Re: [expert] msec and Directory permissions......

[Ralph Crpngeyer]

Hi Jack, Thanks for the info.

If I:

edit /etc/security/msec/perm.local

/opt/is4owner.group octalperms
/opt/is4/*  owner.group octalperms
then (as per the second line) won't that change the owner.group 
octalperms ie. (775 for instance)for all of the sub dirs also?

Remember that each of the dirs below (/opt/is4/) have different 
owner.group and permissions inside the chroot jail.

I need to skip this dir not set/reset the owner.group and octalperms.

So far the only way I have been able to avoid this is to stop the msec 
scripts from running.

Any other ideas?

Thanks
Ralph




Jack Coates wrote:

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:37, Ralph C wrote:
 

Hi all,

I have Bynari Insight Server installed and it installs everything inside
/opt/is4/ directory as a chroot jail, where it runs it's own services
like Postfix, Apache, Proftpd, etc... msec is changing the permissions.
I need to make msec skip this directory and all sub dirs. How do I do this?

Ralph
   

edit /etc/security/msec/perm.local

/opt/is4owner.group octalperms
/opt/is4/*  owner.group octalperms
 



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Re: [expert] msec and Directory permissions......

[Ralph Crpngeyer]

Jack, Your right.
The user.group for the entire jail is root.root only the file 
permissions are different. Also looking at /usr/share/msec/perm.5 the 
directory /opt is not touched at all. I think that something else must 
have been happening. I wasn't the only one with root access to this 
system, till now. I just ran msec 5 and all is well.

I think the answer to the question (How do I get msec to skip a dir?) is 
to make sure that it is not listed in the /usr/share/msec/perm.2/3/4/5 
file. In other words, msec only changes owner.group perms for the 
dir's listed in the perm.2/3/4/5 file.

Does that sound right?

Thanks for your help.

Ralph

I think the answer to the question (How do I get msec to skip a dir?) is 
to make sure that it is not

Jack Coates wrote:

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 07:33, Ralph Crpngeyer wrote:
 

Hi Jack, Thanks for the info.

If I:

edit /etc/security/msec/perm.local

/opt/is4owner.group octalperms
/opt/is4/*  owner.group octalperms
then (as per the second line) won't that change the owner.group 
octalperms ie. (775 for instance)for all of the sub dirs also?

Remember that each of the dirs below (/opt/is4/) have different 
owner.group and permissions inside the chroot jail.

I need to skip this dir not set/reset the owner.group and octalperms.

   

uh, then why don't you add lines for each of those directories? IIRC
there is a way to make msec ignore a directory, probably something like
dots or asterisks, but...
 

So far the only way I have been able to avoid this is to stop the msec 
scripts from running.

   

Isn't the point of using a chroot to improve your security? If you're
going to the trouble of using chroot, wouldn't you like to prevent
ownership and permissions changes within the jails? Chroot jails are not
playgrounds for the bad guys, they're subsystems that need the same if
not higher security restrictions as the rest of the system.
 

Any other ideas?
   

I just looked through /usr/share/msec/perm.3, you can put current in
the user.group area to preserve whatever's there. Dunno about perms.
 

Thanks
Ralph




Jack Coates wrote:

   

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:37, Ralph C wrote:

 

Hi all,

I have Bynari Insight Server installed and it installs everything inside
/opt/is4/ directory as a chroot jail, where it runs it's own services
like Postfix, Apache, Proftpd, etc... msec is changing the permissions.
I need to make msec skip this directory and all sub dirs. How do I do this?

Ralph
  

   

edit /etc/security/msec/perm.local

/opt/is4owner.group octalperms
/opt/is4/*  owner.group octalperms




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Re: [expert] msec and Directory permissions......

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Thanks! I didn't even notice that I fat fingered my name. :-(

Ralph

Charlie M. wrote:

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October 23, 2003 09:36 am, Ralph Crpngeyer wrote:
  
  
Jack, Your right.
The user.group for the entire jail is root.root only the file
permissions are different. Also looking at /usr/share/msec/perm.5 the
directory "/opt" is not touched at all. I think that something else must
have been happening. I wasn't the only one with root access to this
system, till now. I just ran "msec 5" and all is well.

I think the answer to the question (How do I get msec to skip a dir?) is
to make sure that it is not listed in the /usr/share/msec/perm.2/3/4/5
file. In other words, msec only changes "owner.group perms" for the
dir's listed in the perm.2/3/4/5 file.

Does that sound right?

Thanks for your help.

Ralph


  
  Ralph did you forget how to spell your own name, or have you taken to calling 
yourself "Crpngyer" for a reason? g

Just curious 'cause I couldn't figure out what was bothering me about your 
posts.

Regards;
Charlie
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[expert] msec and Directory permissions......

[Ralph C]

Hi all,

I have Bynari Insight Server installed and it installs everything inside
/opt/is4/ directory as a chroot jail, where it runs it's own services
like Postfix, Apache, Proftpd, etc... msec is changing the permissions.
I need to make msec skip this directory and all sub dirs. How do I do this?

Ralph


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[expert] msec and Directory permissions......

[Ralph C]

Hi all,

I have Bynari Insight Server installed and it installs everything inside
/opt/is4/ directory as a chroot jail, where it runs it's own services
like Postfix, Apache, Proftpd, etc... msec is changing the permissions.
I need to make msec skip this directory and all sub dirs. How do I do this?

Ralph





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[expert] PAM, pam_mkhomedir.so, and imap......

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all.

I am trying to get the users home dirs created during imap authentacation by 
adding the line:

session required/lib/secuirty/pam_mkhomedir.so  skel=/etc/skel 
umask=0022

to /etc/pam.d/imap

but it doesn't work??

By adding this same line to /etc/pam.d/login the users home dir are created at 
first login no problem.

I'm using courier-imapd.

Does anyone know how to get this working?

Thanks

Ralph


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Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Monday 15 September 2003 04:16 pm, Birkoff wrote:

Hi, I'm using a Toshiba 5105-S501 Laptop with the Nvidia drivers loaded and 
xfree86 4.3.0.

Here are my config files. I had to put the line at the top of my modules.conf 
file to get rid of a 1/4 inch space on the right hand side of the screen that 
was not being used.
Anyway maby they will help.

Ralph

 can't U try now to put back the original XFree 4 from the CDs?
 urpm can help.

 On Monday 15 September 2003 15:05, stefmit wrote:
  Switched to 3.3.6, and everything is OK (except for fonts in KDE,
  which are very ugly ... ) - still hoping for a 4.x fix ...
 
  On Monday 15 September 2003 06:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Thank you for the quick answer - this is what I did not know for
   sure: if I can downgrade to an earlier version of X, after
   upgrading to the new one (more secure, 'cause I can't use it ;)).
   I am going right now through XFDrake (which I assume will work even
   under CLI), to see if I can repair the new X, first. This reminds
   me of another OS, which delivers Service Packs, followed by
   patches, then hotfixes ;(
  
   Just out of curiosity: anybody else with a Toshiba 8100 around
   here, having had issues with the patched X?
  
   Thx again,
   Stef
  
In a pinch, use Knoppix to autoconfigure X and then overwrite the
XF86Config/Config-4 of Mandrake. If it's just a configuration
problem than that might work. If not and X is toast, then a
downgrade to an earlier version of X might be the only fix. This,
of course, will have to be done from the CLI.
   
Cheers
   
Jason
   
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just worked on my laptop last night, and, while doing other
 things, decided to check the updates and chose to allow the X
 update to go through. Of course everything worked fine (update
 and such), but once shutting it down and restarting it this
 morning, in the office - X is broken. What do I mean by this?
 When starting, the screen shows lots of colored lines in the
 upper portion, after which it brings up the login (what used to
 be) acreen, but with no dialog box for input, or possibility to
 do anything (actually I can pick the username, which is still
 visible, but I cannot guess where the password field

may be ... let alone the fact that this would come up - probably
 - with more weird stuff, even if able to login.

In the rest, another tty (CLI) works just fine, as does non-init
 5 levels. Anybody having any idea what could have broken with
 the new X? I would appreciate any help, as I am stuck now with
 a Windows box, readin/writing email using a browser, and all my
 weekend work dependent on my laptop (unless deciding to install
 Openoffice in Windows).

Thx,
Stef
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[expert] pam winbind and wu-imap....

[Ralph C]

Hi all,

I have setup samba with winbind and pam. After successfully joining the domain 
I can loginto my Mandrake 9.0 box as a windows NT 4.0 domain user and it 
authenticates to the NT 40 box and creates the users home dir. i did this by 
editing the /etc/pam.d/login file and adding these lines:

authsufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so
account   sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so
sessionrequired /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so umask=0022
This works great.

But this is going to be a mail server so I need to have the user dirs created 
when they loginto imap. So i edited the /etc/pam.d/imap file like this:

auth   required /lib/security/pam_winbind.so
auth   required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
accountrequired /lib/security/pam_winbind.so
accountrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
sessionrequired /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so umask=0022
And restart xinetd but the users dirs arn't created?

Can anyone help me get this working?

Thanks 
Ralph



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[expert] pam winbind and wu-imap....

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all,

I have setup samba with winbind and pam. After successfully joining the domain 
I can loginto my Mandrake 9.0 box as a windows NT 4.0 domain user and it 
authenticates to the NT 40 box and creates the users home dir. i did this by 
editing the /etc/pam.d/login file and adding these lines:

authsufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so
account   sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so
sessionrequired /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so umask=0022

This works great.

But this is going to be a mail server so I need to have the user dirs created 
when they loginto imap. So i edited the /etc/pam.d/imap file like this:

auth   required /lib/security/pam_winbind.so
auth   required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
accountrequired /lib/security/pam_winbind.so
accountrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
sessionrequired /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so umask=0022

And restart xinetd but the users dirs arn't created?

Can anyone help me get this working?

Thanks 
Ralph


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[expert] OpenGroupware Questions......

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup an OpenGroupware server for a client for a demo and 
possable deployment. It will be on a mandrake 9.1 box. The setup needs to be 
as follows:

1. Needs to authenticate users from a WinNT box.
2. Needs calendaring with Outlook/Express or Mozilla/Netscape mail.

Where should I get the rpms from?
Do I need to have Cyrus-imap setup. Any tipson that if I do?

Any tips would be appreciated.

Ralph


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[expert] Cyrus-imapd and postfix.....

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all does anyone have cyrus-imapd and postfix working together?

If you do could you help me get things going on my Mandrake 9.1 box.

I have cyrus and postfix installed but thing aren't working.

Any help would be great.

Thanks 
Ralph


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Re: [expert] Password Question

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Friday 22 August 2003 08:33 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:

Except that /etc/password doesn't have any passwords in it, it's the 
/etc/shadow file that holds the passwords.

RC

 Thanks for t his great answer. So All are that easy to change. Unless there
 are other precautions take to stop this.

 -Original Message-
 From: Jim C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 8:13 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [expert] Password Question

 As for linux being able to bypass windows passwords, if it can, then its
 likely the same thing would be doable from any OS that can read NTFS.. 
  not just linux, so you might see the same thing from freedos or any *BSD
  variant in the future.

 The /etc/passwd file in Linux is just as accessible.   Boot from a disk
 and it is easy to change or reset passwords.
 Most people want to have this capability however, just in case.  Any
 resulting secureity hole is easily managed by physical security (i.e.
 lock up the machine).
 In extreme cases, one might add a BIOS password and turn off booting
 from CD/Floppy, however.  This should work for both OS's.

 Jim C.


