[expert] NFS-Root disks with Mandrake 8.2?
I have several machines that I would like to be pseudo-diskless. I have no desire to buy a EPROM burner for my NIC's (plus learn the intracies of BOOTP) to make them truly diskless. Having to boot from a NFS-Root floppy that references a central Linux box for it's root partition is good enough. I've searched the 'net and found NFS-Root instructions and scripts for other distributions like Debian. I'd prefer to stick with Mandrake for many reasons (especially since I really like the Mandrake distro). I also looked over the NFS-Root Howto. It's not a typical Howto, it's a management-level overview without any details. My intent was to create 100MB partitions on an existing Mandrake box, and do a mimimal install of Mandrake 8.2 (and probably clone the partitions so that I have one for each client). I would then need a NFS-Root disk (specific to Mandrake?) for each client so that each machine can grab the right root partition from the central server. Has anyone attempted this or can someone give me some specific areas to do more research? I've searched linuxdoc.org and mandrakeuser.org but haven't found enough info to even tell me if I can even do this with a Mandrake distribution. Thanks, Matthew Zaleski Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] small samba issue..
I had similar problems with client locking mechanisms. If you use Webmin to administer your Samba shares: 1)Edit the share 2)Click on the file Permissions button 3)Set the following items - New Unix file mode:0660 - New Unix directory mode: 0770 - Force Unix user: USER - Force Unix group: GROUP - Force Unix file mode: 0660 - Force Unix directory mode: 0770 In the instructions above, replace USER and GROUP with the Linux user and group names you want all of the files to get. These settings will guarantee that all users of the share can read and modify each others files. And you still have security if you use the Valid Users entry under the Security section of the share. Matthew Zaleski Vehicle Dynamics Ford Motor Company -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] small samba issue.. Hi all, I have a little issue I was hoping someone here had some clues for me with... I have setup samba on a clients network.. 2.2.2a and its working just fine.. I created several publically accesable shares, with totally open permissions.. The idea was that since all users need access to these shares and the files contained within.. (they must have read and write access) I put a myob datafile in one share, and a professional accounting package datafile in the other.. I have the same problem with both files.. the myob file is fine, but myob creates a lock file whenever it is accessed.. and that lock file is being created with the owner and group of the person who started myob first.. then all the other uses can't access that lock file because of permissions and as such it will only allow one user to access it at any time.. (since when myob is closed it removes the lock file and a new one can be created for the new user. The accounting package has the same problem, only one user can use it at the same time.. So my question is this... whats the easiest way to make the lock files written totally world readable to all... and ditto with the account packages datafile... Should I make a new group, and make that group the group of the shares, and make all users that need access to it members of that group? or should I just make a shell script that runs every 5 seconds and makes all the files chmod 777. (which I don't want to do for obvious reasons..) can anyone give me any suggestions here??? thanks guys... rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Using 'screen' and 'mc' via telnet
I've got a problem that I haven't been able to resolve on my own. Midnite
Commander (mc) displays correctly with my telnet client. However, if I load
'screen' (see below) first, I get massive text screen corruption. Something
related to cursor control seems to be amiss in "screen"'s video layer.
I am telnetting (from Win2000) into my box from a remote connection. From
there I'm doing massive file copies from a NAS (a Quantum Snap! Server) hard
drive to the Mandrake box's own drive. Because the directory structure is
mixed and the speed of the connection between the Linux box and NAS is slow
(20, I'm using Midnite Commander to tag directories for transfer. I tag a
bunch of directories and it could take 5 or 6 hours to transfer the data. I
need to take my Win2000 laptop from the worksite every nite and the transfer
may not be finished. I remembered a virtual terminal/shell program called
"screen" to allow me to detach the session and leave it running. That way I
could connect at will to the Linux box and check the progress of the
transfer.
Everything is fine if I only run mc with telnet. Linux correctly identifies
the default W2k telnet client as an ANSI terminal complete with color.
Loading "screen" alone also works. I can't even tell that I loaded it (if
you've ever used it, you know what I mean) unless I start using the virtual
terminal's key commands.
Loading mc in a "screen" session is going screwy. By default, mc thinks it
is on a bw terminal. I can force color with a command line switch and then
color works. In either case, the initial screen displays the first 6 or 7
lines correctly, then overprints then next 43 (I'm running a 100x50 telnet
session) on the eighth line. If I cursor down, the real text for the line
in the left or right pane clean up, but the screen is generally a mess. If
I shut down mc, the popup confirmation box displays correctly in the exact
center of the terminal (could this mean my problem is related to printing at
the right edge of the terminal?).
Things I've tried:
- using the refresh command in "screen": First line prints correctly, and
then the remaining lines are all offset by 2 characters to the left as if
someone hit "delete" twice on the second line, causing all subsequent
characters to wrap around.
- using -a or -A option in screen to force either advanced or simple screen
control: no effect
- tried every command line switch related to display in mc: no effect.
I think it has to do with terminal definition sources. I think mc gets it's
info from the etc directory whereas "screen" creates a TERMCAP variable to
define its new virtual terminal.
Any ideas are welcome. I'm now halfway proficient in Linux but don't have a
clue as to how all this terminal stuff works. Any pointers to simple
explanations of the terminal concept in Linux would also be appreciated.
I've included the TERM and TERMCAP entries that are defined when "screen" is
running, since I think this might be the problem.
TERM=screen
TERMCAP='SC|screen|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal:\
:DO=\E[%dB:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:bs:bt=\E[Z:\
:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:ct=\E[3g:\
:do=^J:nd=\E[C:pt:rc=\E8:rs=\Ec:sc=\E7:st=\EH:up=\EM:\
:le=^H:bl=^G:cr=^M:it#8:ho=\E[H:nw=\EE:ta=^I:is=\E)0:\
:li#50:co#100:am:xn:xv:LP:sr=\EM:al=\E[L:AL=\E[%dL:\
:dl=\E[M:DL=\E[%dM:dc=\E[P:DC=\E[%dP:im=\E[4h:ei=\E[4l:\
:mi:IC=\E[%d@:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E:vi=\E[?25l:\
:ve=\E[34h\E[?25h:vs=\E[34l:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[24m:so=\E[3m:\
:se=\E[23m:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:me=\E[m:ms:\
:Co#8:pa#64:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:AX:\
:as=\E(0:ae=\E(B:\
:ac=\140\140aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~..--++,,hhII00:\
:po=\E[5i:pf=\E[4i:k0=\E[10~:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:\
:k4=\EOS:k5=\E[15~:k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:\
:k9=\E[20~:k;=\E[21~:F1=\E[23~:F2=\E[24~:kb=^H:kB=\E[Z:\
:kh=\E[1~:kH=\E[4~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kI=\E[2~:kD=\E[3~:\
:ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:'
TIA,
Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] Civilme: inquiring minds want to know
it is Civileme. You'd need a Turkish phonetic dictionary to get it right and also a mailer capable of seeing (and I'd need a font capable of showing) what appears to be the bottom of a figure 5 attached to the nadir of the C. Maybe I'm dense, but I still don't know how to pronounce it. Any chance you could give us a rough cut on the pronunciation? I've always pronounced it "SIV-ill-ME" which I know is wrong. And the only Turkish girl I knew just flew to Turkey for a 6 month assignment. :-( Matt
RE: [expert] Adaptec 2940UW Mandrake 7.1 7.2 woes!!!
I had similar problems with 7.1. I posted my fix to this list several months ago. Search the archives for Adaptec and IBM. Basically my problem was that Mandrake is using too old of a aic7xxx driver and the driver doesn't like the new LVD drives. Get the latest driver from the maintainer of the aic7xxx code, rebuild the kernel, and everything is great. Matt -Original Message- From: Charles Curley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Adaptec 2940UW Mandrake 7.1 7.2 woes!!! On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:20:00PM +0100, Robert Fox wrote: When I had Mandrake 7.0 - all worked fine with exactly the same equipment!!! Since 7.1 7.2 - I am having nothing but problems with bus resets and timeouts. Using latest Adaptec BIOS - also works fine with M$ OS's . . . (go figure!) Here's a snippet from dmesg: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB] [8.7 GB] sda: sda1 sda2 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 (scsi0:0:3:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0xa0, SEQADDR = 0x15d (scsi0:0:3:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0xa0, SEQADDR = 0x15d (scsi0:0:3:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0xa0, SEQADDR = 0x15d (scsi0:0:3:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0xa0, SEQADDR = 0x15d scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 8901, scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 SCSI host 0 abort (pid 8901) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. sr0: CD-ROM not ready. Make sure you have a disc in the drive. CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1172 scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 9098, scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 SCSI host 0 abort (pid 9098) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. sr0: CD-ROM not ready. Make sure you have a disc in the drive. CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1172 (scsi0:0:3:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0xa0, SEQADDR = 0x15d scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 28512, scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun SCSI host 0 abort (pid 28512) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. sr0: CD-ROM not ready. Make sure you have a disc in the drive. CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1588 cdrom: open failed. VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) There is defintely a disk in the drive, but can't seem to get rid of this problem!!! No disk change is made also!! Do you ever get the thing working? I get a similar message (Unexpected busfree) on my 2940 (Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter) for a non-existant ID/LUN combination, and I ignore it. I've been getting it for two years now with different versions of Linux and presumably different driver versions. All of the hardware on the bus works just fine, including the two tape drives adjacent to the error. My experience is that tape drives are the most finicky SCSI peripherals. Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Vendor: HPModel: C2570ARev: 3406 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi0 : channel 0 target 5 lun 1 request sense failed, performing reset. SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. (scsi0:0:5:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0x1, SEQADDR = 0x3c (scsi0:0:5:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0x1, SEQADDR = 0x3c (scsi0:0:5:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0x1, SEQADDR = 0x3d (scsi0:0:5:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0x1, SEQADDR = 0x3d (scsi0:0:5:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0x1, SEQADDR = 0x3d (scsi0:0:5:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0x1, SEQADDR = 0x3d Vendor: CONNERModel: CTT8000-S Rev: 1.22 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi tape st1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Unfortunately, Adaptec does not make it easy for the 2940 driver writers because they change the hardware and firmware out from under the driver writers without telling them and without changing the version numbers. You could try different versions of the driver, or check to see if Adaptec has any suggestions. You might check to see if your SCSI chain is properly terminated. I have known Windows drivers to get around that by running the devices at a very low speed. Terminate the ends of the chain. Only terminate the HA if it is at one end of the chain. Remove
RE: [expert] Network card compatibility?
I've had good luck with my Linksys LNE100TX boards. I have 2 of them in my router (they are both recongized, although I'm still only actively using 1 NIC until I finish loading the box). My Win2000 and my old single-NIC Linux box are running fine with Linksys 100TX boards. I think the problem (and the confusion on this list) is that, without changing part numbers, Linksys has made 5 (yes five!) versions of the card. And each version has a different BIOS or ethernet chip or whatever. So the drivers have to figure out what LNE100TX you really have. I own both 2.0 and 5.0 (maybe it's 4.0) cards. Believe it or not, I bought a pack of 5 cards this summer and they were all version 2.0. Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Sridhar Govindarajulu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Network card compatibility? Hi, On the same topic, I am wondering can I have 2 Linksys crads on the same system to use my system as a router. I presume there will be IRQ conflicts(I dunno). Can anyone clarify this. Cheers Sridhar Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Public Keys in Signatures (was: Ulysses beta 2)
MS Outlook 2000 is handling Mr. Curley's posts just fine. What version of Outlook Express are you using? Matt -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Public Keys in Signatures (was: Ulysses beta 2) - Original Message - From: "Charles Curley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:07 AM Subject: [expert] Public Keys in Signatures (was: Ulysses beta 2) Charles were you aware that if anyone uses Outlook Express to read their mail then all your post appear as attachments. 1 containing your text and the other containing you PgP info. You post regularly so I open them with out concern but under normal conditions all email I receive with attachments are auto delets I use a digital sig. for some of the mail I post but not those going to a public list. Charles Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Console equivalent of VNC?
