Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > > b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine > > got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him "options > > scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1" in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader > > is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. > > bug #31 > > Can you add these to bugs.mandrakelinux.com? Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:06:17PM +0100, Steffen Barszus wrote: > b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine > got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him "options > scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1" in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader > is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. I have been told that this was a kernel bug,no explanation for the assigning of mount points the next time I rebooted in spite of hitting cancel to the config tools,Once I manually editted fstab and deleted excess mount points it has been ok. > > d) k3b 0.9 crashed immediatly (maybe because of the lot drives ?) > 0.10.99 aka cvs started but hung on burning and took the Xserver with > it. Once I got k3b to point to the first reader and the first burner it works ok for me with a toshiba reader and a Toshiba DVD/CDRW, even thogh it shows 6 of each and I can't seem to remove any of the nonexistant drives. FYI Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KWeather
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:50:08AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 9:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I use kweather to track what is happening in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. > > Seems to work just fine. I go back and forth between MDK 9.1 and XP > > throughout the day, so I don't notice any long-term use related > > problems. > > > > It seems to me that when I went to set it up, Viet Nam (or at least > > Ha Noi) was not among the options available, but as I recall I > > typed Ha Noi in and the program was happy to start providing the > > weather info. (Right now I am going by memory, not going back > > through the configuration proceedures - excuse my lazyness.) > > > This is very puzzling. The configuration only offers me 'Look up your > ICAO code'. The box requires a 4-digit code, which I don't know. > When I move on to the select page, the search facility only offers me > Federal, States and Territories. Entering a UK town, city or county > in the search box doesn't help. I'm stuck. Anne At this location http://www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml Go to the bottom of the page and select the country then click on the button that says "display all stations in" and it should show all the codes for that country with name of the town.When I configured kweather this was the page the lookup link connected to.I'm not sure why Yours isn't working , maybe something connected with the locale settings as mine is USA.Hopefully this address will at least let you find the code you need. HAND Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] where are urpmi commands for 9.2?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:19:56PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 22:37, Ray Warren wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:48:41PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: >and my fingers where wrong... sorry to anyone who took > my url as gospel. Thanks I'm still trying to find a patch for auto-complete that puts in everything I intended to type,instead of what Actually goes into my keyboard. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] where are urpmi commands for 9.2?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:48:41PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > There are a number of people here expressing problems with menu's in > 9.2 Have any of you added a bug to bugs.mandrake.com? Just a nitpick, but I had to use bugs.mandrakelinux.com to reach the site. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hdparm problem
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:55:09AM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode > last night: > > # hdparm -X70 /dev/hdd > > /dev/hdd: > setting xfermode to 70 (UltraDMA mode6) > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Input/output error > > The drive is ATA 133 and I believe UDMA mode6, consequently. Any ideas on this > I/O error? What about the controller and cable.If the contoller will only go to ATA 66 that's the fastest the drive can be set.UDMA2 is the fastest setting that could be used withoput the newer 80 wire cable,so if your cable is the 40 wire version or has a bad connecion it would also cause the reduced speed. HTH Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Ancient lib
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:17:40PM +0100, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi All > > Trying to compile a DSP package called Linrad, > its for very low level radio sigs that are below noise levels. > > It requires svgalib -1.4.3 or later, this I suspect is ancient. > using RPMfind that version seems to the same vintage as RH 6.2, > about the time of the change from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels The source for that version is available At www.svgalib.org. HTH Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] setup email bounce
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:24:27PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ray Warren said: > > > If you want to use procmail globally you need to put procmailrc > in > > /etc.It will run as root so there are security issues.You can > > still use > > a .procmail in each users home directory for personal > > customization. > > What kind of security issues? > Sorry that is a little vague,I don't know of any specific exploits but Procmail can run any arbitrary shell 0r Perl script which will default to the privileges procmail has.So if you are running procmail as root,by default you give root privileges to any scripts called by your recipes. So the issues are the generic ones you have anytime a text based configuration can be used to grant root privileges to an arbitrary script.I do run procmail as root on one box at home to scan & despam my wifes mail before it goes to a pop3 server for pickup by her windows thing. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] setup email bounce
