[expert] An observation about Winex 3
Good day everyone, After getting my hand on the new version of Winex 3, I have observed that it is much slower than it's predecessor, especially when run on Mandrake 9.1. On remedy to this is not to use the pre-built RPM and compile from CVS instead: I saw a TWO-FOLD increase in display performance afterwards. It is really worth it, even if there were some minor problems associated the compilation (mostly library dependencies that were easily soled using urpmi (tm)). One last small problem that I had to solve was that Winex whined about being unable to find the libntdll.so library. A quick search provided it's location: /usr/local/lib, which was not added to /etc/ld.so.conf when doing the "make install". Manual modification of the file was therefore required, followed by ldconfig. Problem solved :) Time to get back to my Panzer General 2 campaign ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] NVIDIA Drivers RPM: Solution!
Hi all, I've just completed the installation of Mandrake 9.1. I've met a few roadblocks in the process but still managed to get it done properly. 1st roadblock: Sound did not seem to work in KDE. Solution: ALSA does not work on my machine for some reason. This is odd since everything was OK in RC2. Anyway, switching back to OSS solved my problem. Most importantly: 2nd roadblock: NVIDIA driver installation. The RPMS provided through MDK club work but installation is not completed properly: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 must still be edited manually to replace Driver "nv" by Driver "nvidia"... Is this such a big issue to fix? XFdrake would simply not be able to change it to the new drivers... Anyway, once that was taken care of, a second problem arose: glxgears would simply restart X. It turns out that XFree 4.3 is setup to load libglx.a when asked to do so in the config file. The NVIDIA GLX RPM provides libglx.so instead. The solution to my problem was therefore to rename libglx.a to libglx.a.org and create a new link between libglx.a and ligblx.so. This is done in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ I know that some people have faced the same problem in the past but it never hurts to repeat a solution! I hope that they'll fix this when I get my shrink-wrapped pack... Patrick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Houston Stands up to M$
Good question! But I don't have any answer about that. Sure that I will try to find out WHY and to ask right people the right question. Patrick Le sam 25/01/2003 à 15:27, Mark Weaver a écrit : > Patrick Atlas wrote: > > In France, lots of schools have received letters from Microsoft in june > > 2001 (or 2002?). > > Public schools don't have a lot of money so they didn't pay anything. > > Now there are national administration and educational services that > > develop Linux distributions for educational purposes. > > For french reader : www.atica.gouv.fr (a Prime Minister's service). > > > > Patrick Atlas > > Please forgive me for breaking in on this thread this way, but this > seriously begs the question: > > If this is the case ( statement above ) then WHY is Mandrake Linux > suffering the way it is? why isn't this national administration doing > anything to help Mandrake? > > -- > Mark > --- > Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) > Linux User Since 1996 > Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 > ICQ# 27816299 > > > > > 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] Houston Stands up to M$
In France, lots of schools have received letters from Microsoft in june 2001 (or 2002?). Public schools don't have a lot of money so they didn't pay anything. Now there are national administration and educational services that develop Linux distributions for educational purposes. For french reader : www.atica.gouv.fr (a Prime Minister's service). Patrick Atlas Le mer 22/01/2003 à 23:21, H.J.Bathoorn a écrit : > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 21:06, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > Check out this link, detailing why Houston, TX sh*tcanned Microsoft. > > > > http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-21-simdesk-cover_x.htm > > Hey, didn't any of you yanks tell 'm about linux and openoffice.org? > > What a mess, sounds more like a scam to me. > > Good hunting, > HarM > > > > > 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] Upgrading php 4.0.6 to 4.2.3
I would like to upgrade php to version 4.2.3. on Mandrake Linux 8.1 I think the best way is: uninstalling any modules (mysql, gd...) 4.0.6 uninstalling php 4.0.6 installing php 4.2.3 installing any additionnal modules version 4.2.3 Anyone can confirm this? Thanks! Patrick Atlas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Driver for AC'97 modem
Yes, I did. But no more pages available... Patrick Le sam 30/11/2002 à 08:59, James Sparenberg a écrit : > If you know the name for the driver try doing a google search on it and > seeing if anyone has mirrored it. > > James > > > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 23:29, Patrick Atlas wrote: > > AC'97 modem seems to be rather recent. > > I am looking for a driver (Mandrake linux). > > There is a page on compurative.com to load a driver but the ftp gives a > > 500 error. > > if anybody got this driver could he tell how to get it? > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Patrick Atlas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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
[expert] Driver for AC'97 modem
AC'97 modem seems to be rather recent. I am looking for a driver (Mandrake linux). There is a page on compurative.com to load a driver but the ftp gives a 500 error. if anybody got this driver could he tell how to get it? Thanks! Patrick Atlas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Scripts or software to add many new users
Hello, We are managing hundred of users on a network based on Netscape Exchange Server (mail, news and web). In a few weeks, we would like to change to a linux server (Mandrake of course!) As we don't want to create by hand each existing user, is there a script or a software that will automatically: -create a new account (possibly from a list of existing logins/passwords) -apply the new user to adequate groups -create a file with his login as name -create a virtual host to his file in the apache configuration -apply a DocRoot in proftp configuration -create a user and his database with his login/password in mysql -copy a phpmyadmin with adequate configuration -and few other little things... Any ideas? Thanks Patrick Atlas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PPC installation problems with GeForce Video Card
If this is not the correct list to post this request to, I apologize J and could someone redirect me? Does anyone have advice on installing Mandrake 8.2PPC on a dual 1Ghz Mac? I have had zero success with installing and using Linux with this system. The system is a Dual 1Ghz Apple (Quicksilver, I think) Video card is a Nvidia GeForce4 MX And it uses the USB sound system and the sound sticks from Harmon Kardon. Also the flat panel display. My two biggest problems that I can as yet identify are: Bootstrap/ patitioning And video support. Any help would be greatly appreciated! J Thanks to all in advance. P.S. My goal would be to have a Linux only MAC. Not Dual boot… is that possible? Or must I have a Mac partition first? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
Did you follow Simon's indications? After the hermes.conf file is copied in /etc/pcmcia, try to launch Mandrake Control Center, choose Network and Internet then connexion. Use the assistant to configure the eth0 and choose orinoco (Prism II). I think that will configure the NETGEAR wireless. Patrick Atlas Le Dimanche 3 Novembre 2002 02:01, engage a écrit : > I'm glad it worked for you. It didn't work for me. > > On Friday 01 November 2002 07:20 am, Patrick Atlas wrote: > > Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection. > > I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401 > > PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad. > > > > Some points to fix, yet: > > > > It seems that the > > WIRELESS_ESSID > > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY > > options are erased after reinitialization of the PCMCIA or the SERVICES, > > in the ifcfg-ethX file. > > Any idea? > > > > So I need to write the END_KEY. > > The KEY must be written in hexadecimal or ASCII? > > > > Patrick Atlas > > > > Le Mardi 29 Octobre 2002 15:37, Simon Ree a écrit : > > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 > > > > > > engage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T > > > > notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, > > > > I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The > > > > prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless > > > > card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) > > > > which seems to indicate that the config files are properly > > > > set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using > > > > ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such > > > > device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig > > > > wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping > > > > the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address > > > > for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's > > > > and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to > > > > work. Any suggestions? > > > > > > I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the > > > wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding > > > the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and > > > works with your MA401. > > > > > > Uninstall wlang > > > Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. > > > Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia > > > service pcmcia restart > > > service network restart > > > mcc & > > > > > > Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have > > > your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on > > > one of the configurations panels but they get tossed > > > whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set > > > them in the ifcfg-ethX file. > > > > > > To manually set the options edit your > > > network script: > > > > > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth > > > number) > > > > > > Add the following entries if you need them: > > > > > > WIRELESS_ESSID="yourAP" > > > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="whatever your 128bit key may be" > > > > > > service network restart > > > > > > and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards > > > manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. > > > Just run > cardctl ident from the command line to get your > > > cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This > > > is the only method that >I< have been able to get to work > > > with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone > > > knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to > > > know. > > > > > > Simon Ree > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection. I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad. Some points to fix, yet: It seems that the WIRELESS_ESSID WIRELESS_ENC_KEY options are erased after reinitialization of the PCMCIA or the SERVICES, in the ifcfg-ethX file. Any idea? So I need to write the END_KEY. The KEY must be written in hexadecimal or ASCII? Patrick Atlas Le Mardi 29 Octobre 2002 15:37, Simon Ree a écrit : > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 > > engage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T > > notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, > > I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The > > prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless > > card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) > > which seems to indicate that the config files are properly > > set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using > > ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such > > device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig > > wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping > > the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address > > for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's > > and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to > > work. Any suggestions? > > I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the > wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding > the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and > works with your MA401. > > Uninstall wlang > Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. > Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia > service pcmcia restart > service network restart > mcc & > > Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have > your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on > one of the configurations panels but they get tossed > whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set > them in the ifcfg-ethX file. > > To manually set the options edit your > network script: > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth > number) > > Add the following entries if you need them: > > WIRELESS_ESSID="yourAP" > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="whatever your 128bit key may be" > > service network restart > > and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards > manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. > Just run > cardctl ident from the command line to get your > cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This > is the only method that >I< have been able to get to work > with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone > knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to > know. > > Simon Ree > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 8.1 Squid SNMP
Hello all, Does someone know if Mandrake's 8.1 Squid package is compiled with SNMP support? Thx Patrick
[expert] Warning: supermount problem
I have installed Mandrake 9.0 last week and I have been running into problems with both of my cdrom players. The symptoms are as follow: -Mounting the cdrom automatically works well. -ls gives the files list as it should. -copying all of the files present on the CD gives the following result: The first file copies without problem, in the case of a multifile CD. The following files seem to disappear from the CD, giving out a message like "file not found", although it was listed the fisrt time ls was used. - subsequent ls will list the first file and return errors for the next ones. On a CD containing a large tar file (for example), the file is listed correctly BUT copying this file to a hard disk corrupts its. I have disabled the supermount feature (in mtab and fstab) and reconfigured the cdrom players to be mounted manually. All of the previous symptoms have disapeared: -All files are now accesible. -No more corruption occurs. It is quite strange that such a bug was not picked up before today... Although my hardware might be flakey since that last thunderstorm ;) The cure to my problem was to disable supermount. Anyone encountering that type of problem should do likewise until this issue has been fixed... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mdk 9.0: Soundblaster Live! Bass and treble control
Hello, I am trying to change the bass and treble level on my SB Live without much success... I've tried using kmix and aumix: both show the appropriate sliders but moving them does not change anything: I still get the same "thin" sound... Does anybody know if there's is a workaround for this bug? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network fun!
- Original Message - From: "Belkie, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: [expert] Network fun! > Hey Guys! > a little background on my problem. > > I have a Mandrake box 8.0 acting as a kinda DSL router. > It has 2 NIC cards. One with a Real IP and one with a non-routable > (192.168.1.1) > > I have a web server on the inside on the following IP: 192.168.0.110 > > I have forwarding set up to send any request coming in on port 80 to > 192.168.0.110. > > It does not work :( but the Linux box CAN ping the web server? What's the netmask of the nic on the LAN side? If its 255.255.255.0 it will not work. Change it to 255.255.0.0 and you should be set. Regards Patrick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Trouble with mdk8.1 and yamaha OPL3SA
Hello there, I have recently installed Mandrake 8.1 on a PII-350. My problem is that i cannot make my soundcard (Yamaha OPL3SAX chipset) work. sndconfig tells it has trouble opening /dev/audio and xmms that it has problems finding /dev/dsp. Harddrake does not help either. Hw should I correct this problem? Thank You in advance. Yours Patrick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Quake 3 arena and Mandrake 8.1
Following my first post about the subject: I have managed to make it work, although not in full screen mode. Sound works fine BUT: Only the skirmish mode works properly. Whenever I try to launch a full game, starting with the q3dm0 level, everything crashes right after the game part starts (just before moving). So, basically, it just about works but not quite. Setup is as follows: Mandrake 8.1 PIII 800 mhz, 768 megs ram. Xfree 4.1.0 in 1024x768 x 16bpp Matrox G400, 16mb ram Standard Q3 install, with the latest patch. Anybody has some advice about this? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Quake 3 and Mandrake 8.1
I am trying to run Quake 3 Arena on Mandrake 8.1. My hardware is as follows: PIII 800mhz, 768 megs ram Matrox G400, 16mb 1024x768x 16bpp Soundblaster Live! Asus P3B DRI runs well with the games packaged with MDK 8.1. However, Quake 3 Arena crashes just before it gets in play mode. The same goes with Descent 3. This crashes X but does not lock up th emachine: I can still telnet and shutdown. Both programs have been patched to their latest version. Has anybody been able to make hose two games runwith Mdk 8.1, using similar hardware? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Tuning for large number of processes
We run a database system that leaves a large number of connections to the database open, but inactive most of the time. Since the database is of the classic server variety, each database connection spawns a new copy of the database. We have a four CPU Dell server with four GB of RAM. My problem is that the load on the computer is often well above 6, sometimes it gets up to 12, at which point even the keyboard on the consol is painfully slow. Looking at the cpu usage and memory usage, I am surprised to find that they are not that high. However there seems to be a direct correlation between the number of processes (our database connections) and the load. My question: Is there something special that needs to be done to configure Mandrake or the kernel to handle large numbers (400+) of processes? Wondering what it all means, Pat Patrick Warn -- "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." - Arthur C. Clarke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] multiple mailservers on one machine
hello Mandrake-expert! i'm a bit stuck in thinking about this problem: is it possible to bind, for instance, sendmail to eth0 port 25 and qmail to eth0:1 port 25? same applies for, let's say, zope on eth0 port 80 and apache on eth0:1 port 80... background: i'd like to run teamware (http://www.teamw.com/linux/) which brings it's own (mail- etc...) servers parallel to "normal" services on one mandrake machine. regards, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Annoying problem with Xfree 4.03
Hi everybody, I have been experiencing some strange XFree 4.01 behavior lately: the server simply restarts while in the login screen (kdm). Sometimes, it restarts while I am logging in, no matter the window manager. Has anyone had this problem? It does not seem to be repeatable and occurs randomly... Hardware is as follows: P3-800, 256 megs RAM. Matrox G400, Xfree 4.03 with DRI Stock kernel 2.4.3 I'm wondering if I should just install from scratch again or if there is a way to fix this problem. Thanks! Patrick
[expert] Promise ATA100 installation ORDEAL
Hi everyone, This is an account of my troubles when installing Mandrake 8.0. As you'll see, strange things happend when new kernel versions arrive... My setup is as follows: PIII 800 on a ASUS P3B-F (I know, it should not support a processor with a 133mhz front bus speed but strangely enough, it works like a charm ;) 256 meg (PC133) 30 Gig WD hard drive. Promise ATA-100 drive controller: seen as scsi controller by the bios, used to be recognized as /dev/hde in Madnrake 7.2) 2 cd-rom (writer and reader) on Secondary ide controller (/dev/hdc & /dev/hdd) Primary IDE channel is disabled, thus leaving IRQ 14 free for the Promise controller. The rest is not relevant and you'll soon see why: The installation went well and smoothly only when I rebooted: The kernel loaded fine but panicked at the start of the "interactive setup" part of the boot. It mentionned that it could not find the /dev/hde6 device (that's the / partition) That's strange because it just booted from /dev/hde5 (the /boot partition) so if it could boot from one partition, it should be able to locate the next one on the same drive. After a few minutes of trial and error (lilo: linux root=/dev/hde6), I tried booting with the floppy created during install. To no avail! Things weren't looking up when I tried something else... Let's suppose that the kernel renames /dev/hde to /dev/hda after it has booted. The boot got one step further, mentionning that it could not mount partition /dev/hde6 on / This meant I was on the right track. So, I got a copy of Tombsrt (the mini distro on a floppy), disconnected the hard disk and installed it on the mobo's primary IDE channel and rebooted in tombsrt. Then, I mounted the / partition while in tombsrt. I changed the fstab entries to rename all references about /dev/hde to /dev/hda. Shut down the machine, reconnected the HD to the Promise card and rebooted the thing. It worked, at last... Now my question is: Why does this version of the kernel (2.4.3 I believe) remaps devices like this? This does not make any sense! Just my 2 sense (s)!
