[expert] rpmdrake and cd media
Rpmdrake seems to have lost the CD media entries for package installation. This happened after I added media for mandrake club. How can I get them back? Do I have to add them from scratch? -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #270415 Discipline your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying. (Proverbs 19:18) 11:22:13 up 1 day, 21:04, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.08, 0.02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IPTABLES
I have been trying to get iptables set up on my gateway machine, but it isn't working like I think it should. I have the following entry in the rc.firewall script to block incoming SYN packets: EXT_IF=ppp0 IPTABLES=//sbin/iptables $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXT_IF -p tcp ! --syn -j ACCEPT yet ethereal shows these getting through: Source port: 1302 (1302) Destination port: 135 (135) Sequence number: 2684291305 Header length: 28 bytes Flags: 0x0002 (SYN) 0... = Congestion Window Reduced (CWR): Not set .0.. = ECN-Echo: Not set ..0. = Urgent: Not set ...0 = Acknowledgment: Not set 0... = Push: Not set .0.. = Reset: Not set ..1. = Syn: Set ...0 = Fin: Not set I also have the following: $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXT_IF -p tcp --dport 135 -s 0.0.0.0/0 -j DROP which should block packets detined for port 135, but also seems ineffective. What might be the problem? The above is just a snippet from the rc.firewall script. I can post it in its entirety if that would help. -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #270415 The fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it shall abide in satisfaction; he will not be visited with evil. (Proverbs 19:23) 20:45:47 up 3 days, 11:00, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] create fat32 file system
At 03:45 PM 6/17/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i remember correctly, fat32 has a 4gb limitation no it is not true. He may be thinking of the 4GB file size limit for fat32. David Hlacik 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] Re: aic79xx
On Monday 02 June 2003 09:35 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: Thomas Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 01 June 2003 04:01 am, R N dev wrote: I have adaptec ava 2904, and it works well the driver used is for aic7xxx. hope it helps This is an ultra 320 adapter, more akin to a 39320-R dual channel. It requires the aic79xx drivers. Apparently no other Mandrake users have encountered them yet or at least Mandrake doesn't intend to make an updated image for a boot floppy that will allow 9.1 to be installed on these systems. I'm in the process of rebuilding my MDK 9.1 boot disks that you can find at: http://www.iki.fi/tmb/9.1/, and will post the updated disks in the next couple of days... (originally they were supposed to be there a couple of weeks ago, but due to some discussions/disagreements on the vesafb problem, I have delayed them, but now I have decided how I'll do it...) And they will have the following patches applied: - vesa framebuffer fix for graphic cards with 64MB RAM - updated aic7xxx / added aic79xx scsi support - xfs filesystem with acl - nforce2 ide udma/133 Ahh, this is great! I'll watch for it. I knew it was possible to roll your own, but I have neither the time nor the required skill/experience to do so. Thnaks Best Regards Thomas Backlund -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #270415 Commit your works unto the Lord, and your thoughts shall be established. (Proverbs 16:3) 16:51:17 up 9 days, 23:55, 9 users, load average: 1.02, 1.03, 1.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] aic79xx
On Sunday 01 June 2003 04:01 am, R N dev wrote: I have adaptec ava 2904, and it works well the driver used is for aic7xxx. hope it helps This is an ultra 320 adapter, more akin to a 39320-R dual channel. It requires the aic79xx drivers. Apparently no other Mandrake users have encountered them yet or at least Mandrake doesn't intend to make an updated image for a boot floppy that will allow 9.1 to be installed on these systems. Interestingly, RedHat did include support in their 9.0 release and as I said, the adapters have been around since the latter part of last year. I'm puzzed as to why Mandrake didn't include support in 9.1 since drivers were available. By the time they get around to providing support (their next release will probably be October), the hardware will have been out for about a year. As it is, I may have to put RedHat on this system (or get an older adapter card and not use the onboard adapter) in order to use it. Angelo --- Thomas Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a patched boot disk image with this driver available that will allow me to install 9.1 on system with a Tyan S7469UGH (thunder K7 pro) mb? I'm a bit surprised that 9.1 doesn't support this given that the adaptec aic7902 chip set has been out since late last year. -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #270415 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths. (Proverbs 3:5,6) 19:24:09 up 7 days, 2:29, 9 users, load average: 1.02, 1.07, 1.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #270415 Commit your works unto the Lord, and your thoughts shall be established. (Proverbs 16:3) 08:59:22 up 8 days, 16:03, 9 users, load average: 1.02, 1.02, 1.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] aic79xx
Is there a patched boot disk image with this driver available that will allow me to install 9.1 on system with a Tyan S7469UGH (thunder K7 pro) mb? I'm a bit surprised that 9.1 doesn't support this given that the adaptec aic7902 chip set has been out since late last year. -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #270415 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths. (Proverbs 3:5,6) 19:24:09 up 7 days, 2:29, 9 users, load average: 1.02, 1.07, 1.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xscreensaver questions