If you run screen in tty6 as well, you can snatch control of the "session". I know there are people on this list that use screen like this. They go up to the physical terminal, login, and run screen. when they are done, they detach the screen session from the tty and the session continues to run without an active tty. They go to another machine, remotely login to the first, start screen and reattach to the first session. There probably is a utility out there for grabbing the tty and redirecting to a virtual terminal. I never tried to do that tho. My understanding is that you need to replace the tty package with a debugging version but don't quote me on that. Matthew -Original Message- From: Asheesh Laroia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Console equivalent of VNC? That sounds like a cool thing to do, but I meant that I'd do the following: bootup my machine chvt 6 login; run pine Now, after having done that, is there a way I can remotely read tty6, or remotely display its contents? If possible, I'd like to be able to remotely control tty6, even if "remote" just means "in an xterm." Any more ideas? I'l check out screen, though, but it seems like little more than a fancy "konsole" from kde2. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Ellick Chan wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Hello everyone. I wanted to know if there was a way I could access a tty device (say, tty6, where I run PINE) from an xterm. Just as I can access different Xs through VNC, is there an equivalent? I've tried screen, but I have no idea how to use it. Either it's screen, or a text based window-manager, which you can find on freshmeat. BTW, screen is a text-based, full-screen window-manager. When you first start screen, it comes up with one terminal. To create a new one, you hit CTRL-a _SPACE_ c, to quit that window, type 'exit', or hit CTRL-d. To switch windows, either hit CTRL-a _SPACE_, or CTRL-a CTRL-a. To get help, hit CTRL-a ?. To detach from screen (like vnc to run stuff in the background) hit CTRL-a d. Here are the keybindings CTRL-a Action key all stuff below is after you hit the action key: CTRL-d exit window/screen a -switch windows c -create new window ? -get help d -detach screen _SPACE_ - switch windows Thanks in advance. I eagerly await a response. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron -- namely, that he is a blockhead. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] installing special files?
What type of install did you use for Mandrake? If you don't choose Developer, you don't get the make utility, compiler, etc. that you need to compile other software. Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] installing special files? how do i install files that i need for my computer, they arent rpms, but i need them installed and i cant find the install command in linux, the readme file that came with it says to use "make install" but linux says there is no such command, so what am i supposed to use??? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Xwindow
XWindows was designed around Unix. Just set the DISPLAY environment variable at the command (telnet) prompt before starting the program that uses X. The format is host:session where session is usually 0. e.g. DISPLAY=192.168.1.5:0 If the X command gives a display fail error, you need to use xhost (man xhost) to allow a connection from the remote computer. Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Lyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:55 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] Xwindow I have been using VNC. A tad clunky, but works well and the price is right. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/xvncviewer.html -Original Message-[Lyle] From: Dave Peat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:51 AM To: Subject: [expert] Xwindow Does anyone know of a Xwindow program that I can use to Xwindow from one Linux box to another. Right now I can use Exceed on Windoze and run a xsession to my Linux box. I want to do the same from one Linux box to another. Thanks, Dave Registered User # 184784 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] What services are blocked by hosts.deny?
Ok. So a point of clarification: If I find a port set to listen with the nmap(?) utility and it is not in my inetd.conf, it is NOT using hosts.deny, hosts.allow? Matt -Original Message- From: Tony McGee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 4:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] What services are blocked by hosts.deny? Any services that don't use the inetd super server (from /etc/inetd.conf) are not covered by hosts.allow or hosts.deny. Tony On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) pushed some tiny letters in this order: My primary way of securing my home Linux box (which is on a wireless broadband modem 24/7 and static ip) is to use ALL:ALL in my /etc/hosts.deny file and then add specific, trusted, addresses to the hosts.allow file. I also have an ipchains firewall running (it's a big one that I hand configured). The subject line says it all. What services running on a Linux box ignore the hosts.deny file and just listen on the ports for activity? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] A very good WINE questions
The modem will NOT work in VMWare. VMware can only provide access to hardware that the host operating system recognizes and has drivers for. This is because VMWare simply emulates those host devices as something the guest OS can handle. VMWare cannot provide direct access to anything for its guest OS, nor would Linux allow it. Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] A very good WINE questions As a matter of fact it "might" work, but the only apps that would be able to make use of that connection would be the ones being run "inside" the guest OS and none residing on the host OS. And the performance is already bad enough to make using even VMware something that you soon come to the point of using only when it's absolutely a necessity. It's still far cheaper and easier to purchase a new modem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess would be no. Wine is used to emulate an environment for an application, not create a complete Windows environment. A winmodem needs driver support that a simple emulator can't deliver. On the other hand, if you use a package like VMware, now that should likely work. - Glen Adams Network Specialist I2 Technologies Stefan Srdic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] A very good WINE questions kesoft.com 09/11/00 12:07 AM Please respond to expert I read that WINE is Windows compatibility layer for Linux. I have a question, since WinModems are unusable under Linux would it be possible to run the Windows WinModem driver under WINE to use the modem in Linux? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- -- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] A very good WINE questions
It would not work. Hardware drivers are always (99.% of the time) tied to the operating system in use. An internal modem needs a separate driver disk for Win9x, NT, Linux, Mac, etc. Buy an external real modem and it'll work with just about every computer on the market using pretty much just a serial driver (which comes with the operating system). WINE provides a set of high level API's for end-user applications to call. The reason that many programs don't work under WINE is usually due to the program using undocumented "features" of the Windows API, or in the case of DirectX, the WINE developers haven't written that module yet. I think WINE is a great idea, but I haven't had much success with it. I chose to run VMware or Win4Lin instead (which DO require a Windows license to function). Matt -Original Message- From: Stefan Srdic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] A very good WINE questions I read that WINE is Windows compatibility layer for Linux. I have a question, since WinModems are unusable under Linux would it be possible to run the Windows WinModem driver under WINE to use the modem in Linux? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] What services are blocked by hosts.deny?
My primary way of securing my home Linux box (which is on a wireless broadband modem 24/7 and static ip) is to use ALL:ALL in my /etc/hosts.deny file and then add specific, trusted, addresses to the hosts.allow file. I also have an ipchains firewall running (it's a big one that I hand configured). The subject line says it all. What services running on a Linux box ignore the hosts.deny file and just listen on the ports for activity? Matthew Zaleski RVT Vehicle Dynamics Ford Motor Company Phone: (313) 248-9866, Fax: (313) 390-4833 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Man 77.1 on Sony Vaio
Try the following URL for info on a LOT of laptops: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: AS T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Man 77.1 on Sony Vaio Hi, I am considering buying a sony laptop F540. Any idea if I will hav a problem installing Man 7 or 7.1 on it. I plan to run in graphics mode. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln
The info I had while constructing my ipchains firewall seems to be the opposite. I lead off with: # Set the default policy to deny ipchains -P input DENY ipchains -P output REJECT ipchains -P forward REJECT Now note that those are policy settings and not input/output rules. Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Ken Wahl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: Matthew Micene wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, you wrote: Since the foreign address is 0.0.0.0, does that mean that these ports are accessable by the world? Port 515 is the print spooler, so it sounds bad that that should be world accessable. You'd better believe it. And if you want it to get worse, open an X Window session and watch X pop up on port 6000 and xfs on port 2046 I think. This is why EVERYONE running a linux box (at home or otherwise) needs to have a firewall installed of some sort. One solution is tcpserver as a replacement for inet super server because it supports binding to a specific interface or address. It is limited in the fact that it only handles TCP protocols. Well that's pretty bad. I used PMFirewall to set up my ipchains commands, but apparently it has left some things out... It was my assumption that PMFirewall blocked everything then allowed only certain ports in... Ron I hope someone will jump in and correct if I'm wrong but I think your original assumption about PMFirewall is correct. Just because a netstat command will show a port as listening, doesn't mean that PMFirewall will let anyone besides localhost connect to it if you have PMFirewall configured to deny/reject connection attempts to that particular port. Take a look at your ipchains as root with "ipchains -L". Remember that the chains are processed one line at a time from the top down. The first line will be an "accept all" then there should be rules to accept connections to particular ports if you want those services running. Then there will be explicit reject chains for common exploits (netbios, etc. plus denial for 5999-6003) and then there should be a rule to accept connections in the temp range 1023-65535. The final input chain should be an explicit deny all to block anything that was not specifically permitted in the chains prior. If I have this wrong then someone please tell me, as I've got some work to do if that is the case. Thanks. -- #-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-# | Ken Wahl, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 3CF9AB36 | | PGP Public Key: http://www.ipass.net/~kenwahl/pgpkey.txt | #-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Powered by Linux Mandrake --=-=-=-=-=-=-# Linux up 1 day, 17:03, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] samba
Try mandrakeuser.org under connectivity and also samba.linuxbe.org/en/index.html Matt -Original Message- From: Paul Juster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 8:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] samba All, Could anyone point me in the right direction so I can setup samba, either as a client or server, the samba web site is unclear. Thanks again for any help. __ ___ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
RE: [expert] Partage de fichiers avec NFS entre linux et solaris
First of all, I want to point out that you are welcome to post in any language on this list. However, your potential number of responses are low due to this being an "english" list. My understanding (from Mandrake's site) was that they maintain lists for English, French and Italian (maybe more). Unfortunately, even with your post in English, I am unable to help you. My experience with NFS ranks somewhere between sitting in a traffic jam and getting a root canal operation. I gave up on it and now use Samba exclusively. If I understand correctly, Samba can be secured better (easier?) than NFS. Maybe that has changed with NFS3. Matt P.S. Pierre, you may want to repost your translation with an English subject line. I know that I ignore any posts that do not have English subject lines. (I know a smattering of German but most people born in Germany have a pretty damn good grasp of English and seem to post in English on this list.) -Original Message- From: Taczynski Pierre-Yves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 3:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Partage de fichiers avec NFS entre linux et solaris "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" a écrit : Is it my imagination or are there plenty of French-speaking messages lately? I thought there was a separate Mandrake mail list just for our friend in France. Matt Ok are you ready for the translation (I won't use babelfish)? I've got a sparc-sun-solaris2.6 box using NFS3 with a shared directory /users_dvp. I want to mount this directory on my i586-pc-linux-gnu (running with Mandrake7.1). Of course /users_dvp is set properly to be shared. I type on my linux box: "mount persee:/users_dvp /persee" I get no error message but when I list /persee it's empty. I'm quasi sure (in fact I'm sure) that my linux box uses NFS2. How can I fix that? At least what are the conf' files to check? Regards Pierre-Yves http://electroindus.free.fr
RE: [expert] help with linksys etherfast 10/100 card
I have 2 of these puppies in my new Linux router/firewall box. Working fine. A little sidenote: I had an old Linksys Etherfast in my Win2000 box. When I added the new one (both the firewall and my w2k box are dual-homed and exposed to the internet), W2k saw it but couldn't configure it. Apparently Linksys has made 5 (yes five!) different models of the Etherfast board. At least in W2k, the driver didn't like having 2 different revs of the board in the machine at the same time. As soon as I put in 2 identical boards, the driver was happy. Can't speak for the tulip driver other than I have two rev 2.0 boards working fine. Barring that, I posted a message last month (check the archives) giving links to some tools for debugging tulip problems. Matt -Original Message- From: Gavin Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] help with linksys etherfast 10/100 card Hi, just got a linksys etherfast 10/100 to be my second ethernet card it says to use the tulip.o module to drive it but it doesn't work. the module won't load. I get 'device or resource busy': # modprobe -a tulip /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/tulip.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/tulip.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/tulip.o: insmod tulip failed anyone using this card and what did you do to get it running? thanks, Gavin
RE: [expert] PC NFS client using pcnfsd or NIS
First, ditch the HTML in your posts. Thanks. Have you tried FTP Software's InterDrive Client? It may have a different name now as part of a suite of products. I use IDrive at work to connect to our Unix boxes' exports. Never tried a connection to Linux tho. FTP Software used to have 30 day demos of there software for tryout of problems like these. YMMV www.ftpsoftware.com Matt -Original Message- From: Mads Rasmussen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] PC NFS client using pcnfsd or NIS Hi there, Have anyone tried installing a NFS server and then accessing from a windows pc (95/98)? I know that Samba is a better and perhaps more secure solution but my provider has bloked the samba ports. I have a NFS server running on my linux mandrake and I am able to mount them from another linux system but alas not from windows. My first idea was to install pcnfsd the pc authentication demon but I think it messes up when the system uses shadowed passwords. I installed the shadowed verson of pcnfsd but still no access. By the way, the configuration of the demon is rather weird. You don´t specify anything related to the users. My second option was to use NIS although I´d rather not since the server is standalone and therefore I don´t need the NIS distributed features. However the pc clients I have tried to use is giving the option of authentication using NIS. I now have a NIS server up and running but my pc client still doesn´t authenticate. I have tried the following clients: ICE-NFS OmniNet Lite Any ideas With regards, Mads Rasmussen
RE: [expert] ATX Support
Well, given that the el cheapo boxes come with 90 watt power supplies, I would say an "average" user doesn't exceed that. Naturally, my machines would chew up a 90 watt PS and spit it out. A typical hard drive consumes 5 to 20 watts depending on speed and age (my new IBM 10,000 RPM drive uses 11 watts). Processors can consume in excess of 30 watts by themselves, hence the beefy heatsinks on overclocker machines (not that I would ever overclock my machines g). The only other power hungry device common in PCs would be the graphics card. Most high-end graphics cards sport heatsinks with fans and can tax the limits of crappy motherboards to supply the necessary power. Matt -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ATX Support Mogens Jæger wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Greg Stewart wrote: Now why would you shudtdown in the first place? grin --Greg I have a atx system so i want my linux to shutdows automatically i know my 98 does how to in linux ? yeah...anyway. Why would you want to shut it down. It is more than able to run indefinately without being rebooted or shutdown. that's the Linux way! In my simple opinion - we are some, who cares about the escalating power-consumption. My computer is not part of a network (besides my internet), so when I go to sleep, I don't see, why I should waste valuable energy! But OK - i must confess - I am an european, and we do many things different over here! Sincerely Mogens Jæger Ok...that's a valid reason. And while we're at it has anyone really come up with an amount or rate of power consumption for a normal single processor box? I would be real interested to know what it is. -- Mark -- -- ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 -- --
RE: [expert] SCSI-2
Go to ebay. I've bought a couple of older models for anywhere from $50 to $150. Matt -Original Message- From: Tyler Longren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:42 AM To: MandrakeExpert Subject: [expert] SCSI-2 Hi everyone, Does anybody know where I can get a fairy cheap SCSI-2 hard drive? Not ultra-wide(UW), not SCA, not fibre, not LVD. SCSI-2. I need a new one for one of my Mandrake boxes. I haven't been able to find much. Thanks! Regards, Tyler Longren
RE: [expert] Perl question
Dumb question: If you are upgrading, why didn't you go to 5.6.x?
