Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Todd Lyons wrote: > -pgpenvelope processed message > > Carroll Grigsby wrote on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:39:08PM -0500 : > > > > With all due respect, putting this thread in the same category as that mess > > last week is a huge leap. For one thing, this hardly a controversial topic. > > I did not say it was the same category regarding the topic. I said > marking a message with OT shows that the email is an abuse of the > intended audience (in the author's opinion, I should have said). I did > not attack Praedor as he has been an avid participant in this mailing > list and I don't want to be responsible for curttailing that. A warning > just means that I'm trying to enforce the rules, it doesn't mean that > I'm angry. > > Having said all of that, here is a two step guideline to writing > messages to any mailing list, not just this one. > > 1) Compose a subject for your question. > 2) If the subject includes OT or Offtopic, delete the email without > sending or send it to the correct forum for that topic. > > I'm not mad. I'm just trying to increase the SNR of this mailing list. > > And Praedor was right. His question could have been worded only > slightly different and would have been well received. Again, I'm not > mad. > > Blue skies... Todd > -- >MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com > cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/dsp #for great justice > Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21pre4-1mdk Ok...but whats SNR? - -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" - --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE+QZl4lz3cA934DmQRAqn6AJ90kIOlpqFH4G11tzGNbahTB6pAWACg+E3r US/ekBeCdkXLG8BTOxbJ6M0= =i5L5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, et wrote: > > > I take responsibility for posting OT on the list. I would do it again but > > perhaps in doing so I should have specified an off-list, direct reply to me > > rather than in the list. Newsgroups are sometimes too slow and I needed > > info ASAP (like within an hour or so). > > I am on this list to learn, and I must say, in this thread I learned a few > things, and that made MY day (to learn something new), so for me at least > this thread was very good. > same here for me et. -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Seth Zirin wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 09:59, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > > I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not > > real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it > > a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I have. > > > > I need help fast. Anyone with knowledge about this who can help me...I would > > be eternally grateful. > > How is this even remotely related to Mandrake Linux? Why are you > wasting everyone's resources for unrelated math questions that you could > likely answer yourself with five minutes of effort searching google? > > Seth Seth, it's related provided you've been a contributing list member for at least 6 months to a year. :) -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ip rules help
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, drake wrote: > [root]# ip rule list > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > Dump terminated > [root]# ip rule ls > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > Dump terminated > > Now what do I do? Drake, what the heck it is? I've never heard of it, but i only get three lines returned when I issue the command. -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] troubles port forwarding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Franki wrote: > I don't know if this is solved yet, (I have 900 unread in my inbox) > but show us the lines from gshield you are using for the forwarding??? > > if memory serves, you set FORWARDING=YES and under port 25 you set it to > FORWARD and put > the forwarding IP's address in the box... > > if you did that and it isn't working, you can use the 'forwards' file in > /etc/firewall/conf > > I am using that now to forward port 10005 on the linux box to port 80 on a > windows box inside.. > (so my work guys can see my IIS server for demo's etc.) > > > rgds > > Frank HI Frank, actually the "forwarding" was working. the problem was that when Postfix would get a connection for a message it was rejecting "all" of the messages being sent to it. the only thing that allowed it to accept about 1/2 of the messages that were coming in was to set mynetworks = 0/0. that is far from desireable. After talking with Pierre and Todd it would appear that I'm going to have to do a bit more reading, studying, and configuring on Postfix before this will operate correctly. another weird thing was that I couldn't access any of the other services behind the firewall using the DNSable sym name, but could of course get to them using the IP address of the machine. the webserver was accessible, but only the root if the server and nothing below the root. the only service that didn't have a problem connected to it during this entire test was the FTP server. both registered users as well as anonymous users were able to gain access to the server. - -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE+LbCelz3cA934DmQRAgwLAJ9xwgzz3HVVQwExOyfWVMS9e4tPAwCguaHa OsbdYiWfpp4/idwrT5IvBr4= =Zfew -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] no help, no userguide with grace/XMgrace
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, W. Kasberg wrote: > I am using Mdk9.0 and KDE3.1rc5. > I have installed grace-5.1.10-1mdk. > > while using XMgrace I cannot get help or userguide. They are installed on > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/grace/doc/. But it seems that is not the correct place. > Wher should they be installed? > > Thanks. > W. Kasberg you should be able to find the docs in /usr/share/doc. that normally where documentation for apps is kept. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Questions about encryption / security
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Jim C wrote: > I've finally got a authentication system up and running to the point > that it probably is a good idea to protect it. Namely a Samba PDC with > an LDAP backend that will also authenticate Linux. :-) > > So anyway, I had some questions. First, do communications between > daemons running on the same box need encryption? Second, does anyone > know how to get ssh to play nice with ldap? Aside from encryption and > running a firewall, what else is a good idea that wont give me too much > of a headache? :-) > > Thanks, > > Jim C. > Jim, do you have samba setup so that it will only accept connections from specific IP addresses, and not a range of addresses? thats one good way of tightening up the system. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] network goes dead
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Pierre Fortin wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:29:43 -0500 Mark Weaver > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > > has anyone else noticed the network connectivity in Mandrake 9.0 goes > > dead periodically? It's very annoying and it seems to be linked to > > Shorewall firewall system. > > > > Mark > > Any chance you're experiencing the ssh "pause"... I use ssh extensively > and experience pauses ONLY when modem connected (never when LAN connected) > to the server. It doesn't affect all sessions; I can continue to work on > another session while one or more are stalled... I rarely connect between > 2 modem connected machines; but it's on my list to watch for that possible > scenario... > > Pierre Hi Pierre, No. This is happening at work on the LAN. I don't use 9 on my server at home. "it" and my old machine don't get along at all very well. the network troubles with that machine running 9.0 are terrible. The interruptions are across the spectrum from web server to ssh. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] what port
Hi list, I installed a new firewall today on my server, Shorewall. I'm really impressed with this package and I've gotten everything configured except for printing. Anyone know what port needs to be open so that printing can resume? On the LAN I've got 137-139 open because the printer is being shared with Samba. On the server things are being taken care of by Cups. So, it would appear the only thing missing in this equation is the opening of the correct port. At the moment I've opened ipp, (631), and 515 (printer) as is listed in /etc/services. Still printing does not happen. The Cups server is running as is Samba. I've already attempted to print from the server itself from webmin, but to no avail. The message I get when trying to print from Webmin when checking on the printer is: lpr: unable to print file: server-error-not-accepting-jobs .. command failed! any ideas? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Proftpd anonymous ftp behind a linksys BEFSR41 firwall/switch/router
Todd Franklin wrote: > Hopefully you can help me out. I've had this same problem since i > started using proftpd. Anybody outside my router, can only hit my ftp > site with internet explorer. Any gecko based browser doesn't work from > outside. (inside my network, they work fine) The browser > (netscape/mozilla) will give a "connection refused" error. I can see > the client hit my box while running proftpd in debug mode. I use the > non-inetd option because I like to be able to turn it on or off at my > discretion. In the router have forwarded ports 20 and 21 to my mandrake > box. I'm including the text of my debug error messages. I'm using > "passive mode" but it seems to me if IE works, then why can't netscape? > In fact IE will work even from win4lin. [snip] Todd, Try setting your Proftpd to force passive mode transfers. For some reason gecko based browsers have a tendency to trip PortSentry alert system and trick it into thinking there's an active attack and then block access. This has happened to me on more then one occassion while using Proftpd. Since switching to Pure-ftpd I don't have this problem any longer. As I remember it though forcing the passive transfer did the trick for me. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HELP!!! kde texstar packages
James Sparenberg wrote: > For 8.2 I'm assuming? let me see if I've got them think I might. > but not sure. > > James > Hi James, Yes, they're for 8.2. Sorry about that. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] HELP!!! kde texstar packages
Hi List, I'm in desperate need of the KDE 3.0.x texstar packages and I can't find them anywhere. I "used" to have all of them tucked away for a rainy day. Well...it's friggin pooring and I can't find my stache anywhere. :( Could some kind soul hook me up? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Issues with 9.0RC2
Todd Lyons wrote: > Bob Puff@NLE wrote on Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:29:34AM -0400 : > >>3. I could not locate the pine package anywhere on the disks. > > > Pine has a commercial license. We are not allowed to distribute a > modified version. > yikes! does that mean they're going completely commercial with Pine, or are the peons of the world still going to be able to get it for free or at least at a reduced price for personal use? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] URL for Mozilla's Java plugin!!!
Hi All, In case no one has done this already I've grown tired of the miserable way Mozilla 1.1 handles getting the plugins so I managed to locate the URL that Mozilla 1.0 was using to download and install the plugin. here it is. this go this URL and click on download and the java plugin will download and install wonderfully. no fuss, no muss... Just be sure you're running Mozilla as root user though so the plugin installs correctly. http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/pi_moreinfo.cgi?PID=10047 Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MySQL-update on 8.0 ...
hans schneidhofer wrote: > hi > don't know, why, but an update the MySQL from 3.23.36 to all over abouth > seems to be impossible. > > have tried now an old 39-release, a 41-release - all impossible. think, that > is really bad thing. > > on my old rh7.1 box I have done an update from 32-release to 52 without any > problems - whats going wrong in all the mdk-related mysql-files. > the only one release I can install is the origin 36-release, which is on the > CD of 8.0 - nothing else. > > I got a lot of failed dependencies - so I posted yesterday. > > hope anyone has an idea ? > bye hans > > hans, first, are you using arch specific packages to do the update, or did you get the packages from the MySQL site? Second, what command are you using to do the update? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: mysql problem
Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Ok, it's running. > What I did: > > When I ran mysql_install_db, I did it as root. So it created the mysql > database (the privliges database) owned by root. I changed the ownership > to mysql, and all works now. > > So... It runs now. But I still don't know why all the sudden it died > like it did. > > Ric > > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 23:11, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > >>Ok, since I'm on a roll with the off topic dumb questions today. I have >>another one. >> >>I am just starting to work with mysql. It was going ok, until the daemon >>died. I have no idea what caused it, but it won't restart. The log file >>gives the error: >> >> >>020905 20:03:48 mysqld started >>020905 20:03:48 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist >>020905 20:03:48 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Normal shutdown >> >>020905 20:03:48 mysqld ended >> >>That particular table never did exist. In fact, the "default" databse of >>mysql never did exist. But all the sudden, the daemon won't run without >>it. >> >>I'm sure something simple happened to cause this. Can anyone shine a >>light on it for me? >> >>I've been digging through the documentation, but so far, I can't come up >>with anything. I'd sure appreciate any advice! >> >>Thanks!! >> >> Ric Hi Ric, Actually it was telling you all along what the problem was it just wasn't telling you explicitly. It needs to be reinstalled so that things get setup correctly. The DB mysql.host must exist for things to work correctly. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:49:18 -0400 (EDT), daRcmaTTeR spaketh: > >On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > > > >>I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt > >>down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. > >>[snip] > > > > >um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditribution you've > >chosen to install on your system. Urpmi takes the misery out of > >having to hunt down the package you want to install that you're not > >sure which CD it's on. > > > >EX: urpmi some-package-name > > My installation must be incomplete. I am getting the error: > > unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)" into > account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake > Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)] exists > > However, urpmi did popout the cd tray and asked me to insert the cd > where the rpm lives. Thanks for the tip. > > >Another very painless way you can do this very same thing is to use > >the systems software manager. It's called rpmdrake. This is the same > > little gem of a program that allows you to do the updates for your > >system. > >Get to know it. It's not the monster some would have you believe it > >is. > > Actually, it's not the monster it used to be in the 7.X series. > Thanks for re-aquainting me to it. No problem. :) As for your rpmdrake error it sounds as though there isn't an ftp server defined from which it will grab the updates from. usually the first time you run Mandrake Update it will tell you there aren't any servers defined and allow the opportunity to do so. have you done that before? -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs >to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard drive. Is there a traditional >place to which I should copy all the RPMS (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I just make a >new partition called /cds and copy them to /cds/cd1, /cds/cd2/ and /cds/cd3? > > -- > Matt um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditribution you've chosen to install on your system. Urpmi takes the misery out of having to hunt down the package you want to install that you're not sure which CD it's on. EX: urpmi some-package-name If the package is on the CD's and you're logged in as root it will tell you which CD to place in the Drive so you can install the package. If it's not on the CD's then it won't know what you're talking about and it will tell you so. Another very painless way you can do this very same thing is to use the systems software manager. It's called rpmdrake. This is the same little gem of a program that allows you to do the updates for your system. Get to know it. It's not the monster some would have you believe it is. You can also use the search function contained on it to search your system to see if the package you're looking for is already on your system. Try one or both of these methods the next time you wish to install a package that you think may be on the CD's, but you're not certain. I have a feeling you'll be very pleasantly surprised. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] webmin modules???
