RE: [expert] 9.2 keeps killing my router
You'll need to give us more information in order for us to help you. Can you be specific as to what happens and when? The more details the better... David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bradley D. Pierson Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] 9.2 keeps killing my router I have a belkin 4 port router and for some reason mandrake 9.2 keeps killing my connection to the net. what can I do? -- Bradley D. Pierson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Powerpack Md5sums
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1302 The powerpack ones are at the bottom of the page I believe. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Powerpack Md5sums I need the md5sums for the powerpack edition downloaded from bittorrent. Who's got em? And no I don't care about the theoretically infallible bittorrent checksums, I just want to check the iso's myself. LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Lets face it if winblowz wasn't full of holes then it would probably look like Linux -- Aron Smith, Mandrake OT mailing list *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?
IIRC, the best for Mandrake is to buy a club membership and then use the download edition David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ricardo (Tru64 User) Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy? OK, I have some money, would like to support Mandy as much as I like using it. I am intending to upgrade an 8.2 machine (not updates for it anymore, even security, right?), who basic function is running 2 webservers, (virtual) and as an anonymous ftp server. The anonyftp files are on a promisetech raid array, hooked with an adaptec 29160 scsi card. The download version of 8.2 worked 100% for me. Now that i was considering purchasing the 9.2, I can see lots of versions out therePowerpack, Pro-Suite, Discovery, Corporate Server!! It is not for home usebut yet don't need all the business/selling language associated with the versions...all I need is a Good working Mandrake 9.2, whereby I can download updates without passwords!! as I have always done with 8.2. Basically same Freedom, but not Free ($0.00) We all understand the process consumes money! Which one should I go for? __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Disapearing menu's
I don't see the update yet on my mirror. I'll let you know what happens after I do -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:58 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Disapearing menu's On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:07, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 04:34, James Sparenberg wrote: All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me know? James Update, Per my question they are now in Cooker and Vincent is porting the patch to 9.2 as we speak. I'll keep ya'll posted. James Just got word that the fix is in updates Would those who have been fighting this please check and let me know the results? The problem seems to have been in kde-libs. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Weird automount message
Thanks Jack, sorry for the lack of initial info. I'm just wondering what the messages are. Server has been running fine for over 2 years and for some reason this showed up in my log and I was just curious. I looks like it is showing up on a daily basis now (well almost a daily basis). Here is the latest round: Nov 16 00:50:59 Nemesis automount[24791]: lookup(file): lookup for * failed Nov 16 00:50:59 Nemesis automount[24792]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed: Request arguments bad Nov 16 23:48:18 Nemesis automount[1472]: lookup(file): lookup for * failed Nov 16 23:48:19 Nemesis automount[1473]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed: Request arguments bad Nov 17 01:54:46 Nemesis automount[1717]: lookup(file): lookup for * failed Nov 17 01:54:46 Nemesis automount[1718]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed: Request arguments bad -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 8:17 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Weird automount message are you trying to use automount or trying to figure out what these messages are coming from? If the former, you've got some config file problems. If the latter, just urpme automount. On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 06:07, David Rankin wrote: Mates, Has anyone else seen strange automount messages? The messages are as follows: Nov 13 12:28:00 Nemesis automount[15360]: lookup(file): lookup for * failed Nov 13 12:28:00 Nemesis automount[15361]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed: Request arguments bad Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[443]: attempting to mount entry /misc/* Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[15675]: lookup(file): lookup for * failed Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[458]: attempting to mount entry /net/* Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[15676]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed: Request arguments bad This is the first time I've seen something like this. Any thoughts would be appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Clean up old logs
My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying = to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stu= Please don't post HTML. Adrian, isn't logrotate working? Or do you want to clean the stuff up now? At any rate, find would do the job: # find . -type f /var/log -mtime 30 | xargs rm That gets rid of files modified over 30 days ago. Adrian David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] spamassassin?
Is /usr/bin/spamd even still there? And /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf? Yes to both. My thoughts on this are that it's high time that you copied off all of your tweaked config files (after going over each one with a fine-toothed You're right -- I'm procrastinating on this one. I'm just reticent to do it because it means going out and getting a bunch more RPMs of things I already have again. ` Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Weird automount message
Mates, Has anyone else seen strange automount messages? The messages are as follows: Nov 13 12:28:00 Nemesis automount[15360]: lookup(file): lookup for * failed Nov 13 12:28:00 Nemesis automount[15361]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed: Request arguments bad Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[443]: attempting to mount entry /misc/* Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[15675]: lookup(file): lookup for * failed Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[458]: attempting to mount entry /net/* Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis automount[15676]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed: Request arguments bad This is the first time I've seen something like this. Any thoughts would be appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Disappearing menu's
Thanks for all your help on this James. I thought I had kdeartwork installed, but now I'm not so sure. I'll look further into this tonight... Best regards, David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:19 PM To: Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Disappearing menu's On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:34, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: I thought so too (that's what the advisory said they fixed) but I still only get the three - blank screen, mandrake slide show and random. I've run update-menus -v and have no available updates listed on my Mandrake Update Center. Could I have pulled from a bad mirror? Do you have kdearwork installed? Specifically kdeartwork-3.1.3-4mdk Has anyone else who has performed these updates got their screensavers to show up? It's not all that important, but now I'm just curious about what is really going on David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Disappearing menu's On Thursday 13 November 2003 03:45 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: what about the screensavers? Should they be visible now? That should be fixed with the existing updates. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Disappearing menu's
If we've already run the update-menus, would applying this patch be a valid test? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:35 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] Disapearing menu's All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me know? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Disappearing menu's
what about the screensavers? Should they be visible now? David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Disappearing menu's On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:48 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: If we've already run the update-menus, would applying this patch be a valid test? The patch will prevent you from having to run update-menus in the future. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:35 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] Disapearing menu's All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me know? James -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Disappearing menu's
I thought so too (that's what the advisory said they fixed) but I still only get the three - blank screen, mandrake slide show and random. I've run update-menus -v and have no available updates listed on my Mandrake Update Center. Could I have pulled from a bad mirror? Has anyone else who has performed these updates got their screensavers to show up? It's not all that important, but now I'm just curious about what is really going on David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Disappearing menu's On Thursday 13 November 2003 03:45 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: what about the screensavers? Should they be visible now? That should be fixed with the existing updates. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
Hello all, Last night, as the last thing I did after setting up a shiny new box, I updated to all the latest bug and security fixes for 9.2. As a result of my efforts, KDE's KControl is now totally broken. When I try to launch it, I get the following spit out to the console: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings After which, Kcontrol comes up without any plugins. A similar error happens when I try to configure Konqueror: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ kcontrol: ERROR: Module filebehavior not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module fileappearance not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module filepreviews not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module filetypes not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_behavior not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_java_js not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_fonts not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module ebrowsing not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmhistory not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module cookies not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module cache not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module proxy not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmcss not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module crypto not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module useragent not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_plugins not found! Needless to say, I'm not terribly pleased that a normal bugfix update totally broke my KDE setup when all I really wanted were some screensavers :) Doing a quick Google search turned up the error message, but nothing helpful about what to do about it. I've rm -rf'd my .kde directory to no use. I seem to recall (now, not before I started the upgrade) that someone on this list had a similar problem. Does this ring any bells? Has anyone upgraded and found themselves dead in the water? If this is a common problem, does Mandrake know about this? How do I fix it? Help! I really don't want to reinstall from scratch. Thanks in advance David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
Has anything you tried brought them back? I'm totally at a loss. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:47 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed I complained about this also if you restart X you will notice that the menus are gone. -Original Message- From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Hello all, Last night, as the last thing I did after setting up a shiny new box, I updated to all the latest bug and security fixes for 9.2. As a result of my efforts, KDE's KControl is now totally broken. When I try to launch it, I get the following spit out to the console: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings After which, Kcontrol comes up without any plugins. A similar error happens when I try to configure Konqueror: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ kcontrol: ERROR: Module filebehavior not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module fileappearance not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module filepreviews not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module filetypes not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_behavior not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_java_js not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_fonts not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module ebrowsing not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmhistory not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module cookies not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module cache not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module proxy not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmcss not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module crypto not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module useragent not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_plugins not found! Needless to say, I'm not terribly pleased that a normal bugfix update totally broke my KDE setup when all I really wanted were some screensavers :) Doing a quick Google search turned up the error message, but nothing helpful about what to do about it. I've rm -rf'd my .kde directory to no use. I seem to recall (now, not before I started the upgrade) that someone on this list had a similar problem. Does this ring any bells? Has anyone upgraded and found themselves dead in the water? If this is a common problem, does Mandrake know about this? How do I fix it? Help! I really don't want to reinstall from scratch. Thanks in advance David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
OK, I did a rebuild of both the system and the root menus from MenuDrake and now KControl seems to be working again - except for the fact that I still don't have screen savers which was the whole reason for the upgrade in the first place. I'll log into the machine locally tonight and see if the rest of the KDE environment has returned to normal... Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:24 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Do a rebuild of the menus from menudrake i think it was. -Original Message- From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:57 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Has anything you tried brought them back? I'm totally at a loss. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:47 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed I complained about this also if you restart X you will notice that the menus are gone. -Original Message- From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Hello all, Last night, as the last thing I did after setting up a shiny new box, I updated to all the latest bug and security fixes for 9.2. As a result of my efforts, KDE's KControl is now totally broken. When I try to launch it, I get the following spit out to the console: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings After which, Kcontrol comes up without any plugins. A similar error happens when I try to configure Konqueror: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ kcontrol: ERROR: Module filebehavior not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module fileappearance not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module filepreviews not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module filetypes not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_behavior not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_java_js not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_fonts not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module ebrowsing not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmhistory not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module cookies not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module cache not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module proxy not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmcss not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module crypto not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module useragent not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_plugins not found! Needless to say, I'm not terribly pleased that a normal bugfix update totally broke my KDE setup when all I really wanted were some screensavers :) Doing a quick Google search turned up the error message, but nothing helpful about what to do about it. I've rm -rf'd my .kde directory to no use. I seem to recall (now, not before I started the upgrade) that someone on this list had a similar problem. Does this ring any bells? Has anyone upgraded and found themselves dead in the water? If this is a common problem, does Mandrake know about this? How do I fix it? Help! I really don't want to reinstall from scratch. Thanks in advance David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
Who and how to tell? I'm really surprised that this isn't all over the message boards by now. Am we the only people having this problem, or the only ones who have done the upgrade? Is anyone from Mandrake following this list? Vincent? David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:25 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Tell them to fix this it really is the pitts.. -Original Message- From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:16 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed OK, I did a rebuild of both the system and the root menus from MenuDrake and now KControl seems to be working again - except for the fact that I still don't have screen savers which was the whole reason for the upgrade in the first place. I'll log into the machine locally tonight and see if the rest of the KDE environment has returned to normal... Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:24 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Do a rebuild of the menus from menudrake i think it was. -Original Message- From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:57 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Has anything you tried brought them back? I'm totally at a loss. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:47 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed I complained about this also if you restart X you will notice that the menus are gone. -Original Message- From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Hello all, Last night, as the last thing I did after setting up a shiny new box, I updated to all the latest bug and security fixes for 9.2. As a result of my efforts, KDE's KControl is now totally broken. When I try to launch it, I get the following spit out to the console: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings After which, Kcontrol comes up without any plugins. A similar error happens when I try to configure Konqueror: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ kcontrol: ERROR: Module filebehavior not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module fileappearance not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module filepreviews not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module filetypes not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_behavior not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_java_js not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_fonts not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module ebrowsing not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmhistory not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module cookies not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module cache not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module proxy not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module kcmcss not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module crypto not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module useragent not found! kcontrol: ERROR: Module khtml_plugins not found! Needless to say, I'm not terribly pleased that a normal bugfix update totally broke my KDE setup when all I really wanted were some screensavers :) Doing a quick Google search turned up the error message, but nothing helpful about what to do about it. I've rm -rf'd my .kde directory to no use. I seem to recall (now, not before I started the upgrade) that someone on this list had a similar problem. Does this ring any bells? Has anyone upgraded and found themselves dead in the water? If this is a common problem, does Mandrake know about this? How do I fix it? Help! I really don't want to reinstall from scratch. Thanks in advance David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed
Thanks James! Now the question is, do I trust the update to the update when it was an update that forced me to update again in the first place? :) Vincent, if you are watching this, could you also have the package maintainers fix the screensavers problem for good while they're at it? That's the whole reason I got into this mess in the first place. I would like screen savers to show up in KControl. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:39 PM To: Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:32, Lawson, Jim wrote: I think the others are more of an expert than me so they really don't care since they can fix most problems ASAP. -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:08 PM To: Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:24, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Who and how to tell? I'm really surprised that this isn't all over the message boards by now. Am we the only people having this problem, or the only ones who have done the upgrade? Is anyone from Mandrake following this list? Vincent? David David, Just talked with Vincent via e-mail on this and he's forwarding things up the line to the package maintainers. He agrees that this one is a lot more serious than initially thought and they are on it. James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:25 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Tell them to fix this it really is the pitts.. -Original Message- From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:16 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed OK, I did a rebuild of both the system and the root menus from MenuDrake and now KControl seems to be working again - except for the fact that I still don't have screen savers which was the whole reason for the upgrade in the first place. I'll log into the machine locally tonight and see if the rest of the KDE environment has returned to normal... Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it. David The who to tell is bugs.mandrake.com. The Anthill bug reporting system is getting listened too so it would be a first stop for sure. The cure for lost menu's First verify that /etc/menu/menudrakeentry looks something like. ?package(menu): needs=kde icon=applications_section.png section=/ title=.hidden charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): command=superkaramba needs=x11 icon=Cola.xpm section=Configuration/Other/ title=Super Karamba charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=/ title=Exit charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=Session/ title=Window Maker charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=Session/Window Maker/ title=Appearance charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=Session/Window Maker/Appearance/ title=Background charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=Session/Window Maker/Appearance/Background/ title=Gradient charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=Session/Window Maker/Appearance/Background/ title=Images charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=Session/Window Maker/Appearance/Background/ title=Solid charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=Session/Window Maker/ title=Information charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=Session/Window Maker/ title=Selection charset=ISO-8859-1 ?package(menu): needs=wmaker icon=applications_section.png section=Session/Window Maker/ title=Workspace charset=ISO-8859-1 Note the title lines if they are instead of whatever things go bad. Anything you put in will get stuff back. Then as the user (not root) do either update-menus, or if you want to see the output update-menus -v James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawson, Jim Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:24 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed Do a rebuild of the menus from menudrake i think it was. -Original Message- From: JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:57 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED
[expert] Help - my box has been compromised!