Réf. : [expert] problem with usr 56k modem
It is very likely that your "old modem" is a true one, that is to say it has a controller inside and is reachable from the CPU by the simple Hayes set of commands. Since (about) '96, modems are winmodems and the CPU has to manage them directly. The CD-ROM delivered by the manufacturers generally do not include any driver for Linux. Therefore you need to find the appropriate one on the web. I suggest you have a look at : http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html or http://www.linmodems.org/ Regards --- Patrick Bussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my Company. BAUDRILLARD GILLES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22/05/2001 10:52:04 Pour :"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc : (ccc : Patrick Bussi/ALCATEL-SPACE) Objet : [expert] problem with usr 56k modem I have recently bought a external 56k US Robotics modem and I can't make it work under LM 7.2. It doesn't respond to any query. It is not a hardware problem (the thing works almost correctly under Win95) and not a serial port config problem (If I unplug it and replace it by my old Olitec, things works immediately without even having to reboot) In fact, the programs that I have used (Harddrake,kppp) seems to not even see that there is a physical device on /dev/ttyS0. Any idea to help solving this mystery ? Thanks in advance. Gilles WARNING : New Email address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( @aeromatra.com and @eads-nv.com are no more available )
Réf. : Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?
I am almost sure that it is not any more useful to take care about the 1024 cylinder limit, at least since mdk7.1 release that I installed last year on the second half of a 20GB drive, shared with WIN9x. It ran happily. --- Patrick Bussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my Company. "B.V.L.S.Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22/05/2001 10:06:53 Pour :Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ccc : Patrick Bussi/ALCATEL-SPACE) Objet : Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs? I dont think it will be a problem... except take care that while partitioning , the /boot partitioning , the cylinder numbering should not exceed 1024.. ofcourse this partitioning logic is a bit old... thats all...everything else will fit ..well.. may be present boot loaders will take care of the higher numbersI dont know.. atleast upto 40GB I dont have any problems... prasad On Mon, 21 May 2001, Todd Flinders wrote: > Hello: > > I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100 hard > drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give 30 > gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux. > > Is that going to be a problem? Will there be any > necessary partitioning or parameters to allow Linux to > see the 90 gigs? Do I need to do anything special to > install the 3ware controller card? I believe the > driver for this card is built into the kernel. > > I will be using Linux Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack. > > Thanks so much for the help. I'd love to avoid a > headache ahead of time. > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ >
Re: [expert] Tried to install 8.0 but...
Mark Belanger wrote: > > Agreed. I have the same problem with my Micron Transport GX+. I'm > very disappointed. It worked more or less OK with Mdk 7.2 > > -Mark > > -- > Mark Belanger > LTX Corporation "Tutty, Dan" wrote: > I've heard that LM8 has a few problems with some notebooks however as > far as the ISO image is concerned, I think it's unlikely that a CD- > recording program would recognise the image if it was incomplete. > > Did LM7.2 work? > > Regards > > Dan > > Didn't try 7.2 but I am currently running 7.0 Oh well looks like I will have to try another distro;-] Patrick. -- Boost Hardware. Importing Korean Computer Hardware to New Zealand. Http://www.boosthardware.com for latest stock and prices.
[expert] Tried to install 8.0 but...
Hi. I just tried to install Mandrale 8.0 to my Samsung notebook but the keyboard won't work while I'm installing. Talk about a pain in the arse. I cut the cd from an iso image is there any way to make sure all the info has been burnt? Patrick Shirkey. -- Boost Hardware. Importing Korean Computer Hardware to New Zealand. Http://www.boosthardware.com for latest stock and prices.
[expert] Using iso image for 8.0
Hi. Can someone tell me how to get the iso image to work? I have downloaded it and then wrote it to a cd but I can't get it to work. Is there supposed to be some kind of formatting to the iso image that I am supposed to do before burning the cd? At the moment I have a cd with: mandrake80-inst.iso readme.txt md5sums I get the impression that the mandrake80-inst.iso image supposed to be opened up before I burn it? Kind of like untarring it. What makes it worse is that I am using windoze to do the download and it is driving me nuts. Patrick Shirkey. -- Boost Hardware. Importing Korean Computer Hardware to New Zealand. Http://www.boosthardware.com for latest stock and prices.
[expert] starnge log entry
hello MANDRAKE! this morning i found a strange entry in /var/log/messages: May 1 04:02:07 orbit AESctl: httpd -USR1 succeeded a quick search thru deja or google fond nothing - has someone an explanation for it? regards, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] how to /not/ installing X in mdk 8.0?
hello MANDRAKE! i need to build a server which will NEVER run X. but, there is no option /not/ to install X, it seems? also, how can i disable APM at install time? thanks in advance... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] socket.h file
Can anyone tell me what /usr/include/sys/socket.h is supposed to point to? I managed to delete it and now I need it in order to compile a few programs. TIA. Patrick Shirkey. -- Boost Hardware. Importing Korean Computer Hardware to New Zealand. Http://www.boosthardware.com for latest stock and prices.
[expert] mandrake 8.0b2 and vmware
hello MANDRAKE! after a day trying everything i could think of i must say that i just can't get msk 8.0 beta 2 to install in a vmware virtual machine in windows 2000 on an athlon... the installation runs smooth, no problems at all, but when i try to boot into the newly created installation the system hangs at lilo. the readout is lilo 21.7 and thats it. i can boot into rescue mode with the installation cd and can mount /dev/hda1, but how can i get the boot loader to work? any ideas? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] vmware install
hello MANDRAKE! did someone succesfully install mdk 8.0b2 in vmware? (athlon) regards, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] quotas in mandrake
hello MANDRAKE! to help jamie cameron, the developer/maintainer of webmin: i encuontered that i can't change the user quota with webmin 0.84 in mandrake 7.1 (partly updated to mdk 7.2). could someone with a clean mdk 7.1 and/or 7.2 system try to change the userquotas with webmin 0.84 and report bak to me if it works or not with the information of the exact version of mdk he uses? did mandrake change somethng in the quota system compared to redhat? regards, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] slow pop-access
hello MANDRAKE! sorry if this is a double posting. i didn't se the message arrive in the list.. ok, when i access my mandrake-box via pop3 to fetch mail it is significantly slower then when i send mail via smtp over the same box (smtp needs "a moment" to send a normal, not too big mail, pop3 needs around 2 seconds just to check for new mail) have other the same behaviour? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] Install Problems
I am not new to installing Mandrake but I've never come across a problem like this before. While installing I do my filesystem layout pick the applications I want then it starts to load the software. During the load the system will just lock. I have no mouse movement, my cdrom stop but my hard drive light stays on. The system will not come back no matter how long I wait. I have tried installing a bare bones load but it does the same thing. To verify it wasn't a hard disk or other problem I've loaded 6.1 and 7.1 and each loads and functions fine, but the 7.2 load will not work. I've tried running the patch.pl and changing my ides to noautotune but that still doesn't work. I am at a loss as to what to try next. I've been trying to load this now for a few days and haven't been successful yet. Any help would be appreciated.