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Re: [expert] Password Question

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:55 am, Bryan Phinney wrote:
You have to re boot with disk1 of your Mandrake install disks and type 
rescue. Then when the system comes up you will need to remount the 
partition that has your /etc dir on it in read/write mode. Go in to the 
/etc dir and edit the /etc/shadow file and delete the password portion of 
the root user and save the file. This makes root without a password. Reboot 
and reset your password.

Ralph

 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:
  Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any
  windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user
  be reset. Say if you forgot it?
 
  James S. Lawson
  Network Administrator

 The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in
 Single User mode and reset root password from there.  You should be able to
 do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user
 mode.

 If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the
 root password without some type of reinstall.


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[expert] KDE 3.1.3 for 9.0???

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all, a friend of mine just asked me if there are KDE 3.1.3 RPMS for 9.0. 
Anyone 
know if there is such an animal??

Ralph


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Re: [expert] Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]

[Ralph Crongeyer]

If you have or can get an older machine with two NIC's, try IPCop
http://www.ipcop.org/
or just buy a Linksys router/firewall or Dlink router/firewall.

Ralph

 At 08.42 06/08/2003, you wrote:

Try one of these options...

First, if you only have your own machine, and are not sharing the
 connection
with any other machines, use K--Configuration--Packaging--Remove
Software to remove Shorewall from your system completely. Your connection
should work fine after that...

 But I'd like to have a firewall... should I use guarddog? if yes, I hope
 someone inside MandrakeSoft will remember this bug when making 9.2.

If you are sharing the connection with an other machine, you need
 Shorewall
to enable the sharing. So Try this...

Open the Mandrake Control Center, click on Security and select the
Firewall entry on the Right-hand side. In the next dialog tick the top
 box
Everything (no firewall) and click OK. (Unless you have a static IP
and/or sensitive material on your machine, this is enough for you.

 I ALREADY have that option set, but, while enogh for the time being, I
 will
 need SSH and FTP starting from September.

If you want to fine-tune_ your firewall rules and policies, I recommend
installing Webmin, and using that to set up the firewall. It offers much
finer control over the ruleset.

 Do I need Shorewall or guarddog installed or not?

One of these procedures should work for you (My system... Mandrake
9.1/KDE3.1 on a Celeron 366, 384 MB, with a second machine sharing via
eth0.)

 OT: do you use that box for production? is it slow or not? I had (have) a
 cel400 with sis620 and it was unusable at all (224 MB RAM, voodoo card).
 It
 wasn't even able to play divx.

 Thanks for your help.
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[expert] MySQL update, and restarting problem.....

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all.

This is on a Mandrake 9.0 system.

I just updated MySQL to 3.23.56 and now when I try to restart  the mysql 
server I get this message:

Starting MySQL ServerYou are required to change your password immediately 
(password aged)
Changing password for mysql
(current) UNIX password:

Even though I type in the correct password it says:

su: incorrect password

I can start the server with this method:

/usr/bin/safe_mysqld --skip-grant-tables

and change the password with no problems but when i go to restart mysql 
normaly i get the same message?

Any help would be great.

Ralph




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Re: [expert] MySQL update, and restarting problem.....

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Yup, webmin will change it with no problems after I start the server with 
/usr/bin/safe_mysqld --skip-grant-tables but then when I restart mysql 
normaly service mysql start it has the same message:

Starting MySQL ServerYou are required to change your password immediately
(password aged)
Changing password for mysql
(current) UNIX password:

I down graded to the orignal Mandrake 9.0 MySql version and all is well again.

Ralph

On Friday 01 August 2003 03:12 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
 On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:40, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
  Hi all.
 
  This is on a Mandrake 9.0 system.
 
  I just updated MySQL to 3.23.56 and now when I try to restart  the mysql
  server I get this message:
 
  Starting MySQL ServerYou are required to change your password immediately
  (password aged)
  Changing password for mysql
  (current) UNIX password:
 
  Even though I type in the correct password it says:
 
  su: incorrect password
 
  I can start the server with this method:
 
  /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --skip-grant-tables
 
  and change the password with no problems but when i go to restart mysql
  normaly i get the same message?
 
  Any help would be great.
 
  Ralph

 Ralph,

Don't know why it is doing this.  But are you able to use Webmin to
 change the password for the root user and have it stick?

 James


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Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Anne, you should give K3B a shot. It's very nice! Get the 0.9 version from the 
cooker.

Ralph

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 03:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
 Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the
 CD/Image Info selected.  This results in a wait of a minute or so
 before I can do anything.  Has anyone else had this problem, and is
 there a fix?  I think it has been ever since I installed the version
 in 9.1, but I'm not sure.

 Anne


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Re: [expert] DVD stuff

[Ralph Crongeyer]

You might want to try to use KMPlayer also..

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/kmplayer.html


On Tuesday 22 July 2003 01:34 am, diego wrote:
 To define urpmi sources you can use wonderful web:
 http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php
 At the end it will tell you the commands to add all selected sources
 (remember to do a urpmi.removemedia -a first).

 Anyway I remember I had some problems with some plf mirrors as they
 seemed to have only 9.x rpms (I'm still in 8.2). The mirror I have
 selected is:

 ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/8.2



 Let's know how this suits you...

 El mar, 22-07-2003 a las 05:44, David E Fox escribió:
  Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] DVD stuff
 
  I get the following list of installed packages:
  xine-win32-0.9.13-3plf
  libxine0-0.9.13-3plf
  xine-ui-0.9.13-2mdk
 
  Diego - I had install problems with urpmi so I tried to feed this list to
  urpmi via 'urpmi --media plf `cat file`  It says no such package. I
  think I have the wrong plf source defined. When i urpmi there is a
  conflict in that one of the files is 1.0beta and urpmi expects 0.9.13.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Re: [expert] applets for KDE

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Yup, KSym normally under System in the K Menu. ;^)

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 10:06 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
 Hi List!

 I'm looking for applets that could monitor net and processors use for KDE
 like thats in GNOME.

 Can someone indicate me if they exist?

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Re: [expert] choosing a firewall distro

[Ralph Crongeyer]

IPCop is a fork of SmoothWall .99.
Either one is good. However IPCop uses a 2.4.20 kernel and smoothwall still 
uses a 2.2 kernel. Also IPCop can save your configuration on a floppy, so if 
you have to reinstall you can use the disk for quick recovery without having 
to remember your settings. For me that feature alone makes IPCop better.  :^)

Ralph

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:13 pm, Gavin wrote:
 Experts,
 Most of my friends have suggested using IPCOP or SMOOTHWALL for my f/w.
 question, is there a noticeable difference between the two? I ran both and
 they seem almost the same.. I'm new to this firewall stuff. All I would
 like is a simple safe F/W to protect my small private school network.. in
 short I don't need to kill ants with lighting bolts!! any suggestions are
 welcomed!

 TIA


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Re: [expert] other OS booting real slow after install of Mandrake (lilo used as multiboot)

[Ralph C]

fdisk /mbr works great. Get a win98 boot floppy and boot with it. Type
the command "fdisk /mbr". Then use your linux disk for rescue and edit
/etc/lilo.conf:
# configuring DOS/Win/WinNT boot partition
other = /dev/hda1#  Adapt this:  start partition
label = WinNT  #  whatever you like
table = /dev/hda #  Adapt this: must be sda with SCSI instead of hda
# configuring DOS/Win/WinNT boot partition: end

Dont forget to run /sbin/lilo -v!

Type "reboot"

Ralph :^)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  fdisk /mbr does not work on win2k, ifdisk /mbr works greatf I remember correctly, you'd have to
reinstall the ntloader files.  It's been a long time since I've dual
booted, so I don't remember exactly.  When you install a linux system,
don't let lilo be installed to the mbr - you'll probably have to do a
custom / expert install to avoid this - again, I don't remember for sure. 
After you've installed your systems, then use the nt loader to load linux.
 I have always had problems with m$ systems running continually, so much
so, that I created ghost images as soon as my system was loaded with
everything I needed, then when windows blew a fuse, I just reloaded
everything from the ghost images.  I don't believe that linux had anything
to do with it - windows does the same thing when on a disk by itself!

Mike

  
  
You mean "fdisk /mbr" right??
That will over write your boot sector.
But rember you will need to reinstall Lilo, so you will need to have a
rescue
disk ready.  :^)

Ralph

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 12:53 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote:


  Hi everyone,

Before you flame me for using Windows 2000 Pro :) , I am a gamer and
since
my favourite games don't exist for linux, I have to dualboot. I already
installed Mandrake 3 times on this machine :) after managing to thrash
my
linux severely when my mobo was not yet supported and I have same funny
effect each time. Windows 2000 boots ok till before the login screen and
then it stays there aparently doing nothing for almost 2 minutes... It
is
annoying. After I do a repair installation of windows 2000 it works ok
again till next time I recompile the kernel and install it. Same thing
happened to me when I tried to install debian on this machine. So I am
starting to beleive it is linux/lilo related. I started letting my
system
permanently on just to avoid the annoying effect, but don't think this
is a
good longterm solution.

Another funny thing is that a "repair" install of win2k doesn't remove
lilo. I wanted to clean up my system at one point to move linux to a new
hdd, but lilo remained. Trying a format /mbr didn't do anything. Does
anyone know how to remove lilo and let the previous OS boot normally?

Best regards,
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Re: [expert] other OS booting real slow after install of Mandrake (lilo used as multiboot)

[Ralph Crongeyer]

You mean fdisk /mbr right??
That will over write your boot sector.
But rember you will need to reinstall Lilo, so you will need to have a rescue 
disk ready.  :^)

Ralph

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 12:53 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 Before you flame me for using Windows 2000 Pro :) , I am a gamer and since
 my favourite games don't exist for linux, I have to dualboot. I already
 installed Mandrake 3 times on this machine :) after managing to thrash my
 linux severely when my mobo was not yet supported and I have same funny
 effect each time. Windows 2000 boots ok till before the login screen and
 then it stays there aparently doing nothing for almost 2 minutes... It is
 annoying. After I do a repair installation of windows 2000 it works ok
 again till next time I recompile the kernel and install it. Same thing
 happened to me when I tried to install debian on this machine. So I am
 starting to beleive it is linux/lilo related. I started letting my system
 permanently on just to avoid the annoying effect, but don't think this is a
 good longterm solution.

 Another funny thing is that a repair install of win2k doesn't remove
 lilo. I wanted to clean up my system at one point to move linux to a new
 hdd, but lilo remained. Trying a format /mbr didn't do anything. Does
 anyone know how to remove lilo and let the previous OS boot normally?

 Best regards,
 Adrian


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Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all thanks for the responses. Yea /32 should work I'll give it a try later 
today. I don't know why I diden't think of that myself?? Anyway thanks for 
all your help.

Ralph

On Thursday 26 June 2003 08:39 pm, Björn Rhoads wrote:
 On Friday 27 June 2003 00.12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   I don't know of a way to limit it to a single host rather than a
   network. Why would you want to?
  
   Miark
 
  Cuz I use e-mail from home. And at home I'm using a cable connection and
  don't
  want to open up the server to everyone on my network.
 
  Ralph :-)
 
   On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:10:04 -0400
  
   Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   OK, thanks to everyone's help it looks like I got my MTA configured
   right now.
  
   Good.
  
   How can I allow a single client (IP address) besids the $mynetworks =
   111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24 variable or can I do it with that
   variable like
   $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24, 333.444.555.10/24.
   Is that possable?

 Can't you just use a /32?
 $mynetworks = 111.222.233.10/32 should be just one host.

 /Björn

   What is the best solution for this??
  
   I don't know of a way to limit it to a single host rather than a
   network. Why would you want to?
  
   Miark
  
  
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[expert] SETI@home. MDK RPM's???

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Anyone know where to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDK RPM's?
Command line version.

Ralph


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Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Thanks for the tip, i'll try it.