Folks - especially postfix people - I need some help - my box seems to have been turned into an open relay. I am running the same postfix configuration file I had installed when I was running 9.0 and later versions (currently I am running 9.2/cooker).. I have not been able to post to the list or send out any smtp email until I fix this and in the meantime have simply flushed (deleted) the outgoing queue in /var/spool /postfix via # find . /var/spool/postfix -type -f | xargs exec rm which (quickly) removes it. I removed many megabytes' worth of stuck email this way earlier today only to find that at 9 pm there was 4 megs more waiting and my isp admin had sent me a mail saying he disabled my smtp. I was under the impression postfix was relay proof - any advice will be helpful... Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help - my box has been compromised!
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 00:18, David E. Fox wrote: I was under the impression postfix was relay proof - any advice will be helpful... It pretty much is, as long as you didn't break something mucking around with the configuration files. Out of the box, it has relaying turned off. You have to do things to it in order to open it up. Check your config files. My advice, which again will look like a cop-out, but in actuality is very serious, is that you switch to qmail. Vincent Danen, rpmhelp.net Oh yea, qmail is great. If you happen to like pain. --Dave (And yes, I've administered sites running qmail. I'll take postfix every time.) -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] help - my box might be a relay
hey - help!
it's seemingly apparent that in the last week or two there seems to
be an increasing number of mails of a dubious nature being sent to
a large number of bogus addresses by yours truly :(.
I'm not a spammer but it seems that my mailing system (postfix) is
misconfigured -- but I was under the impression that postfix was
relay-proof. I have seen evidence though of some chinese sites
masquerading as m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com, probably forging headers
somewhere along the line. It further seems that mail is injected here
and then attempts are made to send the sh*t off to other places.
I have not gotten any complaints but as of now 22:30pm pst 11/4 there is
approximately 2.3 megabytes' worth of mail trying to get out.
1) I want to simply remove these messages. How do I do this? I have not yet
come across a queue removal program - like lprm - for mail. Can (or should)
I just delete all the files underneath /var/spool/postfix/{defer,etc,deferred,
etc} - i.e, keep the directory structure intact but do somehting like
find /var/spool/postfix -type f | xargs grep rm
Is that dangerous?
Secondly, using a fairly stock configuration for postfix, is there some-
thing I've missed? I can attach my configuration if needed. I have
basically kept the same one intact since I initially reinstalled 9.0
and upgraded to various levels of cooker over the past few months.
HELP ;)
David E. Fox Thanks for letting me
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk.
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RE: [expert] Macros and OO
OO.o 1.1 has a macro recorder. Probably the easiest way to recreate the macros is to figure out how to do the steps in OO.o and then record the macro using the tool. HTH David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:46 AM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] Macros and OO -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This isn't specific to Mandrake in any way, but I was hoping someone could point me to a good site that might explain how to setup macros in OpenOffice? I get to handle purchasing in my lab. This system (on a Mac) uses an excel database filled with scientific products/chemicals, etc, and an order form. There are macros setup so that one can select a row in the database for product X and enter it into the order form. I copied this database/form to my laptop running Mandrake with OpenOffice and imported it. All is well except, of course, all the M$ macros didn't transfer and, thus, if I desire to be able to handle these orders from my laptop I need to duplicate the macros in OpenOffice 1.5. I have NEVER done macros, in M$ Word, excel, etc, nor in OO. I don't even know where to begin. The tentative steps I've taken to try to figure it out have been hopeless thus far. Any really good HOWTOs on this? praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oTIdaKr9sJYeTxgRAooQAKC2Twx+dFexe981mPyExvi4CIQKowCff+C8 KvG5pnZu2w34lXap7GiBowA= =eySa -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] TV card recommendations
Well, this may be a post better sent to the newbie lists but since I've come to respect the posters on this list, please allow me a little latitude to ask people who's opinion I value a simple question :) My wife wants a TV card for Christmas so she can take videos off of our analog camcorder and store them on our fileserver/webserver. I am *totally* clueless about tv cards (not watching much tv will do that to you) but I know getting one of these contraptions is very important to her since we have kids on the way. Can anyone recommend a good tv card that Mandrake 9.2 (she'll be upgrading soon) works out of the box with please? If so, I'd much appreciate it! Thanks in advance David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 made slashdot
KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/1737244 I get Page cannot be displayed. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions
It's OK to use bittorrent to download the powerpack if you're a silver member or above of MandrakeClub. That's how I got my copy. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gonzalo Avaria Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:36, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If there is something on the Download that's not in Powerpack, or some other reason I might need Download, then I need to get started downloading as Bittorrent is going to keep me occupied for another week. I want to go ahead and serve my time in bittorrent prison if I need to. And you are using a P2P to download a pay distro??? I don´t think that´s correct to ask here... Sorry but don´t like this kind of posting. -- Gonzalo Avaria S. Linux User from the end of the World CHILE Registered User #329224 (counter.li.org) Box #213779 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions
Mostly proprietary drivers and what not that are installed automagically. I think it includes stuff like Flash and RealPlayer as well David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Coates Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:09 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions cool! What's in powerpack that isn't in download? On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:57, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: It's OK to use bittorrent to download the powerpack if you're a silver member or above of MandrakeClub. That's how I got my copy. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gonzalo Avaria Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:36, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If there is something on the Download that's not in Powerpack, or some other reason I might need Download, then I need to get started downloading as Bittorrent is going to keep me occupied for another week. I want to go ahead and serve my time in bittorrent prison if I need to. And you are using a P2P to download a pay distro??? I don´t think that´s correct to ask here... Sorry but don´t like this kind of posting. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] KDevelop Help
I can't help with the RPM stuff, but you might find info on the KDevelop/SDL interaction at the following URL: http://www.geekcomix.com/snh/files/docs/sdl-kdev/sdl-kdev-mini-how2.htmlP David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Theo Brinkman Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] KDevelop Help I'm trying to get KDevelop completely set up for some development, but I'm having some problems. First, I can't seem to find some of the files it wants for various optional stuff like help, and project documentation. I'm looking for where to find RPMs that include the following: KDELibs-Doc sgml2html kdoc Glimpse Glimpseindex Second, I can't seem to figure out how to get a project using SDL to compile. It's a *very* basic project at this point, and I'm getting undefined references for all of the SDL_* function calls. I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of figuring out how to tell it to use the libraries, but I can't figure out where/how to do it. (If you need to see the source messages, just ask.) Thanks - Theo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?
Brian, I could have told you you were right a long time ago. I used to backup at night using a script what would smbmount a M$ box drive to dump my backup nightly until CDs were burned at the end of the week. One night following a thunder storm, smbmount failed and the quick script wasn't checking for a successful mount (i.e. no if (smbmount etc...) then...) so I ended filling up the /mnt/tripod directory on my server with about 600 megs of stuff from /home that I thought had been sent to the M$ box via /mnt/tripod. Talk about confusing. mount /mnt/tripod then ls /mnt/tripod returned the same thing as umount /mnt/tripod and ls /mnt/tripod. It took a few posts, but some soul was kind enough to finally figure out hey idiot, your smbmount failed and you filled up /mnt/tripod with what you thought was going to your M$ drive. So a quick umount /mnt/tripos then rm -f /mnt/tripod followed by a fresh smbmount /mnt/tripod was all it took. In short, just a long way of saying you got it right! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size? On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:20 pm, deedee wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:53:26 -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: Actually, he is quite correct. /mnt/cdrom is a directory located off of /mnt which in turn is located off of /. I believe you are confusing how a directory tree is set up to interface with you as a user in order to help you find your files with the actual devices where files are being stored. No, I am clearly stating that the directory that is used as a mount point for the cdrom device is an actual directory and can exist independent of the device that is associated to it by the mount command up until the mount command redirects the mount point to point to the device file instead of a directory on the file system. If you simply go out and look at it yourself, you will see that until the mount command is issued for a cdrom, there is clearly a directory present on the root drive in the /mnt folder that you can access with absolutely no disc mounted in the cdrom drive. For that matter, I can simply enough create a directory directly under root called cdrom and alter the fstab with a simply edit and any cdroms mounted on the drive will then be mounted in the directory cdrom off of the root drive. I accept that after I mount the drive, I am no longer hitting the directory in the filesystem when I access the cdrom, but up until I mount the media, I am. Check your /etc/fstab. That defines your file system table and says where the directories in your directory tree are really located. Actually, no. fstab merely designates the device file and mount point for devices when the mount command is issued. Much like a mapped network drive in NFS, the actual directory that is used for the mount point actually exists prior to remapping the location to point to the network resource and does not actually point to the device until the mount command points the directory to the device. Experiment: As root, with no cd mounted, cp a file to /mnt/cdrom and you will note that the file is copied and then exists in /mnt/cdrom. It actually exists in memory. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# ls -l total 9 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 48 Oct 23 17:49 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Oct 22 19:13 floppy/ dr-x--1 root root 8192 Oct 20 18:31 winxp/ Doesn't look like memory to me I don't want to get into a fruitless debate about this. I know it is a difficult concept. I'm only responding because I believe you are asking for problems if you treat all the places on the directory tree/interface as if they are actually all places on your hard drive. Neither do I. Why don't we agree to accept an answer from a disinterested third party. Linux does not have different letters for the drives. Linux integrates floppy, hard disk, CD-ROM ... (the common name for all of them is devices) into the directory tree. You simply plug the device in a subdirectory. The default directory for mounting removable media devices is /mnt/. There you create the subdirectories for all devices (e.g. /mnt/zip for the zip-drive), /mnt/windows/ for the WINDOWS partition. For the CD-ROM the directory /cdrom is as common as /mnt/cdrom/. Any needed directories can be created with mkdir. To access the CD-ROM drive you have to register it in the system. This happens with the command mount You can access the entire page at: http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue3/m3mount1.html The blurb clearly states that mounting a device simply 'plug'[s] the device in a subdirectory that is either already created or is created when you issue
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
probably bugbear.b or a variant -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses Hello Anne, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 12:56:06 PM, you wrote: AW That's what puzzles me. She would never open an executable. She AW would never agree to running one. Java and javascript are AW disabled for mail. She is set to read and write plain text. AW Still they have managed to do damage. The more you write, the more it looks as though it is not an email problem. AW At first I thought is was coincidence, but since the same files AW have to be replaced every time it happens I no longer believe AW that. Is it possible that the real problem has not been removed, and is still lurking on the machine? She might have multiple problems. It is not at all unusual in Win computers that are not locked down very tight. AW I'm thankful that at least she is not contributing to the spread AW of viruses, but I can't understand how they are doing this AW damage. If her address book has entries, don't be too sure. :-)) -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2
Oy Greg, Have some mercy on the poor sods that find typing e:\install.bat a CLI experience...the man's right; a warning is called for, so as not to put off real Newb's too much. They are the targeted consumer group, aren't they? There can be no doubt. That's the only plausable explanation for not including the kernel souce. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 23:15, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I downloaded the 9.2 Powerpack CD's, and went on an adventure. Well, 9.2 has several annoying install issues especially with a broken KDE install. For example: -consoles don't get installed properly What exactly do you mean. The menu entries for alternative consoles will no longer show up, for instance gnome-terminal will no longer show up in KDE and Konsole will not show up in GNOME. This is not a bug but a design choice. If you want them, you have to add them yourself. Also, when you find your KDE menus disappearing, that is not a bug in KDE, but a bug in RPM. Just run update-menus -v as root to restore them. -old nvidia video drivers don't get overwritten with the new one for 9.2 kernel, when you do an upgrade from 9.1 - and more They never will as the nvidia modules are related to a kernel, not the distribution. You have to reinstall them for each kernel you are running. I think the official 9.2 release should be delayed a little for these things to get fixed. Experienced users should have no problems fixing these install isues, but for new users it would be a big dissapointment. Unfortunately, it is too late. FiveStar has been sent to the manufacturer. Oy Greg, Have some mercy on the poor sods that find typing e:\install.bat a CLI experience...the man's right; a warning is called for, so as not to put off real Newb's too much. They are the targeted consumer group, aren't they? Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What is this garbage?
