Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin
Somebody scribbled about [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin >These are tricky html or other type of spam, they are plain text. > Generally they are viagra messages. The one that really galls me is > one that uses the name "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of the > actual It is getting ever more popular to obfuscate the filters. Spammers might just have woken up to the fact that most of their mail is getting killed by filters. The majority of spam I am seeing now have various obfuscations - such as using high ASCII characters, accent marks, periods, odd punctuation in the subject and that sort of thing. Bodies are even more stranger. I've seen spam where the only legible item in the body was the link, buried in the middle of the spam, and the whole rest of the message looks like: ;weafl;ewjkajeiajwe;ia gjaegjk aefjajj fjkl;weaj;ejklaefj;aejaf j; wekla;fjkaje4iajajkef wejlfj;efaj http://gogetcash.com aef;aljkajkljl;kwefjl;ka like that :). > minutes later that damn message is back and spamassassin let it come > right through. Would the scores be raised by "learned" spam? Oftentimes one sees a lot of spam that you know is definitely spam but there's not sufficient checks that would raise the score and put it into the bucket. Since Spam Assassin looks at specific things for scoring, it may be that the spam in question didn't trigger a specific "nono" that SA is looking for. >What the hell? I REALLY want to nuke the computer from which this > comes. I was doing so well there with nary a spam for weeks getting I started that approach sometime back but ran into trouble getting it to work in postfix (per host type refusals). Sooner or later I will try to get it working again. >praedor -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Clean up old logs
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Clean up old logs > >didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does > it work)? It's not probably going to be running. Do you have a /etc/logrotate.d or an /etc/logrotate.conf file? It's not a boot time service but it gets run out of cron -- typically 4am on Sundays when the lines are not too busy ;). What it basically does is let you keep a certain number of week's worth of log files. For instance if you have 5 weeks of logs for "foo", you'd typically see (after 5 weeks, of course): /var/log/foo /var/log/foo.1.gz /var/log/foo.2.gz /var/log/foo.3.gz /var/log/foo.4.gz /var/log/foo.5.gz Now, pretend it's the sixth week. First it will get rid of /var/log/foo.5.gz, then move 4 to 5, 3 to 4, 2 to 3, 1 to 2, gzip /var/log/foo, and touch a zero byte /var/log/foo so you can start over. Neat huh? In your situation, you may not have a standard log file but if it's one that periodically grows, you can add it to the existing logrotate configuration. Some are not set by default or have longer than weekly rotate times (likely httpd for one I believe). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] spamassassin?
This used to work but I think partially due to my recent problem, spam assassin won't start up anymore. I get execvp: no such file or directory when doing 'service spamassassin start". I think it's time to start the thing again from telinit 1 to be sure. No wonder I am getting so much spam in my inbox. Thoughts? I figure execvp is a call to look for a file, but heaven knows which one at this point. In removing and reinstalling postfix, anything could have happened. Months ago, I set up spamassassin as a per-user filter run through procmail. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] a stuck postfix
I am not sure this is working but I had tried to send mail out my mail server here. It was working a few days ago and now isn't. I've tried starting and reloading my postfix and even rebooted. I had these problems last week when I was trying to figure out my spam leakage problem. Anyway, I removed Postfix and reinstalled, and put my saved configuration back in place. I got it working only by rebooting -- going to telinit 1 and then to telinit 3 failed to produce the desired effect. I've had some stuck mail in there before -- but at least it was trying to send it; now it's not even doing that. And I haven't altered /etc/postfix/master.cf (attached) since -- at least not until now. I do have smtp entries in that file - and that's supposedly the reason why it wouldn't work (if they weren't there, that is). But I'm still getting problems. /var/log/mail/errors: - the gaps are the reboot and retries Nov 13 05:16:22 m206-157 postfix/smtp[20777]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Nov 13 05:16:22 m206-157 postfix/smtp[20778]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Nov 13 05:35:26 m206-157 postfix/smtp[21502]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Nov 13 06:06:52 m206-157 postfix/smtp[2274]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp /var/log/mail/warnings [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# tail /var/log/mail/warnings Nov 13 06:20:12 m206-157 postfix/smtp[2406]: warning: deliver_request_get: error receiving common