BTW, I can stop Postfix uninstall it and can still relay e-mail!!!
What the heck is that all about? I mean imap shouldn't relay messages, right??
It's like there is another MTA running?

Ralph


On Wednesday 25 June 2003 05:39 pm, Miark wrote:
 I'm not a Postfix guru, but I know that on my simple setup relay access is
 governed by mynetworks. Try messing with it.

 Miark


 On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:11:50 -0400

 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:37 am, Miark wrote:
 
  It's not set. Default I guess?
 
   mynetworks is set to what?
  
   Miark
  
   On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:49:52 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  wrote:
But now, with this setup, anyone can send mail through? i.e. Open
Relay.
   
I need it to be able to send mail for the entire domain and some
clients outside the domain.


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Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

'netstat -napt' doesn't reveal anything odd.
Ok so when I have
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_recepient_access 
hash:/etc/postfix/access, check_relay_domains

It will relay for any host. Even if the /etc/postfix/access is empty (no IP 
addresses).

I thought that the /etc/postfix/access files list of address would only 
permit those machines to relay e-mail??? Is this right??

Here is my situation. I need to have the mail server accept e-mail for the 
entire domain but only allow certin clients (or routers, for networks that 
masqurade ip addresses) to relay e-mail through the server.

Thanks Ralph


On Thursday 26 June 2003 09:36 am, Martin Fahrendorf wrote:
 Am Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2003 15:23 schrieb Ralph Crongeyer:
  Thanks for the tip, i'll try it.
 
  BTW, I can stop Postfix uninstall it and can still relay e-mail!!!
  What the heck is that all about? I mean imap shouldn't relay messages,
  right?? It's like there is another MTA running?
 
  Ralph

 Check ich a server is running. 'netstat -napt' will tell you all open
 ports.

 Martin


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[expert] Postfix Relay question...

[Ralph Crongeyer]

OK, thanks to everyone's help it looks like I got my MTA configured right now.

How can I allow a single client (IP address) besids the $mynetworks = 
111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24 variable or can I do it with that 
variable like
$mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24, 333.444.555.10/24.
Is that possable?

What is the best solution for this??

Thanks, Ralph


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[expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all,

I have been using postfix for about a year or so and I needed to change my 
configuration and now I can't seem to get it working the same way I had it.

At the end of my /etc/postfix/main.cf file I have:

mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain
myorigin = $mydomain
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_client_access, 
hash:/etc/postfix/access, check_relay_domains

and then in the /etc/postfix/access I have:

111.222.333.444 OK
222.333.444.555 OK

and so on.

But now, with this setup, anyone can send mail through? i.e. Open Relay.

I need it to beable to send mail for the entire domain and some clients 
outside the domain.

Ralph


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Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:37 am, Miark wrote:

It's not set. Default I guess?

 mynetworks is set to what?

 Miark

 On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:49:52 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
  But now, with this setup, anyone can send mail through? i.e. Open
  Relay.
 
  I need it to be able to send mail for the entire domain and some clients
  outside the domain.


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[expert] openoffice and the kprinter command troubles.......

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all,

I had this working once before but...
I am using a laptop and only have the root and myself as a user. I 
deleted my user account and the /home/username dir and then recreated my 
account. And now when I setup openoffice I can't seem to get the kprinter 
command to work by setting the Generic Printer (default printer in spadmin of 
openoffice) print command to kprinter. When I look at the completed jobs on 
the cups print server for the printer it has:
HP_8150-2644STDIN ralph   5k  completed at
   
 Wed 
11 Jun 2003 09:54:26 AM EDT

and nothing gets printed. I guess because STDIN is empty. 

Anyway how can I fix this thing??

Ralph


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Re: [expert] openoffice and the kprinter command troubles...... .

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 12:53 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:

kprinter

but I have used kprinter --stdin also with the same results.

Ralph

 what printing command are you using?

 It should look something like the following...

 kprinter --stdin



 David

 -Original Message-
 From: Ralph Crongeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:47 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [expert] openoffice and the kprinter command troubles...


 Hi all,

 I had this working once before but...
 I am using a laptop and only have the root and myself as a user. I
 deleted my user account and the /home/username dir and then recreated my
 account. And now when I setup openoffice I can't seem to get the kprinter
 command to work by setting the Generic Printer (default printer in spadmin
 of
 openoffice) print command to kprinter. When I look at the completed jobs on
 the cups print server for the printer it has:
 HP_8150-2644STDIN ralph   5k  completed at

 Wed
 11 Jun 2003 09:54:26 AM EDT

 and nothing gets printed. I guess because STDIN is empty.

 Anyway how can I fix this thing??

 Ralph


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Re: [expert] openoffice and the kprinter command troubles...... .

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 12:53 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:

Ok, I reinstalled openoffice and that fixed it!

Thanks for the help.

Ralph

 what printing command are you using?

 It should look something like the following...

 kprinter --stdin



 David

 -Original Message-
 From: Ralph Crongeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:47 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [expert] openoffice and the kprinter command troubles...


 Hi all,

 I had this working once before but...
 I am using a laptop and only have the root and myself as a user. I
 deleted my user account and the /home/username dir and then recreated my
 account. And now when I setup openoffice I can't seem to get the kprinter
 command to work by setting the Generic Printer (default printer in spadmin
 of
 openoffice) print command to kprinter. When I look at the completed jobs on
 the cups print server for the printer it has:
 HP_8150-2644STDIN ralph   5k  completed at

 Wed
 11 Jun 2003 09:54:26 AM EDT

 and nothing gets printed. I guess because STDIN is empty.

 Anyway how can I fix this thing??

 Ralph


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Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Install digikam!

Ralph :-)

On Friday 04 April 2003 12:58 pm, Francisco Alcaraz wrote:
 I am very glad with the digital camera I bought on Chrystmas (Fuji Finepix
 S02 Zoom), I have taken lots of pictures of landscapes, minerals, plant
 communities and plants (the macro function is runing like a charm).

 With Mandrake 9.1 a harddrive icon appears on my kde desktop as soon as I
 connect the camera to the usb port (the first time a line is added to
 fstab).

 But I am starting to have too many pictures and I need to organize them. In
 the windows environment is known the ACD-See package to do that, including
 look for metadata of the pictures and the possibility to look for one
 specific picture using keys.

 I don't use Windows (just in a computer I have a dual bot system with
 windows98 and Mandrake because my son likes to play some games) but I don't
 know if there are for linux a similar package to ACD-See. Does anyone know
 something similar to ACD-See? or could anyone tell me how have organized
 the pictures?

 Thanks so much for the help in advance; regards


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Re: [expert] Fuji Finepix S304 again!

[Ralph Crongeyer]

I use to use gphoto in 9.0 with a PowerShot S30 USB. All I had to do was 
plugin the camra to a usb port turn it on and start gphoto configure it for 
my camra and usb and presto download the pic's.

Ralph

On Monday 31 March 2003 04:03 pm, Robert Crawford wrote:
 Anne,
 I've been away for a day. I see you got the 2.4.21 installed, so I guess
 the lilo problem has been solved. On the camera problem- I had a similar
 problem with a canon PowerShot G2, and never was able to solve it with
 Mandrake 9.0, so I can offer little help on that one.

 Robert C.

 On Monday 31 March 2003 01:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Monday 31 Mar 2003 7:08 pm, Brian wrote:
   On Monday 31 March 2003 12:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
I've installed the 2.4.21 kernel, and think that with a bit of help
it should be possible to get the camera working now.  It has been
recognised as /dev/sdb1 (see fstab attached).  Under /mnt I find
/camera/dcim - I had made a mountpoint 'camera' when trying to get
this working before, but the 'dcim' is totally new, and, I believe,
an attempt to read the camera.
   
From mount -a I get:
   
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# mount -a
mount: No medium found
mount: fs type umask=0 not supported by kernel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]#
   
Selecting either 'removable' or 'camera/dcim' from a file manager,
either as root or user, opens as an empty directory, whereas I know
there are images.
   
It has the feel of a permissions problem, but I can't spot it.
What am I missing?
   
Anne
  
   The dcim is the folder on the media, it should contain your images if
   you have any on the camera.  Sounds like you have done it.
  
   Brian
 
  That's what I thought, Brian, but I can't see the images in Konqueror.
 
  Anne


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Re: [expert] Fuji Finepix S304 again!

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Now that I think of it I used DigiKam Sorry for the mixup.

Ralph

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 04:46 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
 I use to use gphoto in 9.0 with a PowerShot S30 USB. All I had to do was
 plugin the camra to a usb port turn it on and start gphoto configure it for
 my camra and usb and presto download the pic's.

 Ralph

 On Monday 31 March 2003 04:03 pm, Robert Crawford wrote:
  Anne,
  I've been away for a day. I see you got the 2.4.21 installed, so I guess
  the lilo problem has been solved. On the camera problem- I had a similar
  problem with a canon PowerShot G2, and never was able to solve it with
  Mandrake 9.0, so I can offer little help on that one.
 
  Robert C.
 
  On Monday 31 March 2003 01:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
   On Monday 31 Mar 2003 7:08 pm, Brian wrote:
On Monday 31 March 2003 12:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
 I've installed the 2.4.21 kernel, and think that with a bit of help
 it should be possible to get the camera working now.  It has been
 recognised as /dev/sdb1 (see fstab attached).  Under /mnt I find
 /camera/dcim - I had made a mountpoint 'camera' when trying to get
 this working before, but the 'dcim' is totally new, and, I believe,
 an attempt to read the camera.

 From mount -a I get:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# mount -a
 mount: No medium found
 mount: fs type umask=0 not supported by kernel
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]#

 Selecting either 'removable' or 'camera/dcim' from a file manager,
 either as root or user, opens as an empty directory, whereas I know
 there are images.

 It has the feel of a permissions problem, but I can't spot it.
 What am I missing?

 Anne
   
The dcim is the folder on the media, it should contain your images if
you have any on the camera.  Sounds like you have done it.
   
Brian
  
   That's what I thought, Brian, but I can't see the images in Konqueror.
  
   Anne


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Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Turn APM off.
If you use ACPI you don't use APM and vice vers.

Ralph  :-) 

Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:

  Some results from some tests.

First I tried apm -s in MDK 9.0.  I got something like "APM not support in
kernel".

Ok, I recompiled a kernel setting ACPI at least (now I don't remember
about APM).

New kernel still give the same APM not ...

I'll wait new MDK 9.1.  It's just for fun.

Cheers,

---
Alan Wilter S. da Silva
---
 Laboratrio de Fsica Biolgica
  Instituto de Biofsica Carlos Chagas Filho
   Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil


  
  

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Re: [expert] upgrading

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Lunar-Linux rules!!!  :-) 

Just had to say that.

Adrian Golumbovici wrote:

  Actually from 8.0 to 9.0 (inclusive) I never had a problem with CD upgrades
breaking anything. :/ Of course I always upgraded my server only with
releases. If you use beta's and rc's, you are bound to get broken stuff...
Also, you might want to use the md5 signatures just in case. It can happen
that some images will be broken after download.

Best regards,
Adrian
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From: "synrat" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Expert List" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] upgrading


well, that sux. I'm sure that the upgrade from cds will break tons of
things. That's the reason I switched to freebsd :)
I'm going to try 9.1 and if the problem with packages remains, bye bye
Mandrake, I'll either go all bsd, gentoo or slackware. All of these
upgrade flawlessly and you never have to reinstall.


On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:

  
  
I can say from my personal experience that it won't work from 8.1 to 9.0
or 9.1.

On 25 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote:



  On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:27, synrat wrote:
  
  
Is it possible to upgrade from 9 to 9.1 with urpmi ?

