RE: Re: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?
cdrecord currently supports DVD-R/-RW, but (afaik) does not currently support DVD+R/+RW drives. From the CDRecord web site: Cdrecord supports DVD-R and DVD-RW with all known DVD-writers on all UNIX-like OS and on Win32. (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html) Support for DVD+R/W, as per the previous info. http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] wireless pain
Have you tried installing the wireless extensions rpm? Other than that i have no clue, havent played with wifi on linux. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 12:53 PM To: Mandrake Expert Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] wireless pain I finally went ahead and upgraded from MDK 8.2 to MDK 9.0 on my laptop (IBM Stinkpad 1412, Celeron). It installed just fine and everything is working OK except for wireless. I have 2 devices to play with: an Orinoco Gold and a Zoomair. Under 8.2 I had the Zoomair (prism2) working just fine. Under 9.0 I find it impossible to build the hostap driver and the wlan-ng driver just doesn't work at all - it doesn't appear to understand any wireless extension commands so I cannot set anything on the card. Under 9.0, the Orinoco gold card is accepted OK and the wvlan_cs module loads. I am able to set channel, mode, etc, with iwconfig. Problem is, even though I set the parameters to Ad-hoc, channel 6, and the proper essid and iwconfig eth0 shows all the settings as what they should be, I get no communication with my desktop which has and has had for a long time a fully working WUSB11 set to Ad-hoc, channel 6, and the proper essid. They match in all necessary settings yet I am unable to ping or communicate between systems at all. Any ideas? Any suggestions? I have tried rebuilding wlan-ng drivers, altering the wireless.opts file, network.opts file, manually changing settings, all to no avail. I even reset my desktop wusb11. Nothing. Ad-hoc, same channel, same essid and no communication. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] OT tunning network
i have a 100mbps network utp cable 10/100 mbps switch hub switch or hub? shouldnt matter but still. 60 clients consisting of Linux , Windows solaris O/S Dns is used for name resolution there is a local webserver Apache running on my network which provides large media files to clients as downloads... the problem that when clients downloads the download speed they get is ranging from 400kbps to 1.5 mbps .. both in rush hour off hours . How many are DLing at the same time? this could be the issue. Since they network is 10/100...10mb=1.5MB and 100mb=15MB. WIth that said 15MB / 15 = 1MB per person if all are DLing at 1MB at the same time. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] OT tunning network
Well that depends on the time but i have tried on a single clients connection also .. on which i get 1.5 mbps max What you checked the duplex mode the client(s) and server is(are) at? In windows i have seen it make a huge difference. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0
I thought this would have been a required package to be installed by default but its not installed. I have been browsing through my RH security book Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed Kabir. I was actually going through the RH8 security section on NFS and it pointed to securing portmon which pointed to tcpwrappers. I then looked in the book to find more detailed info than what i was finding on websites about NFS/tcpwrappers and it showed that xinetd should be compiled running the configure script with --with-libwrap=/usr/libwrap.a. So i looked for the file libwrap.a to see if it was installed and no it was not. I then looked to check to see if tcpd (tcpwrappers) was installed and no it was not. I was wondering why this was so. Any thoughts? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] RAID10 vs RAID0+1 vs RAID1+0
go to Adaptec.com. They are the best resource for raid info. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of gikoreno Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] RAID10 vs RAID0+1 vs RAID1+0 Hey everyone, Could someone explain to me the advantages and disadvantages of RAID10 vs RAID0+1 vs RAID1+0 ? I am about to setup a system that needs high disk IO and also redundancy. Doest Linux support RAID10 or just 0+1 and 1+0? I think I read somewhere that RAID10 was not supported (in the kernel). RAID10: http://www.peripheralstorage.com/snap/raid10.html RAID0+1: http://www.peripheralstorage.com/snap/raid0+1.html Also, what is the difference between doing a setup A like this: hda+hdb in RAID0 = md0 hdc+hdd in RAID0 = md1 md0+md1 in RAID1 = md3 == /var and setup B like this: hda+hdb in RAID1 = md0 hdc+hdd in RAID1 = md1 md0+md1 in RAID0 = md3 == /var Which one is better, and why (latency, throughput, etc)? Thanks a lot in advance gikoreno ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?