No, no praedor, viagra has nothing to do with procmail. It was coded to solve a different problem. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [expert] What is this garbage? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you. Unfortunately, for some reason it isn't working. These messages are coming into my inbox from my fetchmail-daemon (From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and for whatever reason it appears that they are sidestepping procmail. I added the entry you indicated and am still getting them into my local inbox. Perhaps a recipe for procmail to check the body of the message for the IP address and any mention of viagra? If so, how does one do this with procmail? praedor On Sunday 19 October 2003 11:43 am, Todd Lyons wrote: Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: Received: from 24.61.30.135 (HELO 67.164.237.213) (24.61.30.135) by mta154.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:52:58 -0700 OK, so how might I setup procmailrc to have any/all messages from this IP be dumped into /dev/null? Since sending my message to the list, I have received 8 more of these damn things in my trash folder. :0 * ^Received.*24\.61\.30\.135 /dev/null Note that I used :0 instead of :0:. The trailing colon defines locking options and since it's going to /dev/null, no need to worry about it. - -- Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a critical component of spiritual devotion. - --Krakauer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ksJJb1CLurEA6xURAu0dAJ9mtE/71QC2DuJpP97Ax6NghKvRBwCfepun Wr4RTA6XJmuXK7gtGilR3BA= =hOXP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help please! Cannot stop this spam
Praedor Atrebates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I have logged directly into my popmail server (yahoo) via the web and find that the spam message isn't being repeatedly sent - the same message is causing a problem over and over. Yahoo tagged it as spam and put it in my bulk mail folder on their site. When fetchmail retrieved messages, it would apparently have problems with that message and send me the error message email instead of the actual spam. I am not sure why...is there a way to fix fetchmail so it wont do this anymore? Instead of having a problem with a message and sending me a bazillion error messages every time it sees the undelivered/undeliverable message/spam, can I not just set fetchmail to dump the message? Yes, if fetchmail sees an error from your local MTA, it tends to not delete the message from the remote site, because it thinks there's a problem. You *can* tell it what a spam reject on your local MTA is, however. For example, I've got a few checks at the postfix level that will reject a detected spam message before it ever *gets* to the user's mailbox. As such, spamassassin isn't coming into play yet. Spam that it detects, it rejects with a 550 error code. You can tell fetchmail that a given error code (or range of codes) is a spam reject and to not attempt redelivery (I.E., it will go ahead and delete the message from the remote server). Here's what I have in my .fetchmailrc to do this: set postmaster postmaster set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties poll remote host with proto IMAP user 'blah' there with password 'blah' is 'blah' here antispam 550 That last line (antispam 550) tells it that a 550 code coming from postfix on my machine is a spam reject. It will then quietly delete the message from the far end as though it had delivered it. Try putting in the reject code that you're seeing at your end from your local postfix/qmail/sendmail daemon, and see if that helps. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help please! Cannot stop this spam
Bryan Phinney grabbed a keyboard and wrote: The fetchmail log should be telling you what the error code is from Postfix but if I had to guess, I would say it is a 501, fetchmail normally counts 55? codes as spam rejects by default. Not on *my* system, it didn't. :-) I had to put it in to cause fetchmail to behave itself when running into those. Line should show: poll mail.whatever.com with proto whatever user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' there with password 'password' is 'localuser' here antispam 554,550,501 Just a note for anyone reading: The user part above is for how you normally login to your POP or IMAP server to retrieve your mail. If you're using an ISP that has a login method of using your E-Mail address with them, then [EMAIL PROTECTED] is correct. If you're using a server that just requires a username, *don't* add the @domain.com part (I.E. don't use your address to login unless your provider requres that as your login). Add that line and you should no longer see those errors or have misconfigured spam piling up in your inbox. Only other way that I know of is to run Fetchmail configured to flush the box which removes all messages that were seen but no delivered. This is dangerous and could result in your losing messages due to Postfix being down when fetchmail tries to pick up mail. Another option is to periodically run fetchmail to pick up mail, then reload fetchmail in flush mode to flush misconfigured messages, then rerun fetchmail in normal mode. You could do this once a week but in the meantime would get all those errors in your syslog. Last option is to simply bitbucket all fetchmail-daemon notifications with procmail. That last option is kinda dangerous, though. :-) If you got other fetchmail errors, you would never know about them (Not saying don't do it if it's really needed, just be aware... :) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Any way to alter konqueror's default window size?
Congrats on your new monitor! Under the settings menu is an option called Save View Profile something Make the window the size you want it and then select that setting. Now select the checkbox that says save window size in profile and hit save. You're done! David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:23 PM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] Any way to alter konqueror's default window size? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently bought a big, flat-screen monitor which has an optimal resolution of 1280 x 1024. At this resolution, konqueror's default window size is a bit smallish and, unfortunately and unlike konsole, resizing it manually to a certain size is not remembered for subsequent openings. Is there a way to increase the default window size of konqueror? praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/juIfaKr9sJYeTxgRAmwCAJ9/OiC3wmAE7pvPfwcwAS0g48VOUACbBY1A 9Q2Mpg/MIQeTGDOwqIyjVjo= =hueS -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] refresh rate
Take a look at: Name xvidtune - video mode tuner for XFree86 Synopsis xvidtune [ -prev | -next | -unlock | ] ] [ -toolkitoption ... ] Description Xvidtune is a client interface to the XFree86 X server video mode extension (XFree86-VidModeExtension). When given one of the non-toolkit options, xvidtune provides a command line interface to either switch the video mode. Without any options (or with only toolkit options) it presents the user with various buttons and sliders that can be used to interactively adjust existing video modes. It will also print the settings in a format suitable for inclusion in an XF86Config file. Normally the XFree86 X servers only allow changes to be made with the XFree86-VidModeExtension from clients connected via a local connection type. Note: The original mode settings can be restored by pressing the `R' key, and this can be used to restore a stable screen in situations where the screen becomes unreadable. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [expert] refresh rate On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:16, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 13 Oct 2003 5:21 pm, Larry Sword wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:22:58 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: is there a pointy-clicky way to change monitor refresh rates? I'm not in a big hurry to go messing with modlines. As a side note.In the Knoppix V3.3 within the KDE there is a Display setting where you can set the monitor and the refresh rates. It's really nice. sure wish Mandrake would include such. If Knoppix can do it, MDK should be able to. Maybe its an uninstalled KDE add-on. Unless it's a later version of KDE. Does someone want to go research it? At least three people have asked recently, and its dead easy with Windows, so its a big lossage for Linux. looks like it's some sort of wrapper around xrandr... using that utility shows that both monitors are set at 85Hz, which ain't bad. So my crawly dim lines are probably caused by interference since the monitors are side by side. Maybe they need an AFDB :-) That would explain why there wasn't a problem when one of the machines ran XP, since it probably had a different refresh rate. BTW, there's a Modeline generator here: http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl which doesn't work for me, but might for someone. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
Worse comes to worse, try:
# vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
service ftp
{
disable = yes
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
server_args = -l -a
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice= 10
}
** Change disable to = no
Then
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
ftp away.
THEN DISABLE wu-ftpd and restart xinetd. You don't want to leave wu-ftpd up.
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- Original Message -
From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:12 AM
Subject: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
I finally got my 9.1 Mandrake working wonderfully as a server. All my
virtual web pages work wonderfully.. and now I am ready to open an FTP
connection so I can finish uploading a ton of files from a different
computer.
Only problem is, I don't know how to get FTP to work in this version.
I've downloaded PROFTPD and tried to get that to work, but after a few
questions to the PROFTPD mail list, and a few days of searching Google for
help, and reading the PROFTPD faq, I still can't FTP to my new server.
The people on the PROFTPD mail list won't even reply to my questions.
Should I even be using PROFTP? What can I do, if even for a basic FTP
setup, to get FTP to work on my server? I'll be glad to remove PROFTPD
and use whatever works.
Any suggestions will be happily appreciated.
James
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Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved
Praedor Atrebates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks all, I have it working in a desireable fashion now. I am once again using fetchmail + postfix and, now, spamassassin to deal with my incoming mail. Procmail is properly directing a subset of my mail to my mailbox directly and passing the rest through spamassassin - and a 30+ second delay for spamassassin processing isn't a problem. Procmail is also /dev/nulling all emails identified as spam so I never have to see any of it. Nice. A new question now. Fetchmail gave me a bit of a fit at first. I ran fetchmailconf as user and then ran fetchmail as user and this was fine, except I'd rather not have to start fetchmail myself every time I start my laptop up - I'd rather have it run as a daemon. I DID get the fetchmail daemon working eventually, but only after manually editing /etc/fetchmailrc. As root or user, all running fetchmailconf would do is create a ~/.fetchmailrc file while daemon mode requires /etc/fetchmailrc. I tried doing it from webmin as well to no avail. In the end, I copied my ~/.fetchmailrc file to /etc/fetchmailrc so that I could run the fetchmail daemon. How does one normally setup the daemon instead of running personal instances of fetchmail, that is, how is /etc/fetchmailrc normally created? I am assuming that I should not have to do what I did above and copy my personal .fetchmailrc to /etc/fetchmailrc. From the man page for fetchmail: The --daemon interval or -d interval option runs fetchmail in dae- mon mode. You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling interval in seconds. In daemon mode, fetchmail puts itself in background and runs forever, querying each specified host and then sleeping for the given polling interval. Simply invoking fetchmail -d 900 will, therefore, poll all the hosts described in your ~/.fetchmailrc file (except those explicitly excluded with the `skip' verb) once every fifteen minutes. It is possible to set a polling interval in your ~/.fetchmailrc file by saying `set daemon interval', where interval is an integer number of seconds. If you do this, fetchmail will always start in daemon mode unless you override it with the command-line option --daemon 0 or -d0. Only one daemon process is permitted per user; in daemon mode, fetch- mail makes a per-user lockfile to guarantee this. Normally, calling fetchmail with a daemon in the background sends a wakeup signal to the daemon, forcing it to poll mailservers immedi- ately. (The wakeup signal is SIGHUP if fetchmail is running as root, SIGUSR1 otherwise.) The wakeup action also clears any `wedged' flags indicating that connections have wedged due to failed authentication or multiple timeouts. The option --quit will kill a running daemon process instead of waking it up (if there is no such process, fetchmail notifies you). If the --quit option is the only command-line option, that's all there is to it. The quit option may also be mixed with other command-line options; its effect is to kill any running daemon before doing what the other options specify in combination with the rc file. Of course, if you're the only user, you can also setup a cron job for yourself to poll every 5 minutes or whatever, by simply running fetchmail from cron. HTH. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
Good point, but it presupposes that the other comuputer is a Linux box and
not some inferrior breed that doesn't understand scp ;-)
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- Original Message -
From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
you know what I do when I want to transfer a big bunch of files?
scp -r big-buncha-files [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/new/home/of/files
You can also use:
scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/big/buncha/files /new/home/of/files
It's a little more CPU-intensive than FTP'ing them, but who cares? It's
also a lot easier than installing a temporary FTP server, especially
since you've probably already got sshd up and running on at least one of
the boxes.
IMHO the FTP protocol is dying the slow and painful death that it so
richly deserves. It won't be missed.
Jack
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 07:27, David Rankin wrote:
Worse comes to worse, try:
# vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
service ftp
{
disable = yes
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
server_args = -l -a
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice= 10
}
** Change disable to = no
Then
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
ftp away.
THEN DISABLE wu-ftpd and restart xinetd. You don't want to leave wu-ftpd
up.
--
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RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
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- Original Message -
From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:12 AM
Subject: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
I finally got my 9.1 Mandrake working wonderfully as a server. All my
virtual web pages work wonderfully.. and now I am ready to open an FTP
connection so I can finish uploading a ton of files from a different
computer.
Only problem is, I don't know how to get FTP to work in this version.
I've downloaded PROFTPD and tried to get that to work, but after a few
questions to the PROFTPD mail list, and a few days of searching Google
for
help, and reading the PROFTPD faq, I still can't FTP to my new server.
The people on the PROFTPD mail list won't even reply to my questions.
Should I even be using PROFTP? What can I do, if even for a basic FTP
setup, to get FTP to work on my server? I'll be glad to remove
PROFTPD
and use whatever works.