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:30:50AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey all, > I want to be able to setup an email 'bounce' from my server. I > want to be able to setup a black list which would reside on the > server and contain certain email addresses or domains which upon > receipt, would bounce right back to them with a custom message. > > I want it on the server because I don't even want it to hit my > mailbox. > > I'm not sure if this is procmail or spamassassin or some other > program. I've read some on procmail, but that seems to work on an > individual basis. If you want to use procmail globally you need to put procmailrc in /etc.It will run as root so there are security issues.You can still use a .procmail in each users home directory for personal customization. > I want to be able to filter some domains > globally and maybe still have the custom message. I like the > bounce idea because if it's spam, I'm hoping that I can spam them > back :) IMHO most spam has bogus headers, so You would probably be helping them spread the spam farther.If you're sure it's spam /dev/null is a nice place to send it. > Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:46:38AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:45 pm, you wrote: > > > did you see this one Anne , this list is a bit weird at the moment > > > > > > No, I didn't see it. Thanks for sending it on. I got LVG's though. > > Before I saw this I had found an article on Gramofile through google, > > so I've installed it. I'll also take a look at LV's suggestions of > > audacity and rezound. > > > > But the first need is to actually get the sound in. What can I use > > that will give me some feedback as to whether it is actually hearing > > anything? It's too time-consuming to keep attempting a recording > > when you don't know whether there's anything there in the first > > place. > > You should have the output from vinyl player to go to line-in of your > soundcard. In sound mixer(like Kmix) you should select line-in for recording > purposes. If the speaker is connected to speaker/lineout port, then if you > play the player, you should get sound from speaker when the OS is working. > For this no sound s/w(playing or recording) need to run. If not then there is > problem with /dec/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp > -- > L.V.Gandhi > 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 > MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA > http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ > If you try to go directly from a turntable to aux in on the sound ,you will probably need to use a special preamp.The frequency response recorded to vinyl is nonlinear to avoid overcuting the ridges at lower frequencies.The output of most turntables is also extremely low voltage for most aux level inputs.If the turntable is connected to an amp or receiver,that should all be taken care of by the phono input and you can use either aux out or record out to connect to aux in on the sound card. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Procmail Question
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 12:51:22PM -0400, HaywireMac wrote:
>
> I have tried unsuccessfully a few times to subscribe to the Procmail
> list to ask this question, so I am hoping someone on here can give me
> some guidance.
Info on subscribing to the procmail list is at
http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/procmail
>
> I find a lot of spam is sent to multiple addresses in my domain, ie.
> @sympatico.ca, so I put in a procmail rc to deal with this that I
> borrowed from my Mailfilter config. I know it works with Mailfilter,
> after testing it against some spam mail, but it does not seem to be
> working with procmail, perhaps I need to adjust it somehow?
>
> The rule looks like this:
>
> * ^(To|Cc):(.*sympatico\.ca){2}
> and supposedly should catch any mail which has more than 2 or more
> mentions of sympatico.ca, no?
I don't think you need to escape the "." in the address
and it may be seeing the {2} as a nesting block.In man procmailex are
some examples for catching duplicate mails.Although I don't know if they will do
what you need .
Ray Warren
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[expert] Re: Virtual servers and the Default server
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:52:32AM -0700, James wrote: > -- > > etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf > > > DocumentRoot /var/www/html/vivid-eye/public_html > ServerName www.vivid-eye.com > > > > DocumentRoot /var/www/html/powwowdance/public_html > ServerName www.powwowdance.com > > - Have you tried replacing both of these declarations in httpd2 with an include statement for the Vhosts.conf file instead? (include conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf) Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:07:34PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > The file in question appears to be /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd On My system there is also a file named /var/lock/LCK..ttyS0 If You're using a com port other than com1 you need to change the DEVICE setting to match the com port actually used . If you're connected to com1 and there is anything else configured to use com1 that may prevent apcupsd from locking the port for it's exclusive use. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 4:13 am, david wrote: > > Anne, > > > > I am presently running apcupsd, and if I recall, it required > > nothing more than rpm -Uvh acp.rpm on my 7.2 box. It has been > > running since '01 without a hickup. The trick is to figure out what > > information your APC box will deal out. (Whether it is a "smart" > > APC or not) Then just set (or play around with the UPS type in the > > config to get the maximum amount of info) The type of "cable" and > > the pin assignments are an issue, but there is plenty of info on > > this on the web. Good luck! I'd tell you more, but I haven't had to > > dork with it in years and Altzheimers is taking its toll. > > > Wel,, the new Smart-UPS700 is in and working, except for two problems > - > 1) It complained about line 61 in the config file. I take it that it > was expecting to find a log file to which it could append, but didn't > find it. The line is > LOCKFILE /var/lock This is supposed generate a lockfile for the serial port the ups is connected to. > Looking at /var/lock there is nothing there except a directory called > subsys. Do I create a black file in there, then feed the name to > line 61? > > 2) Everything did exactly as it should until it came to the point > where it was supposed to power off the box (the orderly shutdown had > gone through). It didn't power off, and I had to issue shutdown -h > now. > > Could someone please look over the conf file and see what I've missed? Except for the networking portion Your conf appears to be the same as mine I'm using version 3.8.5 which I built from source on 2 boxes. On my system I have some helper scripts in /etc/apcupsd/ ,owned by root, that do the actual work.You might check to see if these scripts are there. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Script help needed
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 08:29:26PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > I want to set up an additional task in the daily cron. The script I > wrote is > > mv -fu /Data/Backup/GnomeCard.vcf /Data/Backup/GnomeCard.vcf.bak after this step /Data/Backup/GnomeCard.vcf no longer exists if it has been modified more recently than .bak > cp -fpu /home/anne/GnomeCard.vcf /Data/Backup/GnomeCard.vcf If step one was true then the copy will be made as the target file does not exist > > By my understanding the -u flag says 'only if it is a later version'. for later version substitute more recent modification date. It looks like the flow for this script is: working file = /home/anne/ backup = /Data/Backup archive = .bak 1: change working file 2A: script runs: backup and archive have the same modification date no change 2B: working file is modified more recently than backup so copy working file to backup 3A: next time script runs: backup has been modified more recently than archive so move backup to archive 3B: since backup no longer exists the working file is again more recent so copy working file to backup even if working file has not changed. So once all of the files exist, the script has to run twice for each change before copies are no longer made. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Stateful inspection firewall.