The Sony DRU-500A is the best DVD burner out there at the moment, it does both DVD-RW and DVD+RW. I personally own the Ricoh DVD+RW buner but i do not have it on a linux box. The software is what is concerned with Linux, not the burner... X-CD-Roast is the best, then again there was a huge thread on this about a month ago on the newbie list...lasted about 2 weeks. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of stefmit Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 10:50 PM To: ExpertMandrake-List Subject: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!? Could anybody be kind enough as to provide some info/pointers to what could be better suppported in Mandrake or Linux in general out of the followings: http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_writers.shtml#The%2 0Best%20of%20the%20Best! Are there any others higher quality DVD writers, not included above, that you have had good experience with, in regards to Linux (MDK in principal)? Thx, Stef P.S. I am not that much interested in copying movies and the likes, as much as backing up my systems on high capacity media ... besides making a home copy of my beloved DVDs from the monthly UK Linux Format magazine, that I receive at the office :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] adding scsi tape drive
FYI, Dell Linux mailing lists are really good reading for this type of thing. The reason why i say this is b/c this is 50% of the discussion on them. How i know? I used to be in Linux Server Support. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
Yea, I just didn't like the look and feel. I tried it. I even imported all my data and worked with it for awhile. Old habits die hard I guess. :) Ah, ye, it looks a little Winbloz 3.1 to me. Its supposedly the best one for linux. You might try using Quicken under Wine. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Checking out the 2.4.19-16mdk kernel?
I meant he should be using the newer kernel. Upgrade, then get the source for the newer one to do what he wants to do. Sorry for the lack of clarity, I was tired. Ah, cool. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] XFS support
I was wondering which version of XFS support i should use. I have read somewhere that MDK 8.1 had XFS support in it and has ever since. I have recently come accross a patch that is directly from the SGI XFS drivers at ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ig/ccd/enhanced_loopback Does anyone have any comment on MDK XFS support or have used these files from nasa.gov site? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?
This info i have also seen in the Samba Pocket reference book from O'rreilly. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Stevenson Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs? hide dot files = yes veto files /^.*/ Couple this with the Windows Explorer setting. Make sure you run the latest version of Samba as there was an issue with the veto files token not working correctly. David. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. Grant Sent: 10 February 2003 15:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs? Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it! Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Checking out the 2.4.19-16mdk kernel?
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:36 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I have dounloaded the source code for the 9.0 kernel, and I am wondering what was set for its compiling. You should upgrade to 2.4.19-24 first. But to answer the last sentence in this paragraph...what was set for the compilation?? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
Any chance you have Microsoft money working? Codeweaver couldn't make it work.. If I could get either Microsoft money working or find a simple money manager for linux I liked, I'd be 98% free of microsoft. At home anyways. Have you looked at GnuCash??? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Checking out the 2.4.19-16mdk kernel?
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:36 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I have dounloaded the source code for the 9.0 kernel, and I am wondering what was set for its compiling. You should upgrade to 2.4.19-24 first. Why should he install a newer kernel before an older kernel? How would that have been possible when the older kernel version came out before the newer kernel? Reverse evolution? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?
