Re: [expert] Linuxconf
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 14:52, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 10:40 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: snip What a horrible shame! It's really the only front end for a lot of network configuration. What are the problems? I didn't find any bug reports on Cooker Bugzilla or bugs.mandrakelinux.com, or discussions in the mailing list for the last 3 months... Mandrake has completely changed it's network configuration files from what linuxconf expects. So everything gets borked if you try to use it. If you want to use it, you have a lot of work to do to make sure the right stuff is installed and the config files are in the right place. Unfortunately, if you know enough to fix it, you know enough to not need it. For networking configuration, try the drakconnect applet in Mandrake Control Center. Fortunately, that applet is much better now and makes netconf unnecessary IMO. Webmin works well with Mandrake9.2 as well, making ease of adding static routes, sub interfaces, etc it far superior to Linuxconf Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Exporting/transfering kmail filters?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can any one tell me what file would contain kmail filters? I would like to copy all my laptop settings for kmail over to my desktop and avoid manually entering all filters again. praedor .kde/share/config/kmailrc - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uNWrBn4EFUVUIO0RAg21AKCScIM9+WtvUwkR4I/I57VrDGTuOACgzO6T LxUdZZ7X/CXHu33LdSXBQgM= =lmP6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:20, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a firmware update available on their site. Install that first and you should be OK. HTH Given that VMWare allows direct hardware access I would go with Anne 216 days is a lot to lose yes, but your going to lose it anyway when you consider that you'll have to replace the drive. Console yourself in this one. The current record is 4.6 years and climbing. (A FreeBSD box.) So although it's nice. We pale in comparison. (I just took down one with 192 days uptime. Kernel upgrade.) $ uptime 2:44pm up 154 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.05, 0.02 This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie wrap limit... - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uNhhBn4EFUVUIO0RAs7gAJ9qeSsLznqDhysEu3rHHP3liJaWiACgkcbJ Wi7BdM8Sp1IwueG0bq0Hho8= =7R7l -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Novell acquires SuSE!! What does this mean for Mandrake?
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 02:17, Robert Fox wrote: Would it have been better if Mandrake were acquired instead? I think not, sometimes when buy outs happen the activity in the projects seem to stop, Novell have been buying, they have purchased Ximian, now Suse Now on a different sight what the relationship between Mandrake and HP? Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Packet writing to CDRW
Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which can be written to on the fly. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/001207.html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can see with decent packet writing setup, the old floppy drive will no longer used, I hate floppies. (Hey so much for the LG CD readers) :) With the new Kernel that Mandrake now suppling does that support packet writing or did they pull it out? Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 06:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The url below does not work. LeRoy On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100 Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which can be written to on the fly. Cheers Mark Saved this link which someone used to good effect. http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt Are you ex Ericson NZ, Mark? I seem to recognise the name. -- Michael __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
Wow, I will keep the original kernel that has the packet drivers.. unless I get a LG-Cdrom, that's unlikely. Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 10:03, Thomas Backlund wrote: Mark Williamson kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 30 Lokakuu 2003 00:22): Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/001207 .html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can see with decent packet writing setup, the old floppy drive will no longer used, I hate floppies. (Hey so much for the LG CD readers) :) With the new Kernel that Mandrake now suppling does that support packet writing or did they pull it out? It got pulled out... no reason to take another chance for now... I'll readd the new patches to my kernels sometime in the next couple of weeks -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Not all Mandrake 9.2 mirrors are the same
Hi Anton, I already know about the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ site, but my point was check out the mirror that you are using, as they are not all the same, e.g. http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ contains half the amount of files than the mirror at http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ both the mirrors are listed on http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ site, and can be selected in the source main section.. people could be confused thinking that those 2 mirrors are the same. I have noticed that some of the mirrors have a cut down main section. Cheers Mark On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:14, antonovich wrote: Mate, If you haven't yet then go to the plf.zarb.org site and follow the instructions for setting up urpmi. There are various different kinds of repository (or whatever its called). Some have what is on the disk, some updates, some illegal stuff (like stuff to allow watching dvds, which is illegal!, no worries about viruses though...its pretty much the mandrake people it seems to me...or people pretty close anyway), some other java stuff and the great contribs. There may be some variation in what you get on the different mirrors (eg planetmirror, club-internet, etc) but I'm not sure. It has been a bit of a nightmare finding the kernel-source files, that are definitely NOT everywhere. Hope this is fairly close to the mark...If you just want repositories (no urpmi)then this should at least make clearer what the options are. Cheers Anton Mark Williamson wrote: Hi Everyone, Just working out the mandrake mirror situation, especially i like the extras such as the contrib stuff, and other extras that are normally in the Mandrake mirror such as http-naat .. O.K. in the past I have been using http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/9.2 but the mirror there this time is very differnet, it's really just a mirror of the continence of the download edition of Mandrake 9.2, no contribs etc.. I have checked out http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/ it's a very different mirror, does anyone know what's happening with the mirroring of Mandrake 9.2, and what would be best mirror to use for someone in Australia, definitely public.planetmirror.com is not a good mirror for Mandrake 9.2. Is there 2 forms of mirroring out there? is any other mirrors like Planetmirror? Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print Accounting
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 23:35, Mauricy Maiorino wrote: Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing Accounting. I think a CUPS, but workstations Windows they would have that to be entered. Anybody knows some system that made this in Mandrake?? Sorry my English!! Mauricy Not quite sure what you are after, but for something a little more sophisticated check out Printbill http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~daniel/software/printbill/index.shtml Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] WindowManker Menu
Hi All, I am not really a WindowMaker user, but sometimes I like looking at different Window Manages, but when i go into WindowMaker, I get a error The Applications Menu could not be loaded. Look at the console output for a detailed description of the error Does anyone knkow of a simple fix for this? Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Not all Mandrake 9.2 mirrors are the same
Hi Everyone, Just working out the mandrake mirror situation, especially i like the extras such as the contrib stuff, and other extras that are normally in the Mandrake mirror such as http-naat .. O.K. in the past I have been using http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/9.2 but the mirror there this time is very differnet, it's really just a mirror of the continence of the download edition of Mandrake 9.2, no contribs etc.. I have checked out http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/ it's a very different mirror, does anyone know what's happening with the mirroring of Mandrake 9.2, and what would be best mirror to use for someone in Australia, definitely public.planetmirror.com is not a good mirror for Mandrake 9.2. Is there 2 forms of mirroring out there? is any other mirrors like Planetmirror? Cheers Mark -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [Q] Time to marry 9.2 with a new laptop ... + semi-rant
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:29, stefmit wrote: Anyway - besides the above - that may end up as just one of those unanswerable questions_rants ;) - does anybody on this list have a positive experience with 9.2 on a very recent / higher end model of laptop My brand new latitude D600 was problematic. So much so that I switched distros after 5 happy years with Mandrake. I have 4 different computers with AC97 sound cards. Each of them were a pain with Mandrake. I finally gave up. On my new Dell, Mandrake couldn't even see the PCMCIA bus. -Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Crompressed disk image or doublespare like for Linux
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:56, Gary Hodder wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:45, Mark Williamson wrote: Hi All, Just wondering if there is a hard drive, of better still, a directory compression scheme, that can be mounted, something like the old dos double space.. I remember its nickname, double trouble. I know there is cloop kernel module but is there anything else out there. Cheers Mark Williamson yes, its called a bigger hard drive ;) Not really, I was planning it for a backup device, which could be Rsynced, I have yet to look right into it.. there is already a number of on the fly disk compressions that can be used.. such as what's on the knoppix CDs etc, I know there is something out there suitable, it's just a matter of finding it Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Crompressed disk image or doublespare like for Linux
Have found some things http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue18/e2compr.html http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/deepak/papers/spe99.html I even found some info about cramfs still researching. Cheers Mark On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 21:02, Mark Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:56, Gary Hodder wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:45, Mark Williamson wrote: Hi All, Just wondering if there is a hard drive, of better still, a directory compression scheme, that can be mounted, something like the old dos double space.. I remember its nickname, double trouble. I know there is cloop kernel module but is there anything else out there. Cheers Mark Williamson yes, its called a bigger hard drive ;) Not really, I was planning it for a backup device, which could be Rsynced, I have yet to look right into it.. there is already a number of on the fly disk compressions that can be used.. such as what's on the knoppix CDs etc, I know there is something out there suitable, it's just a matter of finding it Cheers Mark __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] question on VPN's