Any suggestions will be happily appreciated.
James
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Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved
Praedor Atrebates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks for the reply but the problem was: I had a ~/.fetchmailrc. It worked so long as I started fetchmail myself. If I tried to start fetchmail thus (as root) /etc/init.d/fetchmail start or if I started up MCC and then tried to start fetchmail from xservices I got the same result: failure. In my logs I would get a message that there was no mailserver specified. I DID have a mailserver specified in my .fetchmailrc. I then opened up webmin and saw my personal fetchmail entry there yet fetchmail service would not start for lack of a mailserver to poll. Only after I copied my personal .fetchmailrc to /etc/fetchmailrc could I start fetchmail as a daemon in xservices and have it run properly at each startup. It didn't seem to care at all that I actually did have a valid ~/.fetchmailrc file and that it did contain a valid mailserver. This is why I asked the original question about how to get /etc/fetchmailrc setup instead of ~/.fetchmailrc (the latter wasn't working). - From your reply, I assume I should never have received the error I received - that fetchmail should have started up as a daemon without problem and simply used my personal .fetchmailrc. But it didn't. Ok, my goof. That's what I get for trying to help when I've just woken up. :-) Bryon posted a message about how to point your fetchmail daemon to the rc file of your choice, you can use that. Or as I mentioned, you can start it from a cron job that runs every 5 minutes to have it poll your server that often. Since it would be running as you, it would be no different than if you started it yourself from a shell prompt. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
Nope, won't work over the net. To do it would require a pptpd vpn connection
on top of samba.
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- Original Message -
From: Ricardo (Tru64 User) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
samba then?
Mount a linux filesystem via samba to the inferrior
breed.
Richard
--- David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good point, but it presupposes that the other
comuputer is a Linux box and
not some inferrior breed that doesn't understand scp
;-)
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510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
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- Original Message -
From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Expert List
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
you know what I do when I want to transfer a big
bunch of files?
scp -r big-buncha-files
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/new/home/of/files
You can also use:
scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/big/buncha/files
/new/home/of/files
It's a little more CPU-intensive than FTP'ing
them, but who cares? It's
also a lot easier than installing a temporary FTP
server, especially
since you've probably already got sshd up and
running on at least one of
the boxes.
IMHO the FTP protocol is dying the slow and
painful death that it so
richly deserves. It won't be missed.
Jack
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 07:27, David Rankin wrote:
Worse comes to worse, try:
# vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
service ftp
{
disable = yes
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server =
/usr/sbin/in.ftpd
server_args = -l -a
log_on_success += DURATION
USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice= 10
}
** Change disable to = no
Then
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
ftp away.
THEN DISABLE wu-ftpd and restart xinetd. You
don't want to leave wu-ftpd
up.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
--
- Original Message -
From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:12 AM
Subject: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
I finally got my 9.1 Mandrake working
wonderfully as a server. All my
virtual web pages work wonderfully.. and now I
am ready to open an FTP
connection so I can finish uploading a ton of
files from a different
computer.
Only problem is, I don't know how to get FTP
to work in this version.
I've downloaded PROFTPD and tried to get that
to work, but after a few
questions to the PROFTPD mail list, and a few
days of searching Google
for
help, and reading the PROFTPD faq, I still
can't FTP to my new server.
The people on the PROFTPD mail list won't even
reply to my questions.
Should I even be using PROFTP? What can I do,
if even for a basic FTP
setup, to get FTP to work on my server? I'll
be glad to remove
PROFTPD
and use whatever works.
Any suggestions will be happily appreciated.
James
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Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
Here is a generic conf, works with about 99% of the samba config needs out
there. Canibalize as necessary:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] david]$ cat /etc/smb.conf
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = RB_LAW
server string = RB_LAW Samba Server %v
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = Yes
smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *success*
passwd chat debug = Yes
unix password sync = Yes
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = lpstat
logon script = %U.bat
domain logons = Yes
time server = yes
os level = 34
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
hosts allow = 192.168.7. localhost
min print space = 2000
printing = cups
print command = /usr/bin/lp -d%p -oraw %s; rm %s
lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o%p
lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j
queuepause command = /usr/bin/disable %p
queueresume command = /usr/bin/enable %p
[netlogon]
comment = Rankin-Bertin logon services
path = /home/samba/logon
browseable = No
[Rankin-Bertin]
comment = Rankin-Bertin PLLC
path = /home/samba/rbpllc
valid users = @rbpllc
force group = rbpllc
admin users = david
writeable = Yes
map archive = Yes
inherit permissions = Yes
[homes]
comment = Homes Directory
writeable = Yes
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All the Printing SOB's
path = /var/spool
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
printer = lp
See the O'Rielly online free manual that is part of your samba docs for more
detail on the obscure entries. Then just # /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart
--
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Rankin * Bertin, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
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- Original Message -
From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
trying to figure out why Samba isn't working... two hours
looking for alternatives network transfer mechanisms... one hour
sneaker-netting the data with removable media... six hours
downloading pscp.exe and simply transferring the files... priceless
:-)
I mean, honestly. I've got nearly ten years of earning a living with
computers under my belt, I'm MCSE and LPIC-2 certified, and I've spent
over half my career working with networks and firewalls. I still can't
configure Samba properly on the first try, and usually not on the second
or third either. I know a couple of admins who are comfortable with
Samba, but most admins in my circle fight for hours and days to get it
set up and then stay the hell away from it.
Recommending that a newbie jump in and start hacking smb.conf and
smbpasswd is like asking Jack Black to win an Ironman :-)
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:08, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote:
samba then?
Mount a linux filesystem via samba to the inferrior
breed.
Richard
--- David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good point, but it presupposes that the other
comuputer is a Linux box and
not some inferrior breed that doesn't understand scp
;-)
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David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
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- Original Message -
From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Expert List
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP
you know what I do when I want to transfer a big
bunch of files?
scp -r big-buncha-files
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/new/home/of/files
You can also use:
scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/big/buncha/files
/new/home/of/files
It's a little more CPU-intensive than FTP'ing
them, but who cares? It's
also a lot easier than installing a temporary FTP
server, especially
since you've probably already got sshd up and
running on at least one of
the boxes.
IMHO the FTP protocol is dying the slow and
painful death that it so
richly deserves. It won't be missed.
Jack
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 07:27, David Rankin wrote:
Worse comes to worse, try:
# vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
service ftp
{
disable = yes
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server
Re: [expert] Mail server
Richard Bown grabbed a keyboard and wrote: that friend of my, is wanting to setup a mailserver, on his gateway machine. I use postfix here, which I dont think has any POP retrieval facilities. He wants to be able to run it on his firewall/gateway machine and pull all his mail from the ISP's POP server on to it, then POP it down to individual machines on the LAN.. As I'm going to have to go over there and set up, I'd like some guidance which packages to use. Install the imap package, which includes a POP3 server. Install fetchmail, so that his box can do the POP3 fetch of his mailbox from his ISP. And of course install Postfix. :-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mdk 9.1 / Promise RAID FastTrak 376
Hello all, We are trying to install Mdk 9.1 on a MSI motherboard with a Promise FastTrak 376 (aka 20376 controller). After googling about for a while, we found that there is a lot of noise out there... so by any chance does anybody on this list have: (a) succinct, and (b) actually working instructions on how to do this for Mandrake? TIA, David -- Entropy Requires No Maintenance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba Again !
os level = 34 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:42 AM Subject: [expert] Samba Again ! Hi All, its that dreaded samba time again, two questions which parameter in smb.conf(file name may be wrong) do I set to make sure the gateway machine all ways wins elections for master browser,? my laptop keeps trying to take control. Unfortunately, its got winxp on it as its an old pent 2 266MHz, and it cannot cope with MDK9.1, not enough memory and not fast enough :(( 2.my printer is an Epson C82, nice on linux :)albeit a little slower. the printer on the laptop is set to //firewall/printer and that prints without problems from both my laptop and from win4lin. But, on the laptop if you click on the printer icon, you get the status box with Printer on firewall access denied, unable to connect Any ideas what to look for, or is this just a bit of daft winsoftware.. TIA Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]
before running Audacity and/or Rezound do the following $killall artsd That might get you going. Here's hoping kernel 2.6 and its built-in ALSA support comes and wipes the old OSS Sound way of doing things off the planet for good :) David -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD] On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 1:40 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 05:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Right - this one gave me the clue. I had checked the settings in aumix, but I hadn't realised that I needed to change the Rec to red - should have done. However, now I can get sound easily with the aumix line showing red. As soon as I change to rec I get sound, but with what sounds like someone fast beating on woodblocks at the same time. Any ideas on that one? Anne Hmm, I know that on the SB live that I was using in my 10 yr olds comp; I really, really had to turn the igain (I'm assuming thats input gain???) in aumix way down. It defauts to 100, but I had to turn it down to 8-10 to avoid clipping in gramofile. HTHs! Hi, DarkLord. OK - if I turn igain down to 0 I lose the noise, but even 3 brings it back. I presume it is some sort of feedback, but I don't know what's causing it. Meanwhile, I had looked at Audacity and Rezound, but without success. These are the error messages: Rezound - virtual void COSSSoundRecorder::initialize(CSound*) -- error opening OSS device '/dev/dsp -- Device or resource busy Audacity - Error opening audio device (Change the device in the Preferences dialog.) /dev/dsp is the only entry in the Preferences dialog. Any ideas? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Morphix changed my Login?!
Does your old user still exist on the system? What happens when you boot to runlevel 3 and then type startx? What errors show up? I always use knoppix for linux demos - very nice system... David -Original Message- From: HaywireMac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake Newbs Subject: [expert] Morphix changed my Login?! I booted from the Morphix CD to try it out before I sent it off to someone as a tool to promote Linux. *Supposedly* it will not alter your existing system, but I have found out the hard way that this is not the case. Now my login has changed from my machine name, Node1, to morphix, though I have checked /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network and neither have been altered. The biggest problem is that my X server config has somehow been altered, I'm assuming, because I can no longer start any WM or DE except KDE (and you all know how I feel about that). My XF86Config-4 is unchanged, so I do not know where to go from here in order to get my system back the way it was. I have posted a request for help on the Morphix site, but so far no response. I can assure you I will *not* be recommending this to *anyone* to try out Linux... -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Nasrudin walked into a teahouse and declaimed, The moon is more useful than the sun. Why?, he was asked. Because at night we need the light more. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Vinyl to CD
My wife did this for a Christmas present last year. She used Audacity and was very happy with it... David -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Vinyl to CD I sent this two hours ago, but it hasn't shown, so I'll try again. I need to record some of my vinyl collection as wav files to burn onto audio cd. So far I haven't found anything that is actually reading the input, either from the soundcard direct or from the Audigy front panel. Some time ago someone mentioned the diskwriter plugin for xmms. Can someone give me the file name? I don't seem to have it installed, and can't find it on the list. Is diskwriter likely to help me? Anyone able to suggest a better route? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Virtual servers and the Default server
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 23:49, James wrote: David wrote: :It is usually caused by a misconfiguration in the Directory section for :DocumentRoot. Here is my setting for the devault which is now a virtual server: VirtualHost 63.224.195.57 ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/www/html/vivid-eye/public_html ServerName www.vivid-eye.com /VirtualHost I am assumming that you hava a global document root of: DocumentRoot /var/www/html somewhere? And then there are the global permisions to deal with indexes, cgi access etc etc. I've trimmed it down to that because it wasn't working with all the other extras, but now it is. The subdirectory I am trying to view is /var/www/html/vivid-eye/public_html/james but I get the 403. :The quick workaround would be to define a Directory :section for the directory james whithin either a virtual hosts container :or the global section of the config file. Where would I define a new directory for /james? Do I create a new VirtualHost setup for that all on its own? Or do I just add Directory within the vivid-eye VirtualHost section? Within the original vhost if required, but it al depends if the permission in the global config restrict the permissions in the vhost. Apache reads permission from the global root, if you have a restriction in global root and then release it lower down the directory structure..it will not play, unless you have allowoveride in the global section. HTH. Thanks james franssen __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re-installed mdk 9.1 now unable to use cdrw?
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 06:12, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2003 22:30 schrieb Rolf Pedersen: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 3:33 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: [...] Yes, Anne, I saw that. What I am thinking of is that both the reader, if you have one, and the writer must be scsi-emulated for some apps to work. Here is a post where such advice to make the reader also scsi-emulated for k3b to work is mentioned: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Jul/2997.html I had some similar problem with my ide-writer. The problem is partialy in the ide-cd module wich is loaded before the ide-scsi module. As root I had to unload the ide-cd and the ide-scsi module and after loading ide-scsi again k3b works again (at least on my system). Rolf Martin I have now enabled scsi-emulation on the reader as well and I have been able to burn to disk, however if I try to read the disk in the reader it reports that the drive is locked if I place the disk into the cdrw and then click on the icon for the reader I can then see the contents of the disk even though the disk is in the other drive??? I guess things are a little bit messed up, but never mind at least I can now back up my work and start again. Many thanks for all your help, Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] re-installed mdk 9.1 now unable to use cdrw?