Go here. Its #5. http://www.faqchest.com/linux/samba-l/smb-00/smb-0011/smb00110910_17247.html This was the 2nd to last link on a search on google for samba hide hidden...FYI from an email Searching 101. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs? On Monday 10 Feb 2003 3:52 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it! I had the same feeling, but couldn't find it. Trust me - if you go into the folder properties and unselect 'show hidden file' all will be well. I had to do that :) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Announcement of Linux Terminal server with MDK 9.0 - HOWTO
Cool, thanks for the info. It seems neat and i will play with it soonplaying with UML now, hehe. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wolfgang Bornath Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 6:33 AM To: Experts Subject: [expert] Announcement of Linux Terminal server with MDK 9.0 - HOWTO As we are dealing with experts here it may interest some of those. I found this in the Mandrake Linux newsgroup: Subject: [Announcement] Linux Terminal Server + MDK 9.0 - HOWTO Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:45:04 GMT All, I've successfully deployed LTSP with a MDK 9.0 server. I kept notes of the process and I turned it into a small HOWTO. The guys at LTSP.org have added it to their website. If interested, check it out here: http://ltsp.org/contrib/MDK90-LTSP.html Soon, I'll have Catalan and Spanish versions of the same document. Enjoy! Salut, Sinner -- http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/ Linux User # 89976 Testing Mandrake 9.0 -Linux Machine # 38068 - wobo -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Setting up firewall
Ye, FTP install. But you will still need a monitor connected to it to install it. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vahur Lokk Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 7:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Setting up firewall Hello! Plan is simple - to set up a firewall. It will probably also serve as mailserver later. It has no cdrom and preferably no monitor. Is it possible to do all the install from the cd-s on my workstation, without touching the box under my desk? Sorry, I remember vaguely having seen similar thread either here or in newbie but could not find it in archives. All the RTFM links welcome :-)) Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] drakbackup
So true. This is coming from when i did Server Support for Dell. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Schroeder Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] drakbackup From: Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] You just scared me to death. I had no problem reding the tapes to restore some files from time to time (when a user deleted them by mistake), but I guess murphy's law applies here: in case of disaster the tape won't be readable :-( Absolutely! That's the one thing you can be sure of. The tape always works, until the disaster. But the one time you realy need it, no go. It has happened to me too. Brian _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] ip rules help
what the heck it is? I've never heard of it, but i only get three lines returned when I issue the command. man ip Basically it is the commands to utilize the IP Route utility built into the kernel or applied to... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] ksensors dependaces
If you go to rpmfind.net and do a search for libGLcore.so.1 it will bring up the package that it is included in. You can pick the package you want from there. Anything endign in a .so is a library, i believe, anyone correct me if i am wrong. Seems to be part of the nVidia driver packages. You can also do a serach in http://rpm.pbone.net/ and it will also bring up the packages. pbone will allow you to DL files that are NOT supposed to be in the USlike DVD copying libraries and such. Have fun. http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libGLcore.so.1submit=Sea rch+... The 3 dots are part of the link. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Evaristo Ferrari Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] ksensors dependaces Hi,I'm tring to install ksensors but got dependance error on libGLcore.so.1. I've looked around the MDK9 cds but didn't found anything. Can someone tell me what's wrong? TIA Evaristo -- Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] drakbackup
If I might add. If you use cases (and it's a good idea) make sure that they are fire and water proof... I just had some survers go under water and the backups survived because the cases where water tight. What kind of cases are you using? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates
90% of the server apps are on the Desktop install anyway. Correct? Like Apache, Sendmail, etc. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of et Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates On Thursday 06 February 2003 03:38 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 06:15, et wrote: I have noticed that Redhat, and M$ has lately published listing reguardiing expected support cycles, and all of them are shorter than what most people expect for manufactured products, but this is the way of things, and even more so with computers, since the hardware is planned to be obsolete in 3 to 4 years anyway. This is the sweet spot I'm talking about IF support cycles matched hardware life it would be IMHO a better proposition. In other words doing support life by series not by release. The the life cycle of the series would more closely match the life of the hardware. The problem now is to hit the sweet spot in Corporate world in such a way that they want/need MDK's support and are willing to pay for it! Product life cycle is cool. I still feel it's a little short. James the real problem (from my narrow little pinhole viewpoint) is the need for applications needing all the computing power available. while most companies got P3 M$ windows boxes, they still use them to emmulate access to a termanel off the server, or run word. stuff they could have done with the wyse monochrom termanal they threw away to have pretty colors. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I would like to see a free support and a paid for support level that is extended, but that seems to be what they tried to do... support th server series longer than the desktop series. that said, I firmly believe the powerpack makes for a damn sweet serveer too, that can fillin as a desktop when needed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates
I totally agree with this. WHY WHY WHY? well then again security issues and updates and features Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Rankin Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates Well, I think the end of life stuff sucks. Yes, it's inevitable, but it still sucks. I for one haven't upgraded my 7.2 server (other than applying patches) since it was installed. Why? Answer: It works, It works, It works! It is inefficient to think about spending 3-5 days of a backup, HD format, re-install, reconfigure, reload, test, (fix what used to work, but now for some reason unexplained doesn't), QA and harden a new server when the one you have provides 100% of what you need (and believe me 7.2 is widely installed and has few shortcommings) So no, I don't repave each time a got to have a number larger than RH release comes out. If their is a needed capability that is offered in the new release, then I would. However, ssh, apache, php, mysql, pptpd, ipsec, samba (no XP clients), BIND 8, and the rest still work just fine under 7.2. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 - Original Message - From: Mark Chou [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:44 PM Subject: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates Now that Mandrake has announced their product end-of-life policy (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/productlifetime.php3), I really need a sustainable upgrade strategy. I've always struggled with rpm updates, basically downloadling source rpms and building them myself. Mandrake package dependencies also happen to be particularly 'unkempt,' often includes things that really aren't necessary. My most important MDK box, a gateway/firewall, is still basically MDK8.0 (console only). What do most of you do to keep your machines up to date with necessary features and security updates? Do you pretty much re-pave each time for a newer MDK distro, or do you build your own from sources? Any time-saving hints, like rsync, etc, which would save download time? What are the best practices? - --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates
As sad as it is to me,, I will probably swap to redhat or debian for servers in future, because a reload every 18 months is alittle to much for me.. we have 20 servers in our system.. and thats alot of work, not to mention that I have setup many small business's with mandrake 8.1/8.1 and 9.0 boxes... all of which don't have a long lifespan ahead.. RH Advanced Server is released every 18 months, desktop releases are every 6 monthsjust FYI if you dont want to update every 18 months, good luck on it. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] fyi, new gnome 2.2 is out, lots of cool updates
Gnome 2.2 Released GNOMEPosted by timothy on Wednesday February 05, @03:44PM from the dadburn-that-slippery-gnome dept. heydrick writes This message confirms that Gnome 2.2 is officially released. And a month ahead of the originally planned six-month release cycle. Check out the Gnome 2.2 Start Page and use a mirror to download. http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2/ ( Read More... | 228 of 375 comments ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Load Balancing, windows style more or less
Win2k Load Balancing uses a virtual IP address for all systems that you want to load balance with (multicasting?). Basically i have to 3 systems running win2k server that i want to move to linux/unix. Is there away to do this? All the info i have seen for multicasting is easily 4 years old for *nix. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] supermount
Yes. Supermount is evil. This is the first thing i disable after an install. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SainTiss Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:58 AM To: MDKexpert Mailing Subject: [expert] supermount hi, I've just installed the kernel update, and enabled supermount, but when I insert a cdrom, it still doesn't mount automatically did I miss something here? Thanks Hans -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Hans Schippers 1LIC INF UIA 2002-2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] supermount