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:27, James Sparenberg wrote: All, Ok I'm planing the IT section for a new company. As such I've got a ground up ability to do it as right as I possibly can . the first time. Initial load will be about 20 people (Mixed windows and Linux to start adding other Unix as needed.) with a ton of data storage needed. (RD group) Now I'm planning on a RAID array for data storage with Samba/NFS for storage/sharing of data files. (Data Only no applications.) The questions I have are. 1. What VPN software do you recommend for a mixed Linux/Unix/Windows environment? IPSEC Freeswan To setup it up with the M$ Win2000 http://vpn.ebootis.de/ Windows XP/2000: http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/ipsec-x509.php Yep to install it's urpmi freeswan There is a really nice front end for setting it all up including the firewall and freeswan stuff, is a package called httpd-naat, urpmi httpd-naat urpmi naat-frontend-www-doc urpmi naat-frontend-www-en Standard Mandrake packages, they are not on the CDs, but they are on the Mandrake mirrors You also must have installed shorewall urpmi shorewall There will be a little fiddling but the results will be excellent, the httpd-naat stuff is some of Mandrakes best kept secret. 2. Looking at RaidZone Raid servers. Any info? No idea, I have never been a total fan of the hardware RAID controller stuff, I have heard some good news about the 3ware stuff but that's about it. I quite like software raid, like at any time you can take one drive out, read the single drive with a standard IDE controller. Another feature of software RAID at anytime you can cat /proc/mdstat and see if your RAID is still together. 3. Anything better than VPN for Data Sharing in Windows (2000 btw maybe XP but I hope to avoid that nightmare.) It's a pity that shfs does not work for M$ machines, mapping HDs via VPN suck.. 4. Would you if you could go all laptop for your developers and other Engineers. It's a great idea, but they are very easy stolen, and people seem to loose them. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] question on VPN's
Hi James, Just something that I nearly forgot, since your about to play around with IPSEC.. It's about module bug in the IPSEC and Mandrake 9.1 hopefully it's fixed in Mandrake 9.2 O.K. it's a work around, from a post I spotted some time ago, and it does work. --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-10 22:23 --- Confirmed bug still exists in kernel 2.4.21-0.15mdk. I didn't fancy recompiling the kernel so I made a workaround. *) Make a backup of the original module: cd /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.XXmdk/kernel/net/ipsec/ cp -a ipsec.o.gz ipsec.o.gz.bkp *) gunzip ipsec.o.gz *) vi -b ipsec.o (edit in binary mode) Search for the string gcc2. Replace with gcc3. Write back the file. *) gzip -9 ipsec.o The modified kernel module should now load fine, e.g. with: service ipsec restart Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:38, James Sparenberg wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! James Hmm your the lucky ones, no matter what I try I get Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error 404: Not Found Now I am on the Optus cable network in Australia, can't quite workout what is the problem, I have tried everything, but the Optus network does block some ports.. I wonder, there is even a mention of Australian users on the club site..I will have a couple more trys.. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.
Hmm your the lucky ones, no matter what I try I get Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error 404: Not Found Now I am on the Optus cable network in Australia, can't quite workout what is the problem, I have tried everything, but the Optus network does block some ports.. I wonder, there is even a mention of Australian users on the club site..I will have a couple more trys.. Your ISP is probably forcing you through a transparent proxy, so the tracker cannot get your real ip address. There is a lot of discussion on the Club about this. Yes you are correct, may be they should have used a different port than 80, surely Australia is not the only country to have transparent proxys, on some of their ISPs. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members. (GOOD NEWS)
Hi Everyone, Looks like the Mandrake club has fixed the transparent proxy issue, via downloading the mytorrent-(userid).torrent file using a different port. I am now downloading the and uploading the ISO, excellent stuff.. it's coming down at 50K/sec and some times shooting to about 80K/sec, maybe it will get even quicker when more people get to start downloading it. Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 01:19, Tibor Pittich wrote: On 15. October 2003 at 10:29, Greg Meyer wrote: Your ISP is probably forcing you through a transparent proxy, so the tracker cannot get your real ip address. There is a lot of discussion on the Club about this. doesn't help this option? --ip/-i arg ip to report you have to the tracker. (defaults to '') -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Crompressed disk image or doublespare like for Linux
Hi All, Just wondering if there is a hard drive, of better still, a directory compression scheme, that can be mounted, something like the old dos double space.. I know there is cloop kernel module but is there anything else out there. Cheers Mark Williamson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java/Mozilla problems SOLVED
Gonzalo Avaria wrote: It is solved... i followed the directions given at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/08/3/82831 That´s all, thanks for the time. Gonzalo On Thursday 02 October 2003 20:30, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi everyone. i need some help here please...(I know that this isn´t a MDK specific question, but maybe you can help me) i downloaded the file jre131_02.xpi from the nestcape FTP. I run it as root by mozilla /home/gonzalo/jre131_02.xpi where it installed with a successful status. The problem is that if i run mozilla 1.4 i get the following error LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: __vt_17nsGetServiceByCID] i tried the symlink ln -s /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins but recieved the following: ln: `/usr/local/mozilla/plugins//libjavaplugin_oji.so': File exists I tried with the install of the mozilla 1.3, on the directory /usr/lib/mozilla-1.3/plugins and it worked. any ideas?? Good information...thanks for the link. -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm (OT)
Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 10:21:21PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah well, maybe someone smarter than me can port vi to palmos... =) See, we're on the same page here - c'mon 'someone', get to portin' =) Seriously though, it seems we have similar problems; cost too much for the ones that do what you want. By the time you outfit one to do the things you want, you're about $100 shy of a brand new laptop. I did check out that ssh client for Palm though, I didn't have much luck with it. Well, I have to make my palm do a net connection over bluetooth before I can attempt the ssh thing. I really should have gotten the 802.11b version. sigh Would have solved that problem easily. The thing is, for me at least, justifying the cost of these critters. The one you've just mentioned likely costs around $600. For that kind of money I might as well purchase a laptop and get all the functionality I'd need as opposed to a small and very resource limited palm pilot which is really only designed to be an electronic databook. The way they're going though puts me in mind of where cell phones are going. One of my sons recently purchased a $500 T-Mobile unit that he can get internet based news, text messages, email, and it darn thing also takes pictures! for pete's sake...its a Phone! And his reception is terrible. I have a little nokia that only does phone calls and can receive text messages through ATTT and I haven't been any place where I can't get reception. ( it cost $40 ) -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] By the way ( was: More list problems?)
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 09:47 am, Mark Weaver wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:54, Mark Weaver wrote: snip The best software/hardware/anything rarely wins. After all. . there is windwos James but why is that? It's the PHBs. They're everywhere. Always remember that Dilbert is not fiction. -- cmg PHB's? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba Again !
James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 07:11, David Rankin wrote: os level = 34 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes Only reason I use 65 is that I read somewhere in my FreeBSD days that anything less wouldn't win out over NT. kept using it ever since. James I've been running Samba on my LAN for over a year now and I've no idea what you're talking about. I have a feeling I'm about to learn something very interesting. What is it you're talking about? I've got two workstations connecting to the samba server, ( XP Win98 ) and I've never had any of the issues that have been mentioned. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix - How to block a domain
Thomas Deutsch wrote: Hi How can I block a domain in my postfix. Exaple: I don't like to recieve mails from default.com. So where can I block default.com? greetings Hi Thomas, Go this address: http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/ It will explain everything you need to know. Thanks to Pierre for putting this on the net. I don't get spam anymore! :) LOVE IT. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Vim
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, The following problem is only present in Mandrake so it is not totally OT. It doesn't occur in a Debian installation I have on the same machine. Hardware: 512M memory, P4 2.4GHz. Mandrake Linux 9.2RC2 (same problem occured in 9.1) vim-enhanced 6.2-11mdk GNOME 2.4 (same problem occured in GNOME 2.2) Holding a character or cursor key down to print a line of characters or to move through lines or holding down the backspace or delete key to erase a row of characters results in jumpy performance. After a short while (10 to 12 characters) the curser stops, the light of my hd blinks once and then the cursor jumps forward (or backward) because it reads in the keybuffer. This is annoying because it sometimes deletes more than I want or prints more than I want. This shows only in the configuration listed above and only in vim. I tested emacs and gedit and some other editors, also internal editors of mail apps and OpenOffice. Normal behaviour everywhere except in vim. I looked at the .vimrc but there's nothing there which may result in such a problem. wobo wobo, I'm not sure this is a problem specific with VIM. I say that because I haven't noticed this behavior in Vim, but have seen Bluefish exibiting this very behavior. I too am running Mdk9.2RC2. I saw the same behavior in the same program in RC1 as well. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba Again !
HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:58:16 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've been running Samba on my LAN for over a year now and I've no idea what you're talking about. I have a feeling I'm about to learn something very interesting. What is it you're talking about? I've got two workstations connecting to the samba server, ( XP Win98 ) and I've never had any of the issues that have been mentioned. I'll take a stab, since I'm supposed to be an MCSE... ;-) In a Windows domain, as opposed to workgroup, there is a Domain Master Browser which controls the network directory structure and/or routes to shares. If there is more than one domain controller, the network will occasionally hold elections to decide who is the Master Browser, based on conditions I now forget. If you are not running a domain, no such elections would take place, and even if you were running a domain, the Samba server would need to be configured as a domain controller, not simply a file and print server. How'd I do? not bad. what you said brought back memories of my NT server class in college. Don't remember much from the class, but what you said makes sense and gives me an idea of whats going on. So, the higher the value set for the os level field assigns greater weight to the domain controler? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba Again !
HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:06:50 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'll take a stab, since I'm supposed to be an MCSE... ;-) In a Windows domain, as opposed to workgroup, there is a Domain Master Browser which controls the network directory structure and/or routes to shares. If there is more than one domain controller, the network will occasionally hold elections to decide who is the Master Browser, based on conditions I now forget. If you are not running a domain, no such elections would take place, and even if you were running a domain, the Samba server would need to be configured as a domain controller, not simply a file and print server. How'd I do? not bad. what you said brought back memories of my NT server class in college. Don't remember much from the class, I mostly remember doing nasty broadcasts using net send and playing Freecell... yeah...I spent a lot of time ribbin the instructor about Windows vs. Linux and the fact that the way NT wants one to do things was more work then it needed to be. What takes him 10 boxes to do I can with one and still have plenty of resources left over to play games on, program and compile, and take care of server stuff. -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Vim
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:23:36AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: I'm not sure this is a problem specific with VIM. I say that because I haven't noticed this behavior in Vim, but have seen Bluefish exibiting this very behavior. I too am running Mdk9.2RC2. I saw the same behavior in the same program in RC1 as well. Hm... Could that be some GTK 2.x problem? (wild guess...) AFAIR, both vim and bluefish use it. Cheerio, Thomas Thomas, I think you're on to something. -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm
James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:01, Mark Weaver wrote: Vincent Danen wrote: Your wife won't let you haul around the laptop either, eh? =) Well, I just spent some time googling and the closest I've come is a version of vim for WinCE (I knew I should have gotten that HP thingy instead of the Tungsten). There's one for the Zaurus as well, which wasn't available when I got my Tungsten (well, not available to me anyways). Quite disappointing. The closest thing is some html editors for the palm... not even close to what I want. =( yep... I once took a laptop on vacation with us and you should have seen that face I got! *shiver* Dang ... and your still alive!!! man you must be fast. *grin* James Not all that fast...just have good instincts and can hide well. :) -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm (OT)
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 22:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then there are fools like me who have Linux running on a Palm III . Not that I use it much anymore. Having to much fun with my laptop. James So how hard was that to set up? And did it have all the function of the palmos? Lost the keyboard. otherwise a bit more functionality. Wasn't hard at all a company alive then (don't know now) called LinuxDA had a CD I could buy. I did It installed without a hitch Only worked on the palm V and the IIIx btw. James well heck! I was a ready to spring for one till I saw how much they cost. darn it! I'll check ebay... -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] By the way ( was: More list problems?)
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:54, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: In the last couple of days I have suddenly found that I am seeing lots of replies for which the original post never arrived - one of them my own. I had not been having that problem previously - at least not for ages. Is anyone else experiencing new problems of missing posts? Anne I don't understand why they don't switch from Sympa to mailman. I never have any weirdness like this going on with the lists I admin using Mailman. I did, however have weirdness with MajorDomo ( what a PITA ) and getting Sympa to run and behave itself was far more trouble then its worth. IMHO The best software/hardware/anything rarely wins. After all. . there is windwos James but why is that? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Those sms messages
Anne Wilson wrote: Going back through some of my old posts, I came upon the thread where I tried to find out why kmail's pop filter didn't work on them. Bryan suggested that maybe the originator was not the .ru name that we saw. Looking again at the headers the originator appears to be anydomain [10.2.131.4]). Passing this to whois brings up NetRange: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 CIDR: 10.0.0.0/8 NetName:RESERVED-10 NetHandle: NET-10-0-0-0-1 Parent: NetType:IANA Special Use NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG Comment:This block is reserved for special purposes. Comment:Please see RFC 1918 for additional information. Comment: RegDate: Updated:2002-09-12 Is this just that it is reserved for the cellphone range, or does it mean something more? Anne Hi Anne, The Ip address: 10.2.131.4, is an intranet address. much like 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.255 --- LAN address. Its not an address block that is used on the internet. That is what the whois server is telling you. Here's the info I got back from whois.ripe.net: === inetnum: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 netname: IANA-ABLK-RESERVED1 descr:Class A address space for private internets descr:See http://www.ripe.net/db/rfc1918.html for details country: NL admin-c: RFC1918-RIPE tech-c: RFC1918-RIPE status: ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED remarks: Country is really worldwide remarks: This network should never be routed outside an enterprise remarks: See RFC1918 for further information mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-lower:RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20020129 source: RIPE role: RFC1918 Role address: Singel 258 address: 1016 AB Amsterdam address: The Netherlands e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] trouble: See http://www.ripe.net/db/rfc1918.html admin-c: RFC1918-RIPE tech-c: RFC1918-RIPE nic-hdl: RFC1918-RIPE mnt-by: RFC1918-MNT changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20020121 changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20021218 source: RIPE = So, this means that its the originating address in so far as it's the LAN Ip address of the machine the message came from. It would appear that they're not natting their Ip's as they leave the LAN bound for the internet. The more common one seen when this is the case is (localhost: [127.0.0.1]). -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More list problems?
Anne Wilson wrote: In the last couple of days I have suddenly found that I am seeing lots of replies for which the original post never arrived - one of them my own. I had not been having that problem previously - at least not for ages. Is anyone else experiencing new problems of missing posts? Anne Hi Anne, I too am experiencing this strangeness. I can see responses to my posts, bvut the original posts themselves seem to be falling into the ether. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] By the way ( was: More list problems?)
Anne Wilson wrote: In the last couple of days I have suddenly found that I am seeing lots of replies for which the original post never arrived - one of them my own. I had not been having that problem previously - at least not for ages. Is anyone else experiencing new problems of missing posts? Anne I don't understand why they don't switch from Sympa to mailman. I never have any weirdness like this going on with the lists I admin using Mailman. I did, however have weirdness with MajorDomo ( what a PITA ) and getting Sympa to run and behave itself was far more trouble then its worth. IMHO -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm
Vincent Danen wrote: hehehe... well, my wife knows not to argue about laptops on vacation... I don't go anywhere for a long period of time without my machine. I remember last year going to the mountains with my dad and brother... brought my ibook with me and it went hiking around the rockies with me. Man am I glad I was carrying that little sucker and not my old Toshiba satellite! That 5lbs got heavy after a while! Say Vincent, while I'm thinkin about it...how's come the Mandrake list software is Sympa instead of Mailman? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm
Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 11:58:32AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: hehehe... well, my wife knows not to argue about laptops on vacation... I don't go anywhere for a long period of time without my machine. I remember last year going to the mountains with my dad and brother... brought my ibook with me and it went hiking around the rockies with me. Man am I glad I was carrying that little sucker and not my old Toshiba satellite! That 5lbs got heavy after a while! Say Vincent, while I'm thinkin about it...how's come the Mandrake list software is Sympa instead of Mailman? It started originally as sympa and never changed. The only reason I got the mandrakesecure lists running under ezmlm-idx is because I use qmail on the mandrakesecure.net server. That will likely change in the future, however. I plan to move the mandrakesecure lists to exim and mailman and at that point can demonstrate that mailman is all we need. (I, too, have been requesting a change from sympa for years). The only thing stopping me from doing that today is the need to get my own exim config down pat first... I have to do some major hacking to get TMDA to sit in front of mailman so that spam is non-existant. Right now, my own mailing lists are subscriber-only, but that still ends up with a lot of spam sitting in the moderator queue. With qmail and ezmlm-idx it was a piece of cake, with exim and mailman it's a little more challenging. Interesting. But since you use Qmail as opposed to Postfix, won't Qmail filter the spam as easily as Postfix does? I use postfix on my Mandrake 8.2 server and can't remember the last time I got any spam. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More list problems?