  


 There was a thread (not more than a week ago) in the cooker mailing
list where they were experimenting with this.  Seems the result was an
"almost" perfect.  But not quite good enough to recommend.   But it does
seem that some of them where able to get it running.  Lots of rpmnew
files to merge etc.

James
  

Cheers,

---
Alan Wilter S. da Silva
---
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  Instituto de Biofsica Carlos Chagas Filho
   Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil




  
  







  
  
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Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

[Ralph Crongeyer]

A stoc mandrake 9.0 kernel does not have support for ACPI compiled in. You 
have to recompile your kernel and add ACPI support.

Ralph

On Monday 24 March 2003 01:24 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
 Hi List!

   My new computer does not show anything about APM in bios, but I
 have ACPI.  Under Winblows XP I can put my system in suspend.

   I wonder how can I do the same thing under MDK 9.0?  Which
 command?
   Maybe, first, I must see if I'm able to do it, but how can I check
 it?

   Any clues would be very wellcome!

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Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Once you recompile the kernel i'm not sure about the commands but in KDE you 
will see an icon in the system tray, if you right click on it you can control 
the ACPI functions. HOWEVER in the 2.4.20 kernel that I'm using 
suspend/standby are not currently supported. Now I'm not positave if it is 
KDE that does not support this or the kernel. I think it's the kernel. the 
2.5 beta kernel is suposed to have much more complete support.

Sorry  :-(

Ralph

On Monday 24 March 2003 02:07 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
 Thank you Ralph.

 I think something like that could be happening.

 I hope to not have problems compiling kernel, but after that, which
 commands should I have to do to put my computer in suspend?

 On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
  A stoc mandrake 9.0 kernel does not have support for ACPI compiled in.
  You have to recompile your kernel and add ACPI support.
 
  Ralph
 
  On Monday 24 March 2003 01:24 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
   Hi List!
  
 My new computer does not show anything about APM in bios, but I
   have ACPI.  Under Winblows XP I can put my system in suspend.
  
 I wonder how can I do the same thing under MDK 9.0?  Which
   command?
 Maybe, first, I must see if I'm able to do it, but how can I check
   it?
  
 Any clues would be very wellcome!
  
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Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Recompiling your kernel is not so bad. Actualy it gives you the chance to 
remove alot of features you don't need and also allows you to change the 
architecture to your specific architecture = faster leaner kernel. Besides 
you need to learn to compile your kernel sometime.

Ralph

On Monday 24 March 2003 02:48 pm, Sascha Noyes wrote:
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 On Monday 24 March 2003 14:07, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
  Thank you Ralph.
 
  I think something like that could be happening.
 
  I hope to not have problems compiling kernel, but after that, which
  commands should I have to do to put my computer in suspend?

 You don´t have to necessarily recompile, see my other message. The command
 to suspend is ¨pmsuspend¨, at least on my machine (latest cooker == 9.1
 final), but that also comes from the cooker package ¨suspend-scripts¨, or
 some similar name.

 Best,
 Sascha Noyes

  On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
   A stoc mandrake 9.0 kernel does not have support for ACPI compiled in.
   You have to recompile your kernel and add ACPI support.
  
   Ralph
  
   On Monday 24 March 2003 01:24 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
Hi List!
   
My new computer does not show anything about APM in bios, but I
have ACPI.  Under Winblows XP I can put my system in suspend.
   
I wonder how can I do the same thing under MDK 9.0?  Which
command?
Maybe, first, I must see if I'm able to do it, but how can I check
it?
   
Any clues would be very wellcome!
   
Cheers,

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Re: [expert] suspend mode to save energy

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Verry true.

I like mandrake alot. I use it for almost everything except my laptop. I like 
to use the latest stuff on it and not have to worry about when or if a new 
release is comming out. So for my laptop I use Lunar-Linux. In fact I'm 
writing this with KMail in KDE3.1.1! Verry nice looking and some nice bug 
fixes too.

Ralph  :-)

On Monday 24 March 2003 03:16 pm, Sascha Noyes wrote:
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 I actually had to recompile my kernel to get it to work with my specific
 hardware, and it was a very interesting experience. It is not necessarily
 true though that you´ll end up with a faster kernel. Smaller kernel,
 definately - but not necessarily faster. If you remove modules then you´ll
 get a smaller kernel but with the same speed. However, if you remove stuff
 that is included, but not as a module you should save space and get a
 better speed.

 You´d (not specifically you, ofcourse) be surprised how many outdated
 file-system modules there are in the mandrake kernel. Everything from
 archaic Unix filesystems to dos stuff to Amiga and Beos filesystems. Here I
 only need _real_ filesystems ;-)

 Best,
 Sascha Noyes

 On Monday 24 March 2003 15:06, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
  Recompiling your kernel is not so bad. Actualy it gives you the chance to
  remove alot of features you don't need and also allows you to change the
  architecture to your specific architecture = faster leaner kernel.
  Besides you need to learn to compile your kernel sometime.
 
  Ralph
 
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   On Monday 24 March 2003 14:07, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
Thank you Ralph.
   
I think something like that could be happening.
   
I hope to not have problems compiling kernel, but after that, which
commands should I have to do to put my computer in suspend?
  
   You don´t have to necessarily recompile, see my other message. The
   command to suspend is ¨pmsuspend¨, at least on my machine (latest
   cooker == 9.1 final), but that also comes from the cooker package
   ¨suspend-scripts¨, or some similar name.
  
   Best,
   Sascha Noyes
  
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
 A stoc mandrake 9.0 kernel does not have support for ACPI compiled
 in. You have to recompile your kernel and add ACPI support.

 Ralph

 On Monday 24 March 2003 01:24 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
  Hi List!
 
  My new computer does not show anything about APM in bios, but I
  have ACPI.  Under Winblows XP I can put my system in suspend.
 
  I wonder how can I do the same thing under MDK 9.0?  Which
  command?
  Maybe, first, I must see if I'm able to do it, but how can I
  check it?
 
  Any clues would be very wellcome!
 
  Cheers,
  
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Re: [expert] Dumb Question: Mandrake's notebook installation

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hello, I use a Toshiba Satellite 5105 and runs Mandrake great!!
I am currently running Lunar-Linux and WindowsXP.

Specs:

Pentium4 1.8Ghz
512 DDR Ram
32Meg Nvidia Gforce440 GO
Intel i810 AC97 Sound
15" LCD
40Gig HD
DVD/CDW/CDRW 16X burn, 24X read Combo Drive
USB 2.0
Fire Wire
Video out
Audio in
1.44 Floppy USB

The best computer I have owned.  :-) 

Ralph Crongeyer

Gonzalo Avaria wrote:

  Hi Experts.
Well, sorry if i make you loose time, but here is my question.
I've been working with linux 2 years until now, and i have the
oportunity to boy a notebook. The thing is that i don't know if i
could install linux in it. 
Well, i don't know if i buy a:
IBM (modified)
-Pentium III 650 MHz
-128 Mb Ram
-12 Gb HDD
- CD-DVD 
- USB, Serial, parallel? and 2 Pcmcia ports.

or a Dell Inspiron 5100
-Pentium IV 2.4 GHz
-128Mb Ram
-20 Gb HDD
-16 Mb Radeon Video Card
-The same ports i think.

OBVIUSLY there is a US$250 difference in the price.

I know that many of you work with notebooks, and i would apretiate if
you could tell me in wich one Mandrake should work the best
(compatibility of the components and all of that)

Well, i don't want to make you loose more time. Thanks For the help
Saludos
Gonzalo Avaria


  
  

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Re: [expert] Dumb Question: Mandrake's notebook installation

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Oh yea, that will put a damper on things real quick.
I didn't see that you hade a $1200.00 cap. Sorry..  :-) 

Ralph

Gonzalo Avaria wrote:

  I would love to buy a Toshiba, but those are US$2000-3000 notebooks
and i only can pay US$1200 max.
So... i think that one is discarded.   :((
Thanks anyway.

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Hello, I use a Toshiba Satellite 5105 and runs Mandrake great!!
I am currently running Lunar-Linux and WindowsXP.


  
  

  
  

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Re: [expert] How to mend a stupid slip?

[Ralph Crongeyer]

If you realy want it gone export your addressbook and bookmarks and
e-mail to some othe folder and then delete the .mozilla folder in your
home dir.

Ralph  :-) 

Anne Wilson wrote:

  It's not there - but then it didn't get as far as making a password - it 
stored the login name and password as one, without a password.  I have never 
selected 'remember password' for webmin.  I'm at a loss where to look next.

Anne

On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 9:04 pm, Darcy Brodie, CJL wrote:
  
  
Anne
In Netscape (and Mozilla, I believe), you can delete the saved
passwords by going into Edit - Preferences - Privacy Security
-Passwords - Manage Passwords
Locate the password that you want to delete, and delete it

Darcy

Anne Wilson wrote:


  Thanks for the reply.  I've checked cookies on Konq, Netscape and Galeon,
but can't find it.  Could you give me any more pointers?

Anne

On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:59 pm, Bob Brickey wrote:
  
  
The webmin login user name and password have been saved in a browser
cookie on the workstation computer.  Delete the cookie.

-admintiger

From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]



  Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] How to mend a stupid slip?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:46:48 +

On one occasion I logged in to webmin whilst otherwise distracted -
except that I made a very stupid mistake.  I typed 'root', then tab,
then password -
but webmin login doesn't recognise tabbing to the next field.  Ever
since then as soon as I type 'r' I am shown root and the root+password
entry.  I can find no way of clearing this list.

Can anyone help?  It must be possible, since it's obviously a dangerous
state
of affairs.

Anne
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Re: [expert] How to mend a stupid slip?

[Ralph Crongeyer]

In webmin there is a setting to rember the password if you turned this
on just change the root user's password and go to webmin and when
prompted for the new password uncheck the "Always Rember Password" box.
If this is the case (Webmin I mean) youshould not let webmin run all
the time anyway. You should ssh into the server and type "service
webmin start" and when done "service webmin stop" and logout of the
server leaving webmin NOT running.

Ralph

Anne Wilson wrote:

  But why would webmin write to Mozilla?

Anne

On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 10:01 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
  
  
If you realy want it gone export your addressbook and bookmarks and
e-mail to some othe folder and then delete the .mozilla folder in your
home dir.

Ralph :-)

Anne Wilson wrote:


  It's not there - but then it didn't get as far as making a password - it
stored the login name and password as one, without a password.  I have
never selected 'remember password' for webmin.  I'm at a loss where to
look next.

Anne

On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 9:04 pm, Darcy Brodie, CJL wrote:
  
  
Anne
   In Netscape (and Mozilla, I believe), you can delete the saved
passwords by going into Edit - Preferences - Privacy Security
-Passwords - Manage Passwords
Locate the password that you want to delete, and delete it

Darcy

Anne Wilson wrote:


  Thanks for the reply.  I've checked cookies on Konq, Netscape and
Galeon, but can't find it.  Could you give me any more pointers?

Anne

On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:59 pm, Bob Brickey wrote:
  
  
The webmin login user name and password have been saved in a browser
cookie on the workstation computer.  Delete the cookie.

-admintiger

From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]



  Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] How to mend a stupid slip?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:46:48 +

On one occasion I logged in to webmin whilst otherwise distracted -
except that I made a very stupid mistake.  I typed 'root', then tab,
then password -
but webmin login doesn't recognise tabbing to the next field.  Ever
since then as soon as I type 'r' I am shown root and the root+password
entry.  I can find no way of clearing this list.

Can anyone help?  It must be possible, since it's obviously a
dangerous state
of affairs.

Anne
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Re: [expert] How to mend a stupid slip?

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Sorry for posting to my own post.

If that doesn't work.