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:52:54PM -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote: > Unfortunately, that doesn't work cuz LinkSys gives an initial auth > failure. lynx proceeds to where the LinkSys asks for user/passwd; but > links won't and I haven't found how to get it past the auth failure that > lynx does automatically... Have you looked at elinks http://elinks.or.cz It will list the auth failure but then show the login box. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba -routing madness
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:24:12PM +0100, richard bown wrote: > > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=static > IPADDR=44.131.90.129 > NETMASK=44.131.90.0 > NETWORK=44.131.90.0 > BROADCAST=255.255.255.255 > ONBOOT=yes > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes If that's not a typo the NETMASK and the NETWORK appear to have the same value. Mine looks like this: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.15 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes for a box on a local net that was upgraded from 8.2 to 9.1. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba -routing madness
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:48:02PM +0100, richard bown wrote: > > AFAIK this is the reason I cant get the two machines to see each other. > When the MDK network config wizard ,from the MDK Control Center, is run > the subnet for eth0 (44.131.90.0) is entered correctly, BUT the netmask > is changed to 255.255.254.0. > It should remain as 255.255.255.0. > > I cant remember seeing the netmask change this way in previous versions > of MDK, especially now /sbin/ifup now has wireless lan DCHP capability. > Or maybe something to do with zeroconf ?? > You might look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to see what the actual settings are.If they are wrong you can try changing them manually . Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:47:34PM +0100, diego wrote: > Let's have first some background before breaking it all ;-)) > > I have a board with 2 IDE ports (HighPoint's raid) and 2 "normal" IDE > ports. That's why I had to add those 2 disk-stanzas I will describe > the issues in my board (that might be quite similar to your case): > > At startup, BIOS makes raid to be ide 0 and 1, and normal ones 2 and 3. > It then tryies to boot from first drive in the first ide available. > Let's say it is a master drive in ide 0. We should call it hda. So far > so good. > > The "problem" is that Linux does not use BIOS to do it's I/O, so as soon > as it has been loaded into memory it won't use BIOS conventions. In my > case it thinks normal ide port's are 0 and 1, and raid ones are 2 and 3, > just the opposite as BIOS stated!!! > On my wife's SOYO Dragon+ the BIOS sees the raid controller as a scsi device and will not boot windows from it unless scsi boot is enabled in the bios.I haven't tried to dual boot this board , so I don't know if it's actually relevant,but it might be worth checking the next time you reboot. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OK, what am I doing wrong when compiling a new kernel?!?