Matt
-Original Message-
From: Cecil Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Perl question
A few weeks ago I upgrade PERL to 5.005. Upon installing
Webmin I got the
following error:
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Webmin did install and run ok. But I'd like to correct this.
I checked the
man page and didn't find anything on changing this, it may
very well be in
there. But I think I ventured into the twilight zone some
yesterday, can
know the way out? Thanks in advance,
cesman
RE: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors
For the gaming part, what would be a good sund card and speaker system? Are there any sound cards compatable with linux that have multiple sound in ports? I would like to beable to attach a cd changer, record player, tape deck, etc. How about an SB Live! I have one, and it's great. I use the Cambridge SoundWorks FourPointSurround sound speakers, and they're great. I second that. I bought an SBLive for my Win2k box because my Aureal card is not well supported with either Win2k or Linux. Some of the Dolby speaker systems are pretty nice, anyone have any experience with them? I have the Klipsch ProMedia v2.400 (I think that's the right product code). They CRANK loud and clean. 160 watts into the subwoofer and 60 watts per satellite. Early versions (like mine) have a slight hiss at idle due to the amp design, but it quickly gets lost at normal volumes. This model has tons of reviews and almost always get an editor's choice award. Matt
RE: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
JP Software, the makers of 4DOS, also make Take Command/32 with gives a lot of command line power to those (like me) forced to live in 32 bit Windows. Matt -Original Message- From: Deryk Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips... Thus spake Mads Rasmussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Win2k actually does have tab completion but it doesn´t work that well as in linux and only on files and directories. There used to be an excellent shell for DOS (and OS/2) called 4DOS. Shareware IIRC. This had completion (and had it back in 1988 when I started using it) Nor is completion a new feature in bash; emacs has long had filename completion and was it the C shell which also did? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |
RE: [expert] Maximum file size
What is the max file size in ReiserFS? I looked on the Reiser site and found no mention of the maximum. Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Maximum file size Jean-Louis Debert wrote: iain wrote: Is there a maximum file size with a samba share. When I back up a Win 2000 server to a samba box it halts at just over 2 Gig. Any suggestions ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] It depends on what file system your samba share resides. If it is an ext2 file system (standard for linux) then yes, there is a 2GB limit. But your samba share can reside on ANY type of filesystem (supported by linux) so you could use another type which does not have this restriction ... one example: UDF (file system used on dvd-roms and magneto-opticals). Or alternatively, you could organize your backup to be segmented in "slices" of less than 2GB. Note: The 2GB limit is only on 32 bit CPUs. AlphaLinux theo- retical file size is 2^64 == 10^20. Also, I understand that the 2.4 kernels have lifted the max filesize to 2^64 on all CPUs. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
RE: [expert] Shutdown
Would it be appropriate to make that one of the init run level 0/6 scripts. Give the script a low number to ensure that it runs before the mail process is killed. My understanding is the the warning message argument in the shutdown command is only for those users currently logged into the system. It doesn't actually send you an email (which would be pretty useless under normal circumstances). Just a thought, Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Foris Gabor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 5:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Shutdown Hello, It is up to the root or the person who shuts down the system to send out warnings and he/she can do it in the arguments of the shutdown command. Gabor On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Richard Humphrey wrote: Is there a way to have the system email me if the server is about to be shut down or rebooted? I am running LM 7.1. RLH Or for that matter how to flash a user on another machine that the Admin is going to shut down a server or the users machine?? -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said, "Requires Windows 3.x or better", so I got Linux. Registered Linux user #1696600
RE: [expert] mero sambaaccess horror
I'm not sure if you fixed your problem yet. I do know that Samba supports multiple ways of locking files, including partial locks (locking a few sectors worth of a file for update). Have you looked into that? Matt -Original Message- From: Deim Agoston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 3:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] mero sambaaccess horror Hi ! Thanks the responses to everyone who helped me to solve the mapping problem. But this Access stuff sucks ! I'm going mad. When I want to access the databases stored on the server frm more then one client it rejects to map the drive and the access program gives me the "Runtime error" message. The dialog box says that the file is in use so it can't open or do anything with it. It seems to me that the Samba locks the file (or the client program wants to do it and Samba allows this *** behaviour). How can I resolove this. Either to reject the locking or not to lock the files natively. Any help appriciated. SOS ! Thanks, Ago
RE: [expert] Partage de fichiers avec NFS entre linux et solaris
Is it my imagination or are there plenty of French-speaking messages lately? I thought there was a separate Mandrake mail list just for our friend in France. Matt -Original Message- From: Pierre Taczynski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Partage de fichiers avec NFS entre linux et solaris Bonjour, j'utilise pour mon i586-pc-linux-gnu Mandrake 7.1 .Dites moi si je me trompe, mais il me semble que la version NFS est la 2. Je veux monter sur cette machine un répertoire qui se trouve sur la machine "persee" qui est sun-sparc-solaris 2.6 (en NFS 3). Ce répertoire est /users_dvp et est configuré proprement pour être partagé. J'entre donc donc dans la console: mount persee:/users_dvp /persee Aucun message d'erreur mais aussi rien dans /persee. Y-a-t-il un aspect du partage de fichiers qui m'ait échappé? Merci. Pierre-Yves http://electroindus.free.fr
RE: [expert] Console manipulation of RPMs
That's the command set I'm looking for! I would've never figured out the
--queryformat feature without a lot of research. I tested it this weekend
and it worked. Thanks.
It's a long story but I couldn't do the remote X deal without some major
work given my existing set of machines. I do find that process intrigueing
and I will try to do the remote X scheme once I've got more functional Linux
boxes going.
Matt
-Original Message-
From: Tony McGee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Console manipulation of RPMs
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, flupke pushed some tiny letters in this order:
If it can help you, I'll tell you already that you can list all the
package from a certain group with the "-g" option :
rpm -qg Applications/Text
You create a list of all the groups on your system you can run:
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{GROUP}\n" | sort | uniq $HOME/groups.txt
check out man rpm for more info on the query tags (rpm
--querytags). They're
great for scripting.
RE: [expert] Firewall issues...
It's been a while since I had to debug my firewall setup but here are a few
tips:
1. Do you have ip_forwarding (in /proc/net) enabled?
2. Are you binding 2 IPs to a single card? If so, is it still doing it
since upgrading?
3. Zero the counters ('ipchains -Z') and then attempt a connect on 98 box
and check the counters ('ipchains -L input -v') again. Repeat for 'output'
and 'masq' (or is it called 'forward') chains.
That should narrow down the list of possible problems.
Matt
-Original Message-
From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 1:18 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [expert] Firewall issues...
I have upgraded recently (Fresh install) to LM 7.1. My
girlfriends machine runs win98.
I had IP Masq'ing running fine on 7.0, and copied the
rc.firewall file onto the new 7.1 install.
Routes are fine, I can do anything internally but the win box
will not connect to the internet.
I have tried the simple 3 line masq routine, to no avail. I
have tried pmfirewall, to no good.
My friend who has like 5+ years with *nix can not see
anything wrong with any of the setup
however IP MASQ'ing will not work.
Any help appreciated
Brian D. Klar - CVE
OTS
WPAFB
(937)257-5773
937-973-3125 (Pager)
[expert] Console manipulation of RPMs
I've got a strange request. Are there any easy ways to manipulate the entire RPM DB at the console? I just finished installing mdk7.1 on an old Pentium to become my new firewall machine. Due to bugs in the install script I could not choose expert mode to hand pick my packages at install-time. The best I could do was "customize" and "server". I'm not running X on the machine so I can't run rpmdrake. I want to browse the list of installed rpms, view their descriptions and remove the unnecessary rpms for security's sake. I know that I do "rpm -qa" to list the installed rpms and "rpm -qi rpmname" to view the description. Is there anything more "automated" than that? I like the way rpmdrake organizes the rpms into categories. Matthew Zaleski RVT Vehicle Dynamics Ford Motor Company Phone: (313) 248-9866, Fax: (313) 390-4833 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] ipchains logging
Out of curiosity, what command are you using to restart klogd? I think I have the same problem with one of my boxes. Matt -Original Message- From: Tony Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] ipchains logging Hi Greg, Hey, I've just realised something... For a while after my firewall comes up, I get a few logged DENY packet, and an occasional portsentry attack alert, but after some time, the network seems to go very quite. I had checked my machine fromwork this afternoon, and nothing was recorded since last nite. So, I decided to force a response and I telnetted into my machine. This triggerred the firewall and it logged the DENY packets. I tried this a while back, and my machine *didn't* log the DENY records. Now, my situtation may actually be nothing like yours... but I wonder if your area of the network quites down a bit (ie: stops pounding you if they no one can really see your machine)? Any thoughts? How did the new rpms works? Have you tried them? So far, so good. I want to give it a few more days before I declare it resolved, but I'm still getting the messages since I ungraded the sysklogd package. I'll let you know towards the end of the week. Well the bad news is that after about 4 days, even with the latest klogd and kernel 2.2.16-9mdksecure, DENY packet messages stop being logged. The good news is that I've isolated the problem to klogd since restarting that restarts the messages. Looks like I'll just restart it every night for now. Thanks for all the help. Tony === Tony Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===
RE: [expert] Console manipulation of RPMs
Does your scheme assume that I have X installed on the server? I don't have a functional copy of X on my server machine. I always get the X server/client stuff (and what needs to be where) all screwed up in my head, usually resulting in a bad headache. Matt -Original Message- From: Asheesh Laroia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Console manipulation of RPMs I have the same type of problem with my headless / inputless P133 server. Quick IP address list: server = "thecore" = 192.168.0.4 my personal machine inside the LAN = "Renaissance" = 192.168.0.3 First, I log into Renaissance and type "xhost +192.168.0.4" Then, I telnet (or SSH) into the server, and su to root. In the telnet window, I... # export DISPLAY=192.168.0.3:0 # kpackage Then, using the display on my personal computer, I remove / add RPMs. Isn't X fun? 8-) - Asheesh Laroia On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) wrote: I've got a strange request. Are there any easy ways to manipulate the entire RPM DB at the console? I just finished installing mdk7.1 on an old Pentium to become my new firewall machine. Due to bugs in the install script I could not choose expert mode to hand pick my packages at install-time. The best I could do was "customize" and "server". I'm not running X on the machine so I can't run rpmdrake. I want to browse the list of installed rpms, view their descriptions and remove the unnecessary rpms for security's sake. I know that I do "rpm -qa" to list the installed rpms and "rpm -qi rpmname" to view the description. Is there anything more "automated" than that? I like the way rpmdrake organizes the rpms into categories. Matthew Zaleski RVT Vehicle Dynamics Ford Motor Company Phone: (313) 248-9866, Fax: (313) 390-4833 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. -- Oliver Herford
RE: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?