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:47:45 -0400 Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: I'm in direct contact with Charles Duval @ Mdk... from a trace this s/Duval/Davant/ # early morning brain fart... morning, I'm suspecting another site in Paris may be corrupting DNS for one of their list servers... This is looking like it may the source of all the delivery failures I'm seeing here. I replied to the And next ? thread relatively early Sunday, and neither my post nor any in reply to it ever as yet has showed up here. It turns out that the problematic list server is correctly defined in Mdk's DNS; however, it randomly disappears from other servers across the 'net... at the moment, it looks like DNS may be being polluted by lost-oasis.net Charles is in contact with their ISP -- waiting to hear back... Hopefully, this might clear up a number of list problems fingers crossed. Hi Pierre, I've been seeing lost-oasis.net a lot in my logs lately where my DNS server is resolving things. Whats up with that? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] By the way ( was: More list problems?)
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:54:34 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why they don't switch from Sympa to mailman. Mark, If the problem is indeed DNS related as I indicated in other posts, switching would likely not solve much... that is indeed very true. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I want VI on my visor - anyone got it? I've been searching ever since I got my visor about a year and a half ago, but nothing... mike Hi Mike, I admit its a novel idea, but why? writing on a visor is hard enough. throw VI into the mix and I have a feeling the visor would die, or VI on the visor would die. Either way something would be dead when its all said and done. Don't get me wrong now. On my desktop and on my servers there's nothing like VI for coding or the quick ssh editing session. I just can't see that happening on a visor. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm
Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 09:18:50PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Hey all, I want VI on my visor - anyone got it? I've been searching ever since I got my visor about a year and a half ago, but nothing... mike Hi Mike, I admit its a novel idea, but why? writing on a visor is hard enough. throw VI into the mix and I have a feeling the visor would die, or VI on the visor would die. Either way something would be dead when its all said and done. Don't get me wrong now. On my desktop and on my servers there's nothing like VI for coding or the quick ssh editing session. I just can't see that happening on a visor. I dunno... I think vi on my palm would rock. Better than the note pad or memo pad, and while having Documents To Go is cool, I think having vi on their instead would be awesome. I've been looking for something that will let me do programming on my palm (and a word processor is *not* optimal for this), but having vi (or emacs, really) would be really really useful (sometimes I can't justify hauling my laptop around and want to work on code when my wife isn't looking). If someone does know of something like this (or a programmer's editor with syntax highlighting) for a palm, I'd love to hear it even if it is pretty OT. =) good point Vincent. I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're right. Only its got to be the latest release of Vi, and not one of the old version ported to the Visor or Palm. If I'm gonna use Vi its got to have all the cool features i've grown accustomed to with VI. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm
Vincent Danen wrote: Your wife won't let you haul around the laptop either, eh? =) Well, I just spent some time googling and the closest I've come is a version of vim for WinCE (I knew I should have gotten that HP thingy instead of the Tungsten). There's one for the Zaurus as well, which wasn't available when I got my Tungsten (well, not available to me anyways). Quite disappointing. The closest thing is some html editors for the palm... not even close to what I want. =( yep... I once took a laptop on vacation with us and you should have seen that face I got! *shiver* -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Mark, Well, I've got one of those fold up keyboards that I love using. I REALLY enjoy sitting on the ferry on my way home from work and typing email or whatever and being able to edit text and save it to my smart media card which resides in my memplug on the visor and holds plenty of data. If you have an idea and want to type it out, why not use VI? No, I wouldn't want to sit and do graffiti using VI, that would be nuts... the whole point is being able use key combinations, etc. I just thought it seemed to be a natural thing to have on a geek tool like a pda :) mike O, I agree. 'twould be an awesome geek tool to have on a visor -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SATA drives in A7N8X deluxe with mdk 9.1
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 19:13, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have provisions for 2 SATA drives. Even BIOS checks for that while POST. But mdk 9.1 while booting checks for hde and hdf for quit considerable time. with fb mode it looks as if it hangs. This happens now after reinstallation of mdk9.1 yesterday. Before that it didn't happen like that. I would like to avoid that. Any solution is appreciated. Switch off the SATA device in the bios, when you do not have any drives on that device.. I had the same problem on a EPOX motherboard, till I disabled the device in the bios. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Printing from RC2...
Hi all, Since installing RC2 I've not been able to print. The printer I use is a samba share located on a Mandrake 8.2 server running samba. Its been this way for over a year now and has/is working perfectly. Which leads me to believe the problem is indeed within RC2 on the workstation. ( its really the only problem this version seems to have. ) RC1 and beta2 had no problem at all printing to this samba shared printer. I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this problem and if so, what did you do to correct the problem? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printing from RC2...
Eric Fernandez wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Hi all, Since installing RC2 I've not been able to print. The printer I use is a samba share located on a Mandrake 8.2 server running samba. Its been this way for over a year now and has/is working perfectly. Which leads me to believe the problem is indeed within RC2 on the workstation. ( its really the only problem this version seems to have. ) RC1 and beta2 had no problem at all printing to this samba shared printer. I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this problem and if so, what did you do to correct the problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi Update to today's cooker (use the main and contrib sources from cooker see plf.zarb.org/~nanardon) Eric Hi Eric, thanks for the info. I've just spent the past hour chasing this gremlin and come to find out that it appears the samba client packages did not install correctly which is why I'm having trouble accessing this share. Are you talking about updating all of the packages, or just the ones I need to make this work? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Multimedia keyboards and Linux
Hi Everyone, Does everyone know howto get a multimedia keyboard to be able to use it volume control, and it's other keys under Mandrake Linux Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Converting OpenBSD passwords to Linux format, or making Linux use blowfish passwords
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a bunch (~200) user accounts on an OpenBSD server, using blowfish encryption, which I need to convert to Linux (mdk 9.1) format. Is there a way of making linux use blowfish for passwords? I'm guessing that actually converting the password hashes is going to be almost impossible... Cheers, Mark. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/cZx8Bn4EFUVUIO0RAp4JAJ0SwOlWYmWgbYpdTeQPRsDa0hZgqQCg0mBF mI8c7aY6ZZKDnuJNpOOnY2w= =GQFC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2RC2 on VMware
Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 10:29:46PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: I installed 9.2RC2 on VMware. I can startx, but when I exit from the Xwindows. My console is all warped. I get four tiny screens. The two on the top is identical. Two at the bottom, I can't see anything, but grided color lines. I need to reboot machine to get the normal text again. Does anyone know a fix for this? I don't meant to sound flippent, but the best way to handle this problem is to throw VMware out the window, ( at least where this application is concerned ) and install Mandrake on it's own partition and run it natively. I really don't see the sense if running Mandrake in this manner when the support to run it natively exists. No... I'd actually like to see this fixed as well (I get the same behaviour here). Trust me, having this in vmware is very very convenient. While I'm running 9.2/cooker/whatever as my primary desktop, I'm also running everything from Mandrake 8.2-cooker in vmware. It's invaluable for testing stuff. With vmware, I have about 2 dozen operating systems/Linux variants/versions on this machine with only one host OS. For something like that, vmware is invaluable. Hi Vincent, Actually I hadn't thought of it that way and I see your point. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Resolv.conf changing
First up disable a package called tmdns for some reason it's enabled by default.. don't actually remove the package, as every time you configure your network with drakconf, drakconf will reinstall the package.. The commands to disable it.. service tmdns stop chkconfig --del tndns Next edit a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and place in there PEERDNS=no for more help to know what you can place in those ifcfg files.. have a look at the man file for ifcfg.. man ifcfg I hope this is a help Cheers Mark On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:17, Graeme J Hosking wrote: Hi, I wonder if someone can tell me how to prevent the contents of my /etc/resolv.conf from being re-written every time my NIC is brought up? Or at least, allow me to keep entries in that file that I have put there manually. Basically, the NIC connected to my cable modem has to use DHCP to get its address, etc, etc. But I also run a caching DNS server on that machine. Every time the interface is brought up it will re-write /etc/resolv.conf with settings it gets from my ISP's DHCP server, overwriting my entry to point to the local instance of BIND for DNS lookups. This is frustrating, as the result is that all the machines on my network use my self-hosted DNS server except the machine hosting the DNS server. :) I've read about adding the -R switch to dhcpcd but I wondered if there is another solution? I'm using mdk9.1. Many thanks, Graeme. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders
I have bought my a copy of Mandrake (9.1) and will do the same for the upcoming 9.2...too bad more people would not do the same. Lee Wiggers schrieb am Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:02:41 -0400: Or perhaps they are broke because they don't try to make money? Watching Mandrake shoot itself in the foot over and over again, marketing-wise has been the most unpleasant part of my mdk experience over the past 3 years. Funny how this shooting in the foot turned out to be a fast way out of chapter 11. Other companies stayed in Ch11 for years, Mandrake will (hopefully) be out within a year. Is that shooting in the foot? Of course, there have been things and acts where we just ask: Why on earth are they doing this? But for me the overall results are what counts here, not the 'if' and 'should'. And one more point: All these actions (ore non-actions) during the last 7 months must be regarded through the rules of the french chapter 11. MandrakeSoft is under observation. This goes as far that all investments, all credit attempts and contracts, all payments, undergo examination by a court appointed accountant. Sure this slows down actions and even prevents actions. If the accountant says 'No', then you can't do what you'd do otherwise. MandrakeSoft as a company is far from being perfect and the same goes for the management. But I am sure they'll make it and I'd bet my money on them (in fact, all of the contributors and donators do). wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2RC2 on VMware
Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I installed 9.2RC2 on VMware. I can startx, but when I exit from the Xwindows. My console is all warped. I get four tiny screens. The two on the top is identical. Two at the bottom, I can't see anything, but grided color lines. I need to reboot machine to get the normal text again. Does anyone know a fix for this? Regards, Norman I don't meant to sound flippent, but the best way to handle this problem is to throw VMware out the window, ( at least where this application is concerned ) and install Mandrake on it's own partition and run it natively. I really don't see the sense if running Mandrake in this manner when the support to run it natively exists. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders
Rolf Pedersen wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:42:37 -0700 Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: That none of these critics and dreamers has yet provided the world with a comparable, more profitable linux distribution suggests that, notwithstanding the possibilities of a million monkeys typing on a million keyboards for a million years, these lists are not the likely source of the proper tough decisions Mandrake must make in order to continue in the challenging, sometimes hostile, unpredictable corporate environment. well, us chattering monkeys should just keep our mouths shut, eh, ralphy boy? LOL! anyway, go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut, ya snot-nosed bitch, if the sound of those typewriters in keeping you awake, go hide under a rock and us lowly end-users will try to keep it down a bit. QED Absent any logical refutation of my points, I suppose this eloquent exposition of your master of profanity will have to do. It seems those whose powers of reason fail to serve must resort to cruder expressions of agression. Alas, it would appear your 'powers' have abandoned you long before the Rice Krispies have lost their snap crackle and pop. Rolf nah...I think he was simply telling you in language you'd be quick to understand that, the original poster IS a card carrying, distro purchasing Mandrake User and NOT, as you so rudely put it, a typing monkey. So please, go and wipe your nose and pull yer yead outa yer ass long enough to Read and understand the printed word before making a complete ass of yourself. Wait!...too late since you're obviously already a complete ass and the making can't be help. Forgive me...you're just being yourself. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nforce2, I don't know how to use it or a bad choice for linux?
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:39, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all My old VIA mainboard was gone weeks ago and I bought a nforce2 board to replace it. I got a lot of situation with this new board: 1. usb mouse won't work during mandrake 9.0 installation event I set it to USB 1.0/1.1 only,but it works ok after new system start up. Is this a hardware or mandrake problem? Mandrake 9.1 would be a better choice for the Nforce2 Motherboard.. remember that the Nforce2 were not out when the 9.0 Mandrake was being made. The USB will only work after the Nforce drivers are installed.. probably use a PS2 mouse during install.. then install the drivers, then use mousedrake to switch it back to a USB mouse. 2. while review dmesg output,my IDE drive hda doesn't indicate as UDMA100. It does show as UDMA100 in the old board. Should I run hdparm to get better performance? Once again.. Mandrake 9.1 will enable DMA by default for the Nforce motherboard but Mandrake 9.0 you will have to deal with the DMA manually with hdparm. 3. It quit offen that I got heavy disk I/O while using mozilla to surf the net. At this time, I can barely move mouse or do anything else. How can this happen? This is my first terrible experience under linux. Is it possible to tune the system for better performance. Which network card driver are you using.. I found the massive problems with the latest Nforce motherboard driver that runs the Network card.. that's the Version: 1.0-0261 one.. I use the Version: 1.0-0248 of the driver at http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0248.html if your running Mandrake 9.1 you will need to rebuild the source RPM.. Still the problems were noticed with a Nforce1 motherboard, the Version: 1.0-0261 maybe O.K. with the Nforce2 motherboard. 4. Each day I use ntpdate to sync system time with a time server, I got offset 100s. The value for old system always less than 5s. Is it possible caused by point 3? Enable DMA for the hard drives with hdparm.. or install Mandrake 9.1 and it will be done for you. This will solve you problem. I have to say that this board works much better under windows than linux. Do you have recommendation for AMD boards which has best performance under linux? VIA? SIS? Buying most new motherboards off the shelf you will probably have problems with Mandrake 9.0.. It's just most of the band new boards were not around when Mandrake9.0 was being made... anyway I would recommend the Nforce motherboard, when tuned correctly they fly.. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake Apache2 Probs
Hi All, Found a problem with a Apache2 on Mandrake if somehow Apache2 was not shut down correctly, it will leave a file /var/log/httpd/ssl_scache .. If that file exists while the server is trying to start, Apache2 will fail to start.. It's a rather tricky problem.. at this moment I am looking at ways to guarantee if that file exists and if Apache2 is being started, and if Apache2 is not already running, it should clean up that file before it is started, and that way Apache2 will start.. Would anyone have the cleanest way of doing this, or any ideas on this. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Apache2 Probs
Mark
This past two weeks I have had several ugly shutdowns, power out,
cron error I'm still looking for, and a couple of dumb moves.
Apache2 has restarted without a problem on boot.
Just adding info.
9.1, xfs
Hi Lee
There is a couple of things that seem to trigger the problem..
First one needs apache2-mod_ssl installed... and the problem seems to
happen more during the during the urpmi update process, or when adding
extra modules through urpmi.
I have added a little extra to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd file to watch
for it.
Anyway there's probably better methods out.. but this was my
solution..
@@ -233,10 +233,21 @@
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/httpd
}
+checkstale() {
+ps aux |\
+ grep httpd2 |\
+ cut -f1 -d |\
+ grep apache /dev/null || {
+ rm -f /var/log/httpd/ssl_scache
+ }
+}
+
# See how we were called.
case $1 in
start)
detect
+ checkstale
start
;;
stop)
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[expert] Samba chewing to much CPU Power
Hello All, This must be a simple solve.. but I haven't quiet got it.. I have a server that's chewing lot's of CPU power while copying files from the M$ machines to the Samba server.. Tasks: 74 total, 2 running, 72 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% user, 100.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem:482784k total, 477208k used, 5576k free, 32k buffers Swap: 1622480k total,0k used, 1622480k free, 330968k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ Command 13366 lisa 20 0 2640 2640 2292 R 99.3 0.5 32:57.03 smbd 13073 root 9 0 980 980 776 S 0.3 0.2 0:24.77 top 1 root 8 0 496 496 448 S 0.0 0.1 0:27.34 init 2 root 9 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.97 keventd And the samba server is real slow... This hasn't happened to all Samba servers that I have built.. but this one is real strange.. Just havn't been able to solve this performance issue with this particular server and samba.. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] sata and Socket A motherboard and Mandrake
Hi Everyone, Since placing the question to the mailing list about the Epox EP-8RDA3+Socket A motherboard with a Nforce chipset and SATA support, I thought I better let people know how I went.. First up I tried the board with SATA drives, and installed Mandrake 9.1, I had 2 SATA 80Gig Seagates installed, which I setup Linux Software RAID1 on.. I thing that I can say the Mandrake installer is great for setting up Linux software RAID.. as well as the XFS file system.. Although Mandrake was able to install on the SATA and boot off the drives, which were seen as /dev/hde /dev/hdg the problem was performance, by default DMA was disabled on the drives.. trying to enable the DMA lead to instant data corruption.. The Second most obvious and serious notable problem with the drives was the heat coming from both the drives, the Seagate SATA 80Gig drives were running extremely hot.. I hope this is not something that we are going to see from Seagate in the future.. I hate hot running drives. The drives were so hot one could barely touch them. Since I have rejected both drives and sent them back due the heat problems, and replaced them with the Standard Seagate ATA 80Gig drives, which ran very quick on the Epox motherboard, and the whole system ended up being a great system, and very linux compatible but without the SATA drives..maybe give it 6 months for SATA stuff.. Cheers Mark On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 09:32, Mark Williamson wrote: Hello Everyone, Just looking at a Nforce2 motherboard Epox EP-8RDA3+Socket A motherboard, does this have any problems with Mandrake 9.1?. Is there anyone running sata drives with Mandrake 9.1, are they stable, can one just use a standard Kernel that comes with Mandrake.? The board looks good from it's Web site link http://web.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8RDA3pluslang=1 But if it don't work with Mandrake it ain't much good. Cheers Mark __ 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] Panasonic DVD-RAM a Linux Backup?