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:40:12PM +0100, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > I do: > make menuconfig > make dep > make clean > make bzlilo > make modules > make modules_install > lilo > > Everything works fine, but beside the new compiled kernel I cannot boot any > other pre-existing kernel in my lilo.conf. :/> Are you editing the EXTRAVERSION setting in the makefile to insure a unique name for the new kernel? Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel headers and inability to build wlan drivers
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:36:36PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > How do I end run this mdkcustom nonsense and get a properly named kernel > header (2.4.19-16mdk instead of 2.4.19-16mdkcustom)? > Go to the Makefile in the src directory /usr/src/2.4.19-16mdk/Makefile and remove the custom from 16mdkcustom in the EXTRAVVERSION line. If you do rebuild the kernel later you need to remember to change this line again or you'll overwrite all of your existing modules etc.I've discovered that overwriting these modules makes it a little difficult to recover from kernel configuration errors. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] slow boot
I have a Toshiba laptop- Satellite 1750 .It uses a built in Crystal audio cs4281 which worked well under 8.2,now when i boot up it stalls for 2-5 minutes. the only error message I can find is: /var/log/kernel/warnings:Feb 11 00:19:49 mobile kernel: cs4281: Unable to locate any cs4281 device with valid IDs 0x1013-0x6005 at some later point the sound initializes properly and works.Can someone give me any hints on where to look to eliminate the delay. I have had this problem with the 2.4.19-16 ,and -24 kernels,both stock and locally compiled from Mandrake sources. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printing problems
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:00:03PM -0800, Jim C wrote: > On every printer (and there have been probably 5 or 6) I have ever tried > to use with Linux I have had the following problem. > > The first line prints right on the top border of the printable area > meaning that only half of it actually gets printed. Now there should be > a way to adjust this but I've never found it. > If you are using cups and printing from the cl you can use a default options file "/etc/cups/lpoptions " and include any of the job options Mine has : Default EpsonC40 page-left=49 prettyprint=true page-top=36 Dest HP1120 page-left=49 prettyprint=true page-top=36 All of the settings that can be used are buried in the cups software user guide,chapters 3 & 4. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:49:46PM +1100, Gary wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:13:19 -0700, you wrote: > > > >Here catch: > > > >http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html > > > I tried to install colortail and found it required regex. > Found gnu regex-0.12.tar.gz, but it wont compile, it says it carnt find > ecircle. Any ideas for a fix or is there a Mdk regex rpm I can try? > > Thanks > Gary. > You should have regex installed.Look in /usrt/include for regex.h.The configuration script for colortail looks for both regex and gnuregex so the error message about no gnuregex won't stop the compile.Under Mandrake8.2 I did have to add a couple of explicit includes in main.cc and <#string.h> in Colorizer.h. After I added those it compiled fine. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:50:24PM +, Kenneth Walker wrote: > Does this apply to smbmount to a shared NT4 machine ? > When You use smbmount You are actually talking to the operating system on the other box which does the actual disk writes,so it doesn't matter whether the other system is using ntfs,vfat,fat ext2, etc. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tape backups in Linux?
On 13 Oct 2002 at 13:56, David Guntner wrote: > One, the current > version doesn't support backups across more than one tape, and two, I can't > currently figure out how to identify my tape drive and make it available to > Linux. Argh. (See the other message thread.) You might look at the Linux Taper. http://taper.sourceforge.net/ It has some support for IDE drives and uses multiple tapes Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tape backups in Linux?
On 13 Oct 2002 at 15:11, David Boles wrote: > and I found an Iomega Easy 800, PARALLEL tape drive. You might look at the Ftape how-to on the Linux Documentation Project.http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ftape- HOWTO.html Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML 9.0 - postfix calls *all* connections "unknown"
On 10 Oct 2002 at 8:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Can you tell me what config files for each that > I need to check/change? Or better yet There is some good info on setting up a mail system at the Mandrake users org site ,which I can't get to right now,.There is a postfix web site at www.postfix.org,I remember the mailing list as very busy and lots of rtfm,but the info was good.Fetchmail has a configuration utility that works & is easy to use.I really don't remember a single howto or FAQ that was notable for me.The mail admin howto on the Linux Documentation Project doesn't even mention Postfix but may still be worth reading for the overview.Postfix was written as a drop in replacement for Sendmail and does the same job.I hope some of this helps. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML 9.0 - postfix calls *all* connections "unknown"
On 9 Oct 2002 at 8:58, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Whats odd is that (in spite) I sent an e-mail to a friend on the Internet and > it got through, although he said he couldn't reply (bounce). > I have postfix on Mandrake 8.2 at home and it was a non-chroot install by default. Do you have fetchmail set up to translate from your isp address to the user that postfix is looking for? If your local address and your ISP address are not the same check the headers to see which "From" & " Reply To" addresses are being used. When I first set fetchmail-postfix- procmail-mutt up it took me several tries to get all the routing headers set to something the rest of the world could find. I still haven't gotten around to setting up an email system on my home LAN so i can't help with that. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML 9.0 - postfix calls *all* connections "unknown"
On 8 Oct 2002 at 14:00, David Guntner wrote: > I found out from someone else that apparently you now need to have a copy > of your hosts and resolv.conf files in /var/spool/postfix/etc for some > reason. The default installation now appears to be chrooted and you need to check the configuration setup for a chroot environment rather than a standard setup.I don't think postfix can see anything in /etc so everything Postfix needs has to duplicated in /var/spool/postfix/etc. More secure but more setup needed. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Myster of my own.
On 28 Sep 2002 at 10:37, James Sparenberg wrote: > was it only blank for me? (except for the MDK > added footer that is It was blank for me also. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to send mail between 3 comp LAN?