Maybe he means it runs like a raped ape. g -Original Message- From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux? Sorry, what is a scaled dog? Does it mean fast?
RE: [expert] Some Tulip help, please
Can't help you with the compile problem. My copy of mdk7.1 has the tulip driver in my lib/modules directory. What version of mdk are you running? Matt -Original Message- From: Craig Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 11:56 PM To: Expert Subject: [expert] Some Tulip help, please I can not get the tulip driver for an eth0 to compile. I am using the argument: gcc -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c '[ -f /usr/include/linux//modversions.h ] echo -DMODVERSIONS' This statement is entered on one line, and the output should give me a tulip.o from a tulip.c. Am I right? Has anyone compliled this "bad_boy"? Simpler yet, could someone please direct me to a pre-compiled version of the tulip driver. It would make my life so much better. Thank you so very much (whomever you might be). Craig
RE: [expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.
Wait a minute! Does this W98 box have a modem or a network card? Everyone else is assuming you have a network card. Now I'm not so sure what you have. Give us a DETAILED list of hardware components on these 2 machines. Are they on a network? Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: cavall_fort [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 5:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71. Hello again : My client windows98 is configured ¿ bad ?: He's trying to open the connection with a modem attached to port 1. Why ? Samba is good configured, ... the Navigator ? Proxy ? Mmmhhh ; this is very difficult ... "expert" people ... Too much ? Cavall_forT Linux Català http://perso.wanadoo.es/cavall_fort/index.htm
RE: [expert] Stupid server question #3
Hold on. Civilme posted a message a few months ago stating that a single NIC with a single hub is dangerous. He said something to the effect of "a hacker could create a VPN on his side that effectively exposes your entire private network." Unfortunately, Civilme is no longer on the list. Check the archives. You want at least 2 NICs with 2 HUBS(or a direct link from NIC to DSL modem). I would assume further isolation of the email and web server would further protect the network. If the email or web server is hacked, the ipchains on the Linux router would effectively only all port 25 and 110 to leave the mail server. This assumes that you have stripped your router down to the point that it is virtually impossible to hack (nothing but ssh logins). Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Joseph S. Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Stupid server question #3 Greg Stewart wrote: Why not plug B and C into the hub also? I don't see the advantage to plugging them directly to the firewall... Consider this: internet - dsl modem - comp a - hub - all other computers You still have comp a (your firewall) between the internet and all of your machines... hooking up b and c to a is just costing you more work with getting 4 nics setup instead of 2 (all you really need). Also, depending on the age/maturity of the firewall (old machine, or brand new?) you may be consuming a bit more system overhead than you need--powering and driving two extra NICs. Besides, it's easier, and involes less typing, configuring your firewall to masquerade only one NIC, rather than three. You would, then, also need to plan for three subnets, and port-forward accordingly. A little more confusing than having only one subnet and one internal NIC. --Greg On Wed Aug 16, 2000 at 11:22:14AM -0400, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: SOHO server setup scenerio "Firewall from hell" The object being to keep it simple but keep it secure Assuming five computers comp A = firewall w/ X NIC's comp B = mail server comp C = web server comp D = workstation D comp E = workstation E also assuming I have dsl modem and one hub internet connection plugged into DSL modem. DSL modem plugged into comp A (firewall) Comp A, D E plugged into hub Comp B C plugged into comp A this would mean comp A would require 4 NIC's (DSL, comp B, comp C and hub) Theres definitly something I never thought of, I guess I never realized that you could effectively protect the internal machines if they had a "direct" connection to the "public" machine via the hub but it does make some sense now that you mention it. (Head hung in shame) Thanks, -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said, "Requires Windows 3.x or better", so I got Linux. Registered Linux user #1696600
RE: [expert] reiser fs ? (was: Unexplained crashes)
(skipping the journalling since others answered) In theory, ReiserFS is faster for certain types of disk operations involving small files. Most FS's use fixed blocks that have wasted space at the end. In a FS with 2KB block size a 1 byte file still takes up 2KB. ReiserFS uses that space efficiently (read about it on their website; URL in a previous msg in this thread). ReiserFS disks with a lot of small files should get more usable space and faster access than with ext2. ReiserFS also has plugins that would allow DB developers, for example, to optimize the on-disk storage methods to improve data access and retrieval. It's all really geeky. I love it. Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Tony McGee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] reiser fs ? (was: Unexplained crashes) Can anyone give me the 10c guide to what the reiserfs provides that ext2 doesn't? I've heard the term journalling thrown about but have no idea what that means. I always hate when the bandwagon is a mile down the road before I've even noticed it. :) Tony On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Roan pushed some tiny letters in this order: Thanks, that took care of the problem! I just reseated all the cables, memory SIMMs, and the CPU. The box has been up and running since yesterday afternoon with no hiccups. Now I get to re-install and use ReiserFS. :)
RE: [expert] howdo I single boot?
Use GRUB. Sorry, cheap shot. You have to have a boot loader, whether it's LILO, GRUB, or some other package. LILO and GRUB don't really care if you are dual-booting 2 operating systems or dual-booting 2 different versions of the Linux kernel. All they care about is disk locations of bootstrap code for your particular OS. Matt -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 6:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] howdo I single boot? I've got a question I've been pondering for a while. for the longest time i've been dual-booting. about a year and a half now, but i've come to the point where i want to take windows completely of my system. how would I set Linux up to boot if I didn't need to use LILO to boot with? -- Mark -- -- ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 -- --
RE: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set the default editor so I can TRASH IT?
Here's hoping this doesn't turn into a flame war
A few years ago, I would have agreed with you. However, I have learned a
few things about Unix and especially Linux. To coin a Perl phrase, "There's
more than one way to do it." Whereas Microsoft forces you down a single
path for better or worse, Linux lets you dive into the guts of the system
yourself. Now you many not want to but other developers have and will
continue to do so. What's my point? There are a bajillion editors both GUI
and console-based for Linux. Don't like vi, use joe (my favorite) or emacs,
and so on. KDE and Gnome are a long ways from the original X base in terms
of friendliness and power.
I see Linux gaining user-friendly features at a exponentially increasing
rate. And don't confuse user-friendliness with dumbed-down interfaces and
restricted feature sets (the M$ way). Mandrake is a huge leap over earlier
Linux distributions in terms of hand-holding the newbie. It's not perfect
but when did Microsoft give Windows away for free and continue to develop
it. I can legally download the latest version of Mandrake any time I want
without paying (although I did buy a copy to support the company).
Matthew Zaleski
P.S. This is my last comment on this topic since I feel it is drifting a bit
wide of the intent of this list. Intelligent discussions on features for
Mandrake to include in upcoming releases is one thing, writing generic flame
bait comments bashing Linux in general doesn't help improve the product.
-Original Message-
From: Bill Hudspeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 2:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set the
default editor so I can TRASH IT?
Mallard:
I agree with you 200%!
I have wasted all kinds of time trying to work with "UNIX"
tools that are outdated and clumsy, except for the geeks who
thought they were cute. They aren't.
I have been writing useful 'C' programs for 20+ years
(obviously not in
UNIX/LINUX) and have never seen such lack of concern for "software
sability". - Yes, that's a real topic for commercial (bite my tongue)
software developers.
I am trying to find out whether my users (PhD MD
professionals) would
like Linux better than Windoz. I can definitely say, NOT TODAY! I too
have wasted time and money, really wanting this to be a successful
venture. I am no M$ fan. However, I've never had to wander arounf in
the dark so much using M$ products.
I still (silly me) believe that Linux 'could be' a better
system - but,
not without a lot of effort directed toward usability.
Bill
Mallard wrote:
Why did Mandrake pick the most geekyist editor for a setup that is
suposto be easy for users?
Anyone else seen this joke of a program?
With Vim all you have to do is spend a half hour trying to
get it give
you help, then scroll all the way to the bottom of a super long
whoopy-do list of usless keyboard commands that you will
forget a day
after you use them. Please get rid of it!
Try ":qw" to get out and save what you just did WTF is
that? Did a human
design this? That is if you figure out how to get into
"insert" mode and
out of it again. GET RID OF THIS! TRASH IT! Ban it from the Net!
Couldn't use "X" or "E" for exit or maybe cntl-X or Z, no -
had to be
big geeks and do it some STUPID way. What the hell were these guys
thinking? Do they live on this planet? Why does Mandrake
support this?
Trash it!
Yea, I am pissed. All I wanted to do is set up my cron file
("crontab
-e") and that brings up the "default" editor. Searching all
over to find
where the "default" editor is set up, couldn't find it.
Another waste of
time.
I don't know who thinks this is some great thing, WOW! It
has zillions
of features! It's not 1982 anymore, we have word processors
that have a
better human interface than terminals did, get a life
geeks! (directed
at the guys who wrote and keep updating "vi" and "vim")
Why not make the default editor a nice simple one, like maybe pico,
where the commands are shown. I can't see anyone using a
command line
editor for much else than a few simple changes, there are
better simple
editors in KDE and such. Damn that really pissed me off,
and on top of
that you guys changed from "vi" (same stupid geeky crap) to
"vim" (worse
geeky crap) in 7.1 did someone request this? I want to know who!
Figure if someone is a big enough geek to want vim, let
them spend their
life away trying to figure it out (and how to change the
default editor
to do it).
Thanks for the soapbox, I had my say (please forward this to whoever
makes these program installation choices, if he's not a big
geek that
is).
Sorry for the bandwith waste, had to get this off my chest.
Anyone else
feel like I do about this?
RE: [expert] A mess of questions!
-Original Message- From: Bob Puff@NLE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] First, please keep your messages separated by topic (and make sure the subject line is appropriate). #3. I posted this one last week and got 0 replies. How do Well, this is a VOLUNTEER list. Generally, if someone knows the answer to your question (and is interested in divulging it) you get a response. Otherwise tough luck. You already get more than you paid for. you do port forwarding with the new ipchains? The IPCHAINS howto was written prior to the new format. Specifically, how do you use ip_portfw and ip_autofw? Those are the OLD tools (ip_portfw and ip_autofw). Kernels 2.2.x use IPCHAINS and the howto is correct because I used it to configure my firewall at home. NOTE: the tools are changing again in 2.4.x supposedly for the better. #4. I installed the RealAudio basic server version 7. It worked the first time, but now I don't know how to start it back up (after a reboot). What command turns this puppy on? Didn't it come with any documentation? Did you install from an RPM? Look at the file list of the RPM or tarball for a clue to the daemon name. If this isn't the place for answers to any of the above questions, please point me in the right direction!!! After 10 years on the 'net, I really wonder if there is a good place to go for answers (although I'm happy with the response I get on this list). Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] Modems For PCI Slots?
-Original Message- From: Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering What about USB modems? Are any of them compatible with Linux. I was told that USB modems are winmodems in sheep's clothing. Good luck getting on of them to work in Linux. Matthew
RE: [expert] Harddisk speed with UDMA66
I know I read a MS document comparing RAID performance on UDMA66, among other things. I believe it said that UDMA66 bandwidth is maxxed out between 2 and 3 IDE drives (assuming some RAID hardware in there). The secondary issue is PCI bus speed at 33MHx/32bit is getting very weak for today's systems. Yeah, I know about 64bit/66MHz PCI but it's got its own problems Matt -Original Message- From: Guillaume Rousse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Harddisk speed with UDMA66 Chris Slater-Walker a écrit : As Inderstand it, there is very little difference between UDMA33 and UDMA66 when there is a single disk on the IDE channel. Yes, because maximum speed reached by actual disks is just sufficient to fill UDMA33 spec :-) -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Plus petites unités de mesure - de longueur : le millimètre - de volume : le millilitre - d'intelligence : le militaire
RE: [expert] Upgrading from Slackware 7.0 to Mandrake
I would say that it's virtually impossible. I last used Slackware around version 3.x. The biggest issue (at least compared to Slack 3.x) is that Mandrake has completely different layout of key files. People on this list have enough problems UPGRADING from 6.1 or 7.0 of Mandrake. Not the answer you wanted to hear, but... Matt -Original Message- From: Steve W. Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Is there a HOW-TO or any other documentation for upgrading from one distribution to another? Specifically Slackware 7.0 to Mandrake. I have a very well established Slackware system at work, but would rather use Mandrake after installing and using it at home, but don't want to lose all the information and programs on my root partition.