I have been using mdk 9.1 for a number of months now without any problems and of course I got bored and decided to fiddle with the system,BIG mistake, ie update my nvidia drivers,unfortunately I broke the system,no problem I thought all I need to do is re-install mdk and I can still keep all my settings,data etc,this is what I did and everything seemed to work to plan except that I can no longer use k3b it keeps showing the error: No support for ATAPI with cdrdao enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) as far as I know this has been enabled,see lilo below. I also set cdrdao driver to generic-mmc, as advised but still no joy. ** contents of lilo ** boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount acpi=off hdd=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe ** I have also run cdrecord -scanbus and this seems to show everything is ok? [EMAIL PROTECTED] david]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'IDE-CD ' 'R/RW 12x8x32' 'N3.8' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * In the mdk control panel the cdrw is reported to be on the scsi bus and is mounted on /dev/scdo If anyone can help me to resolve this problem i would be most grateful,I just want to be able to back everything up in anticipation of mdk 9.2. Many thanks in advance, David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] openssh-3.7p1 Mandy 9.0
Hi Richard, I've got a MDK 8.2 install at home that runs my firewall. I had the same problem and found (by poking around ./configure --help) that I needed to compile it with MD5 password support in order for me to log into the machine. Compiling with PAM didn't seem to do anything. FWIT, this is what I used to configure openssh $ ./configure --with-md5-passwords --with-privsep-user=-user- After compiling, installing and changing /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd to point to the new daemon, all was well in sshland. Until I had to remember what I did when I had to upgrade to 3.7.1p1 which you should probably do as well. After that, I wrote it down :) Best regards, David -Original Message- From: Ricardo (Tru64 User) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] openssh-3.7p1 Mandy 9.0 Hi ALL, I have a problem with openssh-3.7p1 working on Mandy. It compiles fine, and I perform an install (on /opt/openssh-3.7p1). I can start it fine (link it up to /etc/init.d/..blah blah), so service ssh restart starts it OK. Problem is that then no-one can log in. Keeps complaining about bad passwd!! I have openssh-3.6p1 (compiled version) working OK, and I can log in with it, using same password. My problem is that I HAVE to use the latest and greatest out there, and YES, i know Mandrake has released an rpm patch for 3.6p1. But, with our internal scan, anything running a version identified as vulnerable, even if patched, is flagged. So i have always used locally compiled versions of ssh. Anyone else gone past this problem? Longing for a response/idea/suggestion/recommendation only on getting openssh-3.7p1 to work. _Thanks Richard. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] wma file conversion?
Hello list, Anyone done this before? I was on vacation and managed to have my system automatically capture a radio show and save it off in mplayer's stream dump format, which it identifies as wma. I'm attempting to explode it into a wav suitable for burning, but I can't get the mencoder command to do anything but segfault. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Virtual servers and the Default server
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:19, James wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. It's working now. Everything seems to be fine *except* one last thing. My default is vivid-eye.com and it's serving fine, I just need to rearrange some directories, but the thing that isn't working is a directory called /james My vivid-eye directory is located here: /var/www/html/vivid-eye/public_html/index.html The directory I can't seem to access from the internet is located here: /var/www/html/vivid-eye/public_html/james I've made sure the directory is open, and even chmod 755 to make extra sure, but I get a 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access /james/ on this server. A long time ago I had this problem on one of my boxes, I currently use Debian for my webserver though. It is usually caused by a misconfiguration in the Directory section for DocumentRoot. The quick workaround would be to define a Directory section for the directory james whithin either a virtual hosts container or the global section of the config file. You may have too restrictive permissions in you options section elswhere stopping a URL from descending down from DocumentRoot. Sorry if this is already covered, but I am missing the posts before this one. HTH David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] eth0 doesn't get IP through dhcp - Problem vanished
WOBO, What kind of cable/router is it??? Linksys? Belkin? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836), repealed by Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and the HMO and insurance industry lobby (September 13, 2003). When tyrants ask you to yield one jot of your liberty, and you consent thereto, it is the first link forged in the chain that will eventually hold you in bondage. (Sam Houston). -- - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [expert] eth0 doesn't get IP through dhcp - Problem vanished Bill Mullen schrieb am Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:40:20 -0400 (EDT): On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Robert Thyberg wrote: Have had exactly the same problem, which is why this is being sent by Eudora!! Have 4-port router into a Cable modem. 2 Linux (9.2 rc2 and SuSE) and two Wins (2000 and XP). However mine has not accidently started working again altho I've tried all sorts of things. Reinstall seems to be the only thing to make it work for a while! Ideas?? Since you're using a router and trying to get an IP address from it (as opposed to a direct connection to the modem, where the address would come instead from your ISP), the simplest solution is to not use DHCP at all, and configure yourself a static address. Doesn't answer the why, but fixes the what once and for all ... :) Hmm, sounds reasonable and I used to work with static IPs until I bought this access point/router/switch. I couldn't get it to work with static IPs, only with dhcp. I may start another try when 9.2 final comes out and I switch my machines to the final. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NIC interrupts
Shot in the Dark: Try the NIC in a different PCI slot. Alternatively, go into the BIOS and change to PCI IRQ assignment to get a different IRQ for the NIC. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836), repealed by Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and the HMO and insurance industry lobby (September 13, 2003). When tyrants ask you to yield one jot of your liberty, and you consent thereto, it is the first link forged in the chain that will eventually hold you in bondage. (Sam Houston). -- - Original Message - From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:35 AM Subject: [expert] NIC interrupts Hi All, I've persuaded a friend after a lot of nagging to move over to linux, so he's bought the boxed MDK 9.1. The onboard network card was found but the interface eth0 would'nt come up as it complained the device was busy. So onboard NIC disabled in the bios and a card fitted , realtek 8139 clone. Eth0 comes up OK and data goes out , but not seeing anything incoming. The card is OK , checked on another machine. However the interrupt its using is INT 6, which if I remember correct is the interrupt reserved for the floppy drive. This makes me a little suspicious !, Is there away of forcing the interrupt for the NIC to use,its plug and pray . Thanks Richard -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] tightvnc startup problem?
You might also need to update your qt libs. Look in MandrakeUpdate and you may see an update for qt that mentions vnc... David -Original Message- From: Vincent Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] tightvnc startup problem? Hi, all I installed and started a tightvnc server on an IPC. I can connect to this IPC from another workstation with no problem. But only icewm is available. If I put the following line in xstartup: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm I got a windows manager after connection established. exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde I got nothing. Why I can't get a KDE desktop? Thanks, - Yahoo! http://tw.promo.yahoo.com/mail_premium/stationery.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dynamic dns
HaywireMac grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:25:28 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Check out www.no-ip.com. I use them, and have liked them for some time now. They deal with NAT just fine, and have a Linux updater client. but they charge you for using your own domain name (?!). Personally, I don't have a problem with that. :-) It's not an unreasonable price they're asking. I use them, so I mentioned them as an option. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dynamic dns
HaywireMac grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:11:49 -0700 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Personally, I don't have a problem with that. :-) It's not an unreasonable price they're asking. I use them, so I mentioned them as an option. Nothing against you, or your judgement, intended. :-) I just don't understand why using *their* name is free, while using your own costs $. Because that's how they stay in business, given that they don't force ads down anyone's throat? :-) If Zoneedit is free, and so far reliable, why not? No reason not to. From the initial information posted, I figured that maybe Zoneedit required a Windows-only client to do the update or something. I offered an option that I know of and am happy with. Nothing more. :-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dynamic dns
HaywireMac grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:59:18 +0200 Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Because in one case, they get free advertising (via their branding), in the other case, they do not. Or in other words: they use the freelancers using the branding domain name to attract people willing to pay for using own domain names. I see, but my old domain from noip was nodex.sytes.net, which told no-one anything about NoIP...I fail to see the branding. Sure there is. Someone sees sytes.net and points there web browser there. Know what you get? The no-ip.com login page. :-) However, they are free to do as they choose; but if Zoneedit does it for free, why would anyone choose NoIP?! Because we appreciate the service they provide? By extension: Why would anyone pay for Mandrake, when you can download the entire distribution for free? Or Red Hat? Or SuSE? I don't pay for *every* version of Mandrake that comes out, because I'm terminally broke. :-) Once my finances straighten out, I plan to join the Club. And even with a club membership, I'll still pay for the occasional release. Why do all that when I can get it for free? Because I appreciate the distribution that they provide, and I want to support them how and where I can. Same goes for no-ip.com. I appreciate the service they provide, so I support them with an annual renewal fee that's on top of my domain registration fee. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Video processing box
a 900 MHz processor (though 512MB RAM). I had thought of adding a firewire card to the new box when I buy the new camcorder. Mine's an Athlon 1000 with 256k ram, probably not enough hardware for video editing. I have tried cinelerra off and on with avi and mpeg files I already have (no camcorder). I had planned for 512MB RAM - are you saying that's not really enough? Well, dunno. 256 megs doesnt' seem to be enough. I think 512megs would be enough, but you may be better off with SCSI drives. scsi is quite expensive though. Anne David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
Now a basic question that maybe I'm doing something wrong. When you open a song, there is a blinking cursor across the graph. I would expect this to It does over here. Maybe the zoom isn't set right -- because if the song is long enough, you won't see the progress bar move very much. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 /home in 9.2
add programs and data, will this affect my use of the home directory when I go back to 9.1? Is there a way to access files in one program from the Any changes you make in /home are not part of Mandrake so it wouldn't make much difference if you were to go back to 9.1 from 9.2. That said, there are dot files in your home diredctory which may need upgrading or downgrading, as a result of executing programs in 9.2 and thenn re- executing them in 9.1. One other thing I noticed when I did the upgrade is that the groups got changed around - different gid numbers from /etc/passwd. That can make it a bit difficult if you need to access files in /home. But a quick chown will address that issue - so long as you make sure to get the dot- files and dot-directories to change ownerships along with the rest of the files. Gary David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
Something must be wrong then. It is a 4 minute song and it doesn't matter what the zoom is and nothing I do causes it to progress like it should. Weird. It would seem so. Are you importing the mp3 directly, rr is it in a wav? I'm not at my system now to check these things out -- right now I'm accessing my system via remote ssh from my parent's house and will be on my way to Portland, OR tomorrow. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 01:05, Miark wrote: Today I stumbled across anti-virus software from H+BEDV (a German company) for Linux. It's free for personal use, and was wondering if anyone here had used it, and if so what you think about it. Hi, I have been using this software for about three years on a number of machines on my network. I run the avmailgate integrated as a filter on my mail server. I run it on my file server/s as well. All this is on the 'not for business' licence, and my home network is not business. I have cronjobs updating the patterns every night and I am very happy. One quirk, when the licence runs out on the mailserver, it can stop processing mail, which, the first time it happens looks real weird as you see postfix accepting the mail and then it just disapears. It was only when I ran the avgate program from the command line, the update prog had overwritten the virus def file with a broken one of zero bytes as the auto-update script failed to update because of the licence issue. swoon Bottom line though, it is the easiest and most stable free av program that I have used. The only reason I scan mail/files are that I have a couple of Win2K boxes that the family use. HTH. David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.
Good bye Mandrake I can think of no more assinine way to kill a distribution's reputation than to add to it what 100% of its user loath. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- - Original Message - From: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 2:04 AM Subject: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising. Ya'll read... Ya'll decide. Conversation is on pclinux. probably best to keep it there. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/partners/advertising http://pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=7702 For the discussion please go to the second link... James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.