Hello Everyone. I am a little confused about the Panasonic DVD-RAM drives.. I see that the DVD-RAM disks can hold 9.4GB, and in theory with good compression they could make a very good backup device.. Well that's in theory, but there are a few things that i don't know, does the 9.4GB RAM disks need turning over after they record 4.7GB? Is the Device compatible with Mandrake 9.1 Linux.. Anyone on this mailing list using one? Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is exactly what the caching-nameserver-9.0-2mdk.noarch.rpm rpm does on 9.1... install it, start named (service named start) and set /etc/resolv.conf to point to localhost. Mark. I don't know if this is a question for the newbie or expert list, but I'll try on this one. Currently, I have problems with my ISP DNS servers (they are unreachable more than half the time). I'd like to build a DNS server on my computer so I'll be able to use my Internet connection efficiently. To resolve my problem, this DNS server must forward to a parent DNS (other than my ISP's... is it possible to use root DNS's as forwarders?) I don't have a domain name (I'd like to have a local zone and all other things going to forwarders). Is my solution possible under Linux (I know it's possible under M$ LooseDows Server's DNS service.) If it's possible, where can I find informations about this, or what tool can I use to define my zones? BTW, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on the machine I'd like to use, and I'll upgrade it to 9.2 as soon as it's stable. Thanks for your help and advice. +---+ | Albert Charron| | System Administrator - Trisotech Inc. | +---+ | Linux Registered user: 157482 | |- Registered computers: 164158, 195048, 205791, 205792 | | www.linuxcounter.org | +---+ | E-mail written under Mandrake Linux 9.1 with Mozilla 1.4 | +---+ - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/XH+kBn4EFUVUIO0RAprKAJ9YOh05PXpR0dMbrO02pdTruKCsBQCgh027 2PP32zj5Lckkwd0GKVcItoU= =xBYo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VIRUS!!! ( was Re: Approved )
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the attached file for details O, for God's sake! I can't believe the Mandrake list server passed this message along! There are people who do read this list from within windows. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VIRUS!!! ( was Re: Approved )
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the attached file for details Upon further inspection of the headers it would appear that some poor soul that reads this list is infected. Although sadly, they don't read it closely enough cause they're using Outlook Express. Course those headers could be faked. tsk...tsk...tsk... -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More on threading
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Michael Adams wrote: For christmas. Does the latest KMail, Sylpheed, or claws support deletion of a entire collapsed thread in one step. This is what i'd love to see. I'd happily leave threads in my folders longer until they had well and truly dried up if i could expunge the whole thread quickly. as I recall all one has to do is select all of the items in the thread to make that happen. I do have a question for you though... what is your email composition word wrap set to? cause Pine is acting as though you're wrapping beyond 72 characters or not at all. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
James Sparenberg wrote: I think (but I can't swear) that the problem is file headers. The PDF has a header that gives data like length etc. So when you cat them together the first header is wrong. The second is in the middle etc. I agree that the only way is to cvt to ps then merge then convert back to pdf. James Hi James, I will definately give that a shot. I hadn't considered those possibilities when it was suggested the first time. Must've been too sleepy at the time. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Did someone else get this also?????
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:36:42 +1000 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [expert] Re: Approved From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] See the attached file for details Inserted here was:- thank_you.pif I suppose it was quite harmless but naturally it went in the bin. It is probably not harmless .pif is some sort of MS executable format. -Mark -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More on threading
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:47:19 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:30:28 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For christmas. Does the latest KMail, Sylpheed, or claws support deletion of a entire collapsed thread in one step. This is what i'd love to see. I'd happily leave threads in my folders longer until they had well and truly dried up if i could expunge the whole thread quickly. sylpheed-claws has Select thread under the Edit menu. There is no shortcut assigned by default; but that's a minor issue cuz to [re-]assign a shortcut to most menu items, it's as simple as: 1. select the menu item (don't click on it) 2. while selected, press the key combination you want [re-]assigned to that item 3. enjoy. I second that - deleting threads in sylpheed-claws (and sylpheed) is trivial. Evolution is also good with thread handling though I've stopped using it for reasons unrelated to threads. -Mark -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus guys!
David wrote: 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. I wondered about that too David, but then again those might be spoofed hearders. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Virus guys!
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... Cheerio, Thomas thats what made me think those headers were forged, and not real. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] threading in Kmail...
Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Without having a definition of REALLY screwed up I can tell you this. Threading in kmail is done based on some ID in the header - forget which. This ID has been in the mail RFC's since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Many proprietary mailers have a callous disregard for standards and don't put the message ID in the header. Even worse, some put their own ID in the header. Lotus Notes and Outlook are 2 of the worst offenders that jump to mind. So, instead of doing things the right way, mailers are forced to have a kludgy threading by subject. Kmail does not at this time thread by subject. It has been fixed in the latest dev branches but is not scheduled until KDE3.2 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57350 On a partially related subject - complaints about kmail should be sent to http://bugs.kde.org/ -Mark -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark Belanger wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Without having a definition of REALLY screwed up I can tell you this. Threading in kmail is done based on some ID in the header - forget which. This ID has been in the mail RFC's since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Many proprietary mailers have a callous disregard for standards and don't put the message ID in the header. Even worse, some put their own ID in the header. Lotus Notes and Outlook are 2 of the worst offenders that jump to mind. So, instead of doing things the right way, mailers are forced to have a kludgy threading by subject. Kmail does not at this time thread by subject. It has been fixed in the latest dev branches but is not scheduled until KDE3.2 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57350 On a partially related subject - complaints about kmail should be sent to http://bugs.kde.org/ -Mark Hi Mark, thanks for the info. That definately sheds a lot of light on the matter and probably the very reason why threading in Kmail appears to be screwed up. Based on this information it's not likely a problem with Kmail, but rather due to the messed up nature of the headers in the message itself. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Are you sure you never delete a mail until the whole thread is finished? Anne Hi Anne, It doesn't appear to affect things one way or the other when that happens. Mozilla, Netscape, and Pine all do threading wonderfully. I've always wondered though about what was ailing Kmail cause I've seen this odd behavior in it for quite some time. I just happen to be in one of those moods this morning that I wanted to use Kmail for a time. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Charlie M. wrote: September 2, 2003 02:44 pm, 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. Yep, but the last update seems to have cured it for me. Not some of the other troubles though. Partitions mounted twice, once normally, then once as scsi devices? Which display manager are you using? I tried mdkkdm, kdekdm, gdm, and xdm and all did the same thing. I never bothered to do anything more than vote for the bug. Init 1 then init 5 seems too bothersome when I could just log in at the console and startx to get back the desktop. :-) I'm lazy I am!. Charlie Yeah, I can do that as well, but all the others that use the comp literally choke when they see a console login screen. and getting them to use command line stuff to start anything is like pulling teeth. Myself and my grand daughter Alex are the only real geeks in the house. As for what display manager I'm using, its kdekdm. I had this problem for a short time once before. I can't recall exactly if it was a time I upgraded KDE, or if it happened when I upgraded to 9.1 from 9.0. The darndest thing is that i can't clearly recall exactly how I fixed it. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS server
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Albert Charron wrote: I don't know if this is a question for the newbie or expert list, but I'll try on this one. Currently, I have problems with my ISP DNS servers (they are unreachable more than half the time). I'd like to build a DNS server on my computer so I'll be able to use my Internet connection efficiently. To resolve my problem, this DNS server must forward to a parent DNS (other than my ISP's... is it possible to use root DNS's as forwarders?) I don't have a domain name (I'd like to have a local zone and all other things going to forwarders). Is my solution possible under Linux (I know it's possible under M$ LooseDows Server's DNS service.) If it's possible, where can I find informations about this, or what tool can I use to define my zones? BTW, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on the machine I'd like to use, and I'll upgrade it to 9.2 as soon as it's stable. Thanks for your help and advice. Hi, You can do all you need to do to configure your DNS through WebMin. There's a config utility for that as part of Webmin. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX Well...when I first loaded 9.1 thats how I had to do it to get a boot floppy. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake web site