There is a section in Webmin "Webmin Configuration -
Authentacation" make sure that "Always require username and password"
is checked.

Ralph

Ralph Crongeyer wrote:

  
In webmin there is a setting to rember the password if you turned this
on just change the root user's password and go to webmin and when
prompted for the new password uncheck the "Always Rember Password" box.
If this is the case (Webmin I mean) youshould not let webmin run all
the time anyway. You should ssh into the server and type "service webmin
start" and when done "service webmin stop" and logout of the server
leaving webmin NOT running.
  
Ralph
  
Anne Wilson wrote:
  
But why would webmin write to Mozilla?

Anne

On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 10:01 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
  

  If you realy want it gone export your addressbook and bookmarks and
e-mail to some othe folder and then delete the .mozilla folder in your
home dir.

Ralph :-)

Anne Wilson wrote:

  
It's not there - but then it didn't get as far as making a password - it
stored the login name and password as one, without a password.  I have
never selected 'remember password' for webmin.  I'm at a loss where to
look next.

Anne

On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 9:04 pm, Darcy Brodie, CJL wrote:
  

  Anne
   In Netscape (and Mozilla, I believe), you can delete the saved
passwords by going into Edit - Preferences - Privacy Security
-Passwords - Manage Passwords
Locate the password that you want to delete, and delete it

Darcy

Anne Wilson wrote:

  
Thanks for the reply.  I've checked cookies on Konq, Netscape and
Galeon, but can't find it.  Could you give me any more pointers?

Anne

On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:59 pm, Bob Brickey wrote:
  

  The webmin login user name and password have been saved in a browser
cookie on the workstation computer.  Delete the cookie.

-admintiger

From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]


  
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] How to mend a stupid slip?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:46:48 +

On one occasion I logged in to webmin whilst otherwise distracted -
except that I made a very stupid mistake.  I typed 'root', then tab,
then password -
but webmin login doesn't recognise tabbing to the next field.  Ever
since then as soon as I type 'r' I am shown root and the root+password
entry.  I can find no way of clearing this list.

Can anyone help?  It must be possible, since it's obviously a
dangerous state
of affairs.

Anne
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Re: [expert] PHP 4.3.0 or 4.3.1

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hello Laurent,

This is a source RPM. You need to cpphp-4.3.1-9mdk.src.rpm
/usr/src/RPM/SRPMS/php-4.3.1-9mdk.src.rpm and:
cd /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS/
rpm -rebuild php-4.3.1-9mdk.src.rpm

then wait for it to rebuild.

the new rpm will be put into your /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586.

And then you can install it in the usual way.

Ralph

Laurent Mesur wrote:
Hi, 
  
is there any binary rpm package for php 4.3 , 
  
i 've just found the package php-4.3.1-9mdk.src.rpm 
  
But i can build it. 
  
i've done: 
  
rpm -ivh php-4.3.1-9mdk.src.rpm 
  
It created the following: 
  
/root--+--SOURCES--All tarball 
 +-- SPECS--php.spec 
  
Then i've done: 
  
rpm -bb /root/RPM/SPECS/php.spec and it said 
  
-bb: option unknown 
  
But this option exist, i ve found it in the rpm man page 
  
Where is the problem? 
  
i'm using a Mandrake 9.0 with some package (as rpm packages) upgraded
with Cooker rpms 
  
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[expert] Game Sound Help needed in Mandarke 9.0

[Ralph De Witt]

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Hello:
I have done a recommended install of Mandarke 9.0 from DVD. The sound in the
DVD installed games is very good, however the sound in my legacy games is
choppy and unusable. This includes the Loki game Heavy Gear II and the Prboom
which I download from the Mandrake Club. There are no errors reported and I
am stuck as to what is wrong. These worked in Mandarke 8.2 with out a
problem. Thanks for your help.

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Re: [expert] NVIDIA Driver help needed Mandrake9 installation

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On Sunday 15 December 2002 03:47 pm, s wrote:
 double check your Config-4 file that it has nvidia as the driver under
 device section and Load GLX under module section.  Then:  modprobe
 nvidia  (the driver has changed from NVdriver to nvidia).  And try to
 startx.  If it works, put:  /sbin/modprobe nvidia  in your
 /etc/rc.d/rc.modules files.  If X doesn't start, shoot us your errors
 from console and XFree86.0.log.  hth, -s
Hello:
This is what is confusing me. I have done recommended install from the 
Mandrake DVD. This installed the NVIDIA drivers for 1.0-3123.1 mdk from the 
DVD. In my etc/modules it loads the NVdriver, in etc/X11/XF86Config-4 under 
module is Load usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extension/libglx.so in the Device 
section is Driver nvidia. When I boot I see the NVIDIA start logo. just 
before getting to the KDE desktop. Yet when I install the latest NVIDIA rpms 
for 1.4191 for the Mandrake 9.0 it crashes with nvidia driver not found .

What I do not understand is if etc/modules should say nvidia and not NVdriver 
and the XF86Config-4 Module should say Load GLX and it points to the 
libglx.so file why does it appear to work and yet not work when the new rpms 
are installed.  Should I change the XF86CONFIG-4 Module section and the 
etc/module file to nvidia?

Confused.
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Re: [expert] NVIDIA Driver help needed Mandrake9 installation

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On Sunday 15 December 2002 06:07 pm, s wrote:
 On Sunday 15 December 2002 7:34 pm, you wrote:
  On Sunday 15 December 2002 03:47 pm, s wrote:
   double check your Config-4 file that it has nvidia as the driver
   under device section and Load GLX under module section.  Then:
   modprobe nvidia  (the driver has changed from NVdriver to
   nvidia).  And try to startx.  If it works, put:  /sbin/modprobe
   nvidia  in your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules files.  If X doesn't start,
   shoot us your errors from console and XFree86.0.log.  hth, -s
 
  Hello:
  This is what is confusing me. I have done recommended install from
  the Mandrake DVD. This installed the NVIDIA drivers for 1.0-3123.1
  mdk from the DVD. In my etc/modules it loads the NVdriver, in
  etc/X11/XF86Config-4 under module is Load
  usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extension/libglx.so in the Device section
  is Driver nvidia. When I boot I see the NVIDIA start logo. just
  before getting to the KDE desktop. Yet when I install the latest
  NVIDIA rpms for 1.4191 for the Mandrake 9.0 it crashes with nvidia
  driver not found .
 
  What I do not understand is if etc/modules should say nvidia  and
  not NVdriver

 with the .4191 version the /etc/modules.conf file should say:
 alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia

  and the XF86Config-4 Module should say Load GLX and
  it points to the libglx.so file why does it appear to work and yet
  not work when the new rpms are installed.

 umm, not real sure what you're saying, but yeah, I'd put Load glx in
 the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.  Actually, this is what my section
 looks like:

 Section Module
 Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension
 Load v4l # Video for Linux
 Load extmod
 Load type1
 Load freetype
 Load glx # 3D layer
 EndSection

  Should I change the
  XF86CONFIG-4 Module section and the etc/module file to nvidia?

 yes.  :)

 Section Device
 Identifier device1
 BoardName NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)
 Driver nvidia
 Option DPMS
 EndSection

 I mentioned putting /sbin/modprobe nvidia in your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
 file cause seems like /etc/modules.conf gets read too soon or too
 late or something.  Mine seems to not load the module.  But you could
 just put nvidia in your /etc/modules file instead of rc.modules...
 either will work.  As long as you get that module loaded before
 trying to startx.  I like to have all three elements present:
 correct entries in XF86Config-4, device  modules in
 /etc/modules.conf and some place that loads it (rc.modules. or
 /etc/modules).

  Confused.

 Well, I hope I haven't just confused you more.  teehee
Hello:
Thanks for the help that got that working. But still confused as to what and 
why the initial install did what it did.
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[expert] Toshiba Satellite 5105 NVIDIA Driver Problems......

[Ralph C]

The drivers installed ok but there is a 1/4 inch space on the right hand 
side of the screen that is not being used?
Has anyone else had this problem? Anyone know how to fix it??

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[expert] NVIDIA Driver help needed Mandrake9 installation

[Ralph De Witt]

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HI:
I snagged the latest NVIDIA drivers in rpm format and tryed to install 
following the directions. From level 3 I installed the up kernel rpm doing a 
rpm -Uvh, I then did a rpm -e to remove the old GLX file and then did a rpm 
- -Uvh to install it. rpm informed me that it had to remove three files libgl 
or libglx then it did the install. I did not edit the config file because my 
install of MDK 9 had installed the NVIDIA drivers from the DVD. I then 
rebooted and X crashed and I went to level 3, when I looked in the config 
file I found the nvidia module was specified but glx was not specified but 
there was a link to some lib file. When X crashed it stated that the kernel 
modual was not located or installed. I know this is kind of skecth but can 
some one help. Thanks in advance.
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Re:[expert] Help needed in copying files from DVD/CD to Harddisk

[Ralph De Witt]

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On Monday 02 December 2002 08:46 pm, Ron Stodden wrote:
 Ralph De Witt wrote:
  I have just done a new install of Mandrake 9.0 on a MSI KT3 ULTRA2
  motherboard. I am having some problems with the DVD/CDrom.
  When I try to copy files from the CD to the hard drive the system is
   loosing files and directories from the cd and a refresh of the cd does
  not show them.

 Make sure that your DVD/CDROM drive and your hard disk are NOT on the
 same IDE channel.

 Some motherboard chipsets cannnot handle the multitasking that Linux
 (but not Windows) uses.
Ron:
The hard drive is master on ide channel 1 and the DVD is master on ide channel
2 the CD R/W is slave on ide channel 2. So that is not the problem.
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Re: [expert] Help needed in copying files from DVD/CD to Harddisk

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On Monday 02 December 2002 08:03 pm, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote:
 I used the following to disable supermount:

 cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.with_supermount
 supermount -i disable

 This will give you a new /etc/fstab file and supermount will be completely
 disabled after the next reboot.

 Your problems sound typical of the supermount problems and they should go
 away once you disable it.
Thanks very much for the above commands. That has done the trick to get me to 
be able to reliable copy files from my backup cd's back to my system. Now if 
only someone could convince Mandrake to move on to a auto mounter that works. 
Supermount has been a problem for years and I see no resolution in site for 
it.
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[expert] Help needed in copying files from DVD/CD to Harddisk

[Ralph De Witt]

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Hi:
I have just done a new install of Mandrake 9.0 on a MSI KT3 ULTRA2
motherboard. I am having some problems with the DVD/CDrom.
When I try to copy files from the CD to the hard drive the system is
 loosing files and directories from the cd and a refresh of the cd does not
show them.
And the second problem I have is that when I close the window displaying the
contains of the CD and then right click the cdrom icon to eject the disc the
drive opens then quickly closes making it hard to get the cd out. Can any one
point me in the right direction to cure these problems?
I have tried disabling Supermount in the Mandrake Control Center, Mount Points
area and this did not seem to have any effect on problem #1. I have also
looked in The errata and troubleshooting areas and found nothing to help. I
have also tried Mandrake Newbie list but got no answers. I can live with the
quickly opening and shutting CD ROM drive on eject, but need to cure the
loosing files and directiories when transfering problem. Thanks in advance.

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Re: [expert] Help needed in copying files from DVD/CD to Harddisk

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On Monday 02 December 2002 04:03 pm, FRLinux wrote:
  When I try to copy files from the CD to the hard drive the system is
   loosing files and directories from the cd and a refresh of the cd does
  not show them.

 Funily (or not) enough, i got the same problem yesterday after having
 installed my Mandrake 9.0 on a VIA system (don't think it's related but
 who knows). I fixed it by installing a vanilla kernel. I lost supermount
 (which i never use anyway) but all is happy now.
Hello:
Can anyone else comment on this. Would turning off Supermount in MCC under 
Mount points fix this problem. Or do I need to do more?
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[expert] Need someone to help me get Mandrake 9.0 installed.