Hi List, I was wondering if anyone knows of a webmin module for Sympa configuration that can be added to Webmin. Is there? thanks, -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: > I'm getting close on my email server (using fetchmail, postfix, > procmail, ipopd (and maybe later imapd) -- in fact, if you see this it > came from my Windows box via the Linux email server. ;-) > > But, I have some bugs to work out yet, and some questions: > > Questions: > > 1. Anybody know a good way to detect that a network link is active? > Background: > > My connection to the Internet is via a dial up on another box (Dos, as a > matter of fact.) I would like to set up a cron job (and script) to do > something like the following: >* Confirm the connection to my ISP is up (ping him, check for > success?) >* If no: wake it up (ping it), and after so many tries, quit and give > a message somewhere (and if it wakes up, proceed to the if yes) >* If yes: > * Run fetchmail to get mail > * Run sendmail -q to kick the queue and send any outgoing mail > (I've set defer_transports=SMTP) > > The reason I want to make sure the link is up before I kick the queue is > so that the "exponential backoff" doesn't go into effect and result in > outgoing messages sitting in the server for long periods of time (or > even getting "failure to deliver" "bounces" from my own server). > > Is that an unrealistic concern? Is there a better way to deal with it? > > Randy Kramer > > Aside: For a while, every time someone mentioned "ifup" it sounded like > just what I needed. I now realize that it is a command (bring the > interface up) rather than a test (if the interface is up, do ...) Hi Randy, What if you just did something like this. 1) ping ISP... a) if icmp echo request == 'yes' then do the mail thing else run "ifup" command kick mailque fi what-cha think? -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Non root IPchains
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Brad wrote: > Heh, yer I know what you mean, I just want to be able to drop DoS attackers > straight into the firewall. I suppose another alternative would be to write > a C program than can gain then drop root privs at it needs them, accepting > only the passed in IP to construct the predefined rule, then only allowing > apache to run the program? > > Thanks Mad Scientist, your suggestion works fine, I've just got to decide if > the security risk is worth it. The DoS attacks that this script stops have > recently been totally taking my production system down. > > Brad. > Brad, you could also check into Honeyport. that actually sounds more like what you'd need to take care of those rotten buggers. hang on to those connections till you're damn good and ready to let'em go. tie up "their" resources for a few days and see of those damn script kiddies don't leave you alone then. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Non root IPchains
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Brad wrote: > Hi, I've written some IPchains into my perl script using perl-IPchains but > the script has to be executed by root or ipchains refuses. > > Does anyone know how I can allow user "apache" to use ipchains, or how I can > elevate my privileges within perl. > > Thanks, > Brad. Brad, what you're asking is downright blasphemy! every penguin in the known universe just growned in unison. believe me...this you don't want to do. ipchains is run by root for good reason and thats how it should stay. you do _not_ want your firewall, or any other part of your system's security accessible to normal users. you will have to settle for the script needing to be run by root. the alternative is of course opening your box to literaly anyone who had the knowledge to get in and do what they will. in that case the firewall becomes a mute point. why bother? -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: > > > An old saying: > > Computing experience is measured in the amount of data lost. > > Thats a great example. I'm not a sysadmin or anything remotely approaching > that (or does "home" sysadmin count? ) but its interesting for me to > hear the stories from everyone on this list. > > PS I'm a respiratory therapist by profession, Linux user by choice! :-) I'd be really interested to know how successful he was in bringing that beast back to life after such an ordeal. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > > > On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: > > > > > An old saying: > > > Computing experience is measured in the amount of data lost. > > > > Thats a great example. I'm not a sysadmin or anything > > remotely approaching > > that (or does "home" sysadmin count? ) but its > > interesting for me to > > hear the stories from everyone on this list. > > > > PS I'm a respiratory therapist by profession, Linux user by > > choice! :-) > > > > You're administrating the home box. That makes you an admin. ;^) > for real! my users at home put me through far more strenuous activities sometimes then do the users at work. ;) -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Linux Cutting into SGI's terf
-- LINUXPR: "HOUSTON, WE HAVE LIFT-OFF:" DELL, RED HAT, AND IMAX BLAST OFF ON "Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux will play an important role in IMAX's first-ever digital re-mastering of Universal Pictures' and Imagine Entertainment's scheduled to hit IMAX theaters this Fall..." COMPLETE STORY: http://linuxpr.com/releases/5018.html -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Autoloading a module
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Joan Tur wrote: > Hallo! > > I've bought a D-Link DWL-650 pcmcia wireless card that's recognized by MDK8.2 > and wvlan_cs module is loaded automagically when the card is inserted. > > But as connection sometimes hangs and I have not been able to use it in > ad-hoc mode (only in managed) I'd like to try orinoco and wavelan_cs modules > but... > > What's the easiest way of changing the default module to be loaded when the > card is inserted? Should I modify /etc/pcmcia/config ? > > I've already tryed the following: > 1. Card is inserted, > 2. "ifconfig eth0 down" is run, > 3. wvlan_cs module is unloaded > 4. orinoco (or wavelan_cs) modules are loaded... but then "ifconfig eth0 up" > doesn't work. > > Help is appreciated. Thanks ;) > Joan, I believe that would be taken care of in /etc/modules.conf. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPo sitive)
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > > > > But one does have to wonder how much Civileme's attitude will change. ;) > > > In the past, we could always count on his level-headedness in defending > some > > > of Mandrakesofts decisions, and to point out the "good business sense" > > > behind them. It has been a calming influence in many discussions on this > > > list that have, at times become heated. It will be interesting to see if > he > > > can maintain that calm now. And if he'll be so quick to defend > Mandrakesoft. > > > > > > Just some stray thoughts, from a madman... > > > > > > Although, I never did quite figure out how to pronounce your name! > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Ric Tibbetts > > > Unix Systems Admin. > > > > Ric, > > > > I don't look for them to change at all. Once level-headed always > > level-headed. :) > > Yeah, I know. And we all appreciate him. > My comment was more tongue-in-cheek in nature, and directed not so much at > his in-depth knowledge of Linux, and willingness to help, as much toward his > past support, and defense of MandrakeSoft. > > But again, it was intended to be light-hearted in nature. > > Ric > indeed...thats how it was taken. :) -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Well, I had nfs running perfectly, and then (sadly) I ran BastilleChooser. > > I picked "lax" and "workstation". > > Now, I've no longer got nfs. I finally removed all Bastille RPMs thru the > software manager, but I still have no nfs. Its installed, its checked under > services. If I do a rpcinfo -p, I get this: Ron, you've really gotta get away from BastilleChooser. cut the apron strings and let it go. If you absolutely must use something other then VI in a console to setup your filewall then use InteractiveBastille and use "Only" the firewall setup part of it. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > But one does have to wonder how much Civileme's attitude will change. ;) > In the past, we could always count on his level-headedness in defending some > of Mandrakesofts decisions, and to point out the "good business sense" > behind them. It has been a calming influence in many discussions on this > list that have, at times become heated. It will be interesting to see if he > can maintain that calm now. And if he'll be so quick to defend Mandrakesoft. > > Just some stray thoughts, from a madman... > > Although, I never did quite figure out how to pronounce your name! > > > -- > Ric Tibbetts > Unix Systems Admin. Ric, I don't look for them to change at all. Once level-headed always level-headed. :) -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, hans schneidhofer wrote: > hi, > am looking for a really good and special graphicsworkstation, running linux > with OpenGL, a very good graphiccard with OpenGL and sound-abilities. > > Has anyone an idea, which equipment is commendable. > > what I should do with it : > making animations, making pictures (combine together) and sound > > which software do I need for that purpose and is that software available on > mandrake ? > > The reason asking this is, I have downloaded some graphicspackages, but a lot > of them needs some requirements, which I have not found yet or does not run > on my "testenvironment", which is a 350 MHZ AMD, mdk 8.0, about 50 Gigs HD, > an ATI Rage Card and a USB-connection. > > USB does NOT run, ATI Rage have a lot of problems with 3D-Accelerating and > have damaged 3 ATI's right now with the hardware-accelerator of mdk's 8.0 > 4.0.3-version of XFree86. > > Hope to get some experiences and advicements > thanks for helping and ideas > bye hans Hans, the very first thing I would do with that hardware is update the version of Mandrake I'm running. 8.2 has much better hardware support then does 8.0. once you've got that done I have a feeling you'll have a better idea of where to go next. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground!" Mark Weaver (c) 2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] header test - read if you must
:) -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground!" Mark Weaver (c) 2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] traverse_tag
James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 07 Aug 2002 23:40:50 -0400 > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>user wrote: >> >>>bug report >>> >>>Mandrake Linux 9.0beta2i586 >>>on >>>Machine: >>> amdk-2-450 256mb >>> matrox mill 2 >>> 20 gig >>> modem >>> >>> after completion config X >>>sequence followed: >>>- Install system updates >>>-click on ok >>>-go site(any) ftp.sunet.se >>>-bring up network -ok >>>-choose packages >>>-click on kernal 2.4.18 secure --approx name >>>-click on Install >>> >>>Message appears: >>> Can't call method "traverse_tag" on undefined value >>> >>>Les >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> > Could you consider beta2 and upgrade for beta1 ? *grin* > > James :) Ok...you got me on that one. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Local DNS
nDiScReEt wrote: > I am having a hard time with a concept. I want my internal network to have a > domain (which I plan on registering at a later date). I have another domain > registered with namezero. I want to have a url for each of my internal > computers like host.domain.com. Whether it be internal or external. I just > don't know how to do this. I don't really know where to start. Am I to > transfer my existing domain to my network server? What am I to do? > > Sincerely, > "Lost in the Web" Dear "Lost in the Web" The first place I would look is the HOWTO's on your system. This is actually the best place to start looking. There is literally a treasure trove of kowledge compiled into the HOWTO system that installs with the OS. file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/DNS-HOWTO.html next, these search parameters "howto setup local network DNS" turned up a fair amount of infomation links on Google that should help you continue to gain understanding in how to get DNS started on your LAN. always remember, Google is your friend. http://www.google.com http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=howto+setup+local+network+DNS While it wouldn't be to awfully difficult to "tell" what to do to get DNS going on your LAN, in the long run it wouldn't do you much good if something stopped working, cause you wouldn't know how to fix it. You need to get an understanding of what it is and how it works. let us know how you make out. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FTP Installl of 8.2 Has Issues
nDiScReEt wrote: > On Sunday 14 July 2002 3:02 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >>I'm a little confused here. Are you root when you're attempting to run >>these programs, and are you running them from the desktop shortcut/menu >>shortcut, or from the command line? >> >>When I start Mandrake Control Center from the Icon either from the >>desktop or from the menu item I always have to authenticate myself as >>root user. anytime I invoke urpmi it's always on the command line in >>this manner: >> >> urpmi [enter] >> >>When doing this I am already logged in as root in a console. > > > I try "Mandrake Control Center" from both the GUI menu and from command line > (ie /usr/X11R6/bin/drakconf). In both cases I can get the GUI password prompt > but it will not go any further then that until earlier today. Now my only > problem is getting urpmi to behave correctly. I get errors saying that some > files are missing and that I need to update my database. I do that with the > following command: > > /usr/sbin/urpmi.update -a > or > /usr/sbin/urpmi.update -cf > > This still doesn't change the error message even though it would load the > files but not show in the directory (most of the sometimes ...very > inconsistant but it really depends on the media even though they are all > coming from the same directory) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms. I do all urpmi from > command line. I am always doing urpmi and drakconf functions always as root. > ok...this sounds suspiciously like something else I've seen recently. when was the last time you did an "rpm --rebuilddb"? I've noticed that lately when rpm/urpmi seems to hang doing a rebuild on the rpm database clears this up. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] blocking an ip address
logic7 wrote: > cool, thanks a lot. It's been done. > > as a side note, anyone here seeing a lot of port scans and whatnot from > Asian addresses? I'm getting hit an awful lot from Japan. > > yes, actually I have. most of the traffic has been hitting my ftp server though. they're mostly probe connections trying to see where i'm weak and if there's a place that they can get in to setup shop and load a back door. damn lamers! I've taken to blocking whole subnets that are listed in the whois.apnic.net as being assigned to korea, japan, china, and of course everyone's favorite taiwan. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] blocking an ip address