Anne, am in a good mood nowhehe. My problems is that when i want to eject the cdrom i cant do it b/c it auto mounts with supermount when i told it not to. Also certain apps require cdrom NOT mounted...then supermount takes command, AAA. This is just my frustration with it, doesnt really cause a problem, just frustration. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] supermount On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:37 pm, SainTiss wrote: Well, I reasoned that way too when I first installed 9.0, but the docs of the kernel-updates specifically mention supermount as being rewritten and fixed... There must be some oddity about supermount, though. It works beautifully on my box, yet others have endless problems. Of course, it may be that other customisation/choices are affecting it - don't know about that. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] supermount
Mine with supermount -i disable used after install. /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,node v 0 0 Yes, i have an all scsi system. If it were IDE it would be /dev/hdb or hdc or something. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] supermount On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:41 pm, SainTiss wrote: I enabled supermount through the MDK control center, but this is what I got in fstab now: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noau to,users 0 0 Mine is none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,u mask=0 0 0 Maybe that 'user' is significant? It certainly works for me. I'm not sure what the -- is doing there, so I tried removing it, but to no avail... I couldn't figure that one out either. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] supermount
I dont remember, its been awhile since i have used supermount. Once i started having the probs a few months ago i disabled supermount after reading an article somewhere stating that it has been badly written or something to that effect that it is a non-worthy app. Personally i would not like it automounted, i even disabled autofs when MDK used it. So i just do use any automounting features anymore. If i want something mounted at boot then i put it into /etc/fstab or into another script to mount it on boot up or something. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] supermount On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:50 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: My problems is that when i want to eject the cdrom i cant do it b/c it auto mounts with supermount when i told it not to. Tell me more - you're umounting from c/l I take it? I have noticed that sometimes it can get picky (I'm normally in gui mode) if anything is reading the directory tree and may be reading the cds directory also. That just means that I have to be careful that I have no Kinq windows or terminals that might by using it - no prob once I realised. Also certain apps require cdrom NOT mounted...then supermount takes command, AAA. This is just my frustration with it, doesnt really cause a problem, just frustration. Yes - I thought of experimenting with udf, but for that I would have to get rid of supermount, I think. In fact, I wouldn't think I could use auto mode either. Haven't entirely thought it through yet, but I would think my only option is to mount/umount from c/l every time. I'm hanging fire on this one. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] supermount
Didn't help either, but thanks for the tip... this is what I did to get it working: 1) upgrade kernel and reboot 2) enable supermount in MDK CC 3) check that supermount is loaded with lsmod 4) put a cd in the cd-player 5) wait and see nothing happen 6) cd /mnt/cdrom2 and nothing happens... Is the application able to autoplay a cd upon insertion? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] drakbackup
Also look at the media the drive supports. I had a SF 8x burner that was VERY specific on which it would burn on...not in the documentation. Though it was the 1st 8x burner out on consumer level in the US. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tibbetts, Ric Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] drakbackup civileme wrote: Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive barfs on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0 DO NOT USE CDRW media for this either--most of it is 650 and there are MANY supposed CDRW drives which will not work with CDRW media of the more modern flavor or insist on trying to treat all the CDRW media as 700Mb capacity. Civileme Interesting that you should mention this. I have been trying to backup a directory full of mp3 files to a CD-RW. They just REFUSE to write/recover properly. I can backup the rest of the system with no problem, but not those mp3's. IT may be yet another case of CD-RW problems.(?). I may try burning them to a CD-R ... But I've got a pile of coasters now... I will probably just invest in a spindle of 100 of them, get it over with. Also, I tried writing the latest beta iso to a CD-RW. But nooo.. The CD-RW drive is new, as are the disks. They burn ok, but if I move the CD to the other (older) drive, and try to boot the box from it.. No go. I can't even mount them on that drive. If I burn the ISOs to a CD-R, all works like it should. I bought the CD-RW's thinking Great for temp storage. But no.. I've had far too many problems with them. I wish I had my DAT Drive with me. Can't beat tape for backups. :) Sadly, it's in my server in Seattle, and I'm STILL stuck in Florida... sigh... Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates
The problem is the software manufacturers/programmers TRY to use ALL avail resources the HW can supportincluding what the languages they are writing in. If we could still create programs based on HW that is 5 years old using programming languages (real ones like C/C++/Java, Basic, early versions of VBno c# or .NET, etc) then the world would be a better place. This is of course in my opinion which i have dabbled in everything EXCEPT MS languageswont even go there. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of et Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates I have noticed that Redhat, and M$ has lately published listing reguardiing expected support cycles, and all of them are shorter than what most people expect for manufactured products, but this is the way of things, and even more so with computers, since the hardware is planned to be obsolete in 3 to 4 years anyway. the real problem (from my narrow little pinhole viewpoint) is the need for applications needing all the computing power available. while most companies got P3 M$ windows boxes, they still use them to emmulate access to a termanel off the server, or run word. stuff they could have done with the wyse monochrom termanal they threw away to have pretty colors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Load balancer
If you would have read the archives i just asked this question 3 times this week and got the LVS suggestion. Have fun Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Belkie, Dan Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:35 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] Load balancer Hey guys! Is anyone using a Linux box with software as a load balancer between 2 web servers? If so what software? I have been looking and have found: http://www.turbolinux.com/products/tcs/index.html http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ Any comments? Thanks in advance. Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] MDK9 with Apache 2 with Load Balancing
This is in my home. I dont have $20k to do this. I work on BigIP at workDell Storage Support at HQ in Austin. I just want to load balance port 80 mainly. I think i found a way to do this. http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/ Thanks tho. Rob What's doing the load balancing? A dedicated hardware device such as BigIP? Or are you going to use round robin DNS to do it? Or custom firewall using ipvsadm? Or other? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
There are presently 180 9.0-update RPMs.I would have installed about one third, so you must see that I would not be prepared to conduct the enormous amount of research to find out which, and then possibly to discover it is not one but some combination. That's inescapably Mandrake's job. N'est ce pas? It is...YES. BUT, if you know Linux, there are NO TWO LINUX BOXES THE SAME, including installations. An installation one day can be different the nexttrust me, i have had this happen. Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can we fix it? You presume too much. Tell us what got clobbered. My 9.0 machines, with all updates applied, are rock solid. I agree, i have NOT had any problems with any of the updates at all. I have only had a minor issue with gurpmi that was on the newbie list in Jan and is fixed, then again after i got it fixed i reinstalled since i updated/installed too many PLF progs. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
Then let all go with the new VIA ITX MB's and we will all be fine. FYI, 933mhz embedded proc with everything included (www.viatech.com) is $120 on pricewatch.com...complete system for less than $400. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!! On Monday 03 Feb 2003 12:27 pm, tarvid wrote: I am convinced that hardware is a factor in many bug reports. If bug reports included motherboard/CPU/diskdrive we might spot a correlation in a matter of weeks. I think this bears more investigation. I have a feeling that motherboard based problems have increased recently, and wonder if there is any correlation with the increased weight of heat sinks and fans required for high powered processors, and the inevitable extra strain on the supporting mobo. Seems to me that since mobos normally stand upright these days the strain must be great. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK9 with Apache 2 with Load Balancing
What are the options of doing this? MDK9 with Apache 2 with Load Balancing I have 4-Win2k boxes doing this now with IIS but i want to convert it to Linux/BSD or some form there of. Any thoughts? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE and Gnome, working together following RH8