RE: [expert] how is the performance on Vmware???
Give VMware LOTS of RAM! My work machine is a P2-450 with 384MB of RAM. I give 160MB to the Windows session and turn off all swap file capability. Why? VMware disk performance is very weak. RAM is a good way to compensate for that. Although many benchmarks indicate that VMware has 90% or better of the computational performance of the CPU you are using (meaning math-intensive code should run quickly), the drag from disk and Samba access kills my performance. It feels like a Pentium 200 or slower instead of a P2-450. The more disk access a program does the slower it will feel compared to native performance. It's a tradeoff but the compatibility of VMware is excellent. I just bought a copy of win4lin. It has more compatibility problems and only runs W95 or W98. However, it's performance is amazing. Disk access run at Linux speeds. After running VMware for a year, firing up win4lin felt like I had just done a major upgrade to the system. BTW, my disk access performance with VMware has nothing to do with my physical hard drive being slow. The drive is a brand new 10k RPM 36GB Seagate Cheetah. There aren't many drives that are faster. Linux disk access screams on it. -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 8/3/00 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [expert] how is the performance on Vmware??? that pretty much depends on your CPU and how much RAM you have. I've got VMware running on my home PC and my workstation at work. At work I've got a 500Mhz Celeron w/128MB SDRAM At home I've got an AMD K6 233Mhz w/64MB of SDRAM. Work PC runs well, but it's a bit choppy. Need more RAM. At home it's about the same only a weee bit slower. Need even MORE RAM, but all in all it runs pretty good. Definately worth what they're asking for it. $99 for a home license and $330 for a License for commercial use. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Agrawal Sachin wrote: How is the performance on VMware??? if Win95b runs on a linux OS...?
[expert] RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.
Read the instructions on vmware.com. They give explicit instructions in the installation guide on how to get the tools installed. They are in a mountable floppy disk image that comes with VMware. -Original Message- From: Seak, Teng-Fong To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/4/00 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. Daniel Woods wrote: It's running quite well here at work, although I'm having quite a time [deleted] the performance went down the crapper REAL fast. Did you install the VMWare toolbox tools ? You can download the toolbox from their site. These help to speed up performance and allow better settings. Nope, from Vmware 2.0, toolbox tools are included already in the emulator. Nothing to download from their site unless your guest OS is BSD. Seak T.F.
RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.
IIRC, regardless of proper XFree86 video support, you still be able to match whatever screen resolution and bit depth you are currently running in X. If you are not running XFree86 3.3.6, you won't have the necessary performance hooks that VMware wants, but it should still work. I would venture to guess that, for whatever reason, Windows is still referring to the wrong video driver. Check that first. Networking should be active too. Did you enable bridging or private networking when you install (as root) VMware? Also, what did you set in your config for this particular instance/session of VMware regarding networking. Bridging is preferable, assuming you have another available IP address on your real network. Private networking is a fallback position for most users because then you need to use ipchains or a proxy config in Linux to get to the real network. Matt P.S. Sorry for the crappy formatting of the responses. I'm out of town and using the web interface to M$ Exchange to keep up with my email. And there is no way to tell it to add '' to the source message. -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver To: Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) Sent: 8/4/00 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [expert]RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: This is the URL for installing the client tools with VMware http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/quickstart_2_rpm_linux/install_t ools .html I found it by navigating from the download link which has a link to "Quick Installation notes. I will grant you that I don't believe there is another way to get to this page except the way I noted. Basically, you end up mounting their floppy image as drive a:. Good luck, Matt -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/4/00 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [expert]RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) wrote: Read the instructions on vmware.com. They give explicit instructions in the installation guide on how to get the tools installed. They are in a mountable floppy disk image that comes with VMware. -Original Message- From: Seak, Teng-Fong To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/4/00 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. Daniel Woods wrote: It's running quite well here at work, although I'm having quite a time [deleted] the performance went down the crapper REAL fast. Did you install the VMWare toolbox tools ? You can download the toolbox from their site. These help to speed up performance and allow better settings. Nope, from Vmware 2.0, toolbox tools are included already in the emulator. Nothing to download from their site unless your guest OS is BSD. Seak T.F. I tell ya whatI've been over and over those instructions and I just can't seem to make out how you're supposed to access those tools. Maybe I'm missing something...I don't know. There isn't any .tar.gz file for me to untar and the only image I've found is called linux.flp. What does one do with this? Mark -- Mark Weaver IT Dept./Reapernet.com Destiny Image Publishers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Matt, Thanks...I manged to get the little raskel installed, but it doesn't appear as though my machine is going to cooperate very much. The driver is installed, but I'm still at a resolution of 640 X 480 and 16 colors. It's ok and all. What I'm most concerned about it performance and being able to access the network when I need to, and all that is happening for me already. -- Mark Weaver IT Dept./Reapernet.com Destiny Image Publishers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: [expert] Mandrake of a 486?
But isn't the version on the website 7.0 for 486 instead of 7.1? Matt -Original Message- From: Mike Tracy Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/4/00 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake of a 486? Hey Jeff, if you go to the Mandrake web page, you can download the version that's optimized for i486. It's in iso format so you have to have a cd burner or you can compile your own kernel and just optimize it yourself for the i486 (the iso way, in my opinion, is much easier!). http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#486 Mike I know that Mandrake is configured for a Pentium or better, but I like it so much that I wonder if it would work on a 486 laptop? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185
RE: [expert] Full permission to VFAT partitions
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:39:37PM +0800, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Joe User is running Linux "just to get his feet wet." He has a Win-Printer, and cannot print using Linux. He creates a grocery list using his favorite Linux editor, and before leaving for the store reboots to print the list. Win-printer? Win-modem does exist, but I'm not sure if any win-printer exists. Hard to believe anyway. Can you give me any example so as to avoid them? Win Printers are normally called GDI printers. They are heavily tied to Windows. They have the same failings as winmodems: zero brains on board, host processsor hogs, Linux-unfriendly, etc. IMHO, HP DeskJets are half winprinters, given their distinct lack of Linux support and refusal to share coding specs for the latest and greatest (my HP 970CSe gives crappy print quality under Linux). Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] Linux Serverbox Setup
You can definitely boot without a monitor. As for the keyboard, you using have to change a setting in your BIOS to ignore keyboard errors. Linux won't care that it's missing. Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Linux Serverbox Setup For those of you that turned older machines into dedicated servers... Since you can do most things remotely, do you still keep a monitor attached to it? Can it reboot without the monitor connected? Seve
RE: [expert] mounting windows drives
Use the uid= and gid= options in that fstab line (do a 'man mount' for further details). FAT systems have no concept of user IDs and Linux defaults to UID/GID of the mounter (which is root during the boot sequence). The override fixes that. -Original Message- From: lorne schachter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 10:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] mounting windows drives How do I set up /etc/fstab so that I can write to my windows drives when I'm a regular user? I have no trouble writing as root, but I can't as a regular user. Thanks, Lorne -- Lorne Schachter (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX) http://www.intact.com/~lorne
RE: [expert] Multiple Distros on One Harddrive
You could also run them all under VMWare for Linux. If you are looking for capatibility issues, you need multiple partitions and no vmware. OTOH, if all you want is to take a quick looksee at another distro, then vmware works fine. Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Multiple Distros on One Harddrive I would like to be able to 'try' a distro while not affecting my original. For those of you that are running a system that has at least two Linuxes on one drive... What's your method for achieving this? Also, what is the highest number of partitions you can have on one harddrive? Seve
RE: [expert] Interfacing to Exchange server (was:I'll be back)
I tried both ports 25 and 110. 110 is active, but 25 is dead. Any other ideas on how mail gets out? Matt -Original Message- From: Todd Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] I'll be back The way it breaks down is this. Exchange has it's own MTA serivces built in. Exchange can support IMAP, MAPI, SMTP, POP3, CCMAIL...etc. If you setup Exchange to work with Outlook using the Microsoft Exchange Server protocol, then you are using MAPI and any and all work done between the two (the server and the client) is passed using that protocol. However, when it come time for the Exchange box to send or receive mail to the outside world (the rest of the internet) it uses the SMTP protocol. You can see if the Exchange box is running SMTP and POP3 by telneting into the specific ports (110 25). If the Exchange box has the services enabled, you will see the following messages: +OK Microsoft Exchange POP3 server version 5.5.2650.23 ready 220 mailbox.foo.net ESMTP Server (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service .5.2650.21) ready "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: -Original Message- From: Denis Havlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:57 PM To: Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) Subject: RE: [expert] I'll be back :~My understanding is that IMAP4 is a DL ownly protocol. I need SMTP :~available if I want to send out from that Exchange server. Is that correct? Yes. But, how on earth are these look-out clients sending their messages if no SMTP server is around? (i know nothing about windoze world, sorry) I wish I knew less about the Windoze world. It appears, although I have not done any indepth research yet, that when Outlook is configured to talk to an Exchange server, they use a private protocol that is not SMTP, POP3 or IMAP4. Exchange IS capable of all of those protocols, but appears to support another proprietary one for an intergrated solution. The way our Outlook clients are configured, I can do calendar type activities, like schedule meetings and meeting rooms and know immediately the availability of people and resources. It works reasonably well. I just wish it would work directly from Linux so that I didn't need to run VMWare or Win4Lin. Matt
RE: [expert] I'll be back
-Original Message- From: Denis Havlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:57 PM To: Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) Subject: RE: [expert] I'll be back :~My understanding is that IMAP4 is a DL ownly protocol. I need SMTP :~available if I want to send out from that Exchange server. Is that correct? Yes. But, how on earth are these look-out clients sending their messages if no SMTP server is around? (i know nothing about windoze world, sorry) I wish I knew less about the Windoze world. It appears, although I have not done any indepth research yet, that when Outlook is configured to talk to an Exchange server, they use a private protocol that is not SMTP, POP3 or IMAP4. Exchange IS capable of all of those protocols, but appears to support another proprietary one for an intergrated solution. The way our Outlook clients are configured, I can do calendar type activities, like schedule meetings and meeting rooms and know immediately the availability of people and resources. It works reasonably well. I just wish it would work directly from Linux so that I didn't need to run VMWare or Win4Lin. Matt
RE: [expert] I'll be back
-Original Message- From: Jens Benecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 2:26 PM To: Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) Cc: Denis Havlik; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] I'll be back On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:02:32PM -0400, Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) wrote: :~My understanding is that IMAP4 is a DL ownly protocol. I need SMTP :~available if I want to send out from that Exchange server. Is that correct? Yes. But, how on earth are these look-out clients sending their messages if no SMTP server is around? (i know nothing about windoze world, sorry) I wish I knew less about the Windoze world. It appears, although I have not done any indepth research yet, that when Outlook is configured to talk to an Exchange server, they use a private protocol that is not SMTP, POP3 or IMAP4. Exchange IS capable of all of those protocols, but appears to support another proprietary one for an intergrated solution. What do you expect, this is Microsoft! It's nothing new that no MS application exposes it's complete functionality without the rest of the computer also being MS-only. There is no technical problem, it's simply politics. Microsoft wants to kill Sendmail Co. They do this by putting extra features into Outlook that you can only use if you are using Exchange as well. And because they want you to use Outlook as well, they make Exchange talk a proprietary, secret protocol. Of course that's assuming I'm right that MS uses a proprietary protocol with Outlook/Exchange. The way our Outlook clients are configured, I can do calendar type activities, like schedule meetings and meeting rooms and know immediately the availability of people and resources. It works reasonably well. I just wish it would work directly from Linux so that I didn't need to run VMWare or Win4Lin. you can always use the web frontend of Exchange. It actually works with Netscape. g Well, my only concern is ease of getting my meeting appts put into the calendar. If I use IMAP4 or POP3 to bring my mail local under Linux, I don't think I can auto-add meetings as they arrive in my mail package. -- ciao, Jens (mailaddr im Header) http://www.pinguin.conetix.de "Schiebe nie etwas auf Boshaftigkeit, was http://www.hitch-hiker.de ausreichend durch Dummheit erklärt werden kann." http://www.linuxfaq.de
RE: [expert] Another weird question--video power save
Out of curiosity, what happens when you use the xset command on the fly in X with each config file? -Original Message- From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Another weird question--video power save I wonder why in the XF86Config file (generated by *XF86Setup*)you *can* use the power save feature, you know with the Option "power_saver" and the BlankTime 5 andSuspendTime 10 and OffTime15 *But*-- you can't do that with the *XConfigurator* generated XF86Config file?? I need to figure out how to make the power saver work in the Xconfigurator generated file because otherwise the drakfont package I am using will not work. I need to have both the power save feature and the drakfont working. Is there some different way that I need to arrange the way that the blanktime and all are arranged? If so I would appreciate the info. I will post only the urls here, these files I feel are too big to post inlione with the mail. http://www.kittypuss.org/XF86Config-xconfigurator http://www.kittypuss.org/XF86Config-XF86Setup Maybe someone would have a look at them and throw me a clue, thanks.