Michael Viron wrote: > This depends. Do you want to block them from services that utilize > hosts.deny. If so, add the ip address to /etc/hosts.deny. > > Do you want to block network traffic from them entirely? If so, use > ipchains or iptables (depending on your kernel version) to block them. > > Michael To add to what Michael has said. If you're going to add the address to iptables rules to block the traffic the rule would look something like this: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 20:1 -s 216.0.0.0 -j DROP -A = tells the kernel to append this rule to already existing INPUT table rules INPUT = name of a table -p = flag telling the kernel what protocol to apply this rule to. (must be specified when using the "--dport" argument. tcp = protocol name --dport = destination port where incoming packet is bound for. 20:1 = expression specifying all ports from 20 thru 1 -s = source IP address -j = target DROP = what to do with the packet when a match is detected. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FTP Installl of 8.2 Has Issues
nDiScReEt wrote: > My Mandrake Control Center is broken and so is my urpmi. The "Mandrake > Control Center" will not run until just now! I don't understand. I had > something similiar on cooker with konqueror and galeon, as well. Neither of > those programs wouldn't work no matter how many times I reran the program or > rebooted the computer. Just one day ...it works! Like just now. I tried urpmi > and that is still broke. it supposedly puts the packages into the directory > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms but I receive the following error: > > su -c "/usr/sbin/urpmi.update -c" > Password: > the entry to update is missing > (one of Installation CD (ftp1), Contrib CD (ftp2), Update_Source, plf) > > ...This is getting real silly. Now urpmi works! I think it has something to > do with "fam" running. Maybe I should leave my computer on for a few hours to > allow all scripts to finish running. (I should have something was "fishy" > when the harddrive light was constantly blinking for like the longest time. I > think that is the reason I couldn't do anything involving some privileged > programs like drakconf and urpmi. Anyone else experience the same effects? > > I'm a little confused here. Are you root when you're attempting to run these programs, and are you running them from the desktop shortcut/menu shortcut, or from the command line? When I start Mandrake Control Center from the Icon either from the desktop or from the menu item I always have to authenticate myself as root user. anytime I invoke urpmi it's always on the command line in this manner: urpmi [enter] When doing this I am already logged in as root in a console. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] ejecting the tape
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Scott, Rob wrote: > Aye, its that simple. You may need to fiddle with the permissions the script > runs at though. > O man...thanks all. I feel really dumb. I can't say "why" I didn't consider that, except that I thought it would just be something more mysterious for a tape drive. but it works nicely. thanks again... -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ejecting the tape
Hi list, last week there was some discussion on the list here about tar and tape drives and how things work. I was wondering though how can I tell the device to eject the tape after it's done backing up and cataloging the contents. I've written a small script that handles all that, but I don't know how to tell /dev/st0 to spit out the tape when everything is finished. any ideas? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, James wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:45:28 -0700 (PDT) > Michael Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > > Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. > > > Do I ignore the fact that it died or the fact that your fixing it > *grin*. > > James wait...is this a trick question? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftpd question
James wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:58:36 -0400 (EDT) > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > >>On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Bill Davidson wrote: >> >> >>>On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 23:40:43 -0400 >>>daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>James wrote: >>>> >>>>>Dark, >>>>> If I am ever fool enough to say my box is totally secure, >>>>> then you can just slap me silly and call me Larry Elison, >>>>> 'cause surely I'm a fool too. >>>>> >>>>>James >>>>> >>>> >>>>James, >>>> >>>>that indeed _is_ the double-edged blade that we all dance with >>>>isn't it. Our systems are only as secure as we take the time to >>>>learn and get things worked out. >>> >>>And yet you still have to balance that out with getting something >>>useful done with your machine. >>> >>>Bill >> >>O heavens! thats the easy part. Unreal Tournament run real nice on my >>system. ;) > > > Security and Productivity are by definition opposite poles on the bar > magnet of life. Ask anyone who's trying to fight msec... *grin* > > James > O see...now THERE is a miserable thing that is driving me nuts on my system right now. I'm ready to pull out my friggin hair over the permissions misery that i've been dealing with the last few weeks. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftpd question
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Bill Davidson wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 23:40:43 -0400 > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > James wrote: > > > Dark, > > >If I am ever fool enough to say my box is totally secure, then you > > > can just slap me silly and call me Larry Elison, 'cause surely I'm a > > > fool too. > > > > > > James > > > > > > > James, > > > > that indeed _is_ the double-edged blade that we all dance with isn't it. > > Our systems are only as secure as we take the time to learn and get > > things worked out. > > And yet you still have to balance that out with getting something useful done with >your machine. > > Bill O heavens! thats the easy part. Unreal Tournament run real nice on my system. ;) -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftpd question
FemmeFatale wrote: > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > >> And I love the fact that it chroot, (jails) things by default, so >> there isn't any hair-pulling to get that taken care of. >> > sounds like a cool ftp file program. stupid question: why is chroot a > good thing? > > Jail? Scuse me i'm slow today :) > No problem Femme...we all have out slow days. I'll try as best I can to articulate to you in my limited understanding of *chroot* and why it's a good thing. Chroot is good because as the connections come in to the ftp server they are literally jailed to the ftp server's file system. /var/ftp They can enter that part of the machines file system and can't get out to go anywhere else on the machine's file system. Many times for certain services one must take care of this process for one's self, however, this happens by default with this FTP server. Which makes it very desirable for people like myself who don't have the time, or at present, a complete enough knowledge base to properly secure their FTP server the way it should be. Mind you, that doesn't mean the system itself is unsecure, rather I've still got a *bit* to learn as far as REALLY securing an FTP server as best as that can be done. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Scott wrote: > Has anyone heard of or using Mandrake in an ISP environment? I have taken > over operations > for an ISP and the servers in place are running FreeBSD and I want to > covert them over to Linux. > I have been using Mandrake for home use, but have never used it in an heavy > production environment. > I scanned www.mandrakebizcases.com and did not see any ISP's. > > Thanks, > > -Scott Scott, let me answer your question with another question. If you drove a chevy pickup truck for a while and then purchased a ford pickup truck of the same basic design and size would truck two be able to do the same work as truck one? If you plowed field one with a Massey-Furgeson tractor, and then a week later had to use a Catapiller to do field two would you still be able to get field two plowed? the answer is of course yes, and I don't mean to over simplify the question, nor do I wish to sound condecending. I merely wish to point out to you that *nix is *nix. FreeBSD, RedHat Linux, SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux are all basically the same under the covers of the Xfree86 interface. It's all *nix and it's all good! they all use the same basic foundation for the filesystem; they all make use of the make Unix syhstem tools. on and on and on. If redhat can do it SuSE can do it, and if SuSE can do it Mandrake can do it. ya get my drift. the only "real" difference between the distros is the X interface, the collection of "X" packages included that make the distro unique from the others. apart from that they're all Linux and they're all good. as for could Mandrake work in an ISP environment?...do you really want to be to take the time to list all the ISP's that I know that use one of the above mentioned flavors of Linux to serve their customers? I hope not cause I'm writing this message at work and I've got a few more things I need to get done before I leave for the day. as an aside, I've got two servers running here at work running Mandrake. One does webserver/mailserver/database server duties as well as ftp service. the other is a back up server for the snap server we've got running on the network. AT my home I've got Mandrake runing on a very busy network taking care of file server/mail server/ftp server/ webserver/MySQL server/and firewall gateway all being done on an AMD K6-233 hooked up to a cable modem. It does beautifully. Were it not for the occasional T-storms taking out the power, or the wife blowing a breaker now and then vacuuming this machine would never experience any downtime. so...yeah. I'd say its a pretty safe bet to use Mandrake in an ISP environent. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: > > > I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust > > the swap? I have 256MB. > > This is one of those questions that if you asked five people, you'd get > five (or more) answers. > > I know that some versions of the kernel could have major problems if > swap was not at least twice the size of physical RAM. Disk space is also > pretty cheap now, with a 60G IDE costing about $100. > > If this is a server I'd say yes, adjust swap to twice physical RAM. The > benefits would outweigh the relatively minimal resource usage. > > If it's a desktop and after monitoring the system for a while you notice > little swap usage, I'd say you could probably get away with 512M swap. > > I would not recommend having less swap than physical memory. don't ya think thats a bit ridiculous though when you stop to think about just how stinkin big that swap space is gonna be? unless this machine is going to be doing heavy graphics or audio processing it's never even oging to use the swap space. it'll just sit there. besides...i'm not aware of any kernel versions that would care one way or the other if the swap space adds up to at least twice the physical ram size. i know plenty of home users that might choke on that, but not the kernel. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A little network help?
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I have a setup question in getting a home network going. > I have a desktop system which connects to the net by dialup (at the moment). I > have a PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptor for a pcmcia wlan card and a USB wlan - > whichever I can get working first stays. > > I also have a laptop with a wlan card. What I want to do is have the desktop > act as an access point for my laptop and then have the laptop/desktop share > the modem connection to the net. > > My question regards gateway and gateway device. > > I think I understand this but can someone help me? On the desktop, the > connection is, as stated, via /dev/modem. Do I leave the gateway address > alone and set gateway device to /dev/modem? Do I leave both alone? Praedor, If you're setting up a home Lan for the first time _the_ best way to get it going and setup connection sharing is to use the wizards in Mandrake Control Center. that way you'll get an idea of how thing should go without having to fight with the machine trying to figure things out on your own. when the system is setup and working then check your config files and see where and how everything is done. again, all the files that are involved are in /etc/sysconfig/. > On the laptop I assume I just set gateway to the IP of the wlan card on the > desktop (the access point) which is 10.0.0.1. Do I leave gateway device > unset/alone or do I set it to wlan0 (or eth0 as the case may be)? > since your inet interface is goin to be a modem you won't have to do anything with that other then tell the wizard that it is the interface connecting to the internet. the lan that you're going to configure is eth0 and should have an address similar to something like this: 192.168.0.1 <-- this is the number for the gateway/firewall (LAN) your inet interface is of course assigned by your ISP via dhcp so there isn't anything you need to set for that. just tell the wizard that you get you inet address via dhcp and you want to connect when machine boots up. the wizard will want to setup the dns server "named". this is a good thing and you should allow this to take place. the dns server's address *must* be 192.168.0.2 you will also need to install all the packages needed to run dhcp on your gateway machine so that all the other machines on your LAN can connect to and share the gateway's inet connection. the wizard will likely take care of this and prompt you to install these packages. for Linux to Linux there's no need for a client with which to connect to the gateway. when you setup the ethernet on the client machine you simply tell the machine that it's gateway IP address is 192.168.0.1. you then list the dns servers where it can get dns. your ISP's primary and secondary dns ip addresses should be first and then your local dns server should be last. thats a basic run down on how this all happens. if you're still a little unclear as to how this all comes together just keep the questions coming, however give the setup wizard a try first and see how far you can get. > Finally, a question on another matter. Is there anyone in the list with a DSL > account (dynamic, not static IP) that also makes use of dynamic dns services > (dydns)? If so, how do you set THAT up? I assume you have a DSL actually praedor, I have cable, and even though I have a static address I still use my dyndns.org account so that my machine has inet dns and I don't have to worry with all the hastles of dns. it's very easy to setup and once you get the network running we can talk about that. no sense in chewing all this stuff up all at once cause setting up the network can be nerve racking at times. let me know how you make out. > router/modem that probably runs a NAT network for your system(s). If this is > the case, how do you get dydns updated with your IP address? If your DSL > router assigns your system address 10.0.0.5, then obviously updating dydns > with that IP will fail and I doubt there is a client app that can be loaded > on a DSL router that will keep dydns updated...or is there? > > praedor > > -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?