I appreciate your response, and perhaps I was presumtive in my 100% suggestion. I do see your point. So why don't we all just declare the clean elegance of linux code and distributions dead. Let's all say Hey, it's OK to start down the path of code bloat and incideous little processes running in the background to direct spam to my machine. Say yes, I like the idea of pop-ups and spyware polluting my browser and desktop. And say yes to all the inconvenience just so someone can put another almighty dollar in thier pocket. Get real! Many people look to linux to get away for just this type of annoying BS. Yes, I like and support mandrake. But I am UTTERLY APPAULED at the premise and idea of including incestuos slutty advertising in the mdk distribution. Mdk was a great distro long before the corporatization and focus on $ became its fixation. In my eyes, and I will say in the eyes of many others, the inclusion of unwanted and unsolicited ads, in any form, no matter how easily removed is unacceptable that will make mdk a distribution I would no longer choose to be a part of or support. Hooray for the marketing scum, they have finally found a way to pollute a linux distribution. I guess someone will get a nice fat check for that idea. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- - Original Message - From: Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 12, 2003 11:41 am, David Rankin wrote: Good bye Mandrake I can think of no more assinine way to kill a distribution's reputation than to add to it what 100% of its user loath. Mr. Rankin; I do believe you're making a fairly broad assumption there David, on little or no evidence. In fact I openly stated that I don't care what they do to *survive,* as long as it doesn't become intrusive. If that happens I won't wait to say goodbye; I'll be history and thanks for the memories. So I would appreciate enormously you not trying to speak for 100% of Mandrake users. OK? You don't know what 100% of Mandrake users are thinking. If you claim to you must have political aspirations, or are possibly considering a career in the clergy, since to the best of my knowledge they are the only individuals that make such sweeping statements and broad assumptions just to get their faces Out There. On Faith in other words. So please try not to claim any form of poetic license since that's just a polite word for bullshit. I've also seen posts from some others that lead me to believe that they too would wait to see what happens. If we're running a distribution of GNU/Linux, and we are; and if we're advocating GNU/Linux to friends, family, and business associates, and it seems we all are, then why the Hell are we complaining if a survival mechanism for the distribution we all seem to treasure is instituted so that we can keep working with it and the company responsible for it? If none of us gave a shit we wouldn't be complaining so vociferously, now would we? My own personal mantra doesn't include whining about the way the world is. I'd rather devote my energies to making certain my own little corner of the real world improves. For everyone. For the people that are willing to listen to me around these parts, that improvement includes, and will continue to include for the foreseeable future, Mandrake Linux. If the management of MandrakeSoft have to take drastic steps to insure their corporate survival it must mean they want that as well. I'll say it once more for those that didn't get it yet; As long as whatever the 'Powers That Be' in MandrakeSoft Management do doesn't intrude on me, or those that I advocate the distribution to, I'll back them the way I always have. If it does, _boom!_ I'm gone. Not an ultimatum, a fact. A very *personal fact;* that means nothing in the greater scheme of things. Clear enough? Kind Regards; Charlie Mahan - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-8mdk 11:55:31 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.32, 0.16 Nostalgia is living life in the past lane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Yg5aG11CaRuZZSIRAlpcAKCGRDaiJpIArcAwcwVU4BcN4hv6KQCfQY4x CHeHJ4zSoJr4+N6Eoq5bC/E= =yVGy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
Yep! You are genius! Thanks so much. Now let me ask why I need to do this... Is this because of a bug or the way the application was designed, or is it like a gnome product that I'm trying to use in KDE? I don't think it has anything to do with gnome. Audacity I believe uses some of the gtk+ libraries - it does seem to have that look and feel. But 99% of the time I can get by without needing artswrapper - the other times I can work around it. Only once in a while would something like xmms refuse to play a location because of an arts dependency - and those few times I can reort to mpg123 or some other player. Unfortunately, kaboodle noatun have trouble (cooker with latest KDE) for sometime. But there are alternatives, not necessarily so with audacity. Thanks to EVERYONE for all the help. I do believe I finally have an editor to cut the screech out of my songs. :) Im not a happy camper and I didn't even No, leave it in, it sounds better that way :). But audacity does include quite a bit of tools for audio file editing. I've only managed to scratch the surface. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] root-tail
It is something to do with root-tail, but I can't figure out what it is... :-( Isn't root-tail some feature of reiserfs? Or am I missing sometning here? According to 'man top' it seems -b just sends lines of top through to stdout until a limit has been reached or until the process is killed. HaywireMac David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dynamic dns
Erik Evjenth grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I am migrating from Win XP to Mandrake Linux. My Apache web server is up and running I have a *simple* problem with dynamic IP and DNS: 0. Registered my domain for $7.95 with GoDaddy 1. My DNS is through Zoneedit.com (to support Dynamic DNS) 2. I use Dynamic DNS Client 5.0 to update Zoneedit.com when my IP address changes This all works fine, but I have not found a Linux replacement for Dynamic DNS Client 5.0 Info: My DSL box uses NAT, and is set up to forward http traffic to the web server, so the IP address as seen by the internet is not the same as the actual apache web server address. Guess the WAN ip address of the router can be found with routetrace, or just query the speedstream router. How the IP address is sent to zoneedit.com is unkonwn to me. Check out www.no-ip.com. I use them, and have liked them for some time now. They deal with NAT just fine, and have a Linux updater client. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] asf files / mplayer saving
I'm on a trip in a day or so and am looking for a way to automate recording (via mplayer) of some radio shows while I am gone. The recording I think I can figure out -- using a command like $ mplayer -streamdump foo -cache 128 but I get a file that's ASF. It also (on the site I'm using) gives a monaural signal. When I play the stream back, I can visually see it as stereo in xine. Audacity brings it in but it seems to be corrupted, as all I get out of it is a wierd screech sound that lasts for about two seconds. Also that's what is in my .wav file when I try and export it to wav format using audacity. So there must be some sort of conversion I'm missing. My other option is to do some of this manually through an sshd connection but I don't believe I will have internet access during my trip. Any suggestions? I also need to stop the stream at a predetermined time. I saw a writeup about this, issue #94 of Linux Gazette, although it's emphasizing ecasound and encoding local FM through a radio card. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
my xmms, and every other audio tool I've ever used have never had this problem here. So that is why I was kind of lost. I've never had to use wrappers etc. Kind of caught me off guard. I had remembered reading about wine or something xmms here, pretty much same thing. noatun won't connect, neither will kaboodle (current cooker). noatun complains about a missing arts, and kaboodle sits there doing nothing. But if another tool will do the job, I'll just go use that tool. Just had a wierd experience. Audacity loads just fine. It loads the file just fine, but then when you hit play nothing. ?? No progression of the bar, no I just posted about an issue with it but then I was trying to import an mplayer dump stream directly. That doesn't seem to work. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Not so funny side of spam [was Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring]
Not so funny side of spam: Anne started ending up in my deleted items box after filtering tiscali.co.uk what also has the reputation of a spam site. Don't worry Anne, we will pull you out of the deleted items -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 9:54 pm, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read that page, Kevin. For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue text on black is not easy. Sorry about that. The color has been changed. Thanks for the comment. I didn't want to sound over-critical, but if no-one tells you there's a problem you wouldn't know. I'll pop back and have another look. Thanks for being cooperative. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
you need to update your version of QT. You can do this in your mandrake control center... David -Original Message- From: James D. Parra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:04 AM To: Mandrake-List (E-mail) Subject: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did when 9.1 came out was save my local cooker I concur - audacity is good for mp3/wav editing - provided you have enough spare disk space. If you don't, don't try to save the project as a project file in your home directory. I use /tmp for most everything for that, since I don't have a lot of room left in /home and /tmp has several gigs available (editing roughly an hour's length of wav file will need close to 2.1 gigs of space). But what's 'hackaudacity'? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: WARNING(virus check bypassed): Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 04:54 pm, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read that page, Kevin. For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue text on black is not easy. Sorry about that. The color has been changed. Thanks for the comment. Is this the latest virus warning for the list? -- David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?
messages throughout the University server (correo.um.es) and viceversa, I can't send messages from a computer located in the Uniersity throughout the mail-server at home (smtp.ono.com). Well, here' s a thought.. is your home box set up for ssh? Could you use putty (highly recommended for windows) and just log onto your system remotely from the uni and send mail using elm? Francisco Alcaraz David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation
fdutils, includes among other utilities, superformat. But it's only for formatting DOS file system floppy's. Won't work for an What would be the difference between a 10 sector per track DOS file system floppy and an ext2 fs floppy? I don't mean from a file system standpoint, I know the differences, but from a hardware standpoint, what is it about ext2 that makes it harder to use higher-capacity format disks? Or does superformat simply make a DOS image? You still could make a bigger disk with 'fdformat' and go that route, right? It's been some time since I really used floppies much, so I'm just not understanding this point. I trink 1.6 meg would work but the media could not be all that reliable. I do recall the problems when I first started using Linux - I used to tell people that they had better use known good and reliable disks for the boot/root combos as those were native linux and back then if you had floppies with bad sectors, you were essentially out of luck. Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation
I have done this with a winblows program and still have some disks like this, up to 1.72mb which was very handy at times. I don't know how to achieve this Use a special device for that format you want. I'd suggest first trying # fdformat /dev/fd0h1660 see what happens. Back in the old days and I think that's still true, you'd use the special form of /dev/fd0 (for instance /dev/fd0h1440) when formatting only. As I recall, uppercase H was for 5.25 and lowercase 'h' for 3.5. I don't know offhand what the 'u' is. Maybe 'unformatted' but that doesn't make sense. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients
Specifically, on your linux box, for each user that will connect from XP:
#useradd {whoever}
enter password
#smbpasswd -a {whoever}
enter samepassword
NOTE: the linux, samba and XP usernames and passwords must match as Anne
stated below
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David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only
safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas
Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836)
It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13
--
- Original Message -
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients
On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 5:57 pm, Niclas Jacobsson wrote:
Hi All!
I've got problems setting up a samba server for WinME XPHome
clients. Printersharing works like a charm but file/directory (oops
sorry for the Win-terminology...) sharing seems difficult to get
working. Resources setup with samba show up in explorer at the
client but when accessed I get prompted for password (guest
account) what is this password, where can I find it? and how do I
set this up so that each Windows/client account can access shared
resources without being prompted for pswd?? Is there an HOWTO
somewhere that explains all this in detail?
Thanks!
Niclas
Every user must have an account on your box, and the username and
password must match that on the windows box in every detail - it is
case-sensitive of course. The fact that it's asking for the guest
password suggests that you haven't done this.
Webmin may not be installed - it isn't by default, I think - but it's
worth having.
If you are still having problems after that, paste your /etc/smb/conf
into a message here.
Anne
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Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients
go back and reset the password on the XP box. You may also want to delete the connection to your linux box under my network places on XP -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- - Original Message - From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 5:57 pm, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi All! I've got problems setting up a samba server for WinME XPHome clients. Printersharing works like a charm but file/directory (oops sorry for the Win-terminology...) sharing seems difficult to get working. Resources setup with samba show up in explorer at the client but when accessed I get prompted for password (guest account) what is this password, where can I find it? and how do I set this up so that each Windows/client account can access shared resources without being prompted for pswd?? Is there an HOWTO somewhere that explains all this in detail? Thanks! Niclas Every user must have an account on your box, and the username and password must match that on the windows box in every detail - it is case-sensitive of course. The fact that it's asking for the guest password suggests that you haven't done this. Webmin may not be installed - it isn't by default, I think - but it's worth having. If you are still having problems after that, paste your /etc/smb/conf into a message here. Anne I installed a SAMBA server for a client a couple of weeks ago, I have had untold troubles getting a single XPH client to talk, all the password files were synced, using smbpasswd, passwd and the user on XP were all in sync and same case. It worked until I rebooted on one ocassion! It was really weird! After spending many hours searching web and other sources I have come to the conclusion that networking in general is borked in XPhome. I have a suspicion that it is something to do with WINS resolution, but that is just a hunch as I do not posess a XP box. If anyone is using Samba, and XPhome, I would love to see/hear you tales! David. PS: I gave the client a Win2K box with sharing enabled as a local workaround till I get this sussed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system...
Get down Pierre! Don't beat around the bush, tell us what you think woohooo.. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- - Original Message - From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system... On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:58:06 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you are dual booting 9.1 and 9.2. and your boot into 9.2 is reasonably ok. There are steps that need to be made by you when dual booting linux. Both vmlinuz.2.4.21-XX.mdk and initrd.2.4.21-XX.mdk.img have to be copied from 9.1 /boot to 9.2 /boot. Then you replace the 'vmlinuz' in the 9.1 stanzas with the full name of the vmlinuz for 9.1(given above). Run /sbin/lilo to make this stick. Then you should be able to boot to 9.1 ok. Do the same for 9.1, copying the 9.2 files into 9.1 /boot. It is up to you if you run /sbin/lilo at this stage. Which OS do you want as default? Hopefully your other issues may be solved by this also. Boy... you seem to completely misunderstand how lilo works, and how to use *separate* /boot directories on different partitions... # df (sorted for clarity) FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 485M 67M 393M 15% /# 9.1 /dev/hda5 3.9G 2.5G 1.3G 68% /usr # 9.1 /dev/hda6 485M 110M 350M 24% /var # 9.1 /dev/hda7# swap /dev/hda8 985M 19M 916M 3% /tmp # shared /dev/hda9 485M 62M 398M 14% /92 # 9.2 /dev/hda103.9G 754M 3.0G 21% /92usr # 9.2 /dev/hda11485M 49M 411M 11% /92/var # 9.2 /dev/hda124.9G 3.3G 1.3G 72% /home# shared /dev/hda134.9G 1.1G 3.5G 24% /usr/local # shared /dev/hda145.8G 5.0G 564M 90% /ISO # ** /dev/hda159.8G 34M 9.3G 1% /var/www # shared ** This is mounted by the installer (CD ISO images on this one), so it can't be mounted during the install. I don't use a shared /boot and there is no reason to copy kernel images between partitions -- just *properly* define the lilo stanzas. 9.1 and 9.2 *each* have a /etc/lilo.conf -- while they can't be identical, with appropriate stanzas in each, they can produce the same MBR. Rreread what you snipped and try to understand what happened -- then you should see what Mdk's installer did wrong... On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:26:31 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Loading USB printer modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.22-1mdk/modules.dep (No such file or directory) [FAIL ED] Huh??!!! WTF! That's not the kernel version in my 9.1... # uname -a /snip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Virus guys!