[expert] SBLIVE! + JOYSTICK = SOLUTION!
Hi everyone, After a few days of unsuccessful trials, I've managed to activate the joystick port on the SBLive! and enable the joystick support in LM7.2. Here's how I have done it: -Downloaded kernel 2.2.18 -Compiled it -Rebooted with the new kernel; There's a catch there: Xfree 4.01 will not run anymore but it is not needed right now anyway (conflict in agpgart.o and mga.o module version: they won't load in Xfree 4.01 provided with LM 7.2). -Downloaded the emu10k1 driver from opensource.creative.com -Compiled it (without a hitch, at last!) -Do not "make install" afer compiling... -cp emu10k1-joy.o /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/ -Reboot with kernel 2.2.17 that came with LM7.2 and then the fun begins: Once bootup is finished: insmod emu10k1-joy io=0x200 cat /proc/ioports You should see the the joystick port at address 0x200. insmod joystick insmod joy-analog (or digital, or anything else). That's it: it worked for me. I hope this helps others! Now, let's hope that the next version of Mandrake will be more up to date, driver-wise: the included version of the emu10k1 dates back to october 1999. No joystick port support was included in that version. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] SBLive!, Mandrake 7.2 and joystick support.
Basically, here's the problem: I used to be able to compile the creative driver for the SBLive! This driver includes support for the joystick port on the card. In order to use a joy with this card, I had to use the emu10k1-joy module with a specific io address (insmod soundcore, insmod emu10k1-joy, insmod emu10k1-joy i0=0x200 then insmod joystick.o and finally, insmod joy-analog.o) This sequence worked on Mandrake 7.1. (with or without the joystick.o: can't remember :) Now, using Mandrake 7.2, I can't compile the creative driver anymore. I've been able to compile it on a vanilla kernel 2.2.17 but not with the one supplied with Mdk 7.2. Unfortunately, the vanilla kernel does not include agpgart module (no problem, I've found it) or the Xfree 4.01 video-card specific module (mga.o in my case, for a Matrox G400). Also, I can't use the module compiled on the vanilla as it complains about unresolved symbols when I try to load it on the Mandrake kernel.. Here is my question: is there any way to compile the creative driver with Mandrake 7.2? If not, where can I find the Xfree 4.01 DRI video-card module (mga.o) to patch a vanilla kernel 2.2.17? By the way, hardware acceleration works well on the G400: I've played with Terminus for a while w/o problem... Except that it's very hard to pilot with the keyboard :) So, does anyone have any answers about this? Thanks :) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Adding joystick support...
Hello everyone, I'm using Mandrake 7.2 and have the following problem: I would like to compile a driver for the SB Live! This driver supports the joystick port on the SB Live! as well as the remaining functions already supported by the driver-module bundled with Mdk7.2's kernel 2.2.17-21mdk. Unfortunately, I've been unsuccessful after a few hours trying it. Not being a programmer, I can only give the output when compiling: [me@jupiter emu10k1]$ make grep: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf-.h: No such file or directory Makefile:44: /Makefile: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `/Makefile'. Stop. I've already compiled my kernel a few times, have done make clean, dep, etc. But I just can't make this work. Has anybody been able to use it's joystick when plugged in a SB Live! with Mandrake 7.2? I would love to hear the story if someone has done it! TIA! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] ipchains log enrties - am i hacked?
hello MANDRAKE! since today i have strange logs from ipchains. ipchains is configured like this: [root@orbit /etc/sysconfig]# ipchains -L Chain input (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt sourcedestination ports DENY tcp l- !192.168.0.0/24 anywhere netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -> any DENY udp l- !192.168.0.0/24 anywhere netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -> any Chain forward (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt sourcedestination ports MASQ tcp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere !netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -> any MASQ udp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere !netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -> any DENY tcp -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/24any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn DENY udp -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/24any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn Chain output (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt sourcedestination ports DENY udp l- anywhere !192.168.0.0/24any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn DENY udp l- anywhere !192.168.0.0/24any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn [root@orbit /etc/sysconfig]# it startet with entries like this Nov 23 14:24:32 orbit kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 130.192.56.97:137 212.185.245.71:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=5295 F=0x T=115 (#2) with the first ip is a system somewhere in the internet, the second IP the system i connect to at my ISP. these log entries are quite usual, mostly caused by dumb asses scanning the system for security holes.. but later i got entries like this: Nov 24 00:29:09 orbit kernel: Packet log: output DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 192.168.0.104:137 213.239.137.56:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=30419 F=0x T=127 (#1) this is clearly a system from within, trying to connect to a system outside.. what is it? i already checked the system within for viruses - without success.. could smeone give me a hint? thanks in advance, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Xfree 4.0.1, 3D acceleration and the Matrox G400...
Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 7.2 and was hoping to see Xfree 4.0.1 support the G400 in 3D out of the box... However, my hopes were too high. Has anyone been able to make this card work in accelerated 3D with Mdk 7.2 and Xfree 4.01? If so, I'd be very curious to know how (a small walkthrough would be very appreciated!) TIA :) Patrick Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Netscape 4.75 and Kernel 2.4.0 that came with Mdk 7.2
Has anyone had trouble running Netscape 4.75 with the kernel 2.4.0 (pre-release) that comes with Mandrake 7.2? Strangely enough, it seems to crash the mail module... Maybe I didn't compile it correctly. Does anybody have information about this? Thanks :) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] unsubscribing
How can I get of this ML? It seems majordomo is not responding to any of my requests?? Patrick Van der Veken Baan System Engineer & Tools Consultant Baan Centre of Expertise - Hewlett Packard Belgium +32.2.778.21.34 (Work) +32.477.63.52.55 (GSM) +32.15.43.69.78 (Home FAX) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] strange logfiles
hello MANDRAKE! i have such a lot of logfiles in /var/log/mail like mail.err.1.gz.1.gz~gz.1.gz.2.gz.2.gz... (goes on for some time) that i can't even do a rm * (argument too long) where the hell are they coming from? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] new drive - moving directories
hello MANDRAKE! i'd like to add a new harddrive to my system and move some of the bigger directories to it. i have basically no problem with the operation but one thing. beside moving uncritical directories like /home i'd like to move my /var tree and /tmp to the new drive... i'm afraid of crashing my system because there must be a time when the tree to be moved is not available to the system. i plan to 1) cp -dpR /var /mnt/drive2 2) rm -rf /var 3) ln -s /mnt/drive2/var / what will happen between 2) and 3) when a daemon tries to write to the logs or the tmp dir? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] security scripts
hello MANDRAKE! i accidently switch off the nighly security scripts.. how can i turn them back on? /usr/share/msec/custom.sh doesn't work somehow... thanks in advance PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] owbership of index.html
hello MANDRAKE! something is permanently changing the ownership of /home/httpd/html/index.html back to root.root. but what program is it?? regards, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] kdedesktop
hello MANDRAKE! since i updated to kde 1.93 and the new login manager, wehen connecting to the linux box with my windows Xserver (xwin-32) it takes araiund 20 secs until the login screen appears. with the old login manager it was a matter of 2 or 3 seconds... does anyone experience the same or has an explanation/solution? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?