attributes Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: private/smtp socket: malformed response Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: private/smtp socket: malformed response Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description Nov 12 22:23:33 m206-157 postfix/master[1305]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 2416 exit status 1 Nov 12 22:23:33 m206-157 postfix/master[1305]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling Nov 12 22:23:33 m206-157 postfix/master[1305]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 2415 exit status 1 This was working perfectly until my box was compromised. Tomorrow night I'll probably throw in the towel and go qmail. Or maybe just keep sending mail through smtp.tsoft.com as MAPS still has not taken my IP off of their list. By the way, I had this entire post rejected because of one word --- deeelist (as in delisting my server). I got a response that said my post would not go out, along with a return address unknown to MandrakeSoft's servers. This reminds me of Prodigy filters -- one instance when someone wanted to let people know their daughter graduated magna cum laude -- and prodigy blocked on the word cum. IMHO this kind of brain dead list filtering is going to cause more problems than it solves. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -- # # Postfix master process configuration file. Each line describes how # a mailer component program should be run. The fields that make up # each line are described below. A "-" field value requests that a # default value be used for that field. # # Service: any name that is valid for the specified transport type # (the next field). With INET transports, a service is specified as # host:port. The host part (and colon) may be omitted. Either host # or port may be given in symbolic form or in numeric form. Examples # for the SMTP server: localhost:smtp receives mail via the loopback # interface only; 10025 receives mail on port 10025. # # Transport type: "inet" for Internet sockets, "unix" for UNIX-domain # sockets, "fifo" for named pipes. # # Private: whether or not access is restricted to the mail system. # Default is private service. Internet (inet) sockets can't be private. # # Unprivileged: whether the service runs with root privileges or as # the owner of the Postfix system (the owner name is controlled by the # mail_owner configuration variable in the main.cf file). # # Chroot: whether or not the service runs chrooted to the mail queue # directory (pathname is controlled by the queue_directory configuration # variable in the main.cf file). Presently, all Postfix daemons can run # chrooted, except for the pipe, virtual and local delivery daemons. # The files in
Re: [expert] [dfox@m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com: hijack cont.]
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hijack cont.] >Now, how do you tell the user? - that is, how do you find out who it is? That's an interesting question. whois IP used to be the way to do this but with spammers, it's anyone's guess. A) the IP could be forged or could be a dynamic one, or B) the contact data can easily be faked for that IP. So maybe the thing to do is just block the IP and not care who it is. Then again, I'm considering hauling people into court over this last debacle or at least contact the FBI/local police - assuming they're in America of course. The spam itself may have *originated* offshore (and did in some cases) but one could easily assume the people who are "selling" these things are in the US. > >Phil -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Bizarre postfix problem cant send mail
Apparently I cannot send mail with my postfix on localhost to the network. Previously this was working fine and I don't see any changes made to my postfix configuration files. But in the last few days things have not gone well here. Firstly, my system was hijacked and used as an open proxy to send megabytes of spam to the network. :(. My isp filtered my outgoing smtp port and that is when I began to see a few errors in my /var/log/mail/errors file (unknown service tcp/smtp). After finding out about this, I tried to post to the list and I don't think any of my messages went out. I had to go into /var/spool/postfix and start deleting a whole bunch of files in deferred - there was at one time seven megabytes of messages trying to get out! And those were the invalid addresses. I wonder how spammers survive -- I guess they just exploit other systems to do the dirty work :(. At the moment, My box is better secured thanks to portsentry (why isn't this program in mandrake I could not urpmi it, but I did find it through rpmfind.org and the source rpm built and installed fine. I tried running shorewall but got nowhere. I don't know how to edit shorewall files and I don't want something that won't even let me ping my gateway when installed. iptables is running because of portsentry but I don't see anything that is specifically tied to port 25. And in atcp mode it's supposed to ignore certain standard ports anyway. It seems like a catch 22 - if I disable the filters perhaps outbound smtp will work, but if I do that, I'm back to where I was before, and people will start targeting my box again. I counted 72 attempts of portscanning done in less than six hours, and 10 minutes after I restarted httpd I got spurious gets in my apache log files. I think this is how they got into my box in the first place, since I don't do much if any web stuff, and my log files are tiny - the other day they were over a megabyte. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem >Sounds like you may be missing one or more of these. > >locales-en-2.3.1.4-6mdk >locales-2.3.1.4-6mdk I have the locales rpms installed but I have a different problem, and it still isn't working quite right in 9.2. For whatever reason, the system eventually changes to a strange time zone - sometimes it is as much as 7 hours off pst. When I start kde the clock is fine, but eventually (sometimes in a few hours) will change the time all by itself. And does anyone else notice a screen blanking for a few seconds when the user tries to have the kicker clock settings changed? It's happening here, and it's a little bit disconcerting. The screen does reappear in a few seconds, but I don't see any reason for a blanking. > >James -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks >I have had the same prob before, some tapes have a bad sig/noise ratio >or use shorter gaps between songs (or as in the old Chicago soundtrack I >did recently, some songs had no gaps at all). Hmm. I haven't tried this with cassettes but if i remember, some tapes had a signal embedded in them - and i had a tape player years ago that had some kind of music skip feature in that it would seek to the next track. I hardly listen to anything other than cd's nowadays, though. But it brings up a thread on svlug i saw recently where people were discussing related things. Anyway, sox may be of use if you have the cassette .wav file -- there's apparently a 'silence' option that uses a threshold value and silences anything below that value. you might then have better luck in splitting the tracks. Anyway, it was years since i had a box that would do that music search thing, and it seemed to work well only on commercially-produced tapes. >My answer was to split the tracks manually, and I feathered the sound at >the end of each track down to 0 to make it sound better.. it worked IMHO it's better to do it in audacity since you can visualize the parts that are the gaps between the songs. I was planning on splitting up one big mp3 of a full album i had, but then later saw that soneone had posted the same album on usenet, with the songs split :). >Franki -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kspread stopped working
Just noticed this - needed to load a .ksp file into kspread. This used to work not too long ago: actually, it's a somewhat recurring error. I'm getting a message from kspread (or maybe the lower level kde system) - and it's refusing to load kspread. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dfox]$ koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: Got no results with [X-KDE-NativeMimeType] == 'application/x-kspread' koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Found no KOffice part able to handle application/x-kspread! koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Check your installation (does the desktop file have X-KDE-NativeMimeType and KOfficePart, did you install KOffice in a different prefix than KDE, without adding the prefix to /etc/kderc ?) To answer those questions, I'd say Yes, maybe, and no. KDEDIR is set to /usr/bin, but it was unset before, and that doesn't seem to affect this behavior. /etc/kderc doesn't exist in 9.2 apparently. Last few lines of /usr/share/applnk/office/kspread.desktop (presumably, the file that kde is using). ServiceTypes=KOfficePart,KParts/ReadOnlyPart,KParts/ReadWritePart,text/x-csv,application/x-kspread-crypt,application/x-quattropro X-KDE-NativeMimeType=application/x-kspread X-DCOP-ServiceType=multi DocPath=kspread/index.html X-KDE-StartupNotify=true Categories=Qt;KDE;Office -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KMail doesn't seem to delete anything
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] KMail doesn't seem to delete anything >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Which version of kmail are you using? I use v1.5 with KDE 3.1.3 and > have no problems. If I use the keyboard delete key, it places the > selected mail into the trash folder. If I use the X icon (right next I'm using the same version as yours. But haven't you noticed that the messages in inbox don't ever get deleted? Is your inbox (assuming of course you keep the messsages there) still growing ever larger if you delete the messages? The messages are gone in the sense they never show up in kmail, but the disk space is still being consumed by them. At least this is still true with respect to inbox, and it's too soon to tell if it is the case with my temp folder. even trash will grow periodically if i don't delete the folder and recreate it periodically. I've been using the same mail folders more or less since I first used kde some several years ago now. I think that there