If this is you, you need to detach from the internet and clean your machine! You have been infected by Sobig virus. David. --- Received: from KRIS (ca-dibar-cuda1-c1d-204.anhmca.adelphia.net [24.48.211.204]) by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D4556A1D for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:53:10 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 0:38:50 --0700 X-Mailscanner: Found to be clean Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Virus guys!
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:56, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:34:08PM +0100, David wrote: If this is you, you need to detach from the internet and clean your machine! Just an aside: You *are* aware of the fact, that Sobig Co. pick random From addresses? I got tons of bounces from machines that thought I'd sent them a virus - and I don't even *have* a 'doze box... Yes, the from address is easily spoofed, but this is the transport headers that shows the details of the transaction between the MDK server and the next hop. Less easily spoofed as it was injected into the mail headers by the MDK mail server. David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 5:57 pm, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi All! I've got problems setting up a samba server for WinME XPHome clients. Printersharing works like a charm but file/directory (oops sorry for the Win-terminology...) sharing seems difficult to get working. Resources setup with samba show up in explorer at the client but when accessed I get prompted for password (guest account) what is this password, where can I find it? and how do I set this up so that each Windows/client account can access shared resources without being prompted for pswd?? Is there an HOWTO somewhere that explains all this in detail? Thanks! Niclas Every user must have an account on your box, and the username and password must match that on the windows box in every detail - it is case-sensitive of course. The fact that it's asking for the guest password suggests that you haven't done this. Webmin may not be installed - it isn't by default, I think - but it's worth having. If you are still having problems after that, paste your /etc/smb/conf into a message here. Anne I installed a SAMBA server for a client a couple of weeks ago, I have had untold troubles getting a single XPH client to talk, all the password files were synced, using smbpasswd, passwd and the user on XP were all in sync and same case. It worked until I rebooted on one ocassion! It was really weird! After spending many hours searching web and other sources I have come to the conclusion that networking in general is borked in XPhome. I have a suspicion that it is something to do with WINS resolution, but that is just a hunch as I do not posess a XP box. If anyone is using Samba, and XPhome, I would love to see/hear you tales! David. PS: I gave the client a Win2K box with sharing enabled as a local workaround till I get this sussed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
Joeb penned: Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. I whole-heartedly agree and encourage a slip to foster stability and a polished release if required. I have tried virtually all version of mdk since 7.0. I am still running 7.2 as a server because of the problems that have been left in all releases since 7.2. To call 8.2 a victory in polish I think misses the mark. But to be fair, 8.2 was born during the fight to go from gcc 2.96 to the 3.0X variety that gave all of the major packages headaches or hangovers depending on how you look at it. Bottom line, forget focusing on just getting the next number release out to stay ahead in the numbers game, get the next release out right. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if 9.2 is as clean and reliable as 7.2 was/is, the mdk folks will have hit a home run. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- - Original Message - From: Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying... Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Joeb wrote: Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to get the GUI login screen back I've got to drop to init 1 and then go to init 5. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com There's already been a bug report submitted on it. I think you can also get the dm back by logging in at the console prompt and typing: service -f dm (you will need to be root or su to root). After that, you won't get kicked out of the dm until you reboot and logout the first time. Hopefully, it will be fixed for RC2. Joeb Awesome...thanks Joeb. By the way...when is the scheduled release date of RC2? - -- Mark Hopefully, not until it's finished! It seems that the RC introduced a bunch of problems that weren't in the last beta. Most, but not all seem to be cleared up in cooker. I haven't actually heard of a release date. Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] locked -- ps related stuff
hardware -- overheating, low power, gremlins. Well, it was gremlins in the other system -- actually the power cable to the drives was a bit flaky, so anything that would access the drive (ex. df, ls, etc.) would hang, with a corresponding linear increase in the overall load average. This time, it's different -- and it seems to have gone away in the last urpmi --auto-select. lacking access to /proc would do that -- any difference if root? msec up at 4 or 5? msec is standard; I don't raise it higher. root would hang as well as a user. No difference there. Reboot urpmi seems to have fixed this problem -- now there's no kicker panel on my kde. D*thing came up in twm :( Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] spoofed?
Get a router/NAT/firewall that enables spoof protection. Well, yep. I was hoping for something I could do in software to detect and or stop this gremlin. HaywireMac David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation
Define successful? Doing it without running out of disk space would be successful. Of course, if it actually boots the right partition it would be even better. I've been able to do this in 9.0. LX and I hashed over this; it seems that the kernels are SoBig :) now that there's not enough room on the floopy for syslinux/grub (or lilo)/initrd and the kernel. Boots the system with some problems identifying the CD ROM as an SCSI device with dialogue to change devices, asks does one want to run the configuration Have you done this with 9.2? I may not create a boot floppy the right way? This is also on a standard kernel. 2.4.21-0.13mdk Hmm. How big was that? 1337954 Aug 25 08:47 vmlinuz-2.4.22-1mdk Format floppy to DOS filesystem Place into the floppy drive but do not mount Back in the old days: format floppy cp /boot/zImage /dev/fd0 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdX That's from memory, and I may have the parameters reversed. It was always a trick remembering the order for rdev. The intent is to simply ocpy the kernel onto a good floppy and then rdev it -- this sets the root device, which you'd fill in with wherever your root happened to be. If we go back to that mode, at least the kernel will fit on the floppy by itself. If not, it's time to figure out why the kernels in 9.x are SoBig ;). In particular, lots of stuff is modularized so they're not in the monolithic kernel image. Otherwise, hack drakboot to make disks with more sectors per track than the default DOS format. After all, we aren't running DOS, so why stick with 1.44mb floppies if you can tweak the format for 1.6 meg? Charlie David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
Mates:
Here is another clue that may help get to the bottom of this. Back in
the 7.2 days when Samba 2.0X, 2.1X was comming out, the slow transfer issue
appeared with Win98 transfers. The 2 gig limit was also there. The slow
transfer from win to mdk was discussed as a packet fragmentation or
rabbit pellet packet fragmentation problem by Civileme. The Samba folks
also worked the issue. The issue was evidently resolved for win98, but the
same type of problem could have reared its head again.
I tried to do a archive search for this issue, but for some reason the
archive search daemon would not connect. Anyway, I would suggest an expert
archive search for packet fragmentation or rabbit pellet to get the
history of the issue. M$ may have changed smb just enough to recreate this
condition and the Samba folks may have some more work to do.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
--
- Original Message -
From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote:
Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and
possibly
in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 .
You may also want to try running regedit to do the following:
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current
Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace in the registry
remove {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} .
First I apologize for not reporting what I found yesterday. I had already
tried the top two things to no avail yesterday. I tried removing the above
key and it made no difference at all. As we speak I'm transferring 285MB
of
data from the Linux box to the XP box and it has been 8 minutes so far and
my
guess is that it will take another 9 - 10 minutes. If I do it from my
linux
server and copy it to the xp box, it will blast over in about 2 minutes or
less!!
The above key instructs windows to look for scheduled tasks on the pc in
question (which may slow done browsing by at least 30s).
Also take a look at
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Windows/Windows_XP/?tc=1
, which includes about a hundred windows xp related
sites of tips / tweaks / guides and howtos.
Just some thoughts,
Thanks a bunch Michael. I've started looking them over. As you know, it is
somewhat like looking for a needle in a haystack. I'm home sick today, so
I'll do some more googling to see if someone has come up with a fix
for
this.
If I forgot to mention, SP1 does NOT make a difference for my particular
problem. Also, I'm using mdk 9.1 with out of the box Samba. Nothing
special. I'm running 100Bt Half duplex hub. XP to XP fast. XP to ME
fast.
Linux to XP fast. XP to Linux slow. ??? This one has me stumped.
What
is interesting is I swear when I was running older versions of
Mandrake I
don't recall this slowness. So even though I've bashed XP, perhaps it has
been premature. I just thought of this.
Michael
--
Michael Viron
Core Systems Group
Simple End User Linux
At 04:30 PM 9/1/2003 -0700, you wrote:
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:48 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Greg Meyer wrote:
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using
Samba.
I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not
received
any answers resolving the issue.
When a transfer to or from a Samba box is initiated from a Win2000
box
it flies. When the same transfer is initiated from a Samba box to
either another Samba box, or to a Win2000 box, it crawls at around
1/3
the speed of the Win2000 initiated transfer. Is this expected
behavior?
I think the op of this thread had the slowness going the other way.
Samba to XP is fast, while XP to samba is fast. In any case, it
always seems to be a problem with the configuration of the windows
machines, not the samba machines.
Windows to Samba was only half of my comment. An incorrect Windows
configuration doesn't explain a slow Samba to Samba transfer.
I would agree from smb to smb, but I really don't believe this is an
incorrect windows configuration issue. There is a fundamental issue
that
I believe Microsoft has done to deliberately break or slow samba. I
may
be wrong, but I've not seen a solution yet. I did read somewhere that
you
now
no
longer need netbios resolution for XP to work, but I don't think this
is
the problem. If anything that would help without a wins server. ??
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Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
Brian wrote:
Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex.
If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be
noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc).
Brings up a good point. Specifically, how many hubs are we talking
about? Are there more than 2 hubs between the mdk and XP box? If it's a 1
hub small network, DNS and NETBIOS braodcasts shouldn't be that much of an
issue.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
--
- Original Message -
From: chort [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:44, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
lorne wrote:
On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote:
Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and
possibly
in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 .
You may also want to try running regedit to do the following:
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current
Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace in the registry
remove {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} .
First I apologize for not reporting what I found yesterday. I had
already
tried the top two things to no avail yesterday. I tried removing the
above
key and it made no difference at all. As we speak I'm transferring
285MB of
data from the Linux box to the XP box and it has been 8 minutes so far
and my
guess is that it will take another 9 - 10 minutes. If I do it from my
linux
server and copy it to the xp box, it will blast over in about 2 minutes
or
less!!
This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on
the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the transfer, and you
called it fast (blast). I repeated that behavior in my own setup. I
got the same results when initiating the transfer on my Mandrake box
using Konqueror and command line (cp). I call it slow because when I
initiate the transfer on the Win2000 box, using Windows Explorer, I get
the same transfer done in under a minute. Why the huge difference in
speed?
A two minute transfer for a file that size may be fast compared to a
totally broken setup, but it is still half as fast as it should be. The
question is: what needs to be done to have file transfers initiated in
Linux get the same transfer speed experienced when they are initiated by
Windows?
The same thing can be said for transfers between Linux and Linux. It
experiences the same crippled transfer speed. The common thread being
the transfer is initiated on a Linux box.
Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex.
If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be
noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc).
--
Brian Keefer
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS.
http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents
--
David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
--
- Original Message -
From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
Mates:
Here is another clue that may help get to the bottom of this. Back in
the 7.2 days when Samba 2.0X, 2.1X was comming out, the slow transfer
issue
appeared with Win98 transfers. The 2 gig limit was also there. The slow
transfer from win to mdk was discussed as a packet fragmentation or
rabbit pellet packet fragmentation problem by Civileme. The Samba folks
also worked the issue. The issue was evidently resolved for win98, but the
same type of problem could have reared its head again.
I tried to do a archive search for this issue, but for some reason the
archive search daemon would not connect. Anyway, I would suggest an expert
archive search for packet fragmentation or rabbit pellet to get the
history of the issue. M$ may have changed smb just enough to recreate this
condition and the Samba folks may have some more work to do.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
--
- Original Message -
From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote:
Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and
possibly
in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 .
You may also want to try running regedit to do the following:
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current
Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace in the registry
remove {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} .
First I apologize for not reporting what I found yesterday. I had
already
tried the top two things to no avail yesterday. I tried removing the
above
key and it made no difference at all. As we speak I'm transferring 285MB
of
data from the Linux box to the XP box and it has been 8 minutes so far
and
my
guess is that it will take another 9 - 10 minutes. If I do it from my
linux
server and copy it to the xp box, it will blast over in about 2 minutes
or
less!!
The above key instructs windows to look for scheduled tasks on the pc
in
question (which may slow done browsing by at least 30s).
Also take a look at
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Windows/Windows_XP/?tc=1
, which includes about a hundred windows xp related
sites of tips / tweaks / guides and howtos.
Just some thoughts,
Thanks a bunch Michael. I've started looking them over. As you know, it
is
somewhat like looking for a needle in a haystack. I'm home sick today,
so
I'll do some more googling to see if someone has come up with a fix
for
this.
If I forgot to mention, SP1 does NOT make a difference for my particular
problem. Also, I'm using mdk 9.1 with out of the box Samba. Nothing
special. I'm running 100Bt Half duplex hub. XP to XP fast. XP to ME
fast.