Yes, if I do a dmesg, it shows /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. I had the modem working great under RH 6.2 on /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5, but now "modem busy". It's got me baffled, I've tried what seems like everything. > -- > From: Anton Graham[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 3:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict? > > Do you have other serial ports in the machine and might another of them be > /dev/ttyS0? What does "dmesg | grep ttyS" show? > > -- > Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request > > "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, > perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." > -- Francis Bacon, Of Death > >
[expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?
Hi everyone, I'm about ready to explode because I can't get this problem figured out. I just recently switched to Mandrake 7.1 from Redhat 6.2 and I'm trying to dial through KPPP and I keep getting "modem is busy". I also try to go dial out through other things (minicom, and so on) and I get pretty much the same response. I had this modem working fine under Redhat by just adding the "setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5" line but now it won't work with Mandrake. What could have changed? Is something conflicting with my modem (by the way, it is NOT a winmodem)? It's a US Robotics 56k Model 2977. I've copied some of my system info below if it might help. I would appreciate any help that anyone could give on how I might get this working. Thanks. My machine is a Athlon 650, 128Mb RAM, Abit Ka7 if it helps. *** less /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 193956 XT-PIC timer 1: 1735 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 12 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 361084 XT-PIC emu10k1 11: 0 XT-PIC eth0 12: 79640 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 6561 XT-PIC ide0 15: 5 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ** lspci -v 00:08.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com USR-56k Internal FAX Modem (Model 2977) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 I/O ports at dc00 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 ** less /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 8371 [KX133] (rev 2). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd000 [0xd008]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies VT 8371 PCI Bridge (rev 0). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo Super (rev 34). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 16). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 16). Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 16). Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801]. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo Super ACPI (rev 48). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008. Medium devsel. IRQ 5. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01]. Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Ethernet controller: Winbond NE2000-PCI (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]. Bus 0, device 17, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 8). Vendor id=1102. Device id=2. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401]. Bus 0, device 17, function 1: Input device controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 8). Vendor id=1102. Device id=7002. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: NVidia Unknown device (rev 17). Vendor id=10de. Device id=2d. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd400 [0xd400]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd600 [0xd608]. ** setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5 ** ls -l /dev/modem lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot10 Sep 7 11:36 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0 ** setserial /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xdc00, IRQ: 5 **
[expert] port-forwarding
hello MANDRAKE! what is the easiest way (means, are there any tools included) in mandrake to forward aspecific port (or better a range of ports) from the outside over the firewall to a specific host inside. means: 0.0.0.0/0:5100-5199 <-> 192.168.0.1:5100-5199 0.0.0.0/0:5200-5299 <-> 192.168.0.2:5200-5299 and so on... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] owner/group for /home/httpd
hello MANDRAKE! by accident i changed all owner/groups in /home and would like to reset the permissions now - could someone make a 'ls -lisa /home' and tell me default owner.group of /home/httpd ? thanks in advance PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] [SOT] procmail problem
hallo MANDRAKE! sorry, for the slightly of topic question: i'd like to execute a program whenever mail for a specific account arives - so i choose procmail. procmail is working, the program gets executed - but, how can i bring procmail to leave the message untouched so that the owner of the account can fetch the mail via POP3? i think its quite easy, but i just can't find the solution in the man pages... thanks for all answers in advance, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] How to see IP address?
hallo Sarang! on Friday, September 01, 2000, 9:30:26 AM, you wrote: SL> Whats the command to get IP address of u're machine? The only way I know of SL> is thru kppp when using modem... I am talking of dynamic IP addresses SL> here.. I want something which i can put in a script! ifconfig - or, if you'd like to have the pure ip for scripting try: export LOCALIP=`ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1` or if you have ISDN export LOCALIP=`ifconfig ippp0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1` the use 'ping $LOCALIP' or whatever.. PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] crontab strangeness
hallo MANDRAKE! since a day or so crontab doesn't transfer changes from /ect/crontab to /var/spool/cron/root anymore... can someone imagine why? (crond is running: [root@orbit /var/spool/cron]# ps -x |grep cron 25529 ?S 0:00 crond 31161 pts/9S 0:00 grep cron here the two files: [root@orbit /etc]# ls -lisa crontab 640644 -rw-r--r--1 root root 557 Aug 31 14:40 crontab [root@orbit /etc]# cat ./crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 1 * * * * root /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.monthly # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. */1 * * * * root nice --adjustment=+19 /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. 0 4 * * * root /usr/share/msec/security.sh [root@orbit /var/spool/cron]# ls -lisa root 16324 -rw---1 root root 766 Aug 30 22:15 root [root@orbit /var/spool/cron]# cat ./root # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.12164 installed on Wed Aug 30 22:15:44 2000) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 1 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. 0-59 * * * * /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. 0 4 * * * /usr/share/msec/security.sh # every mintinues # every day's 3 o'clock. # every month's day 1 and 15's 4 clock.. PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] faking DNS entries
hallo MANDRAKE! for testing my website before i put them onto webservers at the internet i would like to put them to virtual Apache domains at a local linux box .. ok, i set up virtual IPs (thanks Jean-Michel), put the domains into /etc/hosts, put up the virtual domains in apache and apache shows the appropriate pages when i call them from the PC over the LAN which is the webdevelopement machine. fine. but why do they show up? when i do a nslookup "testdomain.de" (one of these i whish to redirect) i get the internet IP back - not the virtual IP from my linux-box... as i see it, i need to put these virtual IPs into the DNS (which is a forwarding DNS running on the same box like the apache) or into my local hosts file.. i would prefer the first solution - can someone give me a hint how to do it (maybe with webmin, although i know the strucures of the dns-files a bit i prefer to change them with webmin - they are to sensible fore mistypes..) the domains in question are .de domains - can i symly put up a local .de domain (without getting into HUGE trouble with the NIC authorities?) and will the rest of the .de domains still be accessible? so many questions... ;) PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re[2]: [expert] ip_alias
hallo Benjamin! on Thursday, August 31, 2000, 1:29:34 PM, you wrote: >> hallo MANDRAKE! >> >> does someone know a good ip_alias-HOWTO for 2.2.x kernels? (the one i >> found are for 2.0.x kernels)... maybe even one for mandrake... BR> IP Aliasing (if compiled in) is supported directly by the 2.2.x kernels, you BR> don't need a separate program for handling it, just put a colon and an alias BR> number after. Like, say, if I want 2 IP addresses on my eth0, you do BR> 'ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 up', and then 'ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.2.1 up'. BR> I found that you can actually create 'ifcfg-eth0:' files in BR> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and Mandrake actually does the right thing BR> setting them up for you. you mean taking ifcfg-eth0 as a template for ifcfg-eth0: and changing only the IP? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] ip_alias
hallo MANDRAKE! does someone know a good ip_alias-HOWTO for 2.2.x kernels? (the one i found are for 2.0.x kernels)... maybe even one for mandrake... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] crontab error msgs
hallo MANDRAKE! since some hours i (root) get mails from crontab with the subject: Cron root/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh and the body /bin/bash: root: command not found i tweaked my system a bit since it appeared but didn't do anything to mandrake security (msec) also running /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh as root doesn't produce any errormsgs.. any ideas? thanks in advance... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] Xfree 4.01 problem...