On 3 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: > I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust > the swap? I have 256MB. > > Darren > Darren, with 1/2 GB of RAM, unless you're doing real heavy graphics or audio processing, then you shouldn't need to do anything with your swap space. with that much ram it's very doubtful you even touch your swap partition at all. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftpd question
logic7 wrote: > does this apply to ProFTPD as well, or should I switch to PureFTP? > Proftpd is quite a nice server, but so far what I've read about Pureftpd it is much superior to Proftpd in security. I'd say we're both better off with Pureftpd, but I'll be damned if'n I kin figure out just how to configure for individual users apart from anonymous users. So far, I've noticed that Pure uses PAM for authentication which is awesome because you don't have to muck about with users permissions if they're already on your system. AND, if you need to add another user its spelled out rather clearly in the "virtual users" README setup. The part I'm a bit unclear on is how, without creating *new* users, we can setup "other" filesystems to make accessible to the ftp server without having to create a user that is connected to it. And I love the fact that it chroot, (jails) things by default, so there isn't any hair-pulling to get that taken care of. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftpd question
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 18:33, logic7 wrote: > >>I've just set up my ftp server with real logins only. What I would like to >>have is whenever someone logs in, they don't see their home directory. >>Instead, I want all users to share a common directory. I cannot seem to find >>info on this anywhere, anyone know how this is done? >> > > > >>From the PureFTP "README.Virtual-Users" file: > > > VIRTUAL USERS > > > Since release 0.99.2, Pure-FTPd supports virtual users. > > Virtual users is a simple mechanism to store a list of users, with their > password, name, uid, directory, etc. It's just like /etc/passwd. But > it's not /etc/passwd. It's a different file, only for FTP. > > It means that you can easily create FTP-only accounts without messing > your system accounts. > > Additionnaly, virtual users files can store individual quotas, ratios, > bandwidth, etc. System accounts can't do this. > > Thousands of virtual users can share the same system user, as long as > they all are chrooted, and they have their own home directory. > > So a good thing to do before using virtual users is to create a system > user for this. Of course, you can use any existing account like "nobody" > (but not root), but it's better to have a dedicated account. > > Let's create an "ftpgroup" group and an "ftpuser" user. > > Linux/OpenBSD : > > groupadd ftpgroup > useradd -g ftpgroup -d /dev/null -s /etc ftpuser > > Then, all maintenance of virtual users can be made with the "pure-pw" > command. You can also edit the files by hand if you want. > > Files storing virtual users have one line per user. These lines have the > following syntax : > > :: bandwidth> number of connections>::: IPs>::: IPs>: > > Fields can be left empty (exceptions: account, password, uid, gid, home > directory) . > > Passwords are compatible with the hashing function used in /etc/passwd > or /etc/master.passwd . They are crypto hashed with blowfish, md5, > multiple-des and simple des, in this order, according to what your > system has support fort. > _ > > > RTFM on Pureftp and you got it licked. > > > HTH, LX > LX, I'm a little corn-fused about the FM for Pureftpd. I thought I'd read something about it having config files for users and dir's like those of Proftpd, which are apache-like in the way they're laid out. However, I've so far found *not* to be so. So, I'm a bit at a loss as to how all this is supposed to happen. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Here they come again...and again
Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Friday 28 June 2002 03:26 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
>
>>Hoping to spark some interesting commentary.
>>
>>Richie de Almeida wrote on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:05:44PM -0400 :
>>
>>>>pass the k-y folks, bills done it again. This is what became of
>>>>Hailstorm. But this time it's aimed squarely at Open Source and
>>>>freedom of choice.>
>>>
>>>You know, this whole Palladium thing depresses me to no end-- does
>>>anybody else feel that Palladium is going to turn what we think of as
>>>PC's into something like a glorified VCR?
>>
>>Read Linus' book? In it he predicts that in 10 years, nobody will care
>>about operating systems, instead they'll all be using appliances. You
>>think Bill read that book?
>>
>>Blue skies... Todd
>
>
> Here's another swifty by your friends at Microsoft:
> http://bsdvault.net/article.php?sid=527&mode=&order=0
> This guy downloaded the latest security patch for Windows Media Player.
> Unlike most of us, he read the EULA, and found this passage:
>
> " * Digital Rights Management (Security). You agree that in order to protect
> the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management
> ("Secure Content"), Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS
> Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These
> security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure
> Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a
> security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site
> explaining the update. "
>
> Make that a double helping of KY, please.
> -- cmg
cmg,
all the KY in the universe isn't going to help that one in. I'm sorry to
be so colorfully, blunt, but there just isn't any other way to put.
They're doing something I didn't think they could do and that is get
worse then they were. There doesn't seem to be any such thing as "fair
use" any longer.
--
daRcmaTTeR
--
Registered Linux User 182496
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Re: [expert] Pureftp (was HACKED?)
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 13:18, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > >>hmmm...ssh/sftp... I hadn't thought about that before, but thats not a >>half bad idea at that. might have to look into that. but proftpd and a set >>password ain't bad either. >> >>-- >>daRmaTTeR > > > I'm partial to Pureftp. It comes default configured to chroot everyone > in their home dir, and you don't have to spend alot of time in the conf > files to get stuff done. It has also had no security issues on bugtraq > since April 15, 2001; has no known buffer overflow. Easy to use, > ultrafast to implement and high security. > > Other items: > > LDAP/MySQL/PostgreSQL-based auth > fortune files > Apache-style log files > virtual users > anti-warez system > virtual domains > built-in "ls" > bandwidth throttling > ratios > XML or HTML real time status report > virtual quotas > > Enjoy. :) > > LX > Holy hanna LX! I'm on it!!! can't wait to get a gander at this one. THanks! :) -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HACKED?
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 13:15, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > >>what I do with them when I get their IP address I put it in the >>/etc/hosts.deny file and they never get a second chance at my server. I >>make two entries for the one. > > > Whew...I run Portsentry and the /etc/hosts.deny gets updated > automatically, and at machine speeds. It also gives them a cute message > on the port they're scanning before they get locked out. I.E: > > PORT_BANNER="** UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS PROHIBITED *** YOUR CONNECTION > ATTEMPT HAS BEEN LOGGED. GO AWAY." > > > After that the scan attempt is saved to logfile, which I eventually keep > on CD. > > Legit services arent affected. > > > >> 1) 61.56.8.254 >> 2) 61.56.8.0 >> >>the second entry is that in case they're using a dialup and the last octet >>changes then they're not getting back in cause that entire subnet is being >>blocked. >> >>-- >>daRmaTTeR > > > HTH, LX yeah...my machine works the same way on "scan attempts" however I don't have unauthorized ftp server attempts automated that way. I like to know about those and if I automate that process sooner or later I'd forget about it even happening and I might get lazy and sloppy and then...well, bad things happen when people get lazy and sloppy, ya know? -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HACKED?
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Bill wrote: > I almost had the same problem. But the little assh#ole couldnt get in. It > came from the same network as the guy that hacked you. I sent a nice nasty > letter to the email addy found using whois. They wrote me back saying that ip > belonged to another outfit and forwarded my copmplaint to them. Hanvnt seen a > thing since. Yes I rihun proftp > Sadly, for the most part thats our only recourse. then again...we could always "grab" their incoming connection and trap it in a manner of speaking, make it "appear" as though they're connected ok just long enough for our machine to send back a shutdown command and then release the connection. -- daRcmaTTeR -- R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] an old sendmail problem
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, James wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:22:21 -0400 (EDT) > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > > On 27 Jun 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:02, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > > > > > Not sure where the Toddmeister is going with the .procmailrc file. > > > > I am running boxes from lmdk 7.2 through 8.2, and no such file is > > > > found in any user's home directory. I hasten to add that procmail, > > > > in conjunction with both sendmail and postfix, runs just fine for > > > > every machine on the network. Doing configuration in sendmail.cf > > > > is like learning a new language. darC, any reason for sendmail > > > > over postfix? What distro of linux is on this machine? > > > > > > > drjung > > > > > > > drjung, > > > > the macine I'm running sendmail on is a Linux Mandrake 8.2 box. > > > > actually, I had been running Postfix for quite a while, until recently > > it started doing some very strange things. it was very likely an > > operator error, but try as I might I just couldn't get things > > straightened out. So, I went back to Sendmail. the problem that I had > > outlined earlier was a problem I noticed only in versions after 8.9.x > > of Sendmail. especially the 8.11 that came with Mandrake 8.2. there's > > appears to be a nasty little demon in the package somewhere that > > causes the "cannot create transcript - permission denied" error. > > > > as I posted previously the one way I found to deal with this > > temporarily at first was to chmod the /var/spool/mqueue dir to 777. a > > little later in the day I realized that the user who "was" able to > > send with no trouble wasn't calling the smtp by name, rather by IP > > address. so, I changed the perms of the mqueue back to their original > > state and all is well again. > > > > still...I'm very curious as to what and why this happens with this > > version of sendmail? > > > > -- > > Dark, > This is a stab in the dark, (pun not intended) but I am under the > impression that Sendmail has been doing a lot to "tighten up" the daemon > so that it is more difficult for people to "accidentally" create a relay > for spammers. Is it possible that reverse lookup is bitting you on > this? In other words, it can do a reverse on the IP number but not on > the name? Just a thought, however infantile it may be. I still had it > all on my own. *grin* > > James > Not to worry James. it was a good thought! ;) I guess that possible, but why would the permissions on the mqueue folder be affected the way they were? at 755 if the smtp was listed as mdw1982.dyndns.org it would return the "unable to create transcript" error, but if the smtp was listed as 192.168.0.1 the thing would work flawlessly. unless... -- daRcmaTTeR - R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Internet Server-Satellite
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Charlie wrote: > > June 27, 2002 05:04 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > I haven't yet, but are planning to. Sorry I haven't got anything ready > > yet. > > > > Most satellite systems run a piece of M$ software that redoes tcp/ip > > traffic so that it will be more efficient when your transmit dish sends > > it back up. It's entirely possible that you may have to run the windows > > client that they give you; the one that talks to your satellite modem or > > reciever/transmitter. Probably not a biggie, Codeweaver's Wine will most > > likely suffice. That's what I was planning to try, if the sat peeps > > force me to use an M$ client. > > > > HTH, > > > > LX > ~~ > >From the Starband FAQ page: > > StarBand Residential is right for... > > * Residential usage > * Windows-based PCs (Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000 > or Windows XP operating systems) > * Web surfing, e-mail, instant messaging > * File downloads and streaming audio/video > * Fixed-location installation > > StarBand Residential is NOT currently right for... > > * Commercial/business usage > * Macintosh, Linux, Unix > * Gateway/router-based networking > * Web hosting, VPN, voice and video over IP > * Real-time shooter and RPG games > * Mobile installation applications (e.g. RVs) > * AOL 5.0/6.0 or Prodigy 5.0 browsers > * Large file and e-mail uploads > * Peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing applications > > >From Direct: > > Minimum PC System Requirements needed for DirecPC two-way systems: > > * 300MHz Pentium II-class processor or better > * Windows® 98SE, 2000 and ME > * 64MB RAM (Windows® 98SE and ME) > * 128MB RAM (Windows® 2000) > * 20MB of free hard drive space for DirecPC two-way application > * Analog dial-in modem connection (required for initial system setup) > * Professional installation required > * Available USB port > * CD-ROM drive > > I don't see any options for GNU/Linux support anywhere. It may be different > elsewhere but it sucks in North America. :( hmph! sounds like it isn't good for much of anything that means anything, huh? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HACKED?
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: > David Rankin wrote: > > > > Guys, Gals: > > > > It looks like I may have been sucessfully hacked! I don't know and I > > need your help to find out. I have had many fols test my security, but > > nowone has gotten in until now. The following appeared in a review of my > > syslog: > > > > Jun 17 23:52:57 Nemesis xinetd[27314]: START: ftp pid=26954 > > from=210.180.201.125 > > Jun 17 23:52:59 Nemesis xinetd[26954]: USERID: ftp OTHER :root > > Jun 17 23:58:35 Nemesis xinetd[27314]: START: telnet pid=26963 > > from=127.0.0.1 > > Jun 18 00:08:02 Nemesis xinetd[27314]: EXIT: ftp pid=26954 > > duration=905(sec) > > > > The 210 IP is some Korean address from the Asian Pacific Network. > > > > My first question is does it look like a successful hack? Second > > question is, if so, what do I check to find out if they caused any harm, > > installed a root kit, etc? > > > > As always, thanks for any help you can provide. > > > > David, say it ain't so. You are *NOT* running a ftp service on your > computer connected to the internet, right? Well it looks like you are > doing just that. What type of ftp client, and what version is it? Are > you running any kind of of file monitoring, such as tripwire? Do you > have any programs for detecting rootkits? What is msec reporting about > system and file changes? Time to start checking md5sums against original > files off the install media. And shut down ftp immediately, if not > sooner > > drjung I don't know doc...from the look of that log entry it might be just as easy to simply reload the machine. and if you must run an ftp service do like the rest of us do. Use proftpd and set a password for the darn thing so they can't just walk in like they own the place. I've been checkin the logs every morning and writing the ISP's of those miserable theivin motherless morons that just CAN'T stay the hell outa someone else's backyard to save their miserable lives. one of THESE days! -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] an old sendmail problem
J. Craig Woods wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > >>On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 16:11, daRcmaTTeR wrote: >> >> >>>actually at the moment neither I, or any of the other users on this >>>machine are using .procmailrc files. as I mentioned on another post this >>>is definately a version problem because this behavior goes away if I take >>>8.11.x outa there and then install sendmail-8.9.x in it's place. I'm >>>mystified as to why this is though. >>> >>>-- >>>daRmaTTeR >>> >> >>The daemonic behavior of sendmail is indeed often confusing. >> >>LX >> > > > Please note the "play on words" that LX has used in this example. It is > not only very clever but he has indeed "coined" a new term. LX, your > grade school grammar teachers would be very proud of you... > > Cheers, > drjung > ok...well then...never mind... guess it'll just remain a mystery. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Here they come again...