RE: [expert] I'll be back
How would I go about proving/disproving whether our Exchange servers still support SMTP/POP3? When they switched us over, they killed my old POP3 account that was on a UNIX box somewhere on campus. -Original Message- From: Todd Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 6:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] I'll be back Outlook and Exchange both do POP and SMTP. Exchange has its own MTA and will either handle SMTP independently or it will forward to an SMTP gateway. John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: Outlook 2000 DOES do threading. I'm using for this list now. I have to use Outlook as my company has standardized on M$ Exchange. Does Exchange not do POP and SMTP? John
RE: [expert] Backup and restore systems
Your description of ghost makes me a bit nervous. I conjecture from it that ghost backs up partitions as disk images, not file by file. This has two problems. Ghost can back up partitions or entire disks as images. 1) Since a partition image is backed up, it backs up empty blocks as well as useful data, making the backup larger than necessary. For partition types that Ghost understands (like FAT16, FAT32, and possibly ext2), Ghost ignores all empty blocks. Because it understands the underlying FS, it can resize partitions on the fly while restoring. For example, I back up data acquisition systems here for the purpose of making them all identical. The source machine might have a 2.1GB drive. The destination machine might be 1GB or 6GB. Ghost doesn't care, as long as the actual data can fit in the new drive. 2) It is not possible to extract individual files from a backup, making it impossible to revert a portion of a file system to a prior date. Restoring individual files is a fairly common request. At least for FAT16/32 (my experience with Ghost) they provide a utility very similar to File Manager that will mount a Ghost volume in Windows and let you ADD and REMOVE files from the image. Very powerful, at least for Windows. Whether any such capability exists for ext2, I don't know. Tape is not entirely obsolete. 40 GB on a DDS 3 tape occupies a lot less volume and is more mechanically robust than 40 GB on a hard drive. Unfortunately, tape is NOT keeping up with drive capacities. I can buy a 60GB Maxtor drive for $250. Please tell me how much must I spend for a tape drive with that capacity? How much will the tapes cost me? How dang slow is that tape drive compared to a "lowly" IDE drive? Don't get me wrong. I think tape has it's place. However, the reality is that tape is becoming a dinosaur in the land of hard drive "mammals". It's kind of pathetic that a tape backup solution can cost 10x the hard drive it's protecting. Matthew "Hoping that this email actually reaches the list"
RE: [expert] Test
It sounds like I'm not the only one who never sees their posts in the forum. I believe mine get thru simply because I see the responses from other folks on this list. Yesterday, I unsubscribed/resubscribed to the list, thinking that might help (it didn't). I guess the list server hates me. g Matt -Original Message- From: Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Test Capital C? [EMAIL PROTECTED]? hehe sorry. couldn't resist At 05:52 PM 7/25/2000 +0200, you wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:19:52AM +0930, Brian Schroeder wrote: I haven't seen anything on this list for a few days. It's usually high volume. Am I getting through? a) No problems here! I get my hourly amount of email, just like every day. b) Yes, you are getting through. But make sure to send everything to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (with a capital C) Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
RE: [expert] I'll be back
My company appears to have tied themselves quite closely to MS. The mail servers are NT boxes requiring domain logins which to me means no POP and no SMTP. I don't know enough about Outlook/Exchange to know what protocol the client/server system uses. I do know the system normally acts like an IMAP4 server because we can access our email via the web or DL locally to our machines via Outlook. Matt -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 11:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] I'll be back On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: Outlook 2000 DOES do threading. I'm using for this list now. I have to use Outlook as my company has standardized on M$ Exchange. Does Exchange not do POP and SMTP? John
RE: [expert] samba
I've only seen this behavior with NT boxes. NT creates pseudo shares for every local drive. -Original Message- From: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] samba Hmm, Based on that I decided to try running kruiser as root before changing any permissions. I su'ed and started kruiser from konsole, I then logged in with my user name/password and it worked. Is this a I could get it to work by setting suid. But I don't know about security concerns. But now I can see onlt C: on the remote machine.. it has 2 more drives (partitions).. E: and F:.. but I see them as E$ and F$ and can't access them.. what does this mean? Those would be hidden shares on a windows box, meaning you wouldn't see them as shared items from another windows box unless you had administrator name and password; and then you would have to access them by putting the '$' after the share. By default you would have \\computername\admin$ which would put you at the %systemroot%, \\computername\driveletter$ which would put you at that drive letter root and \\computername\print$ which would give access to the printer. I don't have samba experience yet, but I would think that your problem is in the way your linux box is interpreting the other shares - are they actually shared to the rest of your network? Hope that helps, Mike -sarang
[expert] FW: Problems with SCSI and LM 6.1
Success! After some searching of the web and talking with another Linux user (not on this list) I isolated the problem. It appears to be a conflict between older versions of the aic7xxx driver, my Adaptec 2940U2W and the new 160MB/s capable Seagate SCSI drive. After patching the aic7xxx driver to version 5.1.22 (from 5.1.19), the system properly recognizes the new drive on boot-up. It seems that the new 160MB/s SCSI drives can kick around some new protocols on the bus. The older driver didn't like that and kept trying to reset the SCSI bus to clear up the "problem". Matt -Original Message----- From: Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 4:34 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Problems with SCSI and LM 6.1 Yes, I'm still running 6.1. I hope to jump to 7.1 next weekend, assuming I can get the following problem resolved. My current system is a Dell P2-450 with an Adaptec 2940U2W adapter and these drives (all SCSI): IBM LVD SCSI 18 GB (ID 0) Micropolis Ultra SCSI 9GB (ID 1) Plextor 8/20 CD Reader (ID 3) Plextor 8/20 CD Burner (ID 4) Conner 8GB Tape Drive (ID 5) The IBM drive is on an LVD cable and the remainder are strung on a narrow ultra scsi cable. I bought a Seagate Cheatah LVD 36GB drive. I attached the Cheetah (ID 2) to the 2nd to last connector on the LVD cable and fired the system up and went into the Adaptec BIOS. Adaptec saw the drive and I proceeded to low-level format the disk (I've been burned in the past when I didn't do that with a SCSI drive). All is well with the world. The format completes and I reboot to fire up Linux. The scsi driver loads and proceeds to identify ID 0 and 1 (the IBM and Micropolis drives). Then I get the following series of messages: SCSI: aborting command due to timeout : pid 18, scsi 0, channel 0 id2, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 SCSI host 0 abort (pid 18) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset for host 0 channel 0 SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 18) timed out - trying harder ... repeats ad nasueam At this point I have no choice but to ctrl-alt-del. The problem persists in future reboots. If I remove the drive from the chain, the system boots fine. Any ideas on what the problem might be? Below is a log of a successful initialization of the SCSI driver: Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter found at PCI 13/0 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.19/3.2.4 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel:Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: scsi : 1 host. Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 80.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31. Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-318350W Rev: SA30 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Vendor: MICROPModel: 3391NS Rev: x43h Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 atd: atd startup succeeded Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-20TS Rev: 1.00 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R820T Rev: 1.03 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Vendor: CONNERModel: CTT8000-S Rev: 1.17 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/20x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35843670 [17501 MB] [17.5 GB] Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 Jul 21 15:29:05 av2443 kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector=
RE: [expert] Lap Top
-Original Message- From: Charles Curley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I trus you have already checked out the Linux Laptops page, at http://server.localdomain/~ccurley/linux.laptops.html Ummm. That's not a valid URL. And the info doesn't seem to be on your website at trib.com either. Want to try again with another URL? Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] Printing over LAN
-Original Message- From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I can get the files over to the Windows machine on Samba, but they don't actually print. I know they get there becuase they show up in the Windows printer queue, but then they vanish shortly thereafter without actually printing. Whereas files printed from Windows itself go into the queue and vanish only when they print. I don't see any error messages under Windows when this happens. On the flip side, I am unable to print in the other direction over Samba; in this case, I do get an error message under Windows (although it's an "undetermined" error) . . . Any ideas about what either of these might mean? Out of curiosity, are you running a firewall on the Linux box. I had all kinds of fun getting the SMB client/server stuff working between my secured Linux box and a W98 box. IIRC, ports 137-139 need to be fully open between the 2 machines. It took me 2 hours to find the necessary doco on the protocol to know what ports are required. Just a thought... Matthew Zaleski
RE: Overclocking sources (was: [expert] Cannot install 7.1, why!? !?)
www.overclockers.com www.overclockin.com There's a gazillion sites but those will get you started. I think one of those sites has a bunch of links to other good sites. Have fun, Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 1:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Cannot install 7.1, why!?!? For the Unixly expert but hardwarily newbie among us, how does one go about underclocking (or overclocking, or in general didldling with the clock)? Is there a reference you could point me to?
RE: [expert] X-CD-Roast Audio Burning
What is the brand/type of the reader you are trying to use? It's possible that the drive doesn't support audio ripping (grabbing audio faster than 1x). My Plextor SCSI reader drives support high speed ripping and do appear under the audio-read-device list. AFAIK, all burners (at least SCSI) support high speed audio ripping and should appear in the audio-read-device list. Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Breno F Basilio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 1:59 PM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] X-CD-Roast Audio Burning Under Setup in X-CD-Roast, ¨CD Setup¨ tab I cannot select my CD-Reader for ¨Audio-Read-Devide¨. It only lists my burner, but under ¨Data-Read-Device¨ both CDROMs are listed. Can anybody help figure out why, or how to fix this? Thanks B
[expert] Replies to list
Has there been a change in the semantics of the list processor for the expert list? I've noticed while trying to reply to messages that the "reply to" is set to the submitter's email and not the expert list address. It's creating fragmented threads when a list member replies to the sender and not to the list. I checked headers from earlier messages (a month ago) on the list and they were correctly listing the "reply to" as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas? Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] [OT] differences between sparc64 and i386
I don't have any experience with R but I was heavy into S (the S Plus commercial version) for 2 years. If the memory management is similar, then the experience you are having is normal. The calloc and free functions are actually using the interpreter's version of those functions. If you've got the RAM, then the interpreter never bothers to do a memory garbage cleanup. My guess is that on the writers of R did two different implementations of the garbage cleanup routine. If they made the (reasonable) assumption that the i386 version was running on a computationally weak system (compared to a Sparc) then they might have traded away available RAM for speed. Obviously this is just my opinion but I know S for i386 had some very interesting memory quirks and features. I doubt it is a feature of the OS as Linux/Unix tends to be a better memory manager than Windoze. And 32-bit vs. 64-bit should be irrelevant to this issue. Where are you measuring the memory loss? Is it at the R command line or with a standard Unix process utility? Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Christopher Quale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] [OT] differences between sparc64 and i386 Sorry to go off topic, but I would like to get the perspective of the very knowledgable people on this list. Background: I am writing a program using the "R" language (a high level statistical language, similar to the "S" language). I am able to dynamically load *.so.0 libraries (written in C) to do computationally intense tasks in R functions. I am doing all the memory management using calloc() and free() and am absolutely, 100% sure there are no memory leaks. The function that calls the C code is repeated many times over. Problem: When I run the program on an i386 linux machine, the memory aggregates as the number of times the function runs within the R program, until I exit the R interpreter, at which time all the memory is released. However, running the recompiled (for sparc64 linux) program on a recompiled (for sparc64 linux) version of R, there is no such memory aggregation (or at least it is minimal compared to i386). Question: Could this be a 32bit vs. 64bit thing (I did not write any architecture specific C code, standard ANSI-C with double type arrays and matrices)? Is this a difference between how memory is handled between the two ports? I know that there could be a difference in the way the R program is written for the two architectures, but aside from that, is there something at the OS level that could be one explanation for this? Again, sorry to go off-topic, but I enjoy reading and respect the opinions of the contributors to this list. Many thanks, Chris P.S. email me personally if this question is too off the deep end for the list.
RE: [expert] Swap Device
Give us a copy of the fstab file and the report from fdisk for your partition tables. If hdc1 is a swap partition, do you have any other mounted partitions /dev/hdc? That would isolate whether Linux is having trouble with the drive in general. Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Harry Flaxman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 7:00 PM To: Expert mailing list Subject: [expert] Swap Device I originally configured. my Mandrake 7.0 accidentally with NO SWAP device. It was misconfigured and somehow the system thought it was on hda6, which it is not. I have repartitioned one of my hard drives , hdc1, to be the swap file. The fstab entry is proper. The device has been partitioned and formatted under DOS. I have tried this with no formatting and formatting. I get an error message that the kernal doesn't support the filesystem swap. hdc1 is not mounted, and the OS goes to turn on swapping and fails. If I look at linuxconf under KDE.it shows the device being set up for swap. I get no swapping at all, and my system just keeps grabbing real ram until it fills up. Oh yes, I have tried mkswap and get an error that 130048 is larger than device which has 0 size. Wondering if there were any tips on this one, that someone could give me. Thanks. Harry -- ___ Harry Flaxman http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907
RE: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba
I'm still a bit confused on your problem. I had several Samba problems in the same configuration area as well and unintentionally became quite knowledgable at the million ways NOT to configure Samba. Perhaps you could provide a 'ls -l' of the dir itself plus its contents. Here is an example of a locked-down directory on my system that is used for development. It was the best I could do with the notoriously poor security in Windows. I could have used masks of 0660 as well but most Windows boxes seem intent on declaring everything executable (and this directory is not accessed in Linux normally). [SI] comment = Source Integrity browseable = yes path = /data/SI public = no guest only = no writable = yes only user = no write list = mzaleski, apalande, kboyd2, kvangord, jchen42 force user = mzaleski force group = VDOuser create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 force create mask = 0770 force directory mask = 0770 oplocks = True -Original Message- From: Leopold Palomo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bill Shirley Subject: Re: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba Bill Shirley ha escrit: You sure didn't provide much information! Send a: cat /etc/smb.conf All right, I'm sorry. I all the time complain about the people that don't send information and I do the same. [docutech] path = /home/users/docutech/fitxers-docutech valid users = produ admin users = produ write list = produ force user = docutech force group = users read only = No Any ideas?? Thanks a lot for the interest. Best regards, Leo
RE: [expert] Tulip NIC problem
DISCLAIMERI own one of these Linksys Adapters and it works fine, although I have a static IP/DISCLAIMER I think the point that the first poster was making is that the driver doco explicitly states that there is an issue. So his point to avoid the tulip (10/100 Linksys) board is valid. Hardware is worthless without a set of good drivers. Larry, if you work at Linksys, perhaps you could pressure DEC (or whomever makes the chips) to give more/better doco to the Linux developers to solve this issue. IMHO, given that I've been in the Linux community for a few years, I think it's safe to say that persistantly unstable Linux drivers tend to be caused by the Hardware makers not providing good documentation. I'm not picking on Linksys because I own several Linksys networking products and I've had good experiences with them. Matt -Original Message- From: Larry Sword [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Careful with the Linksys 10/100 under Linux, or any 10/100 NIC with a "PNIC" Chip. I've been to the website of the writer about two months ago, and discovered this little note: "Due to the lack? of documentation on the PNIC chip, autosensing the network" is/was not a feature of the driver the author could provide. IAW Linksys: COMPATABILITY NOTE: Linksys regularly tests its network adapters with Li nux, and finds that the adapters work well in our testing lab. However, Linux software drivers for Linksys network adapters are developed independently by third-party developers who support the Linux open source philosophy. Linksys is not responsible for guaranteeing the compatibility of its adapters with Linux, since it does not control how or by whom network drivers are developed.
RE: [expert] Linux Vmware file sharing -- footnote
I'm a longtime user of VMWare for Linux so I'll try to answer the multitude of questions in this post -Original Message- From: Rial Juan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] AFAIK, vm-ware uses the loopback-device principle for its FS. That means it mounts a file as its filesystem (similar to mounting an ISO-image in linux). Therefore I fear it's impossible to copy the file directly onto the win 3.1 filesys. Although vm-ware never explicitly states that this is how they do it, it is a reasonable assumption. In fact, they offer a utility for mounting vm-ware virtual disks in Linux for direct manipulation by the host operating system. The URL is http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/loopback_linux.html It describes in detail how to set it up and covers common problems. What you can try is check out if you can get any network access in win31, preferably FTP, and if that works, log into your linux-box and "download" the file. So basically: get that internet working under VM-ware. Win3.1 is going to be more problematic than win9x or NT because you usually have to use DOS drivers to enable networking and that is a royal pain in the arse (been there, done that). If vm-ware is configured with bridged networking, it handles all of the issues related to having 2 IP addresses (1 for Linux and 1 for guest OS) with only one network card. The kicker being: You need multiple static addresses available for that to work (works for me since I could request additional IP's from my corporate networking group). If you are doing this at home via dialup or single static ip (cable modem/DSL/etc) that you must tell vm-ware to set up a private network (host only networking in their options dialog) for your guest OS. Then the Linux side has to be set up with something along the lines of IP-Masquerading or web proxies. ps: isn't there another way? Can't you access the linux FS as a network drive in vm-ware? I don't use it, so I don't know... Perhaps putting it on a floppy, and reading the floppy in vm-ware? Just a few suggestions, I might not be making much sense here. ;-) My comment above points out that vm-ware offers several networking solutions for it's guest OS's. Worst case scenario: you could mount the floppy on Linux, copy files to it, umount the drive, and reconnect the drive to the guest OS in the vm-ware options, all on the fly. It's tedious, but it does work. On Mar 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends: This is a footnote to my long letter concerning Linux, VMware and Win3.1 (which is in fact one of the guest OS's supported by VMware for Linux). Why are you using Win3.1 in the first place. Fire up a copy on Win95 or 98 in the VM and networking is 10 times easier. Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] Linux/VMWare -- bridge or host-only networking?
Host-only with IP-Masquerading or Proxie/firewall on the Linux side. I believe there is a walkthrough on VMWare's site for getting the IP Masquerade to work in your situation. You will most likely need DOS drivers for your network in Win3.1. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Sher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 4:23 AM To: Air-Exp Subject: [expert] Linux/VMWare -- "bridge" or "host-only" networking? Dear friends: This is a footnote to my earlier letter concerning Mandrake 7.0, VMware 2.0 and Win3.1. I have a single computer running Linux and a single virtual machine with Win3.1 on it. I have ADSL broadband (3com ethernet card) and I also use a U. S. Robotics 56k EXT modem as a backup for the ADSL. During installation, VMWARE recognized my DHCP protocol and suggested bridge network. That's what Settings also showed after installation (which was otherwise perfect). At the bottom of the main VMware screen I see icons for four devices: floppy, hard drive, CD AND ethernet0. The floppy icon works when I click on it and the hard drive. The CD is of no importance at this time. But the ethernet icon does not respond. BIG QUESTION OF THE DAY: After reading extensivly on this subject on VMware's support page (Documentation, Networking) at: http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/networking_linux.html, I can't help but wonder if perhaps what I really need is HOST-ONLY NETWORKING for the ethernet card. Bellsouth considers me to be on a LAN, and that is the way my ADSL was configured from the beginning (first under Windows95 and now under Linux). I hope to avoid Win95/98 at all costs in VMware. My interest is very specific: Windows Media Player 3.0 for Win3.1, which is equivalent, I think, to WMP 6.4 for Win96/98. I need this for live Russian broadcasting for my colleagues and myself, and TV6 Moscow broadcasts, alas, only on WMP. What's your opinion, please? Bridge or host-only networking? Thank you so very much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
RE: [expert] digitally signed messages
I second someone else's comment: Why? Digitally signed messages are the future. I've looked at the source of a signed message and the content is readable regardless of whether your email client can authenticate the signature. Digitally ENCRYPTED messages, OTOH, are a pain at this stage of the internet. Matt -Original Message- From: Linda Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 8:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] digitally signed messages Importance: High Please dont send thru digitally signed messages.
[expert] SSH and firewalls
I've never seen an answer to my question so I'll ask it here: Is it possible to SSH thru a corporate firewall that does NOT have SOCKS capability? I can telnet into the firewall and then out to any system but, obviously, that is not SSH encapsulated. Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install
I assume by the part number that those models are high-voltage DIFFERENTIAL SCSI adapters. You can't mix single-ended and high voltage differential SCSI components without letting the factory smoke out. (and for those who didn't understand the last sentence: if you've got SCSI you are 99% likely to have single-ended (SE) or low-voltage differential (LVD) which are compatible with each other). Matt -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install BTW, for anyone needing an updated SCSI card, www.compgeeks.com has Adaptec Model AHA-3944UWD/AHA-3944AUWD on sale for $99.00 (US). The current web address for this item is http://www.compgeeks.com/cgi-bin/details.asp?cat=sku=205-7394. I have bought merchandise from them in the past (just got a 5-disc external SCSI CD jukebox for under $50 G) Anyway, just thought I'd pass it along.
RE: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install
Another thought on this... In response to an earlier, valid comment that the SCSI adapter may not be bootable: The failure mode doesn't match. His BIOS would have kicked up a fuss that no SCSI boot device found and then proceeded to try booting an IDE device. Also, your drive is bigger than 8GB. Those older Adaptecs needed a flag set in the BIOS for flipping to a different drive translation for anything bigger than 8GB. Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install
I don't think your issue is compiling the module into the kernel. I think it is a corrupt boot sector or the /boot partition is past the 1024 cyl limit. Did you remove all IDE drives from the system? I had problems with the BIOS on my machine here at work with having both an IDE and SCSI drive. The BIOS was bound and determined to use the boot sector of the IDE to get going which, in my case, had an old Linux boot sector, giving me the 'LI' prompt. If I used the emergency floppy that the install let me make, I could boot into the correct partition with no problems. I eventually figured out the way that the crappy Phoenix BIOS wanted to be set to ignore the IDE properly. This next item is slightly off topic... Why are you mating a 9GB SCSI drive to an ISA controller? That's a recipe for a system slower than IDE. Slap in a 29xx PCI controller which has the bus bandwidth the hard drive needs. Matthew -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Yacketta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install John, so, once I compile the aha152x into the kernel I would modify the lilo.conf and pass the parameters needed to see the scsi on the append line? (aha152x=0x140,11,7,1,1)
RE: [expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work
My understanding is that PCI works on the concept of interrupts A, B, C, and D. Your BIOS (PNP) then mates each of the letters to a numeric interrupt we all know and love, generally through a ritual akin to voodoo. On my motherboard (ASUS P3B), the manual states that the AGP slot, USB, and PCI slot 1 all share the same interrupt. Ergo, my suggestion is "Try a different slot." I've never had a problem with my AGP and PCI boards sharing interrupts but I wouldn't be surprised if a problem did crop up. Matt What does USB have to do with this? I understand how diabling USB would free up an IRQ, but this Intel nic will always take IRQ11 unless I find a way to get the DOS setup program to run. It doesn't even run when I shutdown and reboot in MS-DOS Mode. (Intel is no help, BTW. I've had a message posted on their support forum for 2 weeks without a reply.) Lastly, someone suggested that I might have an el-cheapo motherboard that isn't handling PCI right. Possible, but shouldn't be. I have a Soyo 5EHM v1.1 with Award BIOS v4.51PG on a VIA MVP3 chipset. It is supposedly PCI2.1 compliant. But it does do some weird stuff with it's drivers. One of the Windows drivers that come on the installation disk with the mobo is a "IRQ Remapping utility", so maybe it's IRQ's are all messed up.