might have been folder corruption that happened a few times over the years, but that doesn't explain the behavior on a newly created folder. > to the trashcan icon in the toolbar for kmail) it eliminates the > message completely rather than passing it to trash. To empty the trash > and eliminate any messages passed there by filters or whatnot, I right > click on the trash folder and select "empty trash". > >praedor > >On Sunday 12 October 2003 03:10 pm, dfox wrote: >> This used to work before, but it's been a very long time. >> >> Assume I don't move to trash, and confirm delete by using shift-delete >> rather than the regular delete - that key combination has shifted over >> the past few releases of Kmail anyhow. But anyway, it's a real delete. >> >> Now back in the old days, Kmail used to actually delete mails from the >> various folders when you issued "Compact". This hasn't happened for a >> very long time. Despite expiring and deleting articles from Inbox, my >> inbox was growing ever larger - approaching several hundred megabytes. >> >> I finally decided I'd convert to Maildir format, but I couldn't change >> that on Inbox, so (for now) I've created a "temp" folder containing >> all the messages that were in inbox (about 150 megs, as opposed to >> nearly 400) and moved all of inbox over to temp. I then emptied inbox. >> Now I've been moving the inbox stuff over to temp on a regular basis, >> and inbox is beginning to grow again. With all the spam/virus stuff >> out there (fortunately I can prescreen much of that stuff), inbox is >> up to 12 megabytes or so. temp/cur hasn't seem to have shrunk, and I >> see some largish posts in there which seem that they could be >> previously deleted mails. >> >> Without killing my existing mails and starting over, what should I do? >> I don't think removing and recreating inbox is an option but that's >> probably the only way to make it into a Maildir format, which is >> probably going to make actual deletion easier. > >- -- >I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great >evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. >Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal >vice of any religion. >- --Richard Dawkins >Key fingerprint = D6F9 8682 2257 2871 10C6 DB92 6F50 8BBA B100 EB15 >-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE/ibhKb1CLurEA6xURAiiwAKDXLV3gCNr5EyGuRozrVIFG6THwMgCgtMP1 >brVCaLqttLK1qb+7HlkvUts= >=rDw4 >-END PGP SIGNATURE- -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KMail doesn't seem to delete anything
This used to work before, but it's been a very long time. Assume I don't move to trash, and confirm delete by using shift-delete rather than the regular delete - that key combination has shifted over the past few releases of Kmail anyhow. But anyway, it's a real delete. Now back in the old days, Kmail used to actually delete mails from the various folders when you issued "Compact". This hasn't happened for a very long time. Despite expiring and deleting articles from Inbox, my inbox was growing ever larger - approaching several hundred megabytes. I finally decided I'd convert to Maildir format, but I couldn't change that on Inbox, so (for now) I've created a "temp" folder containing all the messages that were in inbox (about 150 megs, as opposed to nearly 400) and moved all of inbox over to temp. I then emptied inbox. Now I've been moving the inbox stuff over to temp on a regular basis, and inbox is beginning to grow again. With all the spam/virus stuff out there (fortunately I can prescreen much of that stuff), inbox is up to 12 megabytes or so. temp/cur hasn't seem to have shrunk, and I see some largish posts in there which seem that they could be previously deleted mails. Without killing my existing mails and starting over, what should I do? I don't think removing and recreating inbox is an option but that's probably the only way to make it into a Maildir format, which is probably going to make actual deletion easier. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Vim
Somebody scribbled about [expert] Vim >Holding a character or cursor key down to print a line of characters or >to move through lines or holding down the backspace or delete key to >erase a row of characters results in jumpy performance. And a hurt keyboard :) Use repeat commands 72i- will insert a row of - characters, for instance. If you prefix a number before a command, vi will repeat that command the specified number of times. For instance, 10j will move the cursor down 10 lines. To delete the line you are on, use 'd$' (delete to end of line) rather than hitting the delete or backspace keys a number of times. Still, I wonder if it is a gnome thing. I couldn't repeat that behavior here and I use 9.2 and the same vim you use, but I use kde. >wobo -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] spoofed?
Well, I just received a heads up from my isp provider -- seems that there
has been some naughtiness (?) going on here.. dunno what to do to fix it.
It seems there have been some pings/icmp activity from my system to some
other system on the local tsoft network. I can't find anything in my logs
regarding this activity.