Linux to XP fast. XP to Linux slow. ??? This one has me stumped.
What
is interesting is I swear when I was running older versions of
Mandrake I
don't recall this slowness. So even though I've bashed XP, perhaps it
has
been premature. I just thought of this.
Michael
--
Michael Viron
Core Systems Group
Simple End User Linux
At 04:30 PM 9/1/2003 -0700, you wrote:
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:48 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Greg Meyer wrote:
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using
Samba.
I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not
received
any answers resolving the issue.
When a transfer to or from a Samba box is initiated from a
Win2000
box
it flies. When the same transfer is initiated from a Samba box
to
either another Samba box, or to a Win2000 box, it crawls at
around
1/3
the speed of the Win2000 initiated transfer. Is this expected
behavior?
I think the op of this thread had the slowness going the other
way.
Samba to XP is fast, while XP to samba is fast. In any case, it
always seems to be a problem with the configuration of the
windows
machines, not the samba machines.
Windows to Samba was only half of my comment. An incorrect Windows
configuration doesn't explain a slow Samba to Samba transfer.
I would agree from smb to smb, but I really
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP` On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:04 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:46 pm, lorne wrote: Okay, Maybe a small breakthrough. I transfered the same file both ways. I've not even analyzed it yet, but there is 25% more frames total (without subtracting arps or anything) in the slow than the fast! Not sure yet what else I'll dig up. This may prove useful after all. Here is what I've further dug up. Fast transfer uses about protocols nbss 1/4+ total smb 1/4- total tcp1/2 total Slow transfers nbss 5/8 total smb 1/16 total tcp 1/3? total Very rough and probably don't add up to 100% but definately some differences. The thing that just popped up at me was that the slow transfer from XP window size of 10220. Linux is using 64240. Now is this enough for some clever fellow to tell how to modify Winders? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
Lorne You got me?? Beyond some tangential knowledge of the past packet fragmentation issue and the CIFS protocol, I don't have any rabbits to pull out of my hat. As far as smb is concerned it seems M$'s implementation of smb(CIFS) is new and unique to XP/2000. I suspect in implementing CIFS for XP, M$ has only loosely followed the RFC and has done so by design. The site I posted earlier but can't find now, the ubhix something like that suggests that the CIFS variety of smb has done just that. I don't have a test machine to confirm what you are seeing, but it sounds identical to the samba 2.07 problem that gave win98 fits. Another site that looks promising is http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/samba-optimize.html See 7.2 Socket Options. You may be able to either rule in or rule out the fragmentation issue by follow the test specified. Good luck. -- David C. Rankin Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax For those in Texas - Vote NO to prop 12 on September 13th. They're your constitutional rights. You can either vote NO to keep them or vote yes (or do nothing) and let the insurers and HMO's take them away in the name of corporate greed. Your choice. - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP` On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:29 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:26 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:40 pm, David Rankin wrote: See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 I DID go to a web site to download tweaks. There was a little executable that did allow for increasing the window size. I've not dug back into the registry to see where it made the change, but it has indeed opened up the window size to 62420 now. So now the frame count is the same. That is the good news. The bad news it is just a slow. ??? frame count 9,000 roughly. 65 seconds to copy an 8mb file to linux. From linux to Xp about 5 seconds or less. It went too quickly. What is odd about this web site is that even though it says 2000/XP... virtually all the settings are specific to XP. XP doesn't have those key settings. ?? I doubt I want to add those. I can find no reference to window size on support.microsoft.com either. Odd. OOOPS!! I meant specific to 2000 NOT Xp. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP` On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:04 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:46 pm, lorne wrote: Okay, Maybe a small breakthrough. I transfered the same file both ways. I've not even analyzed it yet, but there is 25% more frames total (without subtracting arps or anything) in the slow than the fast! Not sure yet what else I'll dig up. This may prove useful after all. Here is what I've further dug up. Fast transfer uses about protocols nbss 1/4+ total smb 1/4- total tcp1/2 total Slow transfers nbss 5/8 total smb 1/16 total tcp 1/3? total Very rough and probably don't add up to 100% but definately some differences. The thing that just popped up at me was that the slow transfer from XP window size of 10220. Linux is using 64240. Now is this enough for some clever fellow to tell how to modify Winders? --- -- -- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
Well, you're right about there being something suspicious about the way XP does business. Browsing win98 clients is just slow as sh you know. That's even after the registry tweaks that are supposed to fix the browse problem. Secondly, MS crippled XP to allow no more than 5 simo network connections rendering it useless as an impromptu file server. I have XP pro at home, but it is also on the same box as linux rendering it useless to test the file transfer issue. There is an answer somewhere...and let me know when you find out what it is. -- David C. Rankin Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP` On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:23 pm, David Rankin wrote: Lorne You got me?? Beyond some tangential knowledge of the past packet fragmentation issue and the CIFS protocol, I don't have any rabbits to pull out of my hat. As far as smb is concerned it seems M$'s implementation of smb(CIFS) is new and unique to XP/2000. I suspect in implementing CIFS for XP, M$ has only loosely followed the RFC and has done so by design. The site I posted earlier but can't find now, the ubhix something like that suggests that the CIFS variety of smb has done just that. I've been suspicious of a change in the way XP does business, but can't put my finger on it. I may take my traces to an Extreme engineer and see if he can lay his finger on it. I don't have a test machine to confirm what you are seeing, but it sounds identical to the samba 2.07 problem that gave win98 fits. Another site that looks promising is http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/samba-optimize.html See 7.2 Socket Options. You may be able to either rule in or rule out the fragmentation issue by follow the test specified. I am not seeing fragmentation in the trace. It does do things slightly differently, but I've had a hard time really dissecting it today. I'm going to read and tinker with the above suggestions I think. For now, I'll just have to transfer from linux to xp. I use my mdk box more often anyhow. :) I have the bigger drives in the XP box. Guess I'll just use the XP box for storage. hahaha Good luck. -- David C. Rankin Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax For those in Texas - Vote NO to prop 12 on September 13th. They're your constitutional rights. You can either vote NO to keep them or vote yes (or do nothing) and let the insurers and HMO's take them away in the name of corporate greed. Your choice. - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP` On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:29 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:26 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:40 pm, David Rankin wrote: See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 I DID go to a web site to download tweaks. There was a little executable that did allow for increasing the window size. I've not dug back into the registry to see where it made the change, but it has indeed opened up the window size to 62420 now. So now the frame count is the same. That is the good news. The bad news it is just a slow. ??? frame count 9,000 roughly. 65 seconds to copy an 8mb file to linux. From linux to Xp about 5 seconds or less. It went too quickly. What is odd about this web site is that even though it says 2000/XP... virtually all the settings are specific to XP. XP doesn't have those key settings. ?? I doubt I want to add those. I can find no reference to window size on support.microsoft.com either. Odd. OOOPS!! I meant specific to 2000 NOT Xp. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP` On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:04 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:46 pm, lorne wrote: Okay, Maybe a small breakthrough. I transfered the same file both ways. I've not even analyzed it yet, but there is 25% more frames total (without subtracting arps or anything) in the slow than the fast! Not sure yet what else I'll dig up
[expert] urpmi lccked
This just in 9.2 rc1 cooker... the software manager seems to be broken, and I can't add any sources - was trying to revamp the sources to include the new CDs as opposed to the old ones. Software Manager quietly dies after I tell it where to go for the CD. Also I tried to add in cooker main and contrib and can't get anywyere... so I just removed /etc/urpmi and /var/lib/rurpmi etc. Now the whole urpmi subsystem is hosed. I just want to rebuild it from scratch, include main/contrib/plf as well as the local cd sources list but can't do any- thing now as it just says the thing is locked help David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi lccked
Look for a lock file (.lck ?) probably in the same directory as the urpmi sources or under /var. Then delete it. Nothing there. Well, I fixed at least partially the problem by remaking urpmi directories underneath /var/lib and /var/cache just to be on the safe side. Adding distribution media was not too difficult but I'm not sure I did it properly -- for instance, installing Open Office from the 9.1rc1 distribution media gave 'I can't find it messages because many of the base packages for that are on CD #2. It should have asked to change disks, rather than have me redo the urpmi with cd#2 inserted. I'm off to rebuild the rest of the urpmi database, thanks to plf.zarb.org. Gotta love that site... Richard Urwin David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi lccked
As I said, the problem with the gui does not (for me) preclude using the command line urpmi.addmedia. It might help to replace the files you No, it shouldn't. I figured that it might be easier to add the distribution media (actually replace them, based on new content) with the media manager. I found that adding in the distribution media via urpmi.addmedia will work, but it's failing on asking for a disk change, see my other post to the list on this. rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* ? Not relevant to my situation. It was missing directories. It sometimes helps to do an strace if one comes across some sort of an error message - it's usually going to offer a clue as to what files it's trying to access at that point. In my situation, the urpmi database locked comes from not being able to access the directory /var/lib/urpmi. I created it manually, and it works. But urpmi should have been able to detect the missing files/directories and rebuild from scratch. It would have had to do this following a new install. Did you urpmi.removemedia -a ? Yes, but not the way I should have -- I ended up just removing the /etc/urpmi files :(. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] locked -- ps related stuff
What would cause the following - other than hardware issues - I've only seen this type of behavior a log time ago when I had intermittent power to my HD drives. And that was with an older system. Specifically, any number of ps/w/top or related commands are hanging the shell. urpmi.update -a also hangs the shell. I am in the middle of a backup and so far have had to abort it twice and restart because of this. These processes are blocking so that I end up with a very high load average -- at present it is over 20. Surprisingly, system response is speedy - it's just that the system thinks each of these processes is one that's waiting in the run queue, which of course, they are. Oh well, reboot time again. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?
Bill grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Star Date Saturday 30 August 2003 11:17 am, David Guntner sent this sub-space message. I am trying to use -j REJECT because I want to reject the packet. I also want to log it. However, I see that my problem was that I was trying to do a -j REJECT LOG --log-prefix ... on the command, which resulted in my getting an error message. Apparently you can't specify both. Tell me, if I do it as *two* commands, one with -j REJECT and one with -j LOG, will *both* rules fire when an offending packet comes in? I.E., will it reject the packet and then log it? Or will it only act on whatever rule was entered first/last? Good question. Im still trying to see when I get a droped packet form an ip that I have set to have its packets droped when it trys to connect. Its an email server that has been sending out those .pif virus files. I get logs for everything but havnt seen any that say droped. Maybe someone here on the list knows whats up for that. Well, I kept digging through the man page, and found a note that said that if you want to log packets that you're rejecting, put in two rules. The first one should be the LOG rule, then the second should be the DROP or REJECT. So I guess the answer is found! :-) I also use colorlogs.pl to colorize my log while I am using tail -f this way I can see when I get a hit for iptables. I have it set for bright red and if someone logs in as root it set as blinking bright red That sounds like a useful utility. Where can I get it? I could still use an answer to that last question. :-) I tried searching freshmeat.net, but a search for colorlogs.pl didn't turn up anything. Do you remember where you got it? --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?
Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:51, David Guntner wrote: I'm setting up some iptables rules to block certain kinds of packets on my ML 9.1 machine. The man page talks about logging options to have it log to the syslog, but I can't seem to figure out the exact syntax to make it work. No matter how I try, I keep getting a bad option message in response. Does anyone know what the actual syntax is on an iptables command to have it log when that particular reject rule is fired? --Dave man iptables /log keep hitting / until you see something helpful. there is a page full of options. I already did that, hence the statement that the man page talks about logging options. :-) Problem is, there are no practical *examples* of the syntax to use, and my reading of the section on logging didn't yield anything I could use. Hence my request here for an example syntax to use. You've already got shorewall on there, it'll be a lot faster and safer to just use it. Shorewall would be great if I wanted all kinds of fancy firewalling. But I'm behind a DSL router and that takes care of the vast majority of my needes. But I need to put three rules into iptables to take care of a specific need. The rules are already in place, in fact. However, I would like to be able to log traffic that's blocked if I can. So if you have some information on what the correct syntax is, I would appreciate an example - because I can't seem to come up with a syntax that works, going off of the man page. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?
Bill grabbed a keyboard and wrote: You can look on the web for iptables log which is where I found what I use. -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m limit --limit 10/hour -j LOG --log-prefix IPTABLES UDP-IN: Ah, ok. Now I see what I was doing wrong. I am trying to use -j REJECT because I want to reject the packet. I also want to log it. However, I see that my problem was that I was trying to do a -j REJECT LOG --log-prefix ... on the command, which resulted in my getting an error message. Apparently you can't specify both. Tell me, if I do it as *two* commands, one with -j REJECT and one with -j LOG, will *both* rules fire when an offending packet comes in? I.E., will it reject the packet and then log it? Or will it only act on whatever rule was entered first/last? I also use colorlogs.pl to colorize my log while I am using tail -f this way I can see when I get a hit for iptables. I have it set for bright red and if someone logs in as root it set as blinking bright red That sounds like a useful utility. Where can I get it? Thanks for the info! --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