On 24 Sep 2002 at 11:58, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hi Vox. Thanks for the reply. Well, there is no /etc/hosts in > /var/spool/postfix. You won't have the /var/spool/postfix/etc directory unless you're running Postfix chrooted,otherwise postfix uses the file in /etc so you might the exact syntax you have in /etc/hosts. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network Client Billing Solution needed
On 2 Aug 2002 at 7:45, John Haywood wrote: > Has anybody come across any decent solutions? I've checked Sourceforge, but > most projects are either pre-alpha, dead, or contain no files > You might look at ntop http://www.ntop.org It should do most of what you want. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to add something to chkconfig?
On 30 Jul 2002 at 10:38, David Guntner wrote: > How do I > add something that exists in init.d to chkconfig? Look in man chkconfig ,in the section: RUNLEVEL FILES. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hyperactive NIC & odd messages
On 4 Jul 2002 at 9:17, Ken Hawkins wrote: > I've noticed the following in my messages log: > Being an uneducated linux user, I have no idea what this is, but I don't > recall ever seeing this before. > > I accessed the log through webmin; would that generate the messages? > > Ken > > Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/wtmp from 664 > to 640 This looks like the output from Mandrake's msec,a system security utility that sets file permissions and checks for open ports.There is more info on it at http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec2.html http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wireless lan...getting there
On 21 Jun 2002 at 8:48, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > In windoze I set the desktop to be "Overlord" and set it to share files > and printers. On the linux laptop, I then tried to do a "smbclient -L > 10.0.0.5" to get a list of shares from the desktop. Nothing. No shares > found. I also tried "smbclient -L Overlord" with the same results. > What am I missing in trying to get file and print sharing going between > a windoze (windows me) and linux box? This is my first time trying this > so be gentle with me please. Assuming that You are using a simple peer to peer setup , the linux laptop needs to have a user defined with the same login name and password that is used on the windows system.This user needs to added in both the system and samba's configuration.If you have the cash or can find it in a library,SAMS Teach Yourself Samba 2nd edition made my life much easier when I set Samba up on my home network, Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What changes the GID Perms?
On 3 Jun 2002 at 9:03, Albert E. Whale wrote: > At msec 3 & 4 I am continually having to reset the /home/mailman perms > back to 02775. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can stop the > madness? I have already tried the /etc/security/msec/security.conf file > and have not found a valid setting for having it ignore this issue. > > Suggestions? as root ,In /etc/security/msec create file : perm.local in this file place a line: "/home/mailman owner.group2775" without the quotes,then manually run msec and check to verify that the directory has the desired permissions. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Changing Desktop Manager?
On 24 May 2002 at 20:21, Steve Browne wrote: > Now, however, if I log out of KDE, the system still defaults to the > Gnome DM. How do I change that? Thank you. You might check in your home directory for a file called .desktop with contents of DESKTOP=gnome.When I renamed that file I was able to consistently use KDE. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a long standing probelm .... " apache site on a win32 part...
On 8 Apr 2002 at 21:03, faisal gillani wrote: > i even tried copying the website on my linux partition > in a user directory & giving it read & write access & > making it a apache user, group owner file .. > but it seems it only works when i copy the whole site > into /var/www/html which i dont want .. > > what might be causing this ? > anyone ? The default root directory for Apache is now /var/www/html, If you want to use a directory that is not under that tree , you need to either put a symbolic link in that directory that points to the one want use or change the DocumentRoot setting in /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf.If you change the DocumentRoot setting it affects the entire directory tree that apache uses & may have unanticipated side effects so I'd recommend using a symbolic link. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] weird less problem
Just for info purposes,the problem with less was apparently caused by having the instruction : setterm -powerdown 30 in /etc/profile.i have no idea why that statement resulted in the symptoms I had ,but once I removed it everything was back to normal.Is there another way to shut off an inactive monitor from the command line? Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] weird less problem
On 13 Sep 2001, at 22:59, Jaime Herazo B . wrote: > The correct settings for the ttys are, the logged user as owner, "tty" as group, > and permissions 600 (read-write for the user, nothing else). > > I don't really know if this helps you, but it may, so i post it. > I did have group permissions on the ttys showing as write permitted but I haven't found out where it's getting set at.The umask is handled by mandrake Security and should be set to 022 if I'm reading the file right.the group tty appears to have a default permisions setting of 700 .This is a new area for me so it will probably take me some time to chase it down.I tried manually changing the permissions on a console that was already logged in and it had no effect but I'm not sure at what point the console permissions are checked.I do thank you for the info.You might set up a script to login the rest of the consoles after you log in to the first one and start it from .bashrc so it would come up as soon as you logged in and prompt for what terminal you wanted root on and what terminals you wanted a user on.It would seem to be a security risk if you're on an exposed network so you would have to be careful how the passwords were handled. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] weird less problem
I'm running mandrake 8 on an older motherboard with a pentium mmx
200mhz and 98 MB of memory.After I upgraded to a generic 2.4.9 kernel I
found that if I attempted to use less as a normal user,with a filename as
input,the only output I receive is ESC[14;30] and Lines 1-1/1(END).If the
input is a pipe it works ok.If I log on as root,either from a login screen or su -
l, it works ok.If I use su only it does not work.If the file is a compressed one I
I get alternating blocks of gibberish and ok listing.The only difference in the
enviro settings (from env) is the inclusion of sbin in root's path.I downloaded
the source for less & compiled it and get exactly the same response.Does
anybody have any suggestions as to where I should be looking,or what i
should be looking for.The profile and bashrc files only differ in the umask
settings and in sbin in roots path.I get this behaviour from the command line
and from a terminal in X.