Hi all, is it me or has anyone else noticed that its next to impossible to navigate the Mandrake website. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get to the mailing list archives now for about an hour and either get a connection denied back from their web server, or it just sits there and goes nowhere. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake web site
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Dienstag, 2. September 2003 16:54 schrieb Mark: Hi all, is it me or has anyone else noticed that its next to impossible to navigate the Mandrake website. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get to the mailing list archives now for about an hour and either get a connection denied back from their web server, or it just sits there and goes nowhere. Maybe they get DDoSed by all the people trying to get the rc1 ? Steffen yeah...guess thats possible. Maybe you can answer another question. I see the responses to my posts, but I don't see the actual posts appearing on the list. Any ideas? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
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. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
-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 If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? - --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE/VVPnJyqY2X3sWG8RAvLOAKCJc0uwnDACLTEvQ+exMjl3XWIWZgCfRS+r 6pqqk6wMrdIJAODe0BAYgpw= =0rmP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, Mark. I've been following this, and it doesn't look promising, so I wonder if it's time for a dirty solution. Could you not pdf2ps all the files, open them in SOWriter, then cut and paste into one file, save that as a new pdf? I know it's not elegant, but it might work. Anne Hi Anne, I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first page and a wee bit of the last page and that was all. don't know what I did wrong. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1
Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of and that was Konsole. I was wondering if there was a specific reason that didn't make it into the install. I've also noticed that MC, the console FileManager didn't get installed. wussup? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Mark wrote: Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of and that was Konsole. I was wondering if there was a specific reason that didn't make it into the install. I've also noticed that MC, the console FileManager didn't get installed. wussup? Konsole has been split to kdebase-konsole; urpmi kdebase-konsole. There has been some clamor to have this installed by default, which I agree is a good idea. https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4992 ISTR needing to install mc when I needed it, even after choosing Console Tools and Configuration for some time now. Rolf Good info... thanks Rolf. So far from what I've seen I like 9.2. As a workstation its quite well behaved and apart from the slight diffuculties I had trying to install with graphical mode, ( used to text install - worked flawlessly ). I'm getting real curious to know how it behaves when installed as a server. My gateway/firewall server is running Mdk 8.2 and I'd like to upgrade it to take advantage of some of the firewall tools that exist in the 9.x versions of Mandrake. ( would like to do some port forwarding - just been to lazy to learn how to do it using Bastille and writing the rules for it and doing the setup for it by hand. Prolly should cause I need to know how it works rather then letting a program do it for me. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Richard wrote: On Mon September 1 2003 11:51 am, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of and that was Konsole. I was wondering if there was a specific reason that didn't make it into the install. I've also noticed that MC, the console FileManager didn't get installed. wussup? It didn't get installed by default in 9.1 download when choosing Console tools. I don't know what I've have done if I hadn't added it while installing. Supermount always screws up on my old Dell Latitude, D300XT. Without it I'd have to dig out Vi and the command sheet. Much easier with mc. Richard. I know what you mean. However, I had learned Vi before I even met mc back in my early RedHat days. ( RedHat 5.2 ). I don't know that I'll worry about getting Konsole on here right away. Its not a necessity. Gnome terminal works just as well. About the only reason I can even thing of for loading it after the fact is that I can use multiple terms in one window and easily switch back and forth from one window to another without having a dozen or so seperate terminal windows open. but now...upon examination of the Gnome terminal it turns out that I can do the same thing with this terminal window as with Konsole and it's much lighter then Konsole. gosh! will wonders never cease!? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print problems
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm having some problems when I print from Mozilla, and I think they are related. I cannot print the url in the header or footer, when printing from a website, and I frequently lose a couple of lines at the page changeover. I think both are related to the margin settings, but although I have all the printer defaults to give me 1 top and bottom (which should be enough to allow headers/footers) whenever I print from Mozilla it refuses to allow me to change the margins from 0.5. Everything looks ok in the print preview, but it still is not right when it prints. Is this a Moz bug, do you think? Anne Hi Anne, What version of Mozy are you using. I've not heard anything about a bug in Mozilla that would produce a problem like this. That is not to say that it's not possible, however, it sounds more like a problem with the printer drivers then anything else. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2-RC1 VT8233 sound
I don't suppose anyone has an onboard VIA VT8233 sound and has sound working with 9.2 RC1? Being an RC, I don't want to start banging my head if there is something wrong with sound, other than my cheapo sound card. -Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: I know I should be sorting out a mail server, but until I have enough time I need short term solutions. In kmail I'd like a pop-filter to delete on server emails that contain attachments containing .exe and the like. I can't find any way of filtering on attachments For that matter I can't find any way of filtering to delete. ATM all filtered junkmail goes to a special folder. However, some types could be defined to immediately delete, if only I could find the setting. I have tried using the blank line in the drop-down list and defining my own criteria, but I think that is just ignored. Any more suggestions? Anne Hi Anne, Procmail should be able to do this nicely for you. Even if you're pulling your mail down from your ISP's mailserver. In order to employ procmail to filter, you'd simply using Fetchmail to bring the messages down. They'd then be deposited in /var/spool/mail/$USER. That should work nicely. While I don't know any procmail recipes off the top of my head the accomplish this I know Procmail will can can do it. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] forgotten knowledge...
Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. les_csharp_12_p1.pdf les_csharp_12_p2.pdf les_csharp_12_p3.pdf les_csharp_12_p4.pdf les_csharp_12_p5.pdf les_csharp_12_p6.pdf les_csharp_12_p7.pdf I would like the contents of the above list of files to appear in this file: CSharp_LESSON12.pdf Solution: ??? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, KevinO wrote: -pgpenvelope processed message Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. les_csharp_12_p1.pdf les_csharp_12_p2.pdf les_csharp_12_p3.pdf les_csharp_12_p4.pdf les_csharp_12_p5.pdf les_csharp_12_p6.pdf les_csharp_12_p7.pdf I would like the contents of the above list of files to appear in this file: CSharp_LESSON12.pdf Solution: ??? cat les_csharp_12_p?.pdf CSharp_LESSON12.pdf -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? -- Lily Tomlin Problem is, and I know this solution is correct, is that when I use this command i get the first page, and a smidgen of the last page and thats it. :( -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?
David Guntner wrote: 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 Dave, the example that Bill gave is the way to do it. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Complete system backup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the backup files do not fit the packages versions. So I was kinda
wondering if there is such thing as a backup where to restore the whole
system (including OS itself) you'd put the backup CD in and let it restore
installer like. So without having to install linux first. This might
also prove usefull later when I want to change the hdd of my server with a
faster one. For now I have 3 older/slower hdds and because of that I am
kind of limited with the partitions options. It would also be cool if I
could specify by backup to ignore the current partitions/hdds, so I could
restore all later on a single bigger hdd. So... Is there a way to make
such a backup or am I running after windmills? :)
I don't know of a CD based program, but there's 'g4u' -- ghost for unix,
that does a pretty good job. It takes an entire disk image an uploads it
to an FTP server. Works well for both Linux and Windows disks.
Personally I prefer good old fashioned tape drives for performing system
backups. I've been using an HP Travan drive ( TR4 - 4GB uncompressed 8GB
compressed ). Just recently I had to replace my old Travan drive with
one I bought on ebay for a whopping $20. Thing works like a charm. Its
scsi 2 and I love it. Attached is the bash script that I run the nightly
backups with.
If you find this solution works for you, and you have questions feel
free to email me and ask.
--
Mark
If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?
