that Quantum Fireball drives
are SCSI, either. Thier Atlas line of drives are the high-pro scsi line.

I imagine that you tried a normal install and it didnt work? I'd look in my
system BIOS to see if you had ATA/33 options.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John J. LeMay Jr.
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 7:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] SCSI harddrive and LM 7.1


** Reply to message from "Zeljko Vukman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 11 Jan 2001
10:47:08 +0100

> Hi Mandrakes,
> I'm in a little trouble and I hope Mandrake experts could help here.
> I admit, I never before used SCSI devices, and yesterday when I bought
> a new computer I got a scsi harddrive quantum fireball 20 Gb. I have no
> idea how to get it work with my Linux Mandrake 7.1. I tried all scsi
> options
> during install but no luck. Mandrake doesn't recognize it at all.
> I presume that problem is in controler, and windows says that SCSI
> controller is: Win 95-98 Promise Ultra100(tm) IDE Controler (PDC20265).
> Is there any way to get it work?
>
> Best regards,


SCSI is a different beast compared to IDE and it's children. First, you
mention
that Windows sees the controller. Does Windows see the drive? If not, does
the
SCSI BIOS load (should load right after your machine's BIOS and identifies
the
card followed by devices on the SCSI "chain".)?

If the SCSI BIOS doesn't see the drive, the problem is either that the drive
is
not terminated or you are using the same SCSI ID as the controller. Try
changing
the SCSI ID on the drive in this case.

As for termination, Windows seems to deal better with auto-termination than
Linux does. All SCSI chains must be terminated at both ends of the chain.
Most
controllers handle one end of the chain. You need to provide termination
after
the last SCSI device on the chain. Most devices today allow you to set
termination on the device itself. If this doesn't work, you may need to pick
up
a terminator and connect it to the SCSI cable.

John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.

RE: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

[D. Stark - eSN]

Consider more case fans?

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar
Govindarajulu
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure


Tom,

I ruled out RAM 'casue I swapped RAM from another computer and still the
same. I installed AMD boxed CPU which comes with a fan from AMD. It was
working fine for 2 months. My CPU is fully utilized 'cause I run setiathome.
I am now hoping it's the Motherboard. I can run down to Phoenix and get
another one. If it's the processor I've to ship it back to AMD and wait,
frankly I don't know how fast AMD will respond. If anyone has experince
returning the CPU during warranty please share it with me.

Thanks
Sridhar


- Original Message -
From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure


> On Tuesday 09 January 2001 10:48 pm, Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote:
> > I build a AMD 850mhz system. ABit RAID Motherboard IBM 30 GB deskstar
> > HD and 256 Mb memory. It's been working for the past 2 months
> > flawlessly. Since yesterday the system reboots or hangs.
> > I rebooted the system  and had a look at the bios system monitor to
> > monitor the temp and fan speed. I noticed when the CPU temp goes
> > beyond 109 F the system reboots. I am not sure if this is because of
> > a faulty CPU or the motherboard. On the mother board the chipset has
> > a separate fan. I suspected the memory and swapped memory form
> > another machine, still the same.
>
>Usually it's heat, power supply, or ram errors that cause reboots.
> 109F = 43C  which is well below the 90C max that AMD specs. 'Course a
> max of 55C is more practical for problem free operation. The problem
> with the temp you see in bios is the system isn't under much, if any
> load.  A bigger problem with AMD cpu's is there's no provision to
> monitor the cpu core temp (ie, internal diode).  Readings from a probe
> (thermistor) are a guess, no matter how well placed the thermistor is.
> Add a minimum of 10C (maybe 15C) to probe temps to approximate the core
> temp if the thermistor is in contact with the center of the die and
> shielded from air currents (which is pretty much the case with your
> Abit).
>
> AMD's need a good heatsink/fan and case ventilation.  Tom's, Anand,
> and several other hardware sites have done reviews on Athlon/Tbird
> HS/F's. Also the heatsink should be firm and square on the cpu die
> using thermal grease, not a thermal pad.  Case should be ventilated
> well enough to keep it's temp at or very close to room temp.  Checking
> for dust bunnies should be done often and regularly.  2 months might
> not be often enough ;)
>
>  If it's not a temp problem, try reseating your ram and/or slowing
> ram timings in bios. Next thing to check is the power supply.  It is an
> AMD approved >= 300w, right?  FWIW, I read some time ago that AMD
> intends to implement a thermal diode in the cpu core like Intel has,
> but nothing on it since.  Still, the thermistor's better than nothin.
> You should use lm_sensors to see what cpu temps are like when runnin
> prime95 (torture test), or better yet, cpuburn.  This is when you don't
> want to see anything over 55C, and cooler is better.
>
>  A good source of info for your system would be
> alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (even if you'd never consider
> oc'ing) and   alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit  newsgroups.
> --
> Tom Brinkman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
>
>