Ray Warren
Ray Warren
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[expert] Beta 2
Has anyone seen the Mandrake rpms for KDE beta 2 yet??
Re: [expert] Lin4Win & NetLama
I am running it on 7.0 but you have to match the kernel I can't remember which kernel 7.1 is using. They have support for 2.2.16 and 2.2.15 On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Now that there is an evaluation version of Lin4Win on the trelos website .. > I was wondering if anyone has it running on an LM 7.1 system ?? > > NL- I tried the link in your sig.. NS and IE.. IE flat would NOT connect. > How did you do that .. I want to some some pages for NON NanoSloth browsers > > Charley
Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1
no on the kde2 maybe next version kde2 is still in early beta and not real stable yet but getting there On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Hello listmembers, > Can anyone tell me if 7.1 installs KDE2 and Kongueror? I'm so tired of > Netscape I could spit! > Thanks, > Gene
[expert] 7.1 changes
There are a few changes I don't like so far and maybe someone can help. First is the desktop right mouse click menus. Under new the only option is folder.How can I add items to this menu? Second thing is when clicking on a text document now it opens by default in kless not the text editor.. I am still checking a few things. I have installed kde2 6/08 build. And it does not work very well at all. almost all of the apps crash very often. I haven't used 6/8 build on version 7.0 yet but 5/30 was working great.. More later
[expert] 7.1 release
Anyone install 7.1 release yet? Anyone upgrade a Mandrake 6.1 box to 7.1 yet? And what do you think? Ray
[expert]
Hey I really need some help please. I have a linux 6.1 box at work and the network card keeps timing out on large transfers. I have done some research and found that the new 3com drivers fix the problem but I can't compile the drive. I keep getting errors.. So if someone out there could please compile me a driver that would be great. If not my boss wants to switch to Windows which will be even more work for me. I need a driver for 3com 59x 3c59x.o is needed smp support and kernel 2.2.15-15mdksmp Or if anyone knows of a very stable nic that I could use that has good drivers
[expert] compile help
Hey I really need some help please. I have a linux 6.1 box at work and the network card keeps timing out on large transfers. I have done some research and found that the new 3com drivers fix the problem but I can't compile the drive. I keep getting errors.. So if someone out there could please compile me a driver that would be great. If not my boss wants to switch to Windows which will be even more work for me. I need a driver for 3com 59x 3c59x.o is needed smp support and kernel 2.2.15-15mdksmp Thanks Ray
[expert] web site security
I have apache running with frontpage extensions. But the only reason we have frontpage is for better management of users accessing and editing files. Is there any other products out there that will work in the same fasion to allow users to edit or upload their files and maintain a secure site?
[expert] 6.1 upgrade
Are there any issuses in upgrading a mandrake 6.1 to mandrake 7 or should I wait for the 7.1?
[expert] old version help
This might not be the place but I am in a real bad hurt for some help. I am trying to compile network adapter card drivers under Mandrake 6.1 running 2.2.13-22smp kernel and none of them will compile with smp kernel. I have read that there is a problem with the src code in mandrake 6.1.. So what can I do?? Ray
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
You can use the word free all you want and I hope someday that all software is free but staroffice is a slow bloated software package. I like the speed with my smp machine only. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Hello, > > I belive that Star Office is better than any alternatives. It id free and > compatible with MsOffice but better.