On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:53 pm, David Relson Pontificated: Hi, I have xscreensaver configured to randomly pick a new screensaver every 5 minutes and I have two questions. 1 - Some of the screensavers are very, very nice. Is there any way to determine which screensaver is being run? If a record was kept to a /tmp file or a logfile, that'd be fine by me. 2 - Sometimes a screensaver doesn't exist or bombs. Is there any way to make xscreensaver smart enough to not run that one ever again? Thanks. David Run xscreensaver-demo and set the mode to 'Random Screen Saver'. Deselect any screensavers you don't want to run. -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (Proverbs 18:21) Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp, Uptime: 5 days 23 hours 2 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xscreensaver questions
On Friday 12 April 2002 08:16 am, David Relson Pontificated: At 09:00 AM 4/12/02, you wrote: On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:53 pm, David Relson Pontificated: Hi, I have xscreensaver configured to randomly pick a new screensaver every 5 minutes and I have two questions. 1 - Some of the screensavers are very, very nice. Is there any way to determine which screensaver is being run? If a record was kept to a /tmp file or a logfile, that'd be fine by me. 2 - Sometimes a screensaver doesn't exist or bombs. Is there any way to make xscreensaver smart enough to not run that one ever again? Thanks. David Run xscreensaver-demo and set the mode to 'Random Screen Saver'. Deselect any screensavers you don't want to run. -- Thomas, Through GnomeControlCenter's Screensaver icon, I had previously encountered xscreensaver-demo. I had thought of it as the xscreensaver configurator and hadn't known it was separate from the Control Center. I appreciate the additional info. However, I'm still looking for some sort of history info so I can easily tell which screensaver was run. It may be possible to redirect xscreensaver's messages to /var/log/messages, but Im not sure. At any rate, I don't know how you would do that. Sorry. -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (Proverbs 18:21) Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp, Uptime: 6 days 8 hours 49 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] HP scanjet 7400c
Has anyone successfully installed this scanner? I checked the mandrake hardware compatibility list and it's not listed as either supported or unsupported. So far I have been unsuccessful in getting it recognized as a USB scanner. The sane frontend/backend/xsane packages are all installed and I did read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/scanner-hp-sane.txt and scanner.txt. I haven't tried connecting it as SCSI yet. If anyone has managed to get it to work, I'd appreciate some tips on how you did it. Im using Mdk 8.2. Thanks -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6) Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp, Uptime: 3 days 2 hours 9 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kdm wierdness in 8.2
On Sunday 07 April 2002 09:49 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 06:47, Thomas Gamble wrote:
On Friday 05 April 2002 11:28 pm, Damian wrote:
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 02:51, Ric Tibbetts escribió:
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 16:07, Thomas Gamble wrote:
Since upgrading to 8.2 I have noticed that changes to the login
manager don't stick. In particular, changing 'Show Users' to
'None'. After a couple of login cycles this reverts back to 'All
but no show'. I've seen this same bahavior on three separate
installations of MDK8.2 all clean installs. It seems as though a
script is running somewhere that regenerates the
/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file, but I've been unsuccessful in
finding anything. Editing this file directly has the same result.
Has anyone else had this problem, and have you found a solution?
It's not just kdm. I'm having exactly the same problem with gdm. I
thought it was just me.
Anyone have a fix yet? Or at least a cause?
Thanks!
Ric
possible cause: security level? just wondering...
It turns out this is exactly the cause.
In particular, it is related to the msec script that gets run from both
/etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.hourly. This script is a link to
/usr/share/msec/security.sh which calls /usr/share/msec/msec.py. msec.py
tests for security levels and makes corrections to certain system setting
based on the current level setting.
The following code snippet from /usr/share/msec/msec.py appears to be the
offender:
if level = 4:
set_user_umask('077')
set_shell_history_size(10)
allow_root_login(0)
enable_sulogin(1)
allow_user_list(0)
enable_promisc_check(1)
accept_icmp_echo(0)
accept_bogus_error_responses(0)
allow_reboot(0)
enable_at_crontab(0)
if level == 4:
password_aging(60, 30)
else:
password_aging(30, 15)
else:
set_user_umask('022')
set_shell_history_size(-1)
allow_root_login(1)
enable_sulogin(0)
allow_user_list(1)
enable_promisc_check(0)
accept_icmp_echo(1)
accept_bogus_error_responses(1)
allow_reboot(1)
enable_at_crontab(1)
password_aging(9)
The call to 'allow_user_lists(1)' in the 'else' portion is the problem.
This has the result of forcing the 'ShowUsers' setting in kdmrc to 'All'.
Commenting this line out fixes the problem and still allows higher
security level settings to force 'ShowUsers' to 'None'. This script also
affects similar settings in gdm (I believe it's the 'Browser' setting)and
this change should fix that as well.
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
I found that alternate to commenting out the allow_user_list(1) entry,
simply changing the value to (0) worked as well.
Thanks again, for solving an annoying problem!
Ric
No worries. Commenting the line out restores control to the KDM and GDM
configuration dialogs for the lower security levels, while changing the value
from 1 to 0 forces that setting regarless of what you do in the configuration
dialogs. But, the end result is the important part as long as you know where
the changes are being made.