Slashdot posting KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines GNU is Not UnixPosted by timothy on Monday February 03, @02:35PM from the which-is-smart dept. An anonymous reader submits Competing infrastructures may foster improvement in each desktop, but the Gnome and KDE hackers still know how to work together when needed. The Free *nix desktop has been improving quickly. Red Hat's unified desktop was controversial, but obviously the right decision for regular users. Now that KDE and Gnome have decided to combine their Human Interface Guides, it can be done right--by the developers themselves. Note: they also want to involve 'people working on other non-KDE non-GNOME HIGs.' Update: 02/03 20:19 GMT by T: Apparently not everyone's browser can read http://freedesktop.org, so the initial link up there now sports a www as well. And it's .org -- sorry. ( Read More... | 179 of 251 comments ) - Personally i think KDE is too much like a cartoon, another reason why i wont touch WinXP not to mention MS and security. I love Gnome in MDK9. i just wish some of the apps in KDE were usable in Gnome, then again i havent tried them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
110% of the WiFi drivers/updates have been put into the 2.5.x kernel, you can patch the 2.4.x kernel and still work finei have. But WiFi is a new technology that is not even finalized yet. The companies through the HW out to users without ANY of the standards to be completedeven for Winblows. BUT you can still patch the 2.4 and still work fine, it just takes for effort. I personally havent done the 2.5 yet. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus Atrebates Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1 On Sunday 02 February 2003 05:03 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue I have wireless working OK with 8.2 and 9.0 (though 9.0 was a struggle). I use, on my IBM Thinkpad 1412 (old celeron 366 system), currently MDK 8.2 with a Zoomair wireless card (prism2) that has worked perfectly with both the linux-wlan-ng driver and my personal preference, the hostap driver which lets it also act as an access point (works well). On my desktop, I currently have 9.0 running with kernel 2.4.18 from 8.2 (I rebuilt it from source) and have a WUSB11 v2.6 usb device using the Atmel driver. It is working fine right now and has for days. I AM afraid to shutdown the system because I am not certain that when it comes back up that the USB wireless will still be working (what an ordeal). Neither system locks up nor loses connectivity. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
Another thing that has been done/updated to the 2.5 kernel. You guys do NOT know how to do your research and are requiring things NOW that is almost impossible to do overnight. Most companies have not given their HW specs to open source programmers and therefore have to reverse engineer and take apart windows items in order to get it to even be possible on Linux. Unfortunately I understand where you guys are coming from. Especially on WiFi...which i have been learning for the last 6+ months and up until about 2 months it changed almost weekly. Havent dealt with USB yet since i have been semi unemployed for a while to buy new equipment but most of this has been completed in 2.5 and semi backported to 2.4. Rob -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason GreenwoodSent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 4:34 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1I agree 100%. The other thing that MUST work well is USB and hotplugging. I will not go into my trials and experiences here but suffice it to say that as of 9.0 USB detection needed some help. I KNOW this is partially due to hardware vendors not always following standard USB protocols (eg USB Mass Storage Protocol) but if we can anticipate and compensate for this then Mandrake WILL become the distro of choice for desktop users. USB is becoming much more common, especially on laptops and this is one area where Linux can/must do better.I have gotten a USB external sony memory stick reader/writer to work great on mdk 9.0 but NOTHING else. (ok, a USB mouse but that doesn't count ;) The reader workd out of the box just by plugging it in and I was totally overjoyed but then was dismayed when NONE of my other USB peripherals worked the same way.My .0002c worth.CheersJason GreenwoodJames Sparenberg wrote: All, soapbox Laptops are the fastest selling sector of the hardware world. More and more people are replacing there older desktop with a laptop. MDK is far and away the most user friendly of the Linux distro's, with unified menu's and no removal of user choice ala RH and blew. (One exception noted here http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=3873forum=2 ) The one point that is an extreme weakness for all the distro's and should be a natural for MDK is with laptops. I for one have been struggling mightily with wirelss for 2 weeks. Still haven't gottne it to work right been through 4 cards ... have given up on cardbus ... down graded to 8.0 and now have a 16 bit pcmcia netgear MA401RA working... for up to 20 seconds before a hard lockup. I've googled till I'm blue in the face and I keep coming up with people talking about not being able to