[Ralph De Witt]

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Hi:
The short story is I have a new MSI KT3 ULTRA2 motherboard, and I have the 
bios set for the default values. When I insert my MDK 9 cd #1 in the DVD rom, 
and then restart, the machine boots from the DVD then after I hit enter to 
proceed to install upgrade, the machine seems to then be unable to find the 
DVD rom to continue the install. Can anyone help? I have tried all the tricks 
I know and have been able to gleem from the internet. Only SuSE 8.0 and 8.1 
have been able to be installed and 8.1 is not stable for me. Thanks for your 
help.
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[expert] Motherboard Question

[Ralph F De Witt]

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Hi:
I am contemplating building a new system. The two motherboards that I am 
looking at are, one a MSI  KT3 Ultra2 w/o raid, lan, and video, and two a MSI 
KT4 Ultra w/o raid, lan, and video. This will be my primary workstation. I am 
wondering will these boards will work with Mandrake 9.0 and how well the 
built in audio works on both. And your preferences.
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[expert] MDK 9.0 Beta3 no sound.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all,

I just installed 9.0 Beta3 and my sound system is not setup. When I first started
KDE  I had no sound so I went to the control panel (KDE's control panel) and found I
hade to turn on the arts sound server, so I did and restarted KDE and then got an
arts error message saying Cannot open /dev/dsp (no sush file or directory)..
I'm using a SB Live sound card that was setup during the install and worked great in
9.0 Beta2.

It would be cool to fix but I just wanted to let Mandrake know about the problem.

One other suggestion.
The newly designed software management tools (the instalation tool) try's to access
my cdrom for something like 30 seconds before doing any thing Stop this!! Don't
even check to see if there is a cdrom in the drive, after the selections are made
for software to be installed then check, and eject the disk tray, or dont even check
if there is a disk in the drive just eject the disk tray. This would be much better
than waiting fot it to check the drive before anything is even selected for
instalation. IMO

Ralph




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[expert] openssh Update Broken!!

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Sorry for posting a second time but the e-mail subject was week.

The Update openssh-server-3.4p1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm is broken.
After the update, I can connect to the server but I cannot transfer files!!

Any one else having this problem?

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[expert] Losing Gnomba Server Connections

[Ralph Miranda]

I'm able to hook up Gnome Samba Browser and connect to my LAN... but the 
minute I shut down the browser everything disconnects and I'm unable to 
search through out LAN using Nautilus  I also tried to activate Gnome 
Samba Browser (which was successful) then open up Nautilus to see what was 
happening..  I was still unable to check into the LAN system.  It worked 
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[expert] Sound card problems.

[Ralph Miranda]

My sound card is not working at all... it was working fine when I was using 
Mandrake 8.1
  I have a Yamaha YMF-724F [DF-1 Audio Controller]
  Kernel Module:  snd-card-ymfpci   Bus type:  PCI

now I have Mandrake 8.2   and I can't get it to work at all... I tried to 
download extra sound programs thru Mandrake  (ex.  search == snd)   and 
installed what I could...  I still have nothing..  please advise?





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[expert] Problems with Installation of Printer Drivers

[Ralph Miranda]

I tried to install printers for my system but failed.  Went into Mandrake 
Control Center -- Hardware -- Printer -- Expert Mode -- add a new 
printer -- Printer on remote lpd serve.   I typed the print host name:  
mushu then the remote printer name:  p2014  Then I scrolled to HP -- 
LaserJet 4000 -- Postscript (recommended).  After I hit OK everthing 
looked like standard loading procedures.  I also set it as a default 
printer.  When I tried to print a test page, nothing happened.  Then the 
following configuration came up... and the information was backwards.
Printer: HP LaserJet 4000 on LPT Server p2014, printer mushu 
(Defaults).  I know for a fact I chose the correct info.

My printer worked really good using Mandrake 8.1but the program 
collapsed in Mandrake 8.2   Please advise?



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[expert] Gnomba Connection

[Ralph Miranda]

Does anybody know if gnomba and Samba works in Redhat 7.2 or not?

So far as I know, it worked in Mandrake 8.1 (really great) but it doesn't 
work at all in Mandrake 8.2.   I'm getting a lot of buggy problems in 
Mandrake 8.2 and I'm seriously thinking of switching from Mandrake 8.2 to 
Redhat 7.2 because I have a lot of work to do and I don't have time for 
this.

The only problem I'm afraid of is I have a home folder and I don't know if 
Redhat 7.2 will delete it or not... will it just overwrite the kernel in the 
main area and leave my home area alone?




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Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

[Ralph Crongeyer]

It fails after Lilo is loaded. After the boot loader screen is loaded (and
you have the chance to select Linux-Secure, Linux, Failsafe) when
Linux-Secure is selected it gets about this far:

Loading Linux-Secure...

and then the system reboots.

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RE: Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a 
6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. snip

I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm interested in building a 
firewall soon.

1st question, where is SNF82, and B, will it be available for FTP 
install (the cdrom on the box is toast)?

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Jason You can also get the latest packages from Florin (the guy thats
putting together most of the firewall distro) at:

http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/www/rpms/

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RE: Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a 
6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. snip

I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm interested in building a 
firewall soon.

1st question, where is SNF82, and B, will it be available for FTP 
install (the cdrom on the box is toast)?

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Check out this link. It should have all the answres for you.

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/archives/snf/2002-02/

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[expert] Mandrake 8.2 BETA3

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hase anyone else had problems with disk 2 of 8.2 BETA3?  I downloaded both images and 
the md5sum file and both images checked out against the file, so I burned them. But 
The second disk (with 30 seconds left and only 7 packages left to install) hangs.

Just wanted to know If anyone else is having problems with disk 2 before I download it 
again.

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Re: [expert] SuSE 7.3 Personal

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On Thursday 07 February 2002 22:00, you wrote:
 Tuesday... Ralph F. De Witt carefully chose these words:
 even the instruction. SuSE telephone tech support though more limited than
 Mandrake actually gets problems solved, Mandrakes does not. SuSE email
 support does generate answers, speed of reply is about the same as
  Mandrake two weeks, Mandrake does not solve any problems as the experts
  have no knowledge, on one install problem, I got an answer that said, I
  have no knowledge of this device install area, but here are some basic
  sites, hope this helps. There were no further answers forth coming. The
  install for my scanner is still broke, IMHO Mandrakes Expert is a joke
  and they should be sued for false advertising. That said.
 
 I have bought every Mandrake Power Pack for years and found them to be
 unstable, and do not work. They get replaced with the latest SuSE
 professional release which I also buy and have for the same length of time
  as I have Mandrake.

 Though I dont agree with the original post (people always seem to think a
 distro either *rocks* or *sucks* based on one install), I am curious why
 you would buy *every* Mandrake power pack for years when you feel that
 none are stable or work?  Or why you would continue to monitor these
 lists if you feel no one here has any knowledge and you obviously dont
 like the distro?  Im sorry, did I miss something?

 Mike
Mike:
My comments were based on installing all the version over the last two years 
and only about the official support given, I think both distro's do a poor 
job there. The lists are were I learn and get what problems I come across 
fixed. They are much better then the official support channels.
I both distros to support what I feel are two best distro and help Linux and 
the distro's improve. With out financial support the growth would be much 
slower and their would be little integration or install tools etc. the stuff 
that is bringing Linux to the mainstream.
Bottom line is both distro's do a poor job with their official support 
channels, both continue to have install problems, both show continuing 
imporvements in the install, and stability area's. For me I find SuSE just a 
tad more stable then Mandrake.
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Re: [expert] SuSE 7.3 Personal

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On Tuesday 05 February 2002 20:19, you wrote:
 Well I found out why I had to buy SuSE 7.3 instead of downloading trying
 out first
 before I buy that's because it's no good. During installation it locked
 numerous times;
 had to finish the install in safe mode just so I could get to the
 desktop, it can't detect
 monitors and is very buggy once up and running. No more SuSE for me.

 Redmond (Lycoris) and Redhat are close seconds so I don't buy. Mandrake
 is what I
 keep buying each and every time a  PowerPack comes outs.

 Dwaine
Dwaine:
You found nothing out. There are some differences, SuSE does not make a iso 
image available, but everything is there for you to download and create one 
even the instruction. SuSE telephone tech support though more limited than 
Mandrake actually gets problems solved, Mandrakes does not. SuSE email 
support does generate answers, speed of reply is about the same as Mandrake 
two weeks, Mandrake does not solve any problems as the experts have no 
knowledge, on one install problem, I got an answer that said, I have no 
knowledge of this device install area, but here are some basic sites, hope 
this helps. There were no further answers forth coming. The install for my 
scanner is still broke, IMHO Mandrakes Expert is a joke and they should be 
sued for false advertising. That said.

I have bought every Mandrake Power Pack for years and found them to be 
unstable, and do not work. They get replaced with the latest SuSE 
professional release which I also buy and have for the same length of time as 
I have Mandrake.

On the equipment I have had over the last couple of years Mandrake has always 
been unstable and has had more install problems than SuSE, so SuSE usually is 
the one to keep for me. That said most of the equipment is standard PC and 
checked to see if it Linux Supported.

Mandrake has more fonts and the printer support is better, margins are 
properlay set and in general Print output is twice as good as SuSE's. SuSE on 
the other hand has better support of KDE, Gnome, and XFree86 when they update 
in the middle of release cycle. You can always find rpm's and source rpms for 
each supported release and those are updated as bugs need fixing with the 
packages. Mandrake on the other hand will only produce one for the next 
version in cooker requiring  much more dependencies issues the further away 
you are from the current release.

I have seen Mandrake make continuing strides in getting more stable and 
install routines that work. Both have similar problems and have made their 
share of mistakes, Mandrake with devfs, SuSE with enabled apic.

My bottom line is that they are both very nearly equal. My experience shows 
SuSE to be slightly more stable. I encourage both distributions to continue 
to work on stability and install issues.

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Re: [expert] TEST

[Ralph Slooten]

ROFL :-)

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote:

 On Friday 01 February 2002 02:39 pm, Charles Davant wrote:
  Test, please ignore.
  We're having some difficulty with the mailing list.
 
  Thank you for your understanding

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Re: [expert] OT! for paranoiacs only ;-))))

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 hi! have a look here!

 http://unix.rulez.org/~calver/pictures/computer_bomb.jpg

 ROTFL...

 the mad hacker...
 aka jipe
David:
Thought this article would interest you. Now who do we not like enough to do 
this too.
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Re: [expert] OT! for paranoiacs only ;-))))

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On Saturday 26 January 2002 13:55, you wrote:
[snip]
Sorry too quick on the send button. Need a interlock that forces check of To: 
box.
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[expert] Konqueror not working as user, need guidance/help

[Ralph F. De Witt]

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Hi:
I have Mandrake 8.1 powerpack installed, it was a clean install. I have been 
able to access the internet sucessfully and view files as user since install. 
Yesterday, Konqueror and Kfmclient have stopped working. There are no error 
messages. Konqueror will start, a process is started, but no window or 
taskbar icon is displayed etc. I have removed the user mcop and dcop and 
iceAuthority files. But still no go. I have looked in the archives. There is 
one mention of this problem, but no solution. I have a strace of Konqueror 
and kfmclient if any one thinks that might help. To me it looks like It was 
searching the usr and local icon cahces for icons for my bookmarks, and then 
just stops mid stride. I am at a loss as to what to check etc. Can anyone help

Ralph
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[expert] Mandrake Update Hanging Problem Help Needed

[Ralph F.De Witt]

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Hello:
Mandrake Update is now hanging when it goes to read source datebase for the 
update site. I believe that the ftp source database has become courrupted. 
Where is that database located and what is it called.? I would like to delete 
it and force another reload of it.
- -- 
Yours,
Ralph
Mandrake Linux PowerPack Edition 8.1
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Kernel version 2.4.8-26mdk
Current Linux uptime: 6 days 4 hours 45 minutes.
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Re: [expert] Uptime in the email

[Ralph F. De Witt]

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On Thursday 20 December 2001 12:36 am, you wrote:
 On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 04:56, you wrote:
  Muzza:
  How did you (what options did you use) to get this to work in Kmail?