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
I am running Corel office now and really like the fact that they are running it using wine. Now Linux has a full office suite that has office 97-2000 filters. The fonts look great and the speed is very good. Give it a try. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > I went to the same show but in Chicago, the Suite does look good but it runs on >WINE. I am already seeing a lot of posts in their newsgroups about the problems >stemming from their decision to do their Linux office suite running on WINE. > Jeanette > > - Original Message - > From: Michael Holt > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:15 AM > Subject: [expert] Office Suite for Linux > > > Hello all! > I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle >and while I'm not really impressed with their OS version of linux, I was VERY >impressed with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their >hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY recommend Corels WordPerfect Office >2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just >blew them out of the water!!! > -- > Michael Holt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [expert] just a little help
A much better and complete icq client is kxicq www.kxicq.org The install does not require all of the icq libs and it installs very easy. It is also much more complete like having file transfer and better url sending. On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Hello all, > > First off, thanks to all who contribute both your time and patience. > Without you, choice would become a meaningless concept. I have installed > "kicq" on Linux 6.1 (Mandrake). I have completed the "confiqure," > "complile," and "install." I have copied all files to the appropriate > directories. I was given this message, copied at the bottom of this > mail, and I am a bit uncertain about what it is telling me to do. I can > see I need some kind of '"environment variable," and something entered > into my "path." Am I to to a "ln," and do I run the link with a switch, > "LLIBDIR?" I have been looking at man pages, and I have been back on the > kicq page but uncertainty lingers. Any help rendered would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Craig Woods > > -- > > Libraries have been installed in: > /usr/local/lib > > To link against installed libraries in a given directory, LIBDIR, > you must use the `-LLIBDIR' flag during linking. > > You will also need to do at least one of the following: > - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable during > execution > - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable > during linking > - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag > - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf' > > See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more > information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages. >
Re: [expert] Shoutcast, Freeamp & Netscape
xmms %s On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I'm trying to get Netscape to instruct Freeamp to play Shoutcast streams. Would you >happen to know the string needed to make > Freeamp work? > > /usr/bin/freeamp %? > > Or if you've had success with other software to play Shoutcast streams, please share! > > Thanks, > > Seve
Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.
This is getting real old... I have installed Makdrake 7.02 on 15 machines so far. From Pentium 120 to a dual Pentium III machine with no problems. I understand that some people have problems but no OS can support every piece of hardware. I would suggest if you run a version of Linux that you can get along with instead of bashing Or maybe Windows is a better solution I understand they support every piece of hardware. On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote: > With all due respect, If you had read my earlier emails on this subject you > would have seen that I have installed every Linux distribution out there and > was even able to install the Mandrake 7.02 dist. on another computer. The so > called bug is not 'my' mistake, but the mistake of Mandrake. They have had > this problem with 7.0 since the Oxygen release, and even though many people > complained of the problem to Mandrake they refused to fix the BUG!!! This is > a corporate problem with Mandrake and they need to pull their respective > heads out of their self righteous arses before they rush a BETA product to > market under the guise of a final product. I probably would not be so > irritated if they had a fix for the BUG, but they don't and like others, you > have failed to give any helpful information on fixing the problem. Good Day > and Good Luck. > SA > > > >From: "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up. > >Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:58:46 -0800 > > > >With all due respect, I've found that most of the time, the things that > >I've > >considered "bugs" were simply my own lack of knowledge to make them work - > >I'm using Mandrake 7.02 and found it to be one of the most complete and > >easy > >distribs available. (Have used RedHat 6, SuSE 6.3 and now using the > >downloaded .iso image of Mandrake 7.02) > >Sincerely, > >Michael Holt > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >- Original Message - > >From: "Sean Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:10 AM > >Subject: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up. > > > > > > > For the life of me, I can not understand why Mandrake continues to ship > >a > > > defective product. If their older versions had no problem initializing > > > cdroms and their new version DOES have problems initializing cdroms, > >then > > > why not correct that part of the code with the older versions part of > >code? > > > I'm no computer genius, but this problem is asinine. With a competitive > > > market for Linux distributions that is growing everyday, it seems to me > >that > > > Mandrake can't afford to pissoff their customers. For that matter, with > >the > > > ever expanding market of computer OS's, now up to 4 reliable ones, I > >would > > > think that Mandrake would try to avoid driving their customers away. > >Once > > > again, Mandrake rushed an unfinished product to market. I guess in the > >world > > > of computers you don't have to have a real business plan or even > >understand > > > business to get ahead for a little while. So, until Mandrake decides to > > > correct these issues, I for on am going back to the more RELIABLE Redhat > > > distribution. At least their head isn't THAT far up their arse. Good Day > >and > > > Good Luck. > > > SA > > > __ > > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Linux/VMware Ram -- How much?