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 01:19, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > >>LX: >>You ain't seen nothin' yet. Here's one about MS's new Palladium project that >>showed up over the weekend: http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp >>Now, this is really scary. Bill gets world domination, Senator Fritz can >>satisfy his very good friends at Disney, the RIAA gets what they want, the >>feds get Carnivore back doors, the list goes on... >>-- cmg >> > > > Yech, I just started tracking it. :( > > Thanks cmg, > > LX > Good grief! they don't honestly believe that this is going to work, do they? -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] an old sendmail problem
On 27 Jun 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 02:37, Todd Lyons wrote: > > J. Craig Woods wrote on Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:02:00PM -0500 : > > > > > running boxes from lmdk 7.2 through 8.2, and no such file is found in > > > any user's home directory. I hasten to add that procmail, in conjunction > > > > In which case procmail does the default. My intent was to see if there > > was a misconfigured .procmailrc that would cause the error. Sorry if I > > didn't word it very clearly. I've not been getting much sleep lately. > > > > Blue skies... Todd > > -- > > You and me both. I noticed with dismay earlier today that I had > misspelled your name in one of the net-broadcast emails; sorry bout > that. > > L8r, LX actually at the moment neither I, or any of the other users on this machine are using .procmailrc files. as I mentioned on another post this is definately a version problem because this behavior goes away if I take 8.11.x outa there and then install sendmail-8.9.x in it's place. I'm mystified as to why this is though. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] an old sendmail problem
On 27 Jun 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:02, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > Not sure where the Toddmeister is going with the .procmailrc file. I am > > running boxes from lmdk 7.2 through 8.2, and no such file is found in > > any user's home directory. I hasten to add that procmail, in conjunction > > with both sendmail and postfix, runs just fine for every machine on the > > network. Doing configuration in sendmail.cf is like learning a new > > language. darC, any reason for sendmail over postfix? What distro of > > linux is on this machine? > > > drjung > drjung, the macine I'm running sendmail on is a Linux Mandrake 8.2 box. actually, I had been running Postfix for quite a while, until recently it started doing some very strange things. it was very likely an operator error, but try as I might I just couldn't get things straightened out. So, I went back to Sendmail. the problem that I had outlined earlier was a problem I noticed only in versions after 8.9.x of Sendmail. especially the 8.11 that came with Mandrake 8.2. there's appears to be a nasty little demon in the package somewhere that causes the "cannot create transcript - permission denied" error. as I posted previously the one way I found to deal with this temporarily at first was to chmod the /var/spool/mqueue dir to 777. a little later in the day I realized that the user who "was" able to send with no trouble wasn't calling the smtp by name, rather by IP address. so, I changed the perms of the mqueue back to their original state and all is well again. still...I'm very curious as to what and why this happens with this version of sendmail? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Funny Stuff (was I made it -- 1 year uptime)
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: > James wrote: > > > > > memory leaks my ass... :) > > > > .. this sounds painful. Have you seen a doctor about this > > condition?> > > > -- > > > daRcmaTTeR > > Shit! Now that was funny. James, I just thought you might like to know > that you gave me my best laugh today. Funny stuff... > > drjung I know what you mean drjung! I nearly fell outa my seat and hit my head on the desk as I went down! -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, James wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:49:45 -0400 > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > > J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > > > > > >>Sheez. > > >> > > >>Posting this on a Mandrake group? > > >> > > >>Cmon. Can you say Netware Memory leaks! > > >> > > >>-JMS > > > > > > > > > Alright, Jose! Also can you spell "proprietary" as in "ipx"? Let's > > > see you get this proto to work with an API writen for the TCP/IP > > > stack. BTW, as the years roll on, you have become too quiet on this > > > list, Jose. I miss your trenchent wit! > > > > > > drjung > > > > > > > Well, of course it's proprietary. however, it's the only proprietary > > platform I "don't" mind spending money for. it's far less expensive > > then M$; it doesn't require rebooting; it isn't virus prone; its > > extremely stable, much like my Mandrake boxes; it is VERY secure, > > scalable, AND supports literally thousands of userson and on, > > adinfinitum. for the life of me I can't understand why with Unix, > > Linux, and Netware out there WHY people insist on using crap like NT. > > I just don't get it! > > 1. With the exception of Netware. they have the illusion of someone > to sue.(Netware is a company so it too has someone to sue.) > 2. It's what their golf partner uses. > 3. It's a name they know. > 4. They don't look radical and innovative, it's important to look > stable. 5. Aurthor Anderson told them it improves the bottom line. > 6. It has lots of pretty gui's that Marketing and the board can > understand. > > James > > > memory leaks my ass... :) > > .. this sounds painful. Have you seen a doctor about this > condition?> > > -- ROTFLMAO!!! O gawd James! I nearly fell outa my chair and the boss asked me if I was all right! well, now that you mention it, it is rather painful at times. especially when someone who has "0" experience with Netware says CRazy things like NT is better. ;) there are a few young ones on here who have espoused such claims. thankfully though none of the more "experienced" geeks have spake such drivel. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime
J. Craig Woods wrote: > "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > >>Sheez. >> >>Posting this on a Mandrake group? >> >>Cmon. Can you say Netware Memory leaks! >> >>-JMS > > > Alright, Jose! Also can you spell "proprietary" as in "ipx"? Let's see > you get this proto to work with an API writen for the TCP/IP stack. BTW, > as the years roll on, you have become too quiet on this list, Jose. I > miss your trenchent wit! > > drjung > Well, of course it's proprietary. however, it's the only proprietary platform I "don't" mind spending money for. it's far less expensive then M$; it doesn't require rebooting; it isn't virus prone; its extremely stable, much like my Mandrake boxes; it is VERY secure, scalable, AND supports literally thousands of userson and on, adinfinitum. for the life of me I can't understand why with Unix, Linux, and Netware out there WHY people insist on using crap like NT. I just don't get it! memory leaks my ass... :) -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] an old sendmail problem
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: > daRcmaTTeR wrote on Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:26:58AM -0400 : > > > > Sendmail when trying to send a message from Pine. Pine returns the error > > that it's unable create the transcript file - permission denied. > > it doesn't do this to me as a regular user. ergo the mystery. I can send > > fine from Pine, but another user cannot. I "have" searched both the > > Look in his home directory for a .procmailrc file. If he has it, make > sure that the permissions are mode 600, owned by him (Look in > /var/log/mail/errors for lines that say "Suspicious permissions of > .procmailrc" or something similar to that. Then go look inside his > .procmailrc and make sure that it's working properly. > > Go look at /var/log/mail/errors in general, it might point out what the > real problem is if it's not procmail. > > Blue skies... Todd Todd, it doesn't appear to be a procmail issue. as I remember it this was in issue with this particular version. it's been quite some time since i've worked with sendmail so the error information below isn't exactly making any sense yet. = error information from sendmail == Jun 26 08:10:24 mdw1982 sendmail[1557]: g5QCAOe01557: SYSERR(heather): Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QCAOe01557: Permission denied Jun 26 08:10:57 mdw1982 sendmail[1559]: g5QCAvq01559: SYSERR(heather): Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QCAvq01559: Permission denied Jun 26 08:20:49 mdw1982 sendmail[1574]: g5QCKnQ01574: SYSERR(heather): Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QCKnQ01574: Permission denied Jun 26 08:42:19 mdw1982 sendmail[1690]: g5QCgJb01690: SYSERR(heather): Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QCgJb01690: Permission denied Jun 26 09:15:54 mdw1982 sendmail[1993]: g5QDFsC01993: SYSERR(heather): Can't create transcript file ./xfg5QDFsC01993: Permission denied Jun 26 09:19:21 mdw1982 sendmail[2074]: g5QDJLX02072: SYSERR(heather): openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid Jun 26 09:38:13 mdw1982 sendmail[2147]: g5QDcDK02145: SYSERR(heather): openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid Jun 26 10:11:25 mdw1982 sendmail[2423]: g5QEBPk02421: SYSERR(heather): openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid Jun 26 10:12:00 mdw1982 sendmail[2427]: g5QEC0f02425: SYSERR(heather): openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] an old sendmail problem
hi list, I've got a mystery that I've not been able to unravel completely this morning. one of the users on my server at home is getting an error from Sendmail when trying to send a message from Pine. Pine returns the error that it's unable create the transcript file - permission denied. it doesn't do this to me as a regular user. ergo the mystery. I can send fine from Pine, but another user cannot. I "have" searched both the newbie and expert archives, but I've not found any conclusive information and solution to the problem. the version of sendmail that I'm running right now is sendmail-8.11.0-3mdk. at the moment I've got the permissions on /var/spool/mqueue set to 777 so's other users can send email. wussup? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Barry Michels wrote: > Our NT machine was crap. We had to reboot about every week. In fact, I > eventually wrote a batch file that would reboot the server every morning at > 4am. We upgraded (well, a fresh install) to Win2k and the longest that > machine was running was 4 months (129 days). All it handles is file sharing > and a small, seldom used SQL server. When it crashed, it crashed hard. We > had to do quite a bit of work to get it back up and it still isn't the same. > The hardware is any spare parts we had laying around. > > 2 weeks ago, I installed a Linux machine to act as our firewall using > IPTABLES. So far, no reboots since the inital install. Man is it fast. > That doubled our bandwidth compared to running through MS's ISA firewall > software. Of course, it was logging everything that went through it... > > > Barry heavens guys! thats why God invented Novell Netware boxes. load'em up, plug'em in and fa-get about'em. and as far as win2k is concerned I'm not surprised you're having as uch trouble wit dat poor box being as its put together from spare parts. win2k doesn't like spare parts. where I work we're running a Novelle shop, but there are two Dell 4400's running win2k that are rock solid. one the app server and the other the DB server. they're very heavily used. were it not for the windows updates they wouldn't require a reboot at all. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Manpage, schmanpage. I use them when possible but then there are those bogus > pages that give the wrong command syntax (outdated or based on a non-linux > system) or list the commands without providing for an example. To me, it > doesn't count as an example if the manpage begins with a command followed by > a series of bracketed or braced switches - in some cases, due to past > experience only, I can deal with this but when it is something newish, > perhaps half the time I can't make heads or tails of the actual proper > command syntax. > > Anyhoo. I have my laptop up to snuff and fine but my desktop is killing me. > First, a harddrive failure caused by a mobo failure plus cpu death - > expensive replacement for all. Fortunately, I had just installed 8.2 on it > and hadn't yet installed or done anything of importance on it so nothing was > lost but time and money. New mobo, new cpu, new hdd and a fresh install of > 8.2 croaked last night after working for all of 10 minutes. Different > problem this time, though the root of it is still a mystery to me. I THINK > it may be irq related though kcontrol shows nothing suspicious (nor does > lspci). If you're allowing the install to configure your hardware I can't for the life of me figure how you're getting irq conflicts. as for your sound card Mandrake is Id-ing the device correctly. the SB16 card has an ESS chipset in it. ESS1371 to be exact. I don't really care for that chipset very much. in Mandrake it seems to require a lot of tweaking before it behaves correctly. > A couple things...I bought a SB 16 for the new mobo but Mandrake identifies it > as an ESS 1371 - it works but an ESS 1371 and no mention is the harddrake > list of any SB 16? Next, first bootup and start. OK. Open up a konsole and > begin typing in commands to change hostname ala the laptop and boop! > Soundcard beeps and beeps and beeps in an endless loop, the mouse freezes and > the keyboard is locked. Nothing to do but hard reboot. After that, OK until > about 30 minutes of typing and clicking then same thing. Reboot. KDE now > unstartable because of DCOP communication problems. I delete everything > related to KDE in my home directory (.kde and .kderc) and do a > Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc. Login and KDE still refuses to start now - dying at the it's very likely that your FS was trashed during the hard boots. that would explain he fact that nothing wanted to start for you. > splash screen. Login again and try Gnome. Nothing. Try Windowmaker - OK, > starts and works. Try Enlightenment - OK, starts and works. Look at my > .xsession-errors. One entry only about inability to connect to X server > :0.0. Try running XFDrake and resetting X. REALLY screwed up X so that no > window manager will start, just KDM a few times until it craps out and now > dumped to CLI. > > BAH! Reinstalling MDK 8.2 again, this time trying a different fs - third > reinstall. First tried ext3 for first time. SLOW! Then tried XFS. Good, > quick, but then the problems related above and it being seemingly impossible > to fix X or KDE. Reinstall and go back to my trusty ReiserFS which I have > been using for a couple years now. I no longer try to fix KDE problems such > as I related above as I have found it impossible to correct in the past, even > with total uninstalls and reinstalls. I can relate as far as the ReiserFS thing goes. I too have been using Reiser for a little while and I've come to the conclusion where this FS is concerned that if it ain't broke I'm not gonna try and fix it. Reiser runs the roost on my boxes. > Anyone ever run into something like this before? The difference in this > desktop vs before when there were no linux/software problems is the addition > of a PCI to PCMCIA adaptor, the connection of a linksys WUSB11 wlan box, a Praedor...sad but true...it's a proven fact that pcmcia is the worlds _worst_ form of connectivity technology. it is the spawn of satan. if at all possible I avoid this stuff like the plague. anything like this that is a HUGE PITA in a laptop surely hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of being dependable and working well on a PC platform. yuck! > soundcard (was using mobo sound before but new mobo has no builtin sound), > and a Robotics PCI modem (not a winmodem). Since the wusb11 isn't recognized > or usable yet under linux (I'm trying), the pcmcia hasn't yet received a card > (intending to insert another wlan card), the only interrupts to be used are > for the i82365 pcmcia controller, the modem, and the soundcard. It looks > like the soundcard and modem share an irq but that is all. Why would the > soundcard lock into an endless loop (two installs so far) and freeze all > peripherals if it isn't sharing an irq with any of these other items? for real! at this point I would remove the sound and the peripheral hardware off this
Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, David Rankin wrote: > Guys and Gals, > > As far as stability is concerned, my little 7.2 (Odyssey) box has > passed a milestone in life. Its uptime is now one year and counting. > (see below) That translates into an easy job for the sysadmin (Me). The > only downside is that in a year's time, I have forgotten most of the > details on getting everything configured. So, when I move offices later > this month, I will have to relearn my setup. Whatever the downside -- > I'll take it! > > [david@Nemesis david]$ uname -a > Linux Nemesis.rbpllc.com 2.2.19-4.1mdk #1 Mon Apr 9 10:34:05 MDT 2001 > i686 unknown > [david@Nemesis david]$ uptime > 10:30am up 365 days, 19:11, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. > RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC > 1329 N. University, Suite D4 > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > (936) 715-9333 > (936) 715-9339 fax > David, congrats man! that is really awesome. as for for the forgetting part...thats what documentation is for! ;) -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Praedor Tempus wrote: > On Monday 24 June 2002 01:36 pm, civileme wrote: > >>Praedor Tempus wrote: >> >>>I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) >>>appeared to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not >>>to use it in a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the >>>hostname via linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot >>>again but still, what file/system config contains THE hostname >>>information utilized by "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, >>>/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or >>>/etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? >> > [...] > >>Praedor >> >>use the hostname command in a terminal su'ed to root >> >>hostname lapdog.ravenhome.net >>reboot >> >>If you look at rc.sysinit you will see that /bin/hostname is how the >>hostname is retrieved and how it is set. >> >>Now quit reading BSD specific/Slackware specific man pages, take your >>head out of the sand, and do it. > > [...] > > I have corrected the difficulty, but did so by editing /etc/sysconfig/network > and adding entries to /etc/hosts. > > /etc/sysconfig/network: > NETWORKING=yes > FORWARD_IPV4=no > HOSTNAME="lapdog" > DOMAINNAME=ravenhome.net > > /etc/hosts: > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 127.0.0.1 lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog > 10.0.0.1lapdog.ravenhome.netlapdog > 10.0.0.5overlord.ravenhome.net overlord > > I now have the domain and hostname that I wanted and it remains such after > reboot, reboot, reboot. I have, in the past, tried the "hostname" method > only for the change to go away and remit back to "localhost" upon the next > reboot. A binary file cannot hold the hostname inside itself, thus the > binary "/bin/hostname" would have to store a hostname in a file somewhere. I > was less interested in the binaries and wizards and guis that one can try to > change this or that and more interested in the REAL meat...the actual file > that stored the change for posterity. In my past attempts at using "hostname > ", it appeared to me that hostname merely stored the > hostname change for the current session rather than forevermore because upon > reboot, zap, back to localhost. I quit trying to use /bin/hostname. > > > In any case, as to the "...quit reading BSD specific/Slackware specific man > pages, take your head out of the sand, and do it" statement. What is the > point of including the manpages with the distro? To add to the injury, many > than answer a question with a directive for the person to "read the manpage" > For instance, this hostname thing is totally wrong in the manpage. Tell a > newbie to read the manpage and they will get exactly nowhere, get no answer, > and wonder what's wrong with their system or what's wrong with linux. > > I believe the manpages should be eliminated if they are not current or do not > apply to linux. It is also one thing to try to make everything easy to do > with GUIs and wizards, but to obfuscate what is actually happening, to make > it difficult to determine what is being done for someone so inclined (or who > needs to know because the wizard, GUI, or "simple" tool failed to perform as > expected) is pointless and counterproductive. I figure that roughly 30-40% of > the manpages I've read are either useless because they are too generic or > cryptic or they are flatout wrong. They generally lack any examples so one > can see a real example of the command syntax, instead simply enumerating a > list of commands and thinking that it is completely intuitive as to how to > use the commands (it is not). > > praedor > But Praedor! I like the man pages. after 6 years I'm finally starting to understand them. they're actually making sense now and helping me get things done. any more it's the first place I look when a program buried deep in the bowls of my penguin is doing something that seems odd to me. Or I'm trying to figure something out, or! I've got a new program that comes *only* with a man page and no other docs. Ah heck! he was just trying to give you a manly nudge in the right direction, which you took and now look...you're done! :) well done!! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Mike Rambo wrote: > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >> >>Mike, >> >>apart from sheery confusion your point in that post was...what? >> >>-- >>On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Mike Rambo wrote: >> >> >>>Praedor Tempus wrote: >>> >>>>I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared >>>>to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in >>>>a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via >>>>linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, >>>>what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by >>>>"hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or >>>>/etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? >>> > > Unless I missed the point, Praedor asked this question "If > it isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or > /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then > what is it?" regarding what file to edit to change THE > hostname of his box. > > My answer included the following which was itself part of an > earlier question Praedor asked. DrJung (I think - I've > already deleted the mail so I can't be sure) expressed the > idea that questions were being answered by folks on the list > but that Praedor might be missing some of the steps along > the way in trying to implement the solution. I was trying to > emphasize the answer to the question that was asked. > Apparently I didn't do too well... > > >>>*The answer to your question is below* >>> >>> >>>>Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The >>>>hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts >>> > > To clarify, if one wants to edit a file to change the > hostname, /etc/sysconfig/network is the file to edit. > > >>>>relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set >>>>anything. >>> >>>*The answer to your question is above* >>> >> > > Hoping to have done better this time ... ;-) > > -- > Mike > Mike, Please accept my appologies. when I read the response from yestereday this morning while drinking a fresh pot of coffee taken intravenesly I realized the logic of your answer. sorry about that. I've really got to stop reading posts and working with Crystal Reports at the same time. I'm clearly no all there when coding those formulas. YIKES! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Mike Rambo wrote: > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared > > to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in > > a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via > > linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, > > what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by > > "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or > > /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? > > > > > > >> > >> Praedor Tempus wrote: > >> > > >> > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >> > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > >> > > > I am hesitant to try this again...I run postfix on my system as my mta. > >> > > > I own the ravenhome.net domain. I want my postfix to identify outgoing > > > > > > > >> > I do own ravenhome.net and have an account with dydns. Works well. What > >> > concerns me is naming my system ravenhome.net and having no problems when I > >> > am not connected. In the past, I have edited my hosts file to change > >> > localhost entries to ravenhome entries and it borked my system. It has been > >> > >> Did you really _change_ the localhost entries? If so, that > >> is a no-no. You _must_ have the localhost entries intact. > >> You just _add_ entries for the additional IP/name > >> combinations you need. > >> > >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/hosts > >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > >> 192.168.1.12mrambo.imcdom.local mrambo > >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ > >> > >> > a while so I don't recall the details but is this not really all I should > >> > HAVE to do to change my hostname? Simply replace the localhost.localdomain > >> > entry with ravenhome.net? > > > >This occured to me after I sent the previous mail > >unfortunately... > > > > > > *The answer to your question is below* > > >Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The > >hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts > >relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set > >anything. > > *The answer to your question is above* > > > > >Sorry if I've misunderstood or just stated the obvious but > >if you get some of this wrong it really will mess things up. > >In particular, localhost is required for many system > >processes. Without that /etc/hosts entry things will > >definitely go wrong... > > > > > > > > > Mike, apart from sheery confusion your point in that post was...what? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Thanks to you and daRmaTTeR. > > New question...at every bootup, my modem is "destroyed" by the system. I have > a winmodem that works with a linmodem driver. The win/linmodem is > /dev/tts/LT0 and is symlinked to /dev/modem. Upon bootup/reboot, this is > destroyed and replaced with /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0, a nonexistent device on > my system. > > This behavior happens only since installing 8.2 and never happened with 8.1. > I have to manually delete /dev/modem and recreate the /dev/tts/LT0 device and > the proper /dev/modem symlink. This appears to be a problem with devfs...but > in any case, how does one fix this? > Praedor, I would write a simple, short bash script that executes at boot that checks for the existance of this symlink you've mentioned, and if it doesn't exist, then create it so that you don't have to manually do this every time you want to use your modem. place that script in /bin and make a symlink in /etc/init.d/ so that it get executed when the system starts up with the rest of the services that start at boot. Then, I would find out "why" this is happening and fix it once and for all. The first place I would look is what is different from 8.1 to 8.2 where this is concerned. I have a feeling it's got something to do with the procedure that is handling the device setup at boot. that would be my guess. although, now that I think about it, this sounds like there's already a script being run that is linking /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0. find that script and you've found your problem. Change the script to link /dev/modem -> /dev/tts/LT0 and you've solved your problem. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared > to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in > a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via > linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, > what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by > "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or > /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? > > Regardless of whether or not I use linuxconf, I would like to know this so I > can always manually fix likely screwups from automagic tools. > > praedor > for that praedor you will want to navigate to /etc/sysconfig where you will find all the config files that pertain to networking for your entire system. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] note to anyone update apache to 1.3.23-4 with updaterobot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin wrote: | I just updated apache to 1.3.23-4 with update robot. The update went | fine, however, when httpd restarted, apache wasn't accepting any | request. | | If anyone run into the same problem, stop your httpd and run "ps -ax | | grep httpd", if you see "httpd -DHAVE_PHP4 -DHAVE_PROXY -DHAVE_ACCESS | -DHAVE_A", just kill them and start httpd again. Everything will work | again. | | | Robin My personal experience with this update wasn't so much that apache was feeling strange. rather dhcpd and named didn't want to work for a while. shortly after the update was finished I was working on the workstation and accessing the web server and the internet through the server and all was well. however, the next more I wasn't able to see anything passed my own workstation. it turned out that dhcpd and named were not running. very mysterious. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9FnqHJuZ1geTzHgERAt2DAJsELEHGBTgOsacRLnTLKfUPKz5+QQCfUSvq nz+VyqIdp1CagJw5q9PikIA= =+9+z -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd Lyons wrote: | daRcmaTTeR wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:16:58PM -0400 : | |>It's really quite simple. Open Linuxconf->Networking->Host name and IP | | | I usually recommend not to use linuxconf except as a last resort. It | does some things to the system in a not friendly way and has left a bad | taste in my mouth. Maybe it's better now, but I'm not going to trust it | myself. Use webmin or mcc instead. | | Blue skies... Todd well...depending upon your system setup, mine included, you have to be careful at the end of things when you're shutting it down. Linuxconf often wants to "update" the system status. Most of the time, because of the way I've got my FTP server setup I don't allow it to do anything. However, thats just on the server. the workstations are a different story. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9Fnk/JuZ1geTzHgERAkRhAJ9EDFinrLdR8ax7aTXOEw2VPTFN0gCfVcgR GWtHfmuQ5L+W1NXPUAIV388= =lVpx -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Badran wrote: | On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 6:29 am, Damian G wrote: | |>however, i don't find anywhere ( not in the OpenOffice frontend |>nor in Webmin interface to databases ) any info about setting |>foreign keys? i'm beginning to wonder do these exist in MySQL? | | | Foreign keys are references, and in postgres are actually done by using the | keyword references, so maybe it is the same in mysql. | | Tom actually, the current stable release of MySQL does not support foriegn keys as yet. They are working on getting this into the 4.0.x release of MySQL. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9FngBJuZ1geTzHgERAowbAJ90NCIBTNwzvDr20GDKSsOlnBQPBACg5w+l Ku5PBLJZyaiIYE3rGTW4VtA= =aG08 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd Lyons wrote: | James wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:43:38PM -0700 : | |> Where I don't dispute the intent I'm having fits with the results. |>Oh and for my camera and my usb printer. They haven't changed |>functionality since I got rid of devfs. Maybe because devfs set them up |>at first. I'm just getting tired of rebooting Linux. | | | Have you tried just changing to single user mode, then back to your | regular mode? Many times changing runlevels will fix some oddities (but | not always). You might have to go one step further and remove some | modules so that when you switch back to runlevel 3 (text login) or 5 | (graphical login), it will load the required modules back. If something | is funky with the modules in kernel-space though, you might get the busy | error message. The only advice I can offer is remove the modules in O yeah...I've been seeing that one alot lately on the one Mandrake client when it tries to umount the samba shares being shared from the server. they're always busy for some reason and don't want to unmount. Linux to Linux Samba shares is not a fun thing I'm finding out. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9FnYEJuZ1geTzHgERAkrbAJ9jAcOWWXuryEhSKm0yiaa6YAtkyACg2p9g PJmD3pHbylmzztERC5brZ+o= =S2qo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Praedor Tempus wrote: > OK, I want to change the name of my laptop from the default > localhost.localdomain to lapdog.ravenhome.net. Looking at the manpage for > hostname, it mentions: /etc/init.d/boot, /etc/hostname, and > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 as where/how hostname is set. Uh-uh! Does not does not! > There exists no /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, nor /etc/boot, nor /etc/hostname on my > system so either Mandrake has substantially deviated from the norm or the > manpage is hopelessly bogus and to be eradicated from the face of the earth. > > To quote the manpage: >The host name is usually set once at system startup in >/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by read >ing the contents of a file which contains the host name, >e.g. /etc/hostname). > > What a crock. So, how does the hostname REALLY get set? Not by any of the Praedor, It's really quite simple. Open Linuxconf->Networking->Host name and IP Network devices. The first panel you see is where you set the hostname for the machine. On the Adapter1 tab is where you set the IP address, whether or not you want to IP address to set manually, Dhcp, or Bootp. On this tab you can also set some other values. But the point here is _this_ is where you set the hostname for the machine. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.