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ICQ# 27816299
#!/bin/sh
#MAILTO:mdw1982
# ##
# variables for the program:
# ##
TAPE=/dev/st0;
HOME_FILES=/home;
DOCUMENTS=/mnt/arc_2/Documents;
WWW=/var/www;
MAIL=/var/spool/mail;
DATABASE=/var/lib/mysql;
MP3=/mnt/mp3;
LOG_PATH=/home/mdw1982/;
LOG_DIR=backup_log;
DATE=$( date +%m-%d-%Y );
# ##
# functions for program:
# ##
message(){
echo .This is the Tape backup program..;
echo --- ;
echo ;
echo I've successfully completed the nightly backup of the system;
echo for $DATE;
echo ;
echo The Log file containing the backup's contents has been written;
echo to $LOG_PATH.;
echo . END OF TRANSMISSION ;
}
# does the directory to receive the backup logs exist?
# if not then we're going to create it...
checkLog(){
for i in $( ls -d /home/mdw1982/* ); do
ITEM=$i
if [ $ITEM = $LOG_DIR ]
then
FOUND=true
else
FOUND=false
fi
done
}
# ##
# main program :
# ##
# putting all the goodies to the tape
find /bin /boot /etc /home /root /var /mnt/arc_2/Documents /var/www -print | grep -iv
\./var/ftp | sort | cpio -oaBc -O /dev/tape
# writing out the logfile to disk
cpio -iBct -I /dev/tape /home/mdw1982/backup_log/$( date +%m-%d-%Y )_bkup.indx
# compressing the logfile
gzip -1 /home/mdw1982/backup_log/$( date +%m-%d-%Y )_bkup.indx
# outputing message to email
message;
# exiting the program
exit;
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[expert] sata and Socket A motherboard and Mandrake
Hello Everyone, Just looking at a Nforce2 motherboard Epox EP-8RDA3+Socket A motherboard, does this have any problems with Mandrake 9.1?. Is there anyone running sata drives with Mandrake 9.1, are they stable, can one just use a standard Kernel that comes with Mandrake.? The board looks good from it's Web site link http://web.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8RDA3pluslang=1 But if it don't work with Mandrake it ain't much good. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] sata and Socket A motherboard and Mandrake
Wow.. Thanks for the info Byron, looks like it may be difficult to install and make the sata drive as the bootable drive.. Although I am not sure about this.. are you using the SATA dive as your main drive? The information about these drives is awfully sketchy at the moment, are they worth the trouble.. what sort of through puts are you seeing.. is it noticeable difference to the ATA133 stuff? Cheers Mark On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:48, Byron Poland wrote: I just got an asus with nforce2 and the same Silicon Image Sil3112a SerialATA controller and am running it with 9.2rc2 now. and the drive works fine. I don't know about the 9.1, but you might be good if you can get the updated boot kernels from http://www.netikka.net/tmb/9.1/ and use them to install from and them update to one of the newer kernels from there. I'm not sure at what stage the driver was added. also the newer kernels have a lot of nforce2 fixes. http://www.netikka.net/tmb/Cooker/ as an example, these srpms can be compiled on 9.1 if you edit the spec, and change the gcc build requirement (I comment it out). I'm not sure if the binaries install out of the box or not because of the different gcc versions or whatever. but I'm running one of the tmb kernels on my laptop with 9.1 installed with no problems. On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:32, Mark Williamson wrote: Hello Everyone, Just looking at a Nforce2 motherboard Epox EP-8RDA3+Socket A motherboard, does this have any problems with Mandrake 9.1?. Is there anyone running sata drives with Mandrake 9.1, are they stable, can one just use a standard Kernel that comes with Mandrake.? The board looks good from it's Web site link http://web.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8RDA3plus=1 But if it don't work with Mandrake it ain't much good. Cheers Mark __ 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] Servers...
Pierre Fortin wrote: Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now: 80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net each time failing to properly setup rDNS until my filters start bouncing to postmaster@host... I've tried posting recently; to no avail, so I'll be surprised if this msg hits the list. Hi Pierre, Hey! guess what? It made it... I've noticed a lot of the same thing going on, and had to readjust my firewall so's I could get mail from the lists. I don't know what they're doing unless they're redirecting in order to avoid worm traffic as much as possible. -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 3:52 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to now it has just held the system going long enough for me to shutdown, but that's too risky if power cuts can be any time. So - I've installed apcupsd. I've gone through the conf file, and checked what I can, but the serial cable I had supplied with this unit doesn't indicate type at all. The documentation says that you can run apctest to check it. I can't find apctest, and it doesn't appear on either my installed list or installable list. I know that some of you run apcupsd, so do you have the test program, and if so, how did you find it? Anne First, are you sure that its supposed to be an executable? What I mean is it possible it's a test procedure not an executable that runs a test? urpmf yeilds apcupsd:/usr/share/doc/apcupsd-3.10.5/doc/manual/apctest.html is why I'm asking. That's the doc page. Half way down the first page it says 'If you don't know what cable you have, you can use the apctest program to determine the type of cable that you have'. tongue in cheek mode Second I'd like to comment on this recent trend of power outages. I realize that technology wise at least, California Style, and trends, have an ever increasing affect on the US, and even the world at large. During the summer of 2002 We here in California experienced a number of brown out's, and rolling blackout's. Next thing we know it's all the rage on the US east coast. Except they had to just go one better and really take down the whole east coast in one gulp. Now it seems according to what Anne is saying, this trend is spreading to Europe and England. Personally I'm flattered but I would like to point out that not everything we do here is worth copying. /toungue in cheek mode LOL. I understand that the problem here is that we have converted most of our power stations to gas, in the name of the environment. We have been relying on our own supply of natural gas, which is now running low. Because we had that resource we didn't created storage for gas - and the Not-In-My-Backyard pressure groups carry a lot of weight here - like the rest of Europe did, so if we have a cold winter there are going to be problems. Anne how in the world is it possible that they could have been so short sited? I've been loosely following this stuff in the news and it's mind boggling. I'd expect this sort of thing from some US planners, but from cultures as mature as GB and Europe! -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is this thing on?
Hi all, I've been tryin to post to this list for days, but there isn't anything comin in for it. Is the list working? -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is this thing on?
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 01:23, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Huff wrote: I've been tryin to post to this list for days, but there isn't anything comin in for it. Is the list working? It's only knida working. Lotsa dropped posts, some posts go to some people, not others, etc... I've been noticing the same thing here. Ann will post a question and I will see it, then I will see my response. Then I will see her respond to someone else's answer that I never got. This has been going on for months. Oh well, it is better than nothing. I wonder how many users we have subscribed here. Perhaps one of us with some spare bandwidth and extra CPU cycles on a server should start an independent mail-list ??? (Using mailman and postfix) Or has somebody already done this? - -- KevinO I honestly thought that the reason I didn't see some questions was because of filters on my e-mail that wack all html e-mail.. although I do sometimes get the answer before I get the question. Kinda feels like jeapordy (the TV show) James Then its not my imagination or my deoderant. There's something strange afoot here. -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] convet pine's addressbook to mozilla
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I'm trying to find some tool that allow me to convert easyly my pine's addressbook to mozilla/netscape addressbook, and even possible, to palm as well. Many thanks in advance for any help. Cheers, Hi Alan, I don't know of any tool that will do this other then you and the keyboard. I've done it before for a friend who needed to import the thing into Mozilla. All that is really involved in getting it done is to open the file in a text editor and arrange the contents in a manner that Mozilla will find acceptable. Save it as a csv file. -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mc hang
Hmm I deleted the start of this mail thread.. Things that can cause mc to hang or stall badly configured /etc/hosts file.. having the a package tmdns installed.. which gets installed by default problems with gpm Cheers Mark On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 13:36, David E. Fox wrote: Right after boot and root login on tty1 it takes more than a minute for mc to start on 9.1. Didn't have that problem on 9.0. On screen after mc Expect a call from Ronald Mc Donald's attorney. mc hang indeed. sheesh. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cups is broken...
Hi All, Of late I've not been able to get Cups going. For the longest time I've not had a lick of trouble with it. Recently though, its been miserable and I haven't a clue as to why. I've got a lot of this going on in my /var/log/syslog: cupsd: cupsd: Child exited with status 99! That happenes every time I attempt to start the service. Anyone else experiencing this, and how have you dealt with it to solve the problem? -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cups is broken...
Hi All, Of late I've not been able to get Cups going. For the longest time I've not had a lick of trouble with it. Recently though, its been miserable and I haven't a clue as to why. I've got a lot of this going on in my /var/log/syslog: cupsd: cupsd: Child exited with status 99! That happenes every time I attempt to start the service. Anyone else experiencing this, and how have you dealt with it to solve the problem? -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