Hi, After fighting a while with Xfree 4.0 that came with Mdk7.1 (I could only get a screen full of garbage), I've managed to install Xfree 4.01 by using the binary tar balls provided by xfree86.org. However, I have a new problem: the graphical login does not function properly anymore: kdm appears (with the X background) with all options but I cannot launch KDE or any other window manager from there. I can only startx from the prompt (runlevel 3) and I only get TWM, which is far from ideal. Does anyone have any insight about how to make the graphical login functional again, as well as the other window managers, short of reinstalling 3.3.6 ? Thank you for your time!!!
Re[2]: [expert] messed up kdm
hallo Sarang! on Friday, August 25, 2000, 9:59:44 PM, you wrote: SL> I had the exact same problem.. just go to a console .. with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and SL> say init 3 and then init 5 to take it back to GUI login.. and u'll be all SL> fine.. SL> or better, install mandrake_desk rpm.. its also there with the KDE rpms.. SL> and u'll be all fine.. the latest rpms of KDE 2 are just cool.. i SL> am running KDE 2 with 100% success now.. mh.. i already installed mandrake_desk and i think that's what i see when connecting to my linuxbox, but, i'm afraif the configuration of it is messed up.. PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] messed up kdm
hallo MANDRAKE! to be able to install kooldown i had to remove (as it was suggested here in the list) some parts of kde 1.1 - but it looks like i'm gone to far.. kdm seems to be gone and when i try to login (from a xserver on a windowsbox) i get a completely messed up login manager i've never seen before. on top is a list of the possible users, below are entry fields for user and password and below is a dropdownlist supposed to give me a choice of window managers but it has only one entry with /all/ windows mangers on one single line?! (apparently a defective config file)... anyway, i'd like to get back my good old kdm - but how? hope someone can help... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] kooldown downloads
hallo MANDRAKE! sorry, i flushed the mdk-expert messages of the last days (and can't find the answer in the archive): where can i find the mandrake rpms of actual 1.93 kde2 beta? i can't find it on cooker nor on http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/ ... thanks in advance... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] syslogd restart
hallo MANDRAKE! the following problem: with mandrake 7.1, once in a while (2 times a month maybe) syslogd goes crazy.. some minutes after the daily crond work (the preconfigured scripts) syslogd restarts for a hundred or so times (maybe more, the /var/log/messages is some 30 k bigger afterwards)... does someone else experience the same or can someone imagine why syslogd is behaving like that? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] [COT] UnrealTournament.ini
hallo MANDRAKE! sorry for the completely OT subject: could someone send me a working linux - UT 4.25 UnrealTornament.ini (maybe one for a dedicated server even)? thanks in advance and apologies again, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] [COT] UnrealTournament.ini
hallo MANDRAKE! sorry for the completely OT subject: could someone send me a working linux - UT 4.25 UnrealTornament.ini (maybe one for a dedicated server even)? thanks in advance and apologies again, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] helix gnome and terminal
hallo Patrick! on Thursday, August 17, 2000, 10:30:36 AM, you wrote: PE> oh no! PE> i just installed helix gnome to test nautilus - and now my terminal is PE> completely screwed up. in mc, instead of lines i have Ds and 3s and PE> Zs... PE> what can i do to correct this? PE> and what should i do to use the gnome login manager from a remote PE> x-server? replying to myself... everything is back to normal after a bit sniffing thru the net.. uh, is that gnome slow... (and that sawfish unstable) PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] Boot Logger???
hallo TriOptimum! on Thursday, August 17, 2000, 9:25:37 AM, you wrote: T> 3)Someone knows how to create a log file to look at the messages created T> during the boot sequence? or if it is just being created by default where it resides??? T> Tnks! /var/log/dmesg PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] helix gnome and terminal
hallo MANDRAKE! oh no! i just installed helix gnome to test nautilus - and now my terminal is completely screwed up. in mc, instead of lines i have Ds and 3s and Zs... what can i do to correct this? and what should i do to use the gnome login manager from a remote x-server? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] urpmi/rpmdrake hangs
hallo MANDRAKE! when i try ro add a remote location to urpmi, after fetching the filelist, urpmi hangs with the message generating dependencies list i start the whole process with urpmi.addmedia rpmfind ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz2 does anyone experience the same problem? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] samba problem with new disk
hallo MANDRAKE! recently i added a new disk to my system (hdb). i would like to share directories on that disk with samba like i do on disk hda. but here comes the problem. it just don't work. i can see the disk from the w2k-box but can't change into it. al i get is [2000/08/10 21:14:42, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(487) Can't change directory to /mnt/data/quake3 (Permission denied) in /var/log/samba/ the options, permissions and everything else of the new directories are the same like ithe ones of the old directories... an example: the fstab reads: /dev/hda1 / ext2 grpquota,usrquota 0 1 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/data ext2 grpquota,usrquota 0 0 the permissions: directory in hda (first disk): 1476284 drwxrwxr-x7 nobody inhouse 4096 Aug 10 20:42 transfer/ directory in hdb (new disk): 588814 drwxrwxrwx4 nobody inhouse 4096 Aug 10 20:38 quake3/ the smb.conf reads: [transfer] path = /share/transfer writable = yes force directory mode = 0770 create mode = 0770 force create mode = 0770 directory mode = 0770 force group = transfer comment = achtung, jeder kann loeschen! delete readonly = yes [quake3] path = /mnt/data/quake3 writable = yes force directory mode = 755 force create mode = 755 public = yes i log into as user pat of group inhouse.. for me it looks perfect... btw, its samba 2.0.6... i'm desperate PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] strange samba problem
hallo MANDRAKE! i have a strange samba-problem in Mandrake 7.1 thats what i did: a directory (called "transfer") is shared with samba and is accessible for group "inhouse". its located at /dev/hda5 (physical) /share/transfer (logical). i create another share for the same group. i do this with the copy share function in webmin and point the directory to /dev/hdb1 (physical) /mnt/data1/mp3 softlinked to /share/data/mp3 (logical). all filepermissions (unix) are the same, all ownerships are the same, all samba settings are the same. but ehen accessing the share i get: [2000/08/03 20:56:49, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(487) Can't change directory to /share/data/mp3 (Permission denied) here is the relevant part from the smb.conf: [transfer] path = /share/transfer force group = transfer writable = yes comment = achtung, jeder kann loeschen! force directory mode = 0770 create mode = 0770 delete readonly = yes directory mode = 0770 wide links = no force create mode = 0770 [mp3] path = /share/data/mp3 comment = MP3s copy = transfer the only difference i see is that the directory-to-get-shared is on another partition.. can that be the reason?? in hope of a solution, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] executing command on mail-arrival
hallo MANDRAKE! i would like to execute a script after mail got fetched by fetchmail for a specific user.. i just can't find a way.. maybe someone has an idea... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] mandrake and APOP
hallo MANDRAKE! is an APOP server included in mandrake 7.1 and i'm just to stupid to activate it or do i need an external package - and if the latter is true, which one would you suggest? (it would be cool if it would coexist with a standard mandrake configuration) PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] vi and keyboard emulation
hallo MANDRAKE! i use secureCRT to log into my mandrake 7.1 box.. the terminal emulation is "linux". in midnight commander everything works fine, but in vi or other programs like iptraf, the cursor keys send strange control sequences... could someone tell me whats wrong here? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] wu-ftp problem
p.s. here is an extract from /var/log/messages Jul 7 23:14:20 orbit ftpd[3768]: FTP session closed Jul 7 23:14:40 orbit ftpd[3981]: USER qno Jul 7 23:14:43 orbit ftpd[3981]: PASS password Jul 7 23:14:44 orbit ftpd[3981]: failed login from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] Jul 7 23:14:44 orbit ftpd[3981]: cmd failure - not logged in Jul 7 23:14:44 orbit ftpd[3981]: SYST PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] wu-ftp problem
hallo MANDRAKE! i'm desperate... i administer my mandrake 7.1 box with webmin (mainly). the problem i have is, that users i add doesn't have ftp-access, their password gets rejected.. the only user which can connect is the user i created when installing mandrake... any ideas? thanks in advance.. PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re[2]: [expert] Security warnings