 Save (and edit) the attached file somewhere in your home directory.  I use
 a scripts directory.
 In KMail select Settings -- Configure KMail -- Identity.  Click to
 select Use a signiture from file.  Underneath is a filepath field, browse
 to select the file. (/home/muzza/scripts/uptimesig.pl).  Again underneath
 that click to select File is a program.  Okay and it's done!

 Thanks once again to Vincent for the inital script.
Muzza
Thanks very much
- -- 


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Re: [expert] Uptime in the email

[Ralph F.De Witt]

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On Monday 17 December 2001 02:59 am, you wrote:
Muzza:
How did you (what options did you use) to get this to work in Kmail?

 On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:34, you wrote:
   Thanks Vincent!
 
  You're welcome.  And trust me, I don't really 'perl' all that
  well... writing this thing (albeit a while ago when I did more fooling
  around in perl) probably took me 3x as long as any one else relatively
  well-versed in perl.
 
  The end result is that it works well and I know a few dozen people use
  it as I've passed it out to quite a few folks over the last few
  months.  =)

 A slightly modified version of it, but it's perl+kmail all the way.

- -- 


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Proud user of Mandrake 8.1 Power Pack
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[expert] USB Scanner Install Help Needed

[Ralph F.De Witt]

I have a Epson 640 usb scanner that I need to get installed. I have a open 
Mandrake Expert incident open but the gent who answered did not know anything 
about installing usb scanners and sent me instead a list of scanner sites. 
That was nice if I wanted to see if my scanner was supported, how sane worked 
and how to install it etc. but there was no references as how to install the 
scanner in Mandrake. I have found no references for a Mandrake install in the 
manuals or on line. The SuSE manuals I have show it in great detail but 
Mandrake seems to us a different USB management system.

So can some kind soul point me to the information I need or tell me how to 
get this installed on my Mandrake 8.1 system.

Thanks very much for any help.

Ralph



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[expert] Mandrake 8.1 USB Scanner Install Help still needed.

[Ralph F.De Witt]

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Hi:
I have done a clean install of Mandrake on my machine. An ASUS A7V mobo 
w/Duron chip. For some reason HardDrake does not see the Epson USB scanner 
and will not configure it. I can see it in USBVIEW and it has worked in the 
past. I can find no references to scanner in the Mandrake Books or on the 
site that  gives me a clue as to how to install it. Can some one help?

Ralph
- --
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Proud user of Mandrake 8.1 Power Pack
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[expert] Need MAJOR HELP with ADSL MODEM CONFIGURATION

[Ralph F. De Witt]

Just completed a fresh install of Mandrake 8.1. I installed all security fixes, and 
updated the four draktools for networking. I then attempted to configure my ADSL 
Modem. After completeing all the info for the configureation, when I hit the reply 
button the Mandrake Control Center window goes blank. I manually started the the 
Internet services in the services window and that leads to a error in root something 
about attempting to change a read only value in tools.pm on line 125. Then configured 
my good old trusty RP PPPOE and that works in root. However the good low security 
system will not allow me to configure it for other users.NEED TO GET THIS STRAIGHTENED 
OUT as the ADSL is going bye bye and Charter Cable is coming out SUNDAY to install 
cable modem with no LINUX support of course. I have reached the end of knowledge. 
Mandrake is relatively new to me. 8.0 worked beautifully. All help greatfully 
accepted. Also Modeprbe does not seem to see the eathernet cards. though eth0!
 is up and running or this would not reach the net.

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Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

[Ralph Forsythe]

Question:  Did you use partition magic to partition the drive?

Just curious, my girlfriend used PM, installed linux on a WinME-only
system, and the table got corrupted pretty quickly for no apparent reason.
PM is the only explanation I can come up with, since I have dual-booted
Win-xxx and *nix systems for quite some time with no problems but I always
make a fresh table from scratch when doing it.


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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

 On my computer, simply booting into Windows caused the partition table
 corruption.  No Anti-Virus software installed.

 Seriously, I think it's a bug in Win98 that occurs under certain
 non-MS-tested circumstances.

 -- Asheesh.

 On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Wenninger wrote:

  Is it possibly Anti-Virus software in windows repairing your boot sector?
 
  On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:13 pm, you wrote:
   Hi,
  
   My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the help of
   this list, I managed to repair the table and re-install LM8.1.
  
   My main concern now is trying to figure out what I did that might
   have caused the corruption. The only unsual activities just prior to
   corruption were:
  
 - Copying 3 650MB ISO files from linux reiserfs partition to FAT32
   windows partition.
  
 - I may have left a floppy drive mounted and failed to log out as root,
   before shutting down (but surely this wouldn't affect the partition
   table).
  
 - Booted windows. Just looked around with Explorer. I accidentally
   opened a BIOS flash utility, but exited immediately, without activating
   any controls. I dont' think the utility actually did anything other than
   show its GUI, but I can't be certain. Can flashing BIOS (if thats what
   happened) affect the partition table ?
  
   Upon leaving windows, Linux would not re-boot, because it couldn't
   find the filesystems to mount due to the partition table corruption.
  
  
   I use reiserfs for my linux partitions, if that is a factor. I'd
   love to hear any ideas about possible corruption causes.
  
  
  
   regards,
  
   Charles.
 
 







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Re: [expert] Ports to keep open

[Ralph Forsythe]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Brandon Hutchinson wrote:

 Just make sure you are using an up-to-date SMTP agent. I don't think Sendmail
 has had a remote root exploit since 1997, but has had some recent local root
 exploits.

 I don't know if identd (113) is actually needed, although I think remote MTAs
 attempt to query your ident server to find the UNIX user sending mail. It is
 probably also necessary for IRC. I don't think having it open is very risky.

Also, FWIW you can turn off the ident function of sendmail, which also
speeds it up when sending.

Under the timeouts section, find a line with Timeout.ident and make it:

O Timeout.ident=0s


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Re: [expert] please read and comment..networking

[Ralph Forsythe]

On 17 Nov 2001, richard wrote:

 It pretty obvioud that the use of encrytion is badly understood.

 If you send an encrypted password the other end must have the capability
 of de-encryption...

 Now surely that's a straight forward thing for some people to understand
 ??

Key sharing???  Seems to be a widely understood topic IMO.

 hoew do you install ssh on a unix network when you dont have root access
 ?

It seems to me that any person in a position of administrating or securing
3 continents worth of servers either has root access already, or can find
the person who does in a few minutes.

 And even if you did , it will not go through a proxy server that is very
 remote, and has to be logged into..

Not sure why the distance has anything to do with it, but just for
clarification why would you require a login to a proxy server for
something like an SSH session?  You're right though -- SSH cannot go through a
proxy, since the encryption is only usable between the two end hosts.  A
proxy that might somehow re-encrypt that with a different key would likely
break the connection.  NAT is probably your best bet here, or creating
site-to-site IPsec VPN tunnels.

 OK I'll go one stage further in words you might understand


 ITS BLOODY IMPOSSIBLE

I highly doubt that.  Your solution, whatever it winds up being, may have
to be a bit creative because of your unusual requirements.  Be that as it
may, this won't take a cookie-cutter approach to solve.  But it sure isn't
bloody impossible.

I don't have the original post on this computer anymore and am picking
this up from the last few replies.  (the archives are only current to the
12th for some reason.)  So, sorry if I missed something here, but maybe
this will help.

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Re: [expert] Have I Been Hacked?

[Ralph Forsythe]

Actually you did get responses, check your archives...

-rf

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Timothy King wrote:

 I posted this a few days ago and got no response, so I thought I would try
 one more time.

 On my MDK 8.1 firewall box, when I do iptables -L, I notice an allowed
 client for all services
 (including ssh) that I did not add and do not recognize:

 root:/root iptables -L | grep pvelm
 CLIENT udp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNameudp dpt:20
 CLIENT tcp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNametcp dpt:ftp
 CLIENT udp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNameudp dpt:fsp
 CLIENT tcp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNametcp dpt:telnet
 CLIENT udp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNameudp dpt:23
 CLIENT tcp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNametcp dpt:ssh
 CLIENT udp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNameudp dpt:ssh
 CLIENT tcp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNametcp dpt:pop3
 CLIENT udp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNameudp dpt:pop3
 CLIENT tcp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNametcp dpt:www
 CLIENT udp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNameudp dpt:www
 CLIENT tcp  --  pvelm-138.pv.k12.ny.us  MyHostNametcp

 Since I know little about iptables, I use an Open Source product called
 gScript to assist in configuring my firewall.  Grepping though /etc and
 /etc/firewall (which is where the gScript config. lives), I find no
 reference to this client being allowed access.

 Have I been hacked?  Anywhere else to look for evidence?

 Tim King
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Re: [expert] X

[Ralph Forsythe]

Question:  If you lower the video resolution, does the problem go away?  I 
ask because I've seen this on my own systems with high resolution, when 
interference gets into the cable or the connection isn't solid.  Since you 
have replaced the card and monitor this is a long shot, but I figured I'd 
throw it out there.  Also, if your card is AGP, verify you have the correct 
AGP type set in the BIOS (2x/4x).  I wouldn't think this is a software 
issue, usually it either works or it doesn't in that case.

- Ralph

At 10:26 PM 11/8/2001 -0500, you wrote:
I've noticed that after some use that my display seems to have a
ghosting or shadow in it.  Well at first I thought it was the video card
so there is now a new video card.  Then I've tried a different monitor
thinking this was the problem.

What I've just noticed is that if I restart X this goes away for a
while.

The card is a Geforce2 GTS, nvidia.

Any thoughts on this?

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Re: [expert] Partition Problems - system won't mount root partition

[Ralph Forsythe]

Hmm, check and make sure the drive cable is connected securely.  It also
sounds like it could be a problem with the drive itself, though chances
are you'd still be seeing that.  I have seen systems mysteriously need a
couple runs through fsck to actually fix the problem (which never
rematerializes after that one time) for no known reason as well.

I suggest you back up any important files that can't just be reinstalled
from the CD, should the worst happen.  Keep an eye on it, if it happens
again you could have a hardware failure.  If not, be glad and pay homage
to the data gods. :)

- Ralph

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, DStevenson wrote:

 I have just had a scary experiance wih my server running mdk 8.0.

 The system has now booted OK, but I would like to understand what could have
 gone wrong, and also what I can do to prepare for a disaster if this happens
 again, but this time does not recover.

 Here we go:

 I booted the server as normal. When the init gets to the 'Partition check' it
 starts showing error messages saying that it cannot read the partition
 information. It then retries to read the partition and then continues with
 the other disks on the machine. The disk in question is 'hda' so when root is
 attempted to be mounted it fails with a VFS: Kernel panic.

 I cannot give any more info as I could not save the dmesg output, well I did,
 but I put it on the ramdisk...stupid ha.