Cheers
--
Thomas K. Gamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge,
but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
(Proverbs 12:1)
Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp, Uptime: minutes.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
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Re: [expert] kdm wierdness in 8.2
On Friday 05 April 2002 11:28 pm, Damian wrote:
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 02:51, Ric Tibbetts escribió:
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 16:07, Thomas Gamble wrote:
Since upgrading to 8.2 I have noticed that changes to the login manager
don't stick. In particular, changing 'Show Users' to 'None'. After a
couple of login cycles this reverts back to 'All but no show'. I've
seen this same bahavior on three separate installations of MDK8.2 all
clean installs. It seems as though a script is running somewhere that
regenerates the /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file, but I've been
unsuccessful in finding anything. Editing this file directly has the
same result. Has anyone else had this problem, and have you found a
solution?
It's not just kdm. I'm having exactly the same problem with gdm. I
thought it was just me.
Anyone have a fix yet? Or at least a cause?
Thanks!
Ric
possible cause: security level? just wondering...
It turns out this is exactly the cause.
In particular, it is related to the msec script that gets run from both
/etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.hourly. This script is a link to
/usr/share/msec/security.sh which calls /usr/share/msec/msec.py. msec.py
tests for security levels and makes corrections to certain system setting
based on the current level setting.
The following code snippet from /usr/share/msec/msec.py appears to be the
offender:
if level = 4:
set_user_umask('077')
set_shell_history_size(10)
allow_root_login(0)
enable_sulogin(1)
allow_user_list(0)
enable_promisc_check(1)
accept_icmp_echo(0)
accept_bogus_error_responses(0)
allow_reboot(0)
enable_at_crontab(0)
if level == 4:
password_aging(60, 30)
else:
password_aging(30, 15)
else:
set_user_umask('022')
set_shell_history_size(-1)
allow_root_login(1)
enable_sulogin(0)
allow_user_list(1)
enable_promisc_check(0)
accept_icmp_echo(1)
accept_bogus_error_responses(1)
allow_reboot(1)
enable_at_crontab(1)
password_aging(9)
The call to 'allow_user_lists(1)' in the 'else' portion is the problem. This
has the result of forcing the 'ShowUsers' setting in kdmrc to 'All'.
Commenting this line out fixes the problem and still allows higher
security level settings to force 'ShowUsers' to 'None'. This script also
affects similar settings in gdm (I believe it's the 'Browser' setting)and
this change should fix that as well.
--
Thomas K. Gamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge,
but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
(Proverbs 12:1)
Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp, Uptime: minutes.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kdm wierdness in 8.2
Since upgrading to 8.2 I have noticed that changes to the login manager don't stick. In particular, changing 'Show Users' to 'None'. After a couple of login cycles this reverts back to 'All but no show'. I've seen this same bahavior on three separate installations of MDK8.2 all clean installs. It seems as though a script is running somewhere that regenerates the /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file, but I've been unsuccessful in finding anything. Editing this file directly has the same result. Has anyone else had this problem, and have you found a solution? Thanks -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish. (Proverbs 12:1) Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp, Uptime: minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dial on demand
On Friday 19 October 2001 16:23, you wrote: Hi, I've got LM 8.0 installed. What is the best way to organize dial on demand for several linux/win/mac boxes. Thanks Alex Here's another method that is a bit more work initially, but I find that is works well. As root... In /etc/ppp/peers create a file. Name it for your isp, eg: /etc/ppp/peers/la-tierra. Put the following lines in the file. /dev/modem 115200 crtscts connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat-la-tierra' noauth user yourusername In /etc/ppp create a chat file called chat-isp. Mine is chat-la-tierra. Enter the following: TIMEOUT 40 ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT NO DIALTONE ABORT ERROR ABORT NO ANSWER ABORT BUSY ABORT Username/Password Incorrect ATZ OK ATF1 OK ATDT555 CONNECT replace the 555 with your isp's phone number Modify your /etc/ppp/options file as follows: lock defaultroute 192.168.1.101:192.168.1.102 ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local demand holdoff 5 idle 300 The 'demand' entry is what makes dial-on-demand work. The ip addresses on the third line are dummies and must not exist on your local subnet. If your isp uses PAP or CHAP: Modify your /etc/chap-secrets and /etc/pap-secrets as follows: add the line username * password * If your isp requires a login script(EXPECT SEND pairs), add the script to the end of your chat-isp file. Enter your username and password of course. These entries should be separated by tabs. Both of these files are essentially the same. The permissions for these files should be set to 0600 or pppd will complain. Modify /etc/sysconfig/network change FORWARD_IPV4=false to FORWARD_IPV4=true remove any lines that start with GATEWAY or GATEWAYDEV To start pppd at boot, add the following to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. /usr/sbin/pppd call isp on your other computers, set the gateway entry to the ip of your linux box and the DNS entry to the ip of your isp's DNS server and dial-on-demand should work from any computer on your local subnet without the need for being logged into the Linux box. Much more detail can be found on mandrakeuser.org. This setup makes it fairly easy to reconfigure when upgrading if you back up your /etc directory prior to the upgrade and restore the appropriate files. There is a caveat. You will probably need to install and setup iptables to keep netbios name requests from your windows machines from triggering the dialer. hope this helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