hallo Civileme! on Thursday, July 06, 2000, 8:22:13 AM, you wrote: C> "Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: >> >> Hi Gang, >> >> I keep getting this in my mail and also in my logs. Is this normal? >> >> *** Diff Check, Wed Jul 5 04:01:57 EDT 2000 *** >> >> Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine : >> - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* > LISTEN 747/httpd >> - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* > LISTEN 784/perl >> - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* > LISTEN 718/master >> - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:cfengine *:* > LISTEN 600/cfd >> - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:nntp *:* > LISTEN 587/inetd >> - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:pop3 *:* > LISTEN 587/inetd >> - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:telnet*:* > LISTEN 587/inetd >> - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* > LISTEN 587/inetd >> - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* > LISTEN 490/portmap >> - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* > 784/perl >> - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* > 490/portmap >> - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* > LISTEN 30057/httpd >> >> - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* > LISTEN 825/perl >> - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* > LISTEN 748/master >> - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:cfengine *:* > LISTEN 630/cfd >> - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:nntp *:* > LISTEN 617/inetd >> - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:pop3 *:* > LISTEN 617/inetd >> - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:telnet*:* > LISTEN 617/inetd >> - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* > LISTEN 617/inetd >> - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* > LISTEN 520/portmap >> - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* > 825/perl >> - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* > 520/portmap >> >> *** Security Check, Wed Jul 5 04:02:06 EDT 2000 *** >> >> Security Warning: World Writeable files found : >> - /home/bob/http >> - /tmp >> - /tmp/.X11-unix >> - /tmp/.X11-unix/X9 >> - /tmp/.font-unix >> - /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 >> - /var/lib/svgalib >> - /var/lib/texmf >> - /var/lib/texmf/ls-R >> - /var/spool/fax/outgoing >> - /var/spool/fax/outgoing/locks >> - /var/spool/postfix/maildrop >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/bounce >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/bsmtp >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/cleanup >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/cyrus >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/defer >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/error >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/ifmail >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/local >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/smtp >> - /var/spool/postfix/private/uucp >> - /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup >> - /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr >> - /var/spool/postfix/public/showq >> - /var/spool/samba >> - /var/tmp >> >> These are the ports listening on your machine : >> Active Internet connections (only servers) >> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State >PID/Program name >> tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN >747/httpd >> tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN >784/perl >> tcp0
[expert] samba problems
hallo MANDRAKE! could someone of you try to set up a public samba share on a mandrake 7.1 box and point the shared directory to a symlink (ie. /share/data -> /mnt/data) ? i just don't get it to work.. my w2k-box says to me "the network name cannot be found" when trying to acces that share (all other shares are fine) PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] creating users and virtual webserves in one step
hallo MANDRAKE! maybe someone with an ISP background is on the list who whishes to point me to a script or another method with which i can create a user and a virtual webserver-domain in apache (user: test domain: test.testsystem). i could do it in perl or sh, but why invent the wheel a 5th time... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] security warinigs
hallo MANDRAKE! the daily security report tells me, that there are changes in the ports which are open.. all these ports are qute high.. is this a side effect of ip-masquerading? because i don't have services behind these ports.. it looks like this Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine : - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:nntp *:* LISTEN 5836/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 5836/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:telnet *:* LISTEN 5836/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 5836/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:3122 *:* LISTEN 603/kdm - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:8000 *:* LISTEN 26983/ - Opened ports : tcp0 0 orbit:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN 723/ - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:ldap *:* LISTEN 566/ - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:1106 *:* 553/named - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* 603/kdm - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:bootps *:* 30003/dhcpd - Opened ports : raw0 0 *:icmp *:* 7 30003/dhcpd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN 14728/X - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:3839 *:* LISTEN 1690/xdm - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:7100 *:* LISTEN 1659/xfs - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 540/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 orbit:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN 723/smbd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:ldap *:* LISTEN 566/slapd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:nntp *:* LISTEN 540/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:telnet *:* LISTEN 540/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 localhost.locald:domain *:* LISTEN 553/named - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:nntp *:* LISTEN 540/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:telnet *:* LISTEN 540/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 540/inetd - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* 1690/xdm - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:1025 *:* 553/named PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] problems with drakeconf
hallo MANDRAKE! when i try to install several packages (for instance kutils or ktoys, there is no pattern to see right now), nothing happens. ps -x after pressing install brings 1762 pts/7Z 0:00 [urpmi ] did someone experience this too? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] superstupid question
hallo MANDRAKE! as ist seems, there didn't got gnome installed at my system... because i'd like to try it out, how do i install it "the proper way" so that i can choose it when logging into my server... sorry so much questioning today, but for me it's X day today and my last contact with X happened basically 95 on our SUNs in the university... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] starting X for remote access only
hallo MANDRAKE! i access my router with X from my pc. for this, i start xdm at the router. when i do this, at the router itself starts an x-session with graphical login and stuff... i don't see this, because the router has neither a monitor nor a keyboard... so, this xsession at the router itself is unnecessary and uses CPU cycles which i would like to use for something else.. so the question, how can i start the X-server (or client, how you like it ;) at the router in serve-mode only? or do i get something completely wrong here? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] x is not starting anymore
hallo Expert! suddenly xdm behaves strange. i try to login from another pc with x-win32. i start xdm at the console of the linuxbox. after that ps -x brings: =-- cut --- [root@orbit /home/ftp/pub]# ps -x |grep x 25679 ?S 0:00 xdm 25690 ?S 0:00 xdm 25712 ?S 0:00 /etc/X11/X -auth /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authf 25713 ?S 0:00 xdm 25715 pts/3R 0:00 ps -x 25716 pts/3S 0:00 grep x =-- cut --- but i can't log into the linuxbox. some seconds after that ps -x brings: =-- cut --- [root@orbit /home/ftp/pub]# ps -x |grep x 25679 ?S 0:00 xdm 25690 ?S 0:00 xdm 25733 pts/3R 0:00 ps -x 25734 pts/3S 0:00 grep x 25735 ?R 0:00 /etc/X11/X -auth /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authf 25736 ?S 0:00 xdm =-- cut --- see the changed PIDs and three times xdm?! xdm-error.log brings as the last lines: =-- cut --- _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages =-- cut --- what can i do with this?! PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] security warnings in mdk 7.1
hallo ! its cool to have security checking conjobs to habe now (i had 6.0 before). anyway, what can i do against the following messages. which directories can i safely chmod 755 or whatever? Security Warning: World Writeable files found : - /tmp - /tmp/.X11-unix - /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 - /tmp/.font-unix - /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100 - /var/spool/fax/outgoing - /var/spool/fax/outgoing/locks - /var/spool/postfix/maildrop - /var/spool/postfix/private/bounce - /var/spool/postfix/private/bsmtp - /var/spool/postfix/private/cleanup - /var/spool/postfix/private/cyrus - /var/spool/postfix/private/defer - /var/spool/postfix/private/error - /var/spool/postfix/private/ifmail - /var/spool/postfix/private/local - /var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite - /var/spool/postfix/private/smtp - /var/spool/postfix/private/uucp - /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup - /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr - /var/spool/postfix/public/showq - /var/spool/samba - /var/tmp PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] ports blocked....