RE: [expert] New Motherboard

[D. Stark - eSN]

Swap away, if you're not using the UDMA channels. The only other thing which
might not work is the USB, but I say *might* because I've never tried using
my USB in Linux (no devices of import.  : )


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Red
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] New Motherboard


I'm getting a new motherboard, and I'm planning to possibly put it in my
Linux box tonight.  It's an Abit BE-6 2, with onboard udma66.  I'm not
going to be using those at first, I'm just going to stick w/ standard
IDE until I get new drives.  A bunch of background for a simple
question.  Can I swap this MB with my old one (Asus p2b), or is there
something in Linux I need to do in preparation?  Thanks.
--


Joseph Red
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RE: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

[D. Stark - eSN]

They probably mean for you to make a /usr/src/linux-2.4.0 directory and
symlink it to /usr/src/linux. Really. Its What You Do(tm).

ie:

cd /usr/src
mkdir linux-2.4.0
ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.0 /usr/src/linux
tar xvIf linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2

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Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal


That's the problem. the readme's installation has this line in it "Do NOT
use the usr/src/linux area!..."




Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@cae.co.za on 01/10/2001 10:58:20 AM

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Subject:  Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal


Before going any further, I would _STRONGLY_ suggest that you read some
kernel guide, maybe the kernel howto.

The linux source NEEDS to be found in /usr/src/linux (usually you have
/usr/src/linux- with a symlink /usr/src/linux pointing
to your current kernel version). If it's not here, your modules might
not be found, and you will have trouble running anything you have
compiled on your system.

Buchan

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've d/l'ed and decompressed the 2.4 Kernal to /root/linux. When I try to
> make config, it tells me "No such file or directory". What gives? I'm
> running LM7.2.

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RE: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

[D. Stark - eSN]

I'm fairly certain the source has to be placed in /usr/src/linux for the
symlinks within to work.



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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal


I've d/l'ed and decompressed the 2.4 Kernal to /root/linux. When I try to
make config, it tells me "No such file or directory". What gives? I'm
running LM7.2.

RE: Re[3]: [expert] 7.2 - Two little annoyances . . . on A7V w/ATA100

[D. Stark - eSN]

Hey, yeah! That makes good sense.

Robert Fox: Is your motherboard IDE controller set to "LBA?" And likewise,
what kind of drive is it? IBM drives have jumper settings for either 15 or
16 cylinder operation on the back. I had a similar problem. When I set it to
15 cylinders, it worked then. And you don't lose disk space (its an
emulation thing).

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rusty Carruth
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re[3]: [expert] 7.2 - Two little annoyances . . . on A7V
w/ATA100


[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) wrote:
> BootMagic finds the /dev/hde6 partition (logical) fine - but I only get LI
> during lilo bootup and I have to use a boot floppy instead.

well, lets see.  http://www.google.com, search for 'linux lilo howto error'

There I click on
http://www.aimnet.com/~homer/util/howto/Bootdisk/Bootdisk-HOWTO-12.html

and see:

When LILO loads itself, it displays the word ``LILO''. Each letter
is printed before or after performing some specific action. If LILO
fails at some point, the letters printed so far can be used to
identify the problem.

...

LI
The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
installer.


Hope this helps.

rc


Rusty Carruth  Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
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RE: [expert] Adding TrueType fonts to LM 7.2

[D. Stark - eSN]

http://linux.com/tuneup/database.phtml/X11/002036.html

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Spencer
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:09 AM
To: Marsden MacRae
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Adding TrueType fonts to LM 7.2


On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Marsden MacRae wrote:

> Chris Spencer wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Michael O'Henly wrote:
> >
> > > What is the proper method for adding TrueType fonts to Linux-Mandrake?
> >
> > Any time I have added a Windows font to Mandrake I have just used
> > fontdrake, which can be found in DrakConf.
> >
> > -Chris
>
> How do we do it if we don't use DrakConf? I'm a command line kinda guy.
> Thanks! Marsden

If you're a command line guy then adding Windows fonts would do you no
good. :)

Although I have done it before, I can't remember off hand. Sorry...

-Chris

RE: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

[D. Stark - eSN]

Try setting the mobo temp alarm (all of the ABITs I've used since the BH6
have had it) to something in the 55C range mentioned below. If the alarm
starts screaming at you, well, you've got a good idea of how hot things are
getting. That alarm will not stop or hang the system in any way, so it only
serves as a warning.