-- > Aug 7 20:18:10 ns snort[26215]: [1:469:1] ICMP PING NMAP =
> [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priori
> ty: 2]: {ICMP} 198.144.206.157 -> 198.144.206.xx
>
> Aug 30 02:11:08 ns snort[15127]: [1:469:1] ICMP PING NMAP =
> [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priori
> ty: 2]: {ICMP} 198.144.206.157 -> 198.144.206.xx> Sep 1 12:21:10 ns
snort[15127]: [1:469:1] ICMP PING NMAP =
> [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priori
> ty: 2]: {ICMP} 198.144.206.157 -> 198.144.206.xx
>
> Sep 1 12:36:17 ns snort[15127]: [1:469:1] ICMP PING NMAP =
> [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priori
> ty: 2]: {ICMP} 198.144.206.157 -> 198.144.206.xx
Notice that there's been some activity today...
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Re: [expert] urpmi lccked
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] urpmi lccked >There is a problem with the gui frontend to urpmi.addmedia that is fixed >in an upcoming drakxtools: I see the problem, and the proposed fix. The issue now is a catch-22 one. I can't add any sources, so I can't get the new patch to drakxtools to add sources. See the problem? I attempted to do as you suggest but All that accomplishes is that it copies the names of the hdlists files over into /var/cache/urpmi/partial and then fails with a 'urpmi database locked' --- how is it possible to unlock it? am i toast? >Rolf -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 & Pentium 4
Somebody scribbled about [expert] Mdk 9.1 & Pentium 4 >painful noises in the box, a 3-yr-old CPU (Celeron 466) & extra income > (grin) have brought me to the point of looking at buying a faster CPU >& an associated motherboard & upto-date memory. however, I still think athlon is a better choice. But for what it is worth my brother (still a windows user) upgraded to a 3.0 gig pentium 4. (His first cpu overheated and he has cooling issues .. i sent him mprime info.) But I got to thinking about this particular p4 and his comment about 'hyperthreading' - apparently the hw divvies up the cpu into two cpus and he would have to reinstall the os to get it to work. I'm kinda curious to see what a linux kernel would see -- one or two cpus? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] im sick and tired of this!
Somebody scribbled about [expert] im sick and tired of this! >I am getting a ton of emails that are infected with the latest virus. I > am running Mailscanner to scan incomming email before it hits any of my > workstations. So the files are not getting past my server. It does > though fil up my quarentine directory on the server. These infected go over to www.nbc11.com in their forums to see what I wrote in their "how has the latest virus affected you?" forum. Looks like no one really reads the stuff so it may not even get noticed, and if the moderatof doesn't like it, it may never get posted, but IMHO if you're in IT in some corporate or other level or is responsible for the maintenance of systems -- your job should be on the line if you are caught using windows in a corporate (not necesssarily desktop) setting. folks, we've had enough time. we've seen this shit happen way too many times before. enough is enough. sack time . mcdonalds is hiring. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: cdbakeoven first try bad
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Re: cdbakeoven first try bad >Personally I've gone nuts trying to make any of the gui's work (more my >lack of adequate head room.) ... (and I like gui's) cdrecord -v speed=X >dev=x,x,x -data x.iso and I'm off and running. *grin* Like I said before -- they look like they're going to work, but they make it really easy to come up with something that doessn't work. I'm getting biased towards the command lnie, and I'm burning audio CD's from mp3s, and cdrecord (plus sox) is good for that, if there is only one, or a few files. But when trying to burn a cd full of mp3s, like 15 tracks or so from usenet :) like I did this past weekend (got ween - quebec) the command line is more complicated, and it would be nice to just send the files to the cd, and that is (supposedly) what the gui's accomplish. The problem with cdbakeoven is that its sampling is wrong. OK I suppose, if the input is 44100, 2 channel, stereo. But if it's anything elsse, it gets it wrong. It needs to be able to analyze the sample rate and format of what it is fed and intelligently resample to what the cd wants. i've found that something along the lines of 'mpg123 -s whatever.mp3 | sox -t raw -w -s -c 1 -r 22050 - -c 2 -r 44100 foo.wav' works with the otr mp3's I'm currently working with. some of course are resampled at different rates, so I have to check first before I resample. k3b crashes too often for it to be useful for most things. gcombust - well, it doesn't try to resample the mp3 at all, it'll just put it on there like you wanted a data cd of mp3s rather than an audio cd. but still, when working with a number of mp3s at once, their naming conventions are all screwed up like 'britneyspears carterwauling 01 0f 14.mp3' :) and it makes it difficult to automate this process. This past weekend i was working on burning ween and got it burned to a cd, and just had to manually reconvert each file to something like /tmp/01.wav /tmp/02.wav and so forth. Then I used cdrecord to put all the files in order on the new cd. > >James -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] testing