hallo expert! i transfered my setup of mdk 6.0 to 7.1. all is fine so far, but somehow it seems that the security settings of mandrake are a bit higher now, which is "good". however, my ipchains settings (see below) from 6.0 are working but i still can't connect to some ports, especially :8000 (which i would like to use with junkbuster...). if my suspicions are right and :8000 gets blocked somewhere, where can i turn this off? ipchains: [root@orbit /etc/junkbuster]# ipchains -L Chain input (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt sourcedestination ports DENY tcp l- !192.168.0.0/24 anywhere netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -> any DENY udp l- !192.168.0.0/24 anywhere netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -> any Chain forward (policy DENY): target prot opt sourcedestination ports MASQ tcp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere !netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -> any MASQ udp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere !netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -> any DENY tcp -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/24 any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn DENY udp -- anywhere 192.168.0.0/24 any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn Chain output (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt sourcedestination ports DENY udp l- anywhere !192.168.0.0/24 any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn DENY udp l- anywhere !192.168.0.0/24 any -> netbios-ns:netbios-ssn thanks for any help in advance.. PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] mdk 7.1 - kde q deletes?!
hallo Expert! having installed mandrake 7.1, in kde, the key "q" deletes (like backspace).. strange, but where to reset to normal behavior? (i use kde via xwin32 and checked the keyboard config, its correct...) PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] [SOT] controling turbeo KED
hallo Expert! slightly off topic, does anyone know if it is possible to switch the turbo LED on and off via software? i would like to use it as an online/offline LED on my router... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] rpmdrake and URLs
hallo Expert! can someone point me to HTTP or FTP urls which i can enter into rpmdrake or kpackage, so that i can install packages from the net? PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re[2]: [expert] adding packages
hallo Daryl! on Saturday, June 24, 2000, 4:18:00 AM, you wrote: DP> Patrick Erler wrote: >> hallo Expert! >> >> maybe i'm stupid, but i can't find a way to add packages after the >> installation of mandrake 7.1, i miss the rpm installer too... and i >> haven't the harddrake.. i did a simple costum install with all >> packages beside sound and multimedia and stuff which went (nearly) >> seamless... >> >> PAT >> -- >> >> vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html >> PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF DP> surely rpm is installed. it's certainly in the distribution. use rpm to DP> install rpmdrake. then use rpmdrake to install whatever else you need. but there is no such thing like rpmdrake (at least not, when i search for it with webmin..) the strange thing is, that i have drakeconf, but it has only the modules xconfig xresolution user addition drakboot security level startup services keybord choice linuxconf mousedrake network config printerconfig no update, no harddrake no nothing... PAT PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] adding packages
hallo Expert! maybe i'm stupid, but i can't find a way to add packages after the installation of mandrake 7.1, i miss the rpm installer too... and i haven't the harddrake.. i did a simple costum install with all packages beside sound and multimedia and stuff which went (nearly) seamless... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] update report, please..
hallo expert! did someone of you upgrade from 6.0 to 7.1? i plan to upgrade our server-for-everything and would like to know what can go wrong.. PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re[2]: [expert] dsl masq help
hallo holgerj! on Monday, June 05, 2000, 1:53:37 PM, you wrote: hkgec> Patric wrote: >>ask your provider if you need to adjust your MTU values (some >>cisco-routers on their side need that and it may be adjusted by the >>installer in win98). or just give it a try and adjust the value to >>1412 (its an option in the pppd)... hkgec> MTU Size is normaly 1500byte. hkgec> If you'r using DSL with ppp over ethernet, you MUST adjust the MTU Size hkgec> at you computer. hkgec> NOT 1500 but 1490 or so! hkgec> The overhead is so big, that 1500 payload byts added to the ppp over ethernet hkgec> header is more than 1518bytes! hkgec> 1518 byts is the maximum packet size in Ethernet Networks! hkgec> Patric.do you running T-DSL ??? yep ;) PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] dsl masq help
hallo freeman! on Friday, June 02, 2000, 3:56:46 PM, you wrote: fpc> I finally got my ip chains working on my linux mandrake fpc> 70.2 box:) fpc> I am also using a third DSL dialer called Babylon because fpc> I need an "ACCESS MANAGER" But I'm having a little problem! fpc> I seem to have a lack of speed. The fastest connection I have is 17k sec. I have recieved upto 100+++ k sec in a win98enviroment. I just want it to work as good as when fpc> I had it on win98. ask your provider if you need to adjust your MTU values (some cisco-routers on their side need that and it may be adjusted by the installer in win98). or just give it a try and adjust the value to 1412 (its an option in the pppd)... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] reseting console settings
hallo expert! don't ask me any details, but somehow i messed up my console-settings.. keys don't react as they should (via telnet, i don't sit directly at the box), strange characters instead of lines and corners, stuff like that.. do you have some advice for me, how to reset to default all that mess? thanks in advance... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
[expert] upgrading 6.0
hallo expert! i plan to upgrade my mandrake 6.0 to 7.1. i made the usual modifications to my existing system (dns, apache, senmail, samba etc.) is the upgrade/installation-procedure aware of my changes and respects it or should i backup my changed installation files and after a clean install reapply them... ? any advices welcome, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF
Re: [expert] New system setup
Date sent: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:13:23 -0400 From: "Joseph S. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[expert] New system setup > Greet's, > > Finally got all the parts for my new Athlon system in and was wondering > how best to do this next part. > > What are the benefits of a "server" install .vs. "developement" and > "recommended"? > Sounds to me like you should do a server install. I use the expert mode and pick and choose. The development install will give you more development tools, like python and php. Hope that helps. Pat O'Hara Techneex V: (414)405-7348 F: (414)769-0092 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] restore my old sytem
when i tried linux single, linux made initially unroll the message of starting then it send me a message: "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with error check forced" then after some instant i receive the message"give the root password for maintenance". after have given the root password i receive the message " bad login..Thank you for your help - Original Message - From: Brian T. Schellenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 4:34 AM Subject: Re: [expert] restore my old sytem > > Well, what exactly happened when you tried "linux single"? > What happened when you used the resuce disk? > > We'll need more information in order to help you. > > Patrick wrote: > > > > hi, > > yesterday, i start my linux and i mark an error in file sytem.i wanted to > > give my password for maintenance .But my password didn't > > recognize.Please help me to restore my system.i used the methods of rescue > > end boot disk.I also used the command "linux single" in lilo prompt.But > > nothing march.i don't know which methods used for restore my sytem .Thank > > you for your help.Please respond me at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __ > > message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com > > emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums > > Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)
[expert] restore my old sytem
hi, yesterday, i start my linux and i mark an error in file sytem.i wanted to give my password for maintenance .But my password didn't recognize.Please help me to restore my system.i used the methods of rescue end boot disk.I also used the command "linux single" in lilo prompt.But nothing march.i don't know which methods used for restore my sytem .Thank you for your help.Please respond me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)
[expert] how can i do?
hi, i want to put in the web a server.But i have just a dynamic ip at every connexion .how can i do.Thank you for your help __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)