get wireless working in MDK and switching to SuSe or RH. OK I'm a stubborn cuss. If it will work in SuSe or RH it's got to be able to work in MDK. To the men and women of MDK. If you want to stand head ans shoulders above the crowd this is a place where you are uniquely enabled to do just this. It shouldn't be this hard. If I can click on an Icon and create a self mounting samba share (and I can!) this should be doable. Maybe in in the connection Wizard some recognition of wireless? How about keeping a database of info to insert in /etc/pcmcia/config for cards you don't have (I've got some already to include here.) A place where one of the more knowledgeable members can create a HowTo for wireless. ( the current howto in the ldp is limited to RH 6.2) Not everyone is running a PIV 4ghz with 1 gig of ram and dual NVidia cards on a desktp system. /soapbox trip Fall flat on face getting off soapbox. /trip James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. Ye, no joke. I wasnt meaning to be bash anyone. It is because of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where supported under the 2.2 kernel! Now you state which kernel you were using, would have been helpful earlier. so ... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit (isa compat not PCI bus) A Cisco card and a Netgear MA401. I'm not asking for 802.11G I'm asking for 802.11a and b... the old standards. Technology wise 802.11b is still new, 11g has NO standards whatso ever at the moment and looks to be another standarization like 11b...5 million of them. Most of all I'm asking for a forum maybe in MDK forum or MDK Club (Club does have the concept of moving people to join.) I would totally agree. There are so many HOWTO's for wifi its not even funny and some work and some do not, some are even WAY TOO OLD. that is a dedicated forum for sharing data and how to info. Also some kind of awareness in MCC of wireless and pcmcia cards not just PCI nic's. I agree, RH 7.3 had this and its a year old. As for how long it takes I'm aware of that as well. BUT if we keep waiting until M$ does it first before we attack the problem we'll always be #2 on the desktop. I agree. The problem is the HW companies wont release the specs to opensource unless they pay royalties so we have to wait to RE the Windows drivers to understand the HW. Atleast this is how it was a while back, dont know about now. How fast do you thing people would move to Linux if it where the better laptop OS? It already is. I am personally still running Win2k as my main OS. BUT this is only b/c i have a XP 2k+ on my win2k compared to all scsi p3-450 on my linux box. Then again i am too used to windows. I am in the transition period though. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [Fwd: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0]
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php (Yep plf to the rescue!) THIS SITE IS WONDERFUL. I actually found it this morning before it was posted to the group. I loved it. There are only a few sites that dont work that are listed thought. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
My two cents on where Linux in general and Mandrake specifically needs to go for modern laptops is full ACPI support, cpufreq or similar, and swsusp or an ACPI-based suspend. It's kind of annoying to have to halt and restart a laptop instead of suspend and awaken it. These are Linux issues though, the code is changing quickly and it'll be a few revisions into 2.6 before it's stable. MDK 9.2 should rock. As far as suspension...I just power my MDK9 laptop off (no shutdown or anything) and it comes back up with no problem, then again that is EXT3 working. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1
BTW how is win2000 never tried it Usaability, a monkey can use/admin it easily. Security, its a M$ product, security?...HAHA. I used to run it as my desktop (Win2k Server) but then i bought an ATI 7500 AIW and the TV Tuner software would NOT install on a Server b/c of Terminal Services. Their explanation is it is not legal to export live audio/video, BUT it worked fine over VNC, HEHE. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
With all this talk...everyone needs to watch George O'Carlins comedy on the 10 Commandments. It is the most truthful thing i have ever heard. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wolfgang Bornath Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow? On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 14:48 +0800, Franki wrote: Also, I am not a yank, I'm Australian, but IF the US are telling the truth.. then hell yes, we should overthrow saddam.. and for once we should do it BEFORE a tragedy occurs, not after.. That's the point! IF the US are telling the truth. So far there is no hard evidence that they do. And since they tried to present a poor Kuweit girl who swore to have seen Iraqi soldiers kill babies in a Kuweit hospital and turned out to be the daughter of a diplomat and has never been near this hospital in her whole life, I have a more sceptical view of the so-called proofs of the US information services. IF there is hard evidence for what Mr. Bush claims is true I'll be the first to stand up and say GO! wobo -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