Well, cooker 9.2 online. Bit of a snag when donig the bootloader, it tried to write it to the wrong drive. l 99 l99 l99 l99 Now copied my postfix from 9.0 over and hopefully this is going to be sent. arg - no sound again. can't find the emu10k module on boot. and what happened to draksound? not there!!! :) Well that was more than just a test I guess -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kde 3.1.2 clock issue
Has anyone experienced clock problems? It's been OK up until now. I don't know when it started, but all of a sudden my KDE clock was off. I thought something was amiss in drakconf (system time) since I had recently run drakfloppy and drakboot to make sure my lilo and etc was all ready to go prior to installing 9.2 beta (I haven't yet installed). Attempting to change it produces haphazard results. My "system" time is all correct, PDT, clock set to GMT, 'date' or 'xclock' produces the correct time and date. However, kde's clock is reporting CDT now - and it's off. CDT is 2 hours ahead of here (Sunnyvale CA) not three, and three is what it's telling me (five shalt thou not count). Each time I attempt to set kde's idea of what time it is, the screen blanks for a bit, then goes back to normal, and the day chaanges. KDE thinks today is Saturday. It thought it was Monday before. I suspect kcmshell since that's invoked. But not sure. I haven't tried restarting kde. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Making / Verifying 9.2beta ISOs
Hello Now that the 9.2 beta cd's are out, I'm busily downloading them, and burning my own ISOs for the first time :) (well, I did burn 9.1 and that was a disastrous install). Anyway, I get 'input/output error' at the end of the first ISO if I try to 'md5sum /dev/cdrom' or dd the disk over into a file for comparison purposes. After dding the first ISO to another file, its size is roughly 1 or 2 K less than the ISO I downloaded. The md5sum of the first ISO matches the ones published, so at least the ISO is a good one. I'm leery, based on my experiences, to try booting this ISO for fear that something got lost. I used 'cdrecord -dev=1,2,0 -data -speed 4 and no errors from cdrecord. The burned CD seems to mount fine. If the last few K are not crucial -- well, let's not go there for now, since the previous install from burned 9.1 media just crashed the system hard practically at the tail end of the install, after completing all the steps. I guess one could loopback mount both copies and do a recursive diff. For now, should I just try another cd? Or is there something in that cdrecord I'm not doing and I should? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] autoconf
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] autoconf >-- PLEASE NOTICE ---> this version is meant to coexist with > autoconf-2.13 (for backwards compatibility); to that end, the various Cool. I seem to remember that happening before. With a little bit of checking I found it in the autoconf2.5 rpm. No wonder urpmi said nothing to do when I said to upgrade autoconf. > select it by providing the environment variable WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 set > to `1' (use WANT_AUTOCONF_2_1 if you want the 2.13 version). It seems more packages are requesting 2.5 - especially KDE etc. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9 >The command you're looking for is urpmf. > >http://www.urpmi.org/en/man-html/urpmf.php Nice! :) I'll try and remember that. >The urpm* family of commands is IMHO the best of Mandrake's innovations. Yes, I'll agree with that. They are pretty slick tools. >HTH! -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw >So thought I'd try the MP3 to audio procedure. Opened a new audio >project and drag 'n drop 19 MP3's and started the burn. I did uncheck I tried the same thing. Well I got error messages from k3b in that it couldn't decode the uudio. So I reverted to a 'mpg123' for decoding and sox to turn it into a wav -- procedure. I dragged and dropped the wav's to k3b and it bombed in the middle of burning the CD. And I couldn't get the CD to stop. I had a bunch of twilight zone audio mp3s to rip and so I went back to using cdrecord with a number of wav files method. I got it done - five cd's worth, and one or maybe two coasters. I'd probably expect less from k3b due to the fact that this is a fairly hodgepodge 9.0 piecemeal upgrade cooker. If or when I get to doing a reinstall with cooker/9.2 maybe it will work better. But not finding the mp3 converter has me puzzled. I have mpg123, lame, xine (mostly) and mencoder/mplayer installed. k3b setup only finds a few missing things, like emovix and normalize. Everything else is