 I booted using rescue mode of the mdk CDRom, I then attempted to e2fsck
 /dev/hda1. This completedso I rebooted, this time the system gave the
 same error. I went back to he rescue mode and tried to mount the hda1, but
 this time it could not see the device. I tried to e2fsck -p /dev/hda, this
 completed with no messages and status 0. I don't know if this did anything, I
 know that e2fsck is designed for /dev/hda? but I am not sure if this is Ok
 for /dev/hda...your comments welcome.

 This time on reboot everything went OK. System booted, NFS, Samba all of it
 OK. I was very suprised.

 If any one has any thoughts as to possible reasons, steps to take to protect
 the partition info...(is this possible ?)

 Thanks in advance,

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Re: [expert] bizarre command name (resident Program)

[Ralph Forsythe]

I'm just gonna throw this out there since I have never seen this either,
but has your system's security been compromised?  Usually stuff like that
comes from someone running something you don't know about.  Especially
given that it's running as root (and I have never heard of a system-level
program like that), might be something you want to check into.

Just a thought, it could be something benign too...

- Ralph Forsythe
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Ken Hawkins wrote:


 I was viewing running processes, and I found the following line. I am
 concerned, as I don't recall ever seeing this before. Any ideas about
 what this is and what to do about it would be appreciated.

 PID   UserPri SizeResidentStatCPU Mem TimeCMD
 2282  root0   69166916S   0.0 4.2 0.40s   -:0
   ^
   THIS

 is what concerns me. If I kill the process, my entire window manager
 session
 restarts.

 The NAME of the process listed under details is KDM. The command
 however, has a rather bizarre name.






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Re: [expert] 100Mbit networking failure.

[Ralph Forsythe]

Have you tried forcing the media type to 100/full using ifconfig?  Also
try specifying auto just to see what happens.  I have had 3com cards
(among others) that sometimes will do that, and they just need to be told
what to do.

- Ralph

On 25 Oct 2001, Woody Green wrote:

 I have two different types of cards (realtek using the 8139too driver
 and an intel using the eepro100 driver) that only work when attached to
 10Mbit hubs.  Attach them to 100Mbit switches and they quit working with
 no apparent errors.

 It would seem to be in the network subsystem of the kernel or in a part
 of the driver common to all affected cards I've tried.  I've swapped
 absolutely everything (different mainboards, replaced initially
 installed network cards, different switches, wires, etc...) and
 duplicated the results on someone else's machines and network.  The only
 commonality is that all machines were using various AMD processors and
 use MDK 8.1 tried with both the stock 2.4.8-26mdk and cooker's
 2.4.12-3mdk kernels.

 Anyone else have this problem and/or a possible solution?  This is
 unfortunately a show stopper.  I was about to upgrade our office's 8.0
 machines (workstations and server) to 8.1 when this problem arose.

 --
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RE: [expert] dual booting with Win2k

[Ralph Forsythe]

I'm actually running Mandrake 8.1, Win2k-server, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD all
on the same laptop...  For some reason the redhat LILO doesn't like that
so I was using the FreeBSD boot loader, but the mandrake version works
beautifully since I've installed it.

-rf

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Ron Heron wrote:

 I have 8.1, W2k, and WinME on the same machine, but I just use lilo.  I
 installed 8.1 on top of the win2k and winme, and when it came to configure
 lilo, the only thing i did differently was to make windows the default.  I
 don't think you will have any problem using the standard install, but the
 Holt's approach is very interesting.  I have to try it :)




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Re: [expert] Software Manager

[Ralph Forsythe]

At 10:37 PM 10/18/2001 -0500, you wrote:
you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work
correctly.  A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name,
and if it finds a different version (hopefully newer) it will download that
one instead.  Any chance someone could add that?

mark

Did that ... which is how I've tried multiple servers. :)  I agree, it 
needs some sort of aut-search feature, or a master list of packages and 
their corresponding locations (with some kind of intelligent auto-update 
feature to prevent dead links) in the world that the software can grab as 
part of it's list.

- Ralph




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Re: [expert] Corrupted files -RPM

[Ralph Forsythe]

I am also having install issues with the ISO, which I have traced (I think) 
to CD burn speed.  So far the first 3 CD's I burned (inst, ext, supp) at 8x 
didnt't work.  Lots of errors to the point where they're unusable.  I 
downloaded the same files from a different mirror and double checked 
against the md5 file from that server -- everything seemingly identical 
there.  So I dropped my burner down to 4x on the new set, and so far it has 
been without problems.

So what's weird about that you ask?  I used the exact same burning method 
on my 8.0 set with the original 8x (max speed) setting out of the same 
batch of CDR media, and had no problems.  Same thing with a friend of 
mine.  Yet she burned 8.1 media at full speed and is having the same 
problems I am.  I'm waiting to see if her slow-burn copies work.

Does anyone have any insight as to why these particular ISO's are causing 
everyone so much trouble when burned at high speed?  I'd think it was a 
common thing except that 8.0 worked fine...  Very odd.

- Ralph

At 03:06 PM 10/19/2001 +0800, you wrote:
Hi All People,

I have downloaded Mandrake-Linux 8.1 ISO Images from Internet to a Windows 
PC and burt 3 installation discs with Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum.

During installing following files were found corrupted

xmms-kjofol-skins-1.2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm
xmms-more-vis-plugins-unsafe-1.4.0-3mdk.i586.rpm
xmms-skins-1.0.0-11mdk.noarch.rpm

I checked RPMNet but could not find them there.

Kindly advise where can I have them downloaded.

Thanks in advance.

B.R.
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[expert] Now: nslookup (and RE: Software Manager)

[Ralph Forsythe]

I didn't have a username/passwd in the fields, but I have noticed the 6 
files on the server.  I was on Mandrake 8.0 fwiw, so I just downloaded and 
burned the ISO's to 8.1 and installed it.  Much better...  :)

On another topic, why aren't things like 'nslookup' installed 
automatically?  What package do I need to put on there to get that very 
useful little utility?  Is this part of the DNS stuff?

Thanks,
Ralph

At 08:53 PM 10/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Yeah, mine DID this now it works...

I noticed that it had put in a username and password into the
ftp://usname@domain:xxx.org field...

By removing the extraneous username and password, it started working
right.

Also there are only about 6 files available via the server.

The rest are sitting on your Mandrake 8.1 CD's. Quite a large number of
packages are -NOT- installed even if you select everything manually.

-JMS



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|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ralph Forsythe
|Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 7:28 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: [expert] Software Manager
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|So, does anyone else have problems using software manager?
|Frequently the
|majority of packages I select to upgrade or install (usually
|the first)
|fail to fetch from the server I select.  I have tried quite a
|few servers,
|same results.  Are the files just not there even though SM thinks they
|are?  I have tried this on two different systems as well.
|
|Any insight would be appreciated. :)
|
|Thanks,
|Ralph Forsythe
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Re: [expert] Hostname question

[Ralph Forsythe]

Why give it a domain name at all?  Unless you have a FQDN and IP assigned 
to that PC, it's probably not gonna like the domain ending.  But, some 
hostname like 'mylaptop' will work just fine, I do it on mine.  The other 
thing you can do is go into linuxconf and uncheck the box that says 
requires DNS for operation, unless you're on a constant connection that 
can cause problems.

OOC, what sort of issues are you having related to your hostname, anyway?

- Ralph Forsythe
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At 11:22 PM 10/18/2001 -0600, you wrote:
OK, I have been wondering about this for a while and finally seek an answer.
My laptop, as is proper, gets moved around a lot and connects to various
networks.  I have left the hostname on it as localhost.localdomain because
this, so far, is the only name that hasn't caused problems of some sort or
other.

I would like to give my laptop a better, more distinctive name than localhost
but it must be a name that will actually work, regardless of the network I
connect to (my university, military network, home).  All networks I tie into
use dhcp.

Can someone please explain to me how to give my system a name that will stick
and not cause problems for the various networks I might connect to?

I have tried various hostnames and they either produce invalid name errors
of some sort or they dick up my ability to connect to a given network.  I
need to know how to give my laptop a universal hostname that will follow it
wherever I take it and regardless of the dhcp network I connect to.

Doable? Or am I doomed to always be localhost.localdomain?

praedor

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[expert] 8.1, What happend!!!

[Ralph Crongeyer]

I was excited to download the new Mandrake as this is the OS I use.
During the install the only problem I had was with the printer, which was odd because 
with 8.1 RC1 I had fsantastic results, my EPSON 860 never looked beter with 1400 DPI. 
When I selected the printer and then set the resolution to 1400 DPI all was fine but 
the test page hung putting the printer into a state of contenuees motion but nothing 
being done. I contenued on with the rest of the install with the printer in this state.
After the install was complete and while the machine was rebooting I shut off the 
printer removed the page and reset it. When the machine was booted the print job was 
resumed and the printer started printing goblede gook page after page. I tried to 
clear the que several different ways, until I had to delete the the files from the 
spool dir manualy turn off the printer and restart cups. I then uninstalled the 
cups_drivers and installed the ones from RC1. Had the same problem. I then reinstalled 
cups and support rpm's from RC1 and still had the same problem. 

This is a serious flaw within this distro not to mention that supermount is not 
implamented! I also have an NVIDIA video card that worked just fine with 8.0 but the 
drivers don't compile in 8.1!!

I have used Mandrake since 6.0 and I am extreamly dissapointed with this effort. 
Sloppy work, they got into to much of a hurry to put this one out. This is a Microsoft 
thing to do!

I normaly tout this distro but what ever you do DONT PAY A DIME FOR THIS VERSION!!!

Looking for a new distro to recomend to all customers currently about 4 offices about 
ten servers running Mandrake.

Latter, Ralph




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[expert] Problems with 8.1 RC1, Anybody else?

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Just to let you know what I'm having trouble with in (Linux Mandrake 8.1 RC1).
X-CD-Roast dose not see my cd-rom drive even when there is a disk in the drive, it 
sees the cd-rw fine, with or without a disk.
CD Player has no sound, ie. (can't play a music cd) system sounds, startup and 
shutdown sounds all work.
When you are logged in and you right click on the desktop and select log off then 
select shutdown the system hangs on shutting down portmapper.
NVidia vidio drivers, I cannot get NVidia vidio drivers to compile from sources or src 
rpm's?

Ralph Crongeyer


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[expert] Printer Support Question?

[Ralph F. De Witt]

Will Linux Mandrake 8.1 include printer support for the Lexmark E210 Laser 
Printer? Thanks for your help.

Ralph
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[expert] Mandrake 8.1 beta1 problems...

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Ok I have MDK8.0 installed on one drive and MDK8.1B1 on another.
The most noticable thing is that 8.1B1 dident install my sound card correctly and has 
some long error message at boot and hangs during kdzu probing. After booting and 
logging in most of the menus are missing, ie. applacations, configuration, amusement, 
documentation, multimedia, networking etc... Maby I just got a bad download?

Anyone else having this menu problem

Just to let people know what problems i'm having with 8.1 Beta.

Ralph


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[expert] mod_auth_mysql does not work with LM8.0...

[Ralph Crongeyer]

I use mod_auth_mysql as a dso module on most of the systems that I setup because it is 
easier to use MySQL for user administration. But mow that I have switched to Mandrake 
8.0 (insted of 7.2) and I cant get it to work.

I have written instructions for getting it to work with LM7.2 but they don't work with 
8.0??

Can someone help me with this?

Ralph


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[expert] Cannot compile imap-2000c from source on LM8.0??

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Has anyone else had this problem? I am using LM8.0 and imap-2000c will not compile 
from source. I am wanting to use Apache ToolBox to compile everything for me but it 
keeps failing on the imap-2000c package. So I tried to install it by hand and iget the 
same error

make[3]:***[osdep.0] Error 1

make[2]:***[slx] Error 2

make[1]:***[OSTYPE] Error 2

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