RE: [expert] OT: MB
USB plugs into USB ports, not motherboard PCI slots. Something is inaccurate about your description. Unless he really did cram an external modem into his case, which could cause some serious damage ;) Matt -Original Message- From: ibi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] OT: MB A friend put a USB modem in a slot shared with AGP on Intel mb under Winders95. It worked briefly. Approximately 20 minutes later he was reformatting the hdd. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] burning CDs
don't use Xcdroast on data cdroms, this program is broken somehow (at least it has never worked for me without hitches since some error messages are suppressed and several options are not correct) we use plain mkisofs/cdrecord here and it has been working just great for *years* now I've only used XCDRoast for 2 years now, both with a 4x and an 8x burner. Data and audio CDs both come out fine at full speed. The version of XCDRoast in the distro LM6.1 and LM7.0beta(Oxygen) have a display bug where status box doesn't get updated until the burn is complete. Grab a different version from the maker of XCDRoast and that problem goes away. Any ideas? I burned at full 4x speed, and some people have told me they typically burn at half the maximum speed. Would that help, do you think? Also, some CD-R (dark blue and shiny green) should be avoided for data duplication under all circumstances. Especially these CD-R will not work well with Linux ISO images (this is from experience with about 5000 produced CD-R, so please don't flame me on this): Kodak with black coating (yes, these really exist !) any green CD-R (especially ARITA or Red Label, "audio") dark blue CD-R (especially Verbatim or unlabelled) I've had a few problems with the cheapy green CD-R disks, although I attributed it to poor balance where the CD reader drive couldn't spin up the disk beyond 4x or 8x without problems. The following CD-R work GREAT on any Linux ISO image: Kodak or Mitsui GOLD/GOLD (only 6x speed) unlabelled SILVER/SILVER (be sure to buy 8x speed CDs) PRINCO SILVER/BLUE (this is light blue ...) Intenso SILVER/BLUE (this is also light blue, we did not test the new dark blue Intenso 700 MB yet) I have not had any problems (in 50-100 CD's) so far unlabelled silver/silver disks. I burn at 8x even though they are spec'd for 4x or 6x. Overall, I agree with the intent of your comments: "BUY QUALITY CD-R disks!". They are not that much more expensive and what good is a storage medium that corrupts your data. Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] Greetings
First of all, is it safe to say that basically, all Linux distributions are about the same? It looks as though the only real differences between the distributions deal with the installation process and the choice of packages that each company chooses to include, is this true? And if it is, are problems encountered with other Linux distributions pretty much relevant to this list? Classifying Linux distributions is like saying jazz or acid rock is the best music in the world. Pick a distro that feels comfortable to you. Each has its good points and bad points. Some make better servers, others are good home machines or newbie machines. I've watched them evolve rapidly over the last few years (who remembers SlackWare?) to the point where even newbies can get a basic system up and running in no time. I'm happy, else I wouldn't be on this list, with the feature set in LM6.1. I would also really like to get an idea of the way the directories are set up. For example, where are the most common places to put files at, such as mp3s, files downloaded from the internet, pictures, etc. Also, where would be a good place to look to figure out how all the various .conf files and the Linux equivalent of autoexec.bat affect my system? try "man name_of_file" go into the /usr/doc directory system and spend a few weeks there, especially the HOWTO, FAQ and LDP sub directories. Go to www.linux.org and spend a few weeks there too. Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] Security with cable
There is a big difference, actually. On a cable modem, your home computer is part of a large ethernet segment. Any user can sniff your packets because everyone's data appears on the other user's ethernet port. A dialup system, however, has a separate router port for every dialup. The administrator, or someone upstream of the dialup server router can sniff packets, but a USER on another dialup cannot. Each dialup port sees only the data routed to it. To give an example. Let us say two systems, one dialup and one cable. Both have identical POP3 mail servers. Further, the administrator has a computer on the same ethernet as the mail server. Question, who can see what? A user checks mail. This is a cleartext POP3 mail function with username and passwords sent in the clear, INCLUDING the administrator when he checks his mail. This would require, at least in the case of 2 providers in the Detroit, MI, USA area, the hacker to reprogram his cable modem to receive other users packets, since the cable modem is acting like a router and only passing packets that need to go thru to the user. The provider I'm with is SpeedChoice and the other one I have familiarity with is Comcast/atHome. SpeedChoice is, currently, an analog (33.6kbps) upstream and 2.4GHz (approx 2.5Mbps) microwave from a tower about 10-30 miles away. The microwave transmission is being encrypted although I don't know the details; Specifically, if the key is unique to each modem so that sniffing packets would be very difficult. SpeedChoice is in the process of going fully wireless (microwave both directions) this year. Correct me if I'm wrong. Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] Security .. OT?
I am currently running this way on my home machine. But this doesn't plug all of the holes an intruder can enter, does it? Matthew Zaleski -Original Message- From: Bug Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Security .. OT? 1. in /etc/hosts.deny, put ALL : ALL 2. in /etc/hosts.allow, enter who can access your machine (man hosts.allow) 3. update all packages whenever the update reason is a security issue. 4. run only the daemons necessary. On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, ibi wrote: This is a security question. I don't know if it's off topic or not. How do we protect our system from this type of activity? ...Snipped from: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1501144.html "University of Washington computers also were used for attacks on computers in France, Norway and Australia, he said. The attack software was installed primarily on computers using Sun Microsystems' Solaris and Linux--both variations of the Unix operating system. To break into those computers, the intruder took advantage of known vulnerabilities that allowed him or her to take almost complete control of a computer then erase his or her tracks, Dittrich said..." Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] SMB Help Please.
From: Bug Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] It is difficult to get to work the first time, but a careful reading of the /usr/doc/samba* (or is it /usr/doc/smb*) will tell you. Another good resource for documentation is http://www.samba.org wade Another good source is Samba Server Step-by-Step http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html Matt
RE: [expert] looking for software
I believe there is a package that comes with most Linux distributions (on CD) called SPICE. Also check out www.freshmeat.net. Here is something that just got updated today on FreshMeat: --- - --- -- - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Oregano 0.11 added by: Richard Hult on Feb 03rd 2000, 06:17 license: GPL category: GNOME/Applications homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/941287661/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/941287661/ description: Oregano is an application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. The actual simulation is performed by SPICE, which is required for simulation, but not neccessary to run the application. changes: Added the ability to name nodes to make the plots more useful. urgency: low http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/02/03/949576640.html Matt -Original Message- From: Guillermo Belli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works under Lunux. Is there such a thing? If I could find a program like that, it would help me a lot. Any help appreciated.
RE: [expert] M13
From: Ramon Gandia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Benjamin Sher wrote:
still needs a lot of work. I am, of course, disappointed to
know that
Mozilla 13 is not yet ready for prime time, but truth, in
the long run,
never hurt anybody. Let's hope the Mozilla folks continue to improve
their new Communicator.
That is the whole problem, Ben. Communicator was never a good
product, for either Windows or Linux. The code on Communicator
has been in the 13MB to 20 MB depending on version.
The last version of Netscape I used at any length was NS3.0. I switch to
Internet Explorer and haven't looked back. Considering how much M$ usually
ignores standards and blazes their own trail, IE4 and IE5 are VERY compliant
and up-to-date with Web Consortium standards.
This became very apparent when I tried to design some web pages. IE would
function according to the spec while Netscape merrily went its own way and
either ignored the tag or, worse, misinterpreted the tag. Netscape 4.x, for
example, is frickin' clueless about cascading style sheets. HELLO??!!! How
many years has CSS been in the spec? 3? 4?
I could go on, but I think I made my point: Whatever M$ faults are, they
have the most compliant browser on the market. Period. I think the web
browser open source community should wake up and smell the coffee. You guys
are NOT outperforming the "evil empire" with regard to browsers. Just a
fact of life.
To be fair, I did try M13 yesterday on my LM6.1 system. The fonts were so
small I couldn't read it, and no matter what options I tried, I couldn't
increase the fonts onscreen. That, along with 10 crashes, both exceptions
and outright fatal errors, tells me that the Mozilla project still seems to
be stumbling along. I blame Netscape and AOL more than the programmers. It
isn't fully open source like Linux so why would the many Linux gurus want to
develop it.
Matt Zaleski
P.S. Contrary to the stance some might think I have, I have no love for
Microsoft and I want Linux and open source to kick their butts. But if
we're not honest about the capabilities on the Open Source side, we're no
better than the PR ("marketing" to those outside the U.S.) machine in
Redmond.
RE: [expert] ntfs LM-7.0
From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] If you want data interchangeability, you could build a small FAT parking partition. However, of you want full access to the NT partition, you should format it for FAT16, NOT fat 32. Or do later versions of Linux support FAT32? FAT32 == VFAT John Linux does support FAT32 but NT4.0 does not. NT supports NTFS and FAT16. Typical M$ being incompatible with itself. If I'm not mistaken, NT2000 does not support FAT32 but does offer a new type of NTFS that is not backward compatible. Matt
RE: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1
-Original Message- From: Pixel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1 - The formatting option does a quick format, not a detailed format. I like the increase in speed, but am I sacrificing anything for that feature? quick format? what's it? it is normal mke2fs that's used! When installing with LM6.1, the formatting took 1-2 hours. LM7.0 did it in 5 minutes. Did they optimize mkesfs 2500% in the last few months or are different command line options being used? - If you have a partition table already set up, the install won't give you the option to "check for bad blocks", and I was in "expert" mode. you kidding? i added it myself, so you must be testing oxygen ?... I guarantee it was LM7.0, not Oxygen (only loaded that at home). I was given the option to test for bad blocks the first, second and third installs; all those times I had reconfigured the partition table at that particular step. Install attempt 4 was aborted by 3-finger salute after partition was written. Install attempt 5 kept the partitions as is and Drak only gave a dialog for picking which partitions to format (which I was always choosing all since I was having so many problems), and NO dialog or option appeared for bad block checking. It wouldn't have been a big deal normally. But between install #3 and #4 I had added a second IDE HD to give me enough space for my intended use of the system. Install #4 wrote the partitions but never got to format or badblock test. Install #5 never gave the option to test bad blocks. I got to this point (of having a partition table with no formatting or bad block checks) because I 3 fingered a previous install of LM7.0 gone sour. I find the RedHat partition program (a girl's name which escapes me now) worked better for me. At least give the "expert" users the choice of which partition program to use. i don't understand what you speak about here Sorry, I was way off here. "Disk Druid" is what I was trying to think of (had to dig out my old RedHat books). - This is nit-picking, but the install asked if I wanted to create an emergency floppy. I had only hard drives and a CD drive installed. floppy detection is not there yet :( I figure as much but thought I would throw it out there for future feature. In the near future, many systems probably won't come with a regular floppy drive. My system at home has an LS120 which is an IDE device, not floppy controller. In any event, the point of my long message(s) was to provide some constructive feedback on the particulars of what problems I had. I've seen quite a few flames on LM7.0 with minimal explanations given for why they disliked it. Matthew Zaleski
RE: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1
Finally gave up and went with RedHat 6.1. Maybe when LM7.1+ comes out I'll take another look... Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I was running Mandrake 6.1 at home and work. I upgraded the home machine to the Oxygen beta and everything still works (still running the beta), although I haven't stressed that machine yet. At work, I had to load Linux on another machine that was going to be used as a low-end server. I tried installing LM7.0 Air six times! Every time, the damn install failed to install something (one time it was Drake stuff, another it was ncftp). To top it off, the later installs couldn't load X. It kept giving me a 'Id "x" is respawning too fast. Waiting five minutes.' or something close to that. Plus, supermount never worked, saying it wasn't supported by the kernel. Never did figure out the problem. I, luckily, found a site with the mandrake61-1.iso file. LM6.1 loaded up with minimal problems (nothing critical) and it is running fine right now. I'm impressed with some of the new features promised in 7.0. However, it came out the door with too little testing. Some examples: - the selection of packages is completely non-intuitive. I can't figure out what is going on. Plus, accidentally unclicking an item ripples a bunch of other packages to the "don't install" mode. How the heck am I supposed to guess which buggers were turned on? The old install package selector wasn't pretty and wasn't easy, but it sure got the job done. - There's no "back" button (I know this was mentioned before). If you make a mistake, you must give the machine the 3 finger salute. - The formatting option does a quick format, not a detailed format. I like the increase in speed, but am I sacrificing anything for that feature? - If you have a partition table already set up, the install won't give you the option to "check for bad blocks", and I was in "expert" mode. I got to this point (of having a partition table with no formatting or bad block checks) because I 3 fingered a previous install of LM7.0 gone sour. I find the RedHat partition program (a girl's name which escapes me now) worked better for me. At least give the "expert" users the choice of which partition program to use. - Why do I still get, on booting the CD, the ability to pick "expert" on the lilo line? It doesn't seem to do anything. - This is nit-picking, but the install asked if I wanted to create an emergency floppy. I had only hard drives and a CD drive installed. I know the Mandrake team invested a lot of time into this release. They are to be commended for their past accomplishments (up thru 6.1) and the desire to push the envelope. When the Mandrake team wants to add major feature changes to the distribution, however, a much longer beta period is needed. I will help with beta testing 7.1 when you reach that stage.