Yes I am running windows 98 windows 2000 pro and advanced server On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote: > can you run 98 or 2000pro under vmware? > - Original Message - > From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kenneth G. Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 10:49 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] Linux/VMware Ram -- How much? > > > > Dear Kenneth and friends: > > > > Well, do I feel like an idiot! > > > > All I need to do is go in Configuration Editor to Memory and slide > > memory bar to the right or left to increase or decreate memory alloted > > to the Guest OS. Boy, do I feel bad. But I am so very grateful, > > nonetheless, for this priceless bit of information. Now can someone tell > > me, please, what is the path for the sound device. /dev/dsp doesn't seem > > to work. And my SB AWE64 works great in Linux. > > > > Thanks a million. > > > > Benjamin > > -- > > Benjamin and Anna Sher > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sher's Russian Web > > http://www.websher.net > >
Re: [expert] SCSI CD Changers
Yes It should autodetect the frive and all of the luns. then you can mount each one as would any cd rom drive. On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote: > On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > Sure I have 2 7 disk changers working under mandrake 7. > > Auto detected the luns during install and made all of the links.. > > > Kewl. I guess the question *I* have then, is how does one > talk to the external CD changer on an EXISTING install? > Would just rebooting (or restarting something) cause it to > autodetect the SCSI device? > John
Re: [expert] SCSI CD Changers
Sure I have 2 7 disk changers working under mandrake 7. Auto detected the luns during install and made all of the links.. On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Has anyone gotten external SCSI CD "Jukeboxes" to work > under Linux? I've got an "LA Sound" CDX7405 external 5-disk > CD Changer here (I got a REAL good price on it! ) and > I'd like to use it under Linux, if possible... preferably > as a multi-cd changer. > Thanks... > John
Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic
You have got to be kidding! I am running Mandrake 6.1 ans 7.0 and I have 12 ips on one card on both machines. These are both production web and ftp servers. On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, you wrote: > I'd rather see Mandrakesoft fix the IP Aliasing problem that exists with > Mandrake 6.x and probably 7 (haven't tried that yet) than give > unconstructive comments. > > If Mr. Litwiller wants to put 2 ip's, one private and one public, on the > same nic, that's his choice and should normally work. I can even see some > particular setups where this would be a logical choice. > > The thing is, IP Aliasing has been broken since Mandrake 6, and although > there have been several questions asked in the expert and newbie mailing > list, I haven't seen one sollution from Mandrake that actually makes it work > for me! > > I've too far integrated my Mandrake 6.1 server into our company network > (bind and dhcp server and monitoring tools as Netsaint and MRTG) to switch > to another distro. If I knew what I know now I wouldn't choose Mandrake > anymore. But, I need IP Aliasing!! > > The thing is, although I'm still excited about what Mandrake represents and > all the good intentions I don't think Mandrake will ever become THE linux > distro because of basic problems and the lack of sollutions. > > You'll never hear me say that Linux has to be simple, has to be installed > with a graphical interface, has to be drag and drop, plug and play, I > knew that when I chose to integrate Linux in our company network, I'd have > to actually work on it to get it going (once it's running, it's a pleasure > to keep it that way though), but I'm not a programmer, I'm a system engineer > and don't think that I'm supposed to fix some source code because someone > forgot to replace a comma by a dot in a makefile just before uploading his > tarball > > Patrick > - Original Message - > From: "Axalon Bloodstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:38 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic > > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Timothy Litwiller wrote: > > > > > how do I put two ip addresses to the same network card - > > > > > > specifically I would like to use my public IP address 203.53.###.53 and > > > a private ip address 192.168.2.53 on the same card. > > > > You must be jokeing > > > > > also if this works then what do I need to do to make samba function only > > > on the private ip# > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > > --Axalon > >
Re: [expert] Photo quality printers
Try www.elinux.com They have printers that are certified to work on Linux.. On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote: > One brand I'm looking at picking up some time in the future (when I have > time to try developing a driver) is Alps. They're not a big name, but > their MD-5000 model is the most impressive printer I've ever seen. It's > capable of 2400x2400 on plain paper, and can handle gold and silver > foils in addition to the normal colors. > > Like I mentioned above, there aren't any Linux drivers for their > printers at this point (that I know of), but I contacted them in August > or September of last year, and they were willing to provide the > technical information necessary to develop the drivers. > > - Theo > > Phil Risby wrote: > > > > > Anyone any suggestions for photo quality printers under Mandrake? > > > > Thanks > > Phil > > > > -- > > Phil Risby > > President PR Yacht Solutions > > Division of > > FernWood Enterprises > > Ponce > > Puerto Rico
[expert] samba printing
Her are some of the errors that I get trying to print This is a print from the text editor: Your printer job (filewdkCNn) was not printed because it was not linked to the original file This is from the test using DrakConf Your printer job (testpage.asc) was not printed because it was not linked to the original file ray
[expert] Printing to windows 98
I am trying to print to a windows 98 share using samba from a Mandrake 7.0 machine. The printer is a HP 720c. I ran drakeconf and setup the printer but nothing ever gets to the printer or win98 queue. I have done the sane thing with ver 6.1 to a HP laserjet printer and everything worked just fine. Is it the printer driver or is there a problem with 7.0? Ray