Derek Stark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 8:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure


On Tuesday 09 January 2001 10:48 pm, Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote:
> I build a AMD 850mhz system. ABit RAID Motherboard IBM 30 GB deskstar
> HD and 256 Mb memory. It's been working for the past 2 months
> flawlessly. Since yesterday the system reboots or hangs.
> I rebooted the system  and had a look at the bios system monitor to
> monitor the temp and fan speed. I noticed when the CPU temp goes
> beyond 109 F the system reboots. I am not sure if this is because of
> a faulty CPU or the motherboard. On the mother board the chipset has
> a separate fan. I suspected the memory and swapped memory form
> another machine, still the same.

   Usually it's heat, power supply, or ram errors that cause reboots.
109F = 43C  which is well below the 90C max that AMD specs. 'Course a
max of 55C is more practical for problem free operation. The problem
with the temp you see in bios is the system isn't under much, if any
load.  A bigger problem with AMD cpu's is there's no provision to
monitor the cpu core temp (ie, internal diode).  Readings from a probe
(thermistor) are a guess, no matter how well placed the thermistor is.
Add a minimum of 10C (maybe 15C) to probe temps to approximate the core
temp if the thermistor is in contact with the center of the die and
shielded from air currents (which is pretty much the case with your
Abit).

AMD's need a good heatsink/fan and case ventilation.  Tom's, Anand,
and several other hardware sites have done reviews on Athlon/Tbird
HS/F's. Also the heatsink should be firm and square on the cpu die
using thermal grease, not a thermal pad.  Case should be ventilated
well enough to keep it's temp at or very close to room temp.  Checking
for dust bunnies should be done often and regularly.  2 months might
not be often enough ;)

 If it's not a temp problem, try reseating your ram and/or slowing
ram timings in bios. Next thing to check is the power supply.  It is an
AMD approved >= 300w, right?  FWIW, I read some time ago that AMD
intends to implement a thermal diode in the cpu core like Intel has,
but nothing on it since.  Still, the thermistor's better than nothin.
You should use lm_sensors to see what cpu temps are like when runnin
prime95 (torture test), or better yet, cpuburn.  This is when you don't
want to see anything over 55C, and cooler is better.

 A good source of info for your system would be
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (even if you'd never consider
oc'ing) and   alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit  newsgroups.
--
Tom Brinkman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

RE: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers

[D. Stark - eSN]

I'd say "Don't use CUPS" but since I'm new to using Mandrake and all of its
intricacies, I could be in left field. Does Mandrake still ship with
RedHat's printtool? Or can it be rpm'd in without too many dependacy
nightmares?

Otherwise, there's always the LDP:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html

I set up an HP 4000N, but it talked straight Postscript. (not sure if your
III is, I'm sure you know) Didn't take much more than an hour from finding
the HOWTO to printing stuff.


Derek Stark
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Mogens Jæger
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 8:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers


Till Kamppeter wrote:

> The Epsons are better supported by GIMP-Print, so you can expect better
> quality with them. The advantage of the HPs is that the print heads get
> changed with cartridge, so less problems with clogged nozzles. See also
>
>http://linuxprinting.org/
>http://linuxprinting.org/suggested.html
>
>Till

Hello
I just wisited these sites, but one question. I have an HP LaserJet III P,
which I can't bring to work propperly,
since I upgraded to the Mandrake 7.2. Under the 7.1 it worked great, but
with CUPS - no. My other printer (Epson
Photo) on the other hand works much better now.
I have tried to upgrade to the CUPS-1.1.5, but then I have to upgrade the
glibc to 2.2 first, and it results in a
list of more than 40 dependency-problems, so I will waite for the next
version (7.3?) on CD, caused by a 56K modem.

But back to my question: does anybody know 'exactely' how to get the most
out of the HP?
Thanks for any reply
Mogens Jæger

[expert] gtk in Mandrake 7.2

[D. Stark - eSN]

Greets all:

Does anyone know if the gtk 1.2 library in Mandrake 7.2 has XInput compiled
in. I was pretty let down to find out that RedHat 7.0 did not, and I want to
get my Wacom working with it.

I've gotten the wacom working with X, no big deal, but the gimp won't accept
the pressure sensitivity without XInput within gtk. I've built gtk 1.1x in
the past, and it was as easy as "./configure --with-xinput". The machine I'm
configuring doesn't have an internet connection, hence my hope that it's
already in the binary. I'm just curious if it was done.


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