jerry wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:32:04 -0400 > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>"IT" should be forever scuttled and banned from the landscape of so >>wonderful an OS never to be seen or heard from againEVER! > > > (as a result: there's no way they're taking it out now, especially if they read >messages from people who don't like it) lol ;-P > well...to be totally honest I "do" see its need and usefulness, however I've been so blessed as to have had the privilege to *not* have had a good experience with the little bugger. it doesn't like my Handspring Visor. :( Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
James wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:23:15 -0500 > "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > >>daRcmaTTeR wrote: >> >>>J. Craig Woods wrote: >>> >>>>Praedor, you need to help us understand why you can not complete >>>>the simple task of naming a machine. Maybe you can send us some >>>>log file entries that give us specific errors messages... >>>> >>>>drjung >>>> >>> >>>drjung, >>> >>>may he hasn't thought of one that he likes yet. maybe it's something >>>unconcious about the name that screws everthing up. maybe it's >>>something freudian. maybe I just have too much time on my hands and >>>I'm full of shit! ;) >>> >>>Mark >>>a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR >>> >> >>Hmmm, yes, Mark, you just might be right about all your suppositions >>except one: it seems to be a more jungian issue than a freudian issue. >>I would surmise that his libido is not the source of his problem but >>it is very possible that there is an enery blockage at a deeper level, >>most likely at the collective unconcsious level. Now, I ask you, who >>has too much fucking time on his hands, and it's ticking away... >> >>drjung >> > > > Note to self: go to ebay buy hip waders. > > James > *grin* > James? isn't that like closing the bard door *after* the cows have all left the barn? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
Damian G wrote: >>O! do tell!! >> >>Mark > > > uhm.. > > > [Foo_] < let's say this is a harddrive, where: > > _ : blank space. > F, oo : files 1 and 2. > > > that drive would be in perfect state, right? all files stored neatly one > after the other and the free space is all together at the end of the > disk. > > > now, this: > > [FFFooFoFooo_] > > this is called internal fragmentation. after a lot of > changes in file sizes, "chunks" of files get mixed up, making > a file read a slower process... file 1 and 2 are fragmented, > but the free space is still kept together. > > > a third situation is: > > [_F___ooo___] > > this is external fragmentation. here, the files are not > fragmented ( no internal fragmentation) however, as a consequence > of writing the files at random places on the disk, the free space > gets scattered all over. this leads, most of the times to internal > fragmentation, too. ( the next time you have to make a file you > only have scattered bits of space to write it... ) > > > and at last.. this: > > [_FoF__ooFoo_F_o__Fo] > > .this is a typical windows partition that has not beed defragged > in a long time. both internal and external fragmentation occurs, both > files and free space are a mess. > > > i've also seen defrag tools for the RAM in windows.. ( fragmentation is > not limited to harddrives. any modern operating system uses memory > paging or segmentation and can suffer internal and external > fragmentation in memory pages.. the same little sketches i made > would apply, but change the "file 1" and "file 2" with "process 1" > and process 2" ) > > > Damian > > PD: i like making useless explainations ;oP . sorry for a long post. > anyhow i think this stuff is useful when you want to learn about > and choose filesystems.. Damian, That was actually interesting. I hadn't known that before. tanks mang! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
J. Craig Woods wrote: > civileme wrote: > >>OK, first of all you did not need to touch a wizard. Those are designed >>for one-time setup which is why we call them wizards. They are not >>tools to be used for maintenance, and they make a lot of assumptions, as >>is appropriate for their target audience (NT administrators). >> >>Next, _default_ performance in postfix is to gethostname from the system >>and use that, which indicates that you don't need to do anything with >>postfix configuration. You need to change your hostname, and that's >>all. You can do that with MandrakeControlCenter or linuxconf, just >>remember to restart desktops or there will be problems. >> >>There IS a problem with this. Brain-dead anti-spam tools have your IP >>on a DUL (dial-up-list) and that's one strike. Strike two+three is when >>they cannot authenticate your transmission name to an IP address, so a >>lot of mailservers won't relay your mail and some will reject it because >>it doesn't authenticate. >> >>There is a way around that, but it co$t$ money, at least $4/year. That >>is, since you have the domain name registered, you need the registered >>name pointed to a DNS server which will resolve to your (current) IP. >> Your machine can find and transmit its IP to the DNS server with a >>short script, and can update every 5 minutes in case you have a break in >>service and your IP address changes with the reconnection. The most >>reasonable place to have this service (that I have found) is >>www.whyi.org. He used to offer this service for free (as yi.org) but >>now he has costs to cover, so $4/year. >> >>I just finished a script that does something very similar, it transmits >>an IP address from a local machine to a remote ftp where the user has >>write access, like one of the free website places. It was to allow >>people on the road to reach their home computer through the internet by >>snatching the current IP address from a stable site and using it to >>address their own computer at home, through http or ssh or whatever it >>is running. It should be available to Mandrake Club members shortly. >> >>Civileme >> > > > As I have watched and read this thread over the months that Praedor has > been posting it, and re-wording it, I have come to the conclusion that > his problem has nothing whatsoever to do with any MTA, be it a sendmail > or a postfix setup issue. While you are right, Civ, about how to get the > MTA to work, the first *MOST* basic thing that must be done, for most > everything you will do with a server (including the ability to send and > receive email with your own privately running MTA), is to give your box > a FQDN. I know everybody is now shaking their heads, saying no shit doc, > this is a no brainer! But read Praedor's mail carefully or go back for > his earlier postings. The ability to give his server a FQDN is the *ONE* > task he cannot complete. For some unknown reasons, when he attempts to > give his box a name, other than the "localhost.localdomain", his machine > becomes foobarred to the max. > > Praedor, you need to help us understand why you can not complete the > simple task of naming a machine. Maybe you can send us some log file > entries that give us specific errors messages... > > drjung > drjung, may he hasn't thought of one that he likes yet. maybe it's something unconcious about the name that screws everthing up. maybe it's something freudian. maybe I just have too much time on my hands and I'm full of shit! ;) Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.
James wrote: > All, > >Got an interesting problem here. It concerns everyones favorite > subject devfs ... I've done 12 installs so far with 8.2, on 10 of the > boxes /dev/video1-4 where created without a problem on two of the > boxes not there at all. So just for fun on one I reinstalled 8.2 4 > times ( I use the auto-install from a disk so it's not as painful as it > sounds.) 3 times it created the devs 1 time it didn't. Has anyone else > noted this? Why I noticed is. > > 1. My companies product uses/looks for /dev/video > > 2. KDE crashes - in fact total video access is frozen. This seems to > be occuring when these devs aren't on the box, and it happens frequently > on them. Near as I can tell, when they are gone the box grabs any dev it > can to use as the video device. (not sure on this so don't quote me.) > > The only way to fix it is to create the devices manually after having > made sure that lilo has append devfs=nomount and I've booted this way. > Is there any way to tell what the box is using instead of /dev/video if > it doesn't create it? > > > James > James, It's been my personal experience in the past 6 months that devfs is totally and completely the spawn of satan. I don't forsee any true usefullness coming from this particular part of Mandrake's inner workings other then LOTS of severe user frustration. personally I think "IT" should be forever scuttled and banned from the landscape of so wonderful an OS never to be seen or heard from againEVER! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
Damian G wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:19:23 -0400 > Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. "De-Fragment". >> >>When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the >>"allocation bitmap" for the disk gets to look like a swiss cheese -- lots of >>little holes. The little holes get used for the next file(s) you write, and >>those files become "fragmented". The net effect is that reading and writing >>files from a fragmented disk takes longer than from an un-fragmented disk, >>where the files are mostly contiguous. Sometimes a _lot_ longer for a >>really badly fragged disk. People used to sell utilities for de-frag'ing >>windows disks, for lots of money. >> >>Nowadays, it's cheaper not to bother... when a disk becomes fragged, you >>just throw it away and get a newer, bigger, cheaper, one... (;->) >> >> >>Rick >> > > > uhmm.. you forgot to explain external frag, that one is only the > internal. ;o) > > Damian O! do tell!! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
Rick Thomas wrote: > It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. "De-Fragment". > > When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the > "allocation bitmap" for the disk gets to look like a swiss cheese -- lots of > little holes. The little holes get used for the next file(s) you write, and > those files become "fragmented". The net effect is that reading and writing > files from a fragmented disk takes longer than from an un-fragmented disk, > where the files are mostly contiguous. Sometimes a _lot_ longer for a > really badly fragged disk. People used to sell utilities for de-frag'ing > windows disks, for lots of money. > > Nowadays, it's cheaper not to bother... when a disk becomes fragged, you > just throw it away and get a newer, bigger, cheaper, one... (;->) > > > Rick > > Um...yeah. we knew "what" it was. guess I should have prefaced that last remark with a special comment that let anyone else know that it was a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek question. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot on OSX
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Fabien Goy wrote: > Hi > > I have installed Mandrake 8.2 on my imac. > The installation is ok but i can't boot on linux: the mac boots on OSX. > I can't choose. I don't see the YABOOT menu at the startup. > > What should I do? > If a boot with the ALT key, i can't see the Linux partition. > thks Have you checked on any of the imac or G4 lists, cause I have a feeling most of the folks here are PC folk. there's little to no discussion as to the Mac side of things. and besides...I've always heard that Macs were a myth anyhow. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD
Jason Guidry wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 22:33, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >>FemmeFatale wrote: > > >>>Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a >>>FAT32 partition? >>> >> >>Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not using the same physical disk. >> > > > Nope, this is possible. I think I may have not given a complete answer, > however. the disk MUST be partitioned ahead of time, IE you cannot > shrink the FAT partition from which you are installing. if you can, > then it didn't work for me 8-} > > but I have definitely done this exact procedure on a single disk. > As I recall it I didn't partition the disk ahead of time, and this was in my RedHat5.2 days. Shortly after that distro came out. Anyway, do distinctly remember installing it to a seperate physical drive. these days though with the burner sitting here I just as soon burnit and get on with it. but I do see the application for needing a HDD install. I've got a SuSE installation sitting here on disk that I've got to split up and attempt to burn to CD so's I can try and install it. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD
FemmeFatale wrote: > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >>FemmeFatale wrote: >> >>>dear all, >>> >>>I asked this on newbie list some time ago, no answer. so i'll re-post >>>here: >>> >>>Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a >>>FAT32 partition? >>> >> >>Femme, >> >>Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not using the same physical disk. >> >>Mark >> > > > K well Jason suggested I use a boot floppy... is that necessary? I"m > guessing so... > > So I just make 3 diff folders for each MDK CD? Or one big folder with 3 > sub folders in it?? > > and how do i point the floppy at the .img file on my HDD? > Most definately you'll need a boot floppy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
et wrote: > On Friday 21 June 2002 12:01 am, you wrote: > >>>um...whats "defrag"? >>> >>>Mark >> >>.. ya know.. it's for taking off the frag. >> >>Damian > > heck I wish I coulda figgured out how to take off the frag I was accused of > durring Veit Nam, coulda saved a lotta time for me the first day of the > Court Marshal opening statements; "first you frag the a$$hole officer in his > sleep, then run "defrag" durring the trial, everything is all right now... is > that the correct order of events, Sargent?" > "Oh yes sir, micksofts defrag makes everything all right, and run faster > too." > et, So...you lit up his shorts did ya? ;) he prolly needed it. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
civileme wrote: > Damian G wrote: > >>> um...whats "defrag"? >>> >>> Mark >>> >> >> .. ya know.. it's for taking off the frag. >> >> Damian >> > Quit joking around. Someone in Alaska has managed to achive MORE than > 50% frag on ext2. I am investigating as are several UNIX old-timers > > Civileme > O yeah...now it's going to get Real interesting. I love it when the old-timers get involved cause thats when school is in session. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
James wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:51:38 -0400 > Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > >>On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:16 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: >> >>>James wrote: >>> >>>>On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:17:37 -0400 >>>>daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary >>>>authority >>>> >>>> >>>>>James wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:33:24 -0600 >>>>>>FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary >>>>>>authority >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Jes** Chr*** on a blue crutch !! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>-- tying jaw to head !!! -- >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:35, Peter Ruskin wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>On Monday 17 Jun 2002 17:02, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 19:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>I believe that is true - I wouldn't try to have a separate >>>>>>>>>>>/etc. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>My separate partitions are: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>I'm thinking with that kind of scheme such as you employ, you >>>>>>>>>>must have a buttload of disk space. ;) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary >>>>>>>>>PCI Mode.ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: >>>>>>>>>hde:DMA, hdf:DMAide3: BM-DMA at 0xec08-0xec0f, BIOS >>>>>>>>>settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I'm with LX. Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for >>>>>>>tho, thats too much of an understatement! >>>>>> >>>>>>3 points. >>>>>> >>>>>>1. No answer on the 3com thing yet. >>>>>>2. What's LX >>>>>>3. I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting. The >>>>>>have just under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server >>>>>>alone.> >>>>> >>>>>Holyu crap James! I bet it take a little while to do a few small >>>>>queries on that monster! I can't even begin to imagine what a >>>>>PETAbyte looks like. >>>>> >>>>>Mark >>>> >>>>Oh about an 80 x 100 foot room... and actually most queries he >>>>said take under 20 secs. It's wild I was drooling. They had >>>>one cluster of 2000 linux boxes. Right now they are all 1u's >>>>since blades still aren't up to snuff. This place rocked. >>> >>>Wow! James...I envy you. I've never seen that kind of computing >>>power before. even though I know it exists it's still all myth and >>>legend to me. >>> >>>Mark >> >>I guess it's all those years with Windows combined with not having any >>knowledge whatsoever about server farms, but my very first thought >>was, "Damn, I'll bet it takes a long time to defrag that thing." >>-- cmg > > > With tongue in cheek I asked him about fsck... He laughed and said It's > faster to restore from backup and skip it. > > James > now _that_ is truely scary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD
FemmeFatale wrote: > dear all, > > I asked this on newbie list some time ago, no answer. so i'll re-post > here: > > Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a > FAT32 partition? > Femme, Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not using the same physical disk. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:16 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >>James wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:17:37 -0400 >>>daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority >>> >>> >>>>James wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:33:24 -0600 >>>>>FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Jes** Chr*** on a blue crutch !! >>>>>>> >>>>>>>-- tying jaw to head !!! -- >>>>>>> >>>>>>>On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:35, Peter Ruskin wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>On Monday 17 Jun 2002 17:02, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 19:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>I believe that is true - I wouldn't try to have a separate >>>>>>>>>>/etc. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>My separate partitions are: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>I'm thinking with that kind of scheme such as you employ, you >>>>>>>>>must have a buttload of disk space. ;) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI >>>>>>>>Mode.ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, >>>>>>>>hdf:DMAide3: BM-DMA at 0xec08-0xec0f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, >>>>>>>>hdh:DMA >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>I'm with LX. Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for tho, >>>>>>thats too much of an understatement! >>>>> >>>>>3 points. >>>>> >>>>>1. No answer on the 3com thing yet. >>>>>2. What's LX >>>>>3. I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting. The have >>>>>just under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server alone.> >>>> >>>>Holyu crap James! I bet it take a little while to do a few small >>>>queries on that monster! I can't even begin to imagine what a PETAbyte >>>>looks like. >>>> >>>>Mark >>> >>>Oh about an 80 x 100 foot room... and actually most queries he said >>>take under 20 secs. It's wild I was drooling. They had one cluster >>>of 2000 linux boxes. Right now they are all 1u's since blades still >>>aren't up to snuff. This place rocked. >> >>Wow! James...I envy you. I've never seen that kind of computing power >>before. even though I know it exists it's still all myth and legend to me. >> >>Mark > > > I guess it's all those years with Windows combined with not having any > knowledge whatsoever about server farms, but my very first thought was, > "Damn, I'll bet it takes a long time to defrag that thing." > -- cmg > um...whats "defrag"? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problem with userdrake
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, faisal gillani wrote: > well i got a probelm with userdrake .. it was running > fine previously but not it gives out some error > related to someunlock file & does not open ... > > what can be wrong ? how can i correct ? > > thanks write down the path to the lockfile it's refering to and delete the lockfile. if *that* is whats keeping the program from running that should take care of the problem. you can also do user maintainence using Linuxconf as well. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Pierre Fortin wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:05:55 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > # > > # detecting the running process > > # > > proc=`ps r|grep ` # the "apostrophe" looking character is > > # NOT an apostrophe and is necessary > > # for the entire command with arguments > > # to be loaded into the variable > > Mark, > > This can also be done with just the "ps" command... Here's an example of > what I use in my crontab... > > if [ -z "`/bin/ps --no-headers -j -C program`" ]; then \ > /usr/bin/program; fi > > HTH, > Pierre > Pierre! That was absolutely awesome! thank you. :) I hadn't thought of doing it that way, i think primarily because I'm not very familiar yet with the bash -flags yet. However I see something coming together here. Richard: can you help me remember again what it is that we're looking for here again? I mean, what process is it that we're testing for? process == running program /* and can someone * please tell me * what those little * nicks on the tilda * key are ( ` )? */ -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > # > > # detecting the running process > > # > > proc=`ps r|grep ` # the "apostrophe" looking character is > > # NOT an apostrophe and is necessary > > # for the entire command with arguments > > # to be loaded into the variable > > Mark, > > Thanks for this -- I like your coding / commenting style! I know some > of the experienced "bashers" might not, but it sure is helpful for a > newbie. ;-) > > No doubt, this will find it's way to WikiLearn, maybe after you > "publish" the entire script. > > Nah, I won't wait, I'll put it on a page: > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/BashCheckForARunningProcess -- > we can change the name when/if someone thinks of something more > appropriate. > > Feel free to use this WikiLearn page as your "whiteboard" for > collaboration while you work out the rest of it. > > regards, > Randy Kramer You know Randy...in light of our past conversations about WikiLearn I don't know why I didn't think of that to begin with. doh! sorry about that. That _is_ a wonderful idea though. I take that heads up and begin to post the information there. by the way...as an asside..sorry for the long absence. I've been busier then a long-tailed cat in a room full O rockin chairs lately and haven't had any time to spend on the WikiLearn project. a situation I intend to rectify shortly. :) -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Richard Bonebrake wrote: > > >Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: > >>I believe your solution will also remove a valid lockfile, ain't it? > > > >actually because it's specific to the file you're looking for "it" is only > >looking for a file which is so named in the variable. If that variable > >happens to be a lock file and there is no process running then wouldn't > >you "want" to remove the lockfile. > > > >if you're concerned about removing a lockfile which is legal while a > >process is running then check for the process at the beginning of the > >script and if it is found then you can terminate the program, else, allow > >the program to complete. > > > >Mark > > I sent this the other day, maybe no one saw it. Anyway any help on a script > like this would really help. > > > How do I do this? Can you give me an example of the script. Thanks > > > > Richard D. Bonebrake > Asquith Internet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Richard, Actually I did see your post and responded to it, but the list(s) seem to be experiencing some "growing" pains again and the message went haplessly into the ether. At any rate, when I saw your post asking this question the other day I started hacking away at it. since this is "my" first time at checking for a running process via a shell script we're somewhat in the same boat. I was about half way there when I got side-tracked by a few things that have held my attention since then. If you don't mind learning it together we can continue this, unless of course someone more knowledgeable in shell scripting chooses to supply the concise answer to this question. We can also of course do this on or off list. either way is fine with me. I personally would prefer to do it onlist so that it's in the archives for others to access, however some may prefer that since it's not directly "on-topic" with this mailing list that the thread be taken off-list. since we already know "how" to check for the existence of the .lock file itself all we need to do now is check for a running process. With that in mind this is where I'm currently at with this: # # detecting the running process # proc=`ps r|grep ` # the "apostrophe" looking character is # NOT an apostrophe and is necessary # for the entire command with arguments # to be loaded into the variable As soon as I get a chance I'll intend to workout just how to get the results of $proc into another variable so that you can run a "kill" command on the pid that is returned "if" the process exists. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
civileme wrote: > David Guntner wrote: > >> KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> >>> David Guntner wrote: >>> I tried to create a separate /etc filesystem ... >>> Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong ... >>> >>> During bootup the kernel needs to read /etc/fstab to know what other >>> filesystems (partitions) to mount where. If /etc/fstab is not in the >>> root filesystem, the system will never be able to finish mounting the >>> filesystems. >>> >> >> That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that. >> >> But it's still annoying. :-) It just makes more sense now. Thanks >> for the reality check. >> >>--Dave >> >> >> >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >> http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > Actually, making separate filesystems of any of the following will stop > the system in its tracks: > > /etc, /bin, /lib, /sbin > > Those really need to be in /. > Now as for > > alias rm rm -i > > suppose you are typing > > rm -r /somepath/.somecorruptedconfigdir -f > > and at the point where you have typed > > rm -r / > > The cat jumps up to get your attention and lands a paw on . > > Are you going to chuckle because you didn't type -f and the -i is > already aliased in? Or are you going to determine if cat really tastes > like chicken because you didn't have -i? > I don't know about you, but 98% of the time my computer has a problem, > the problem has its hands on my keyboard, and I have too much data > flying in a single day to risk it til the next backup for the sake of a > little convenience. I would call it thoughtful rather than paternalistic. > > Some of the things that might appear paternalistic are not in fact so. > They are forced to some decision. For example, if you have an internet > connection and a local network connection, you can put in one nameserver > for the LAN and two for the internet. Major redesign at linux standards > level is involved for more than 3 nameservers, and it either had to be > two for one and one for the other or one for each and another reserved > for an additional purpose. That is for the GUI setup scripts. Of > course you find all of them regardless in /etc/resolv.conf, just set up > a bit differently in /etc/sysconfig/network, and you can certainly > change this with an editor. > > Finally, we are targeting windows desktop migrants and NT server > migrations rather than trying to draw customers away from other linux > distros, so you can expect an approach that does a little hand-holding > as the audience has come to expect. (They say we don't do enough, > especially when they blow up their systems using the update program on a > kernel -- well look at our new kernel update numbering--it won't show > as an update--have to DL and install) > > Civileme > Civileme, Truely, it's guys like you working for a distro like Mandrake that cause me to love and respect Mandrake so much. Well said! No matter how you slice it, pound for pound... ounce for ounce, Mandrake has them all beat. While with Linux, it's all good the cream always rises to the top. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
James wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:33:24 -0600 > FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > >>Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >> >>>Jes** Chr*** on a blue crutch !! >>> >>>-- tying jaw to head !!! -- >>> >>>On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:35, Peter Ruskin wrote: >>> On Monday 17 Jun 2002 17:02, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 19:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: > >>I believe that is true - I wouldn't try to have a separate >>/etc. >> >>My separate partitions are: > >I'm thinking with that kind of scheme such as you employ, you >must have a buttload of disk space. ;) > > PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMAide3: BM-DMA at 0xec08-0xec0f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA >>> >> >> >>I'm with LX. Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for tho, >>thats too much of an understatement! > > > 3 points. > > 1. No answer on the 3com thing yet. > 2. What's LX > 3. I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting. The have just > under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server alone.> > Holyu crap James! I bet it take a little while to do a few small queries on that monster! I can't even begin to imagine what a PETAbyte looks like. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OpenOffice 1.0 + PostgreSQL ODBC
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Seppo Järvinen wrote: > Just had an idea and tried the Organizer in datasources. It says: > > cannot load component libodbc.so or it is corrupted. > > I had an earlier OO install from rpm but removed it and then installed 1.0 > from openoffice.org tarball. Should I do a reinstall of 1.0 or what...? > > Leaving the server directive empty didn't work either. I assume because of > what is stated above. Jerry, To the best of my knowledge OpenOffice and program of this type use ODBC to connect to databases to retrieve information. you're going to have to setup MySQLODBC, if it will even work in this manner, in order to connect to the database using OO. Thats the only way you're going to make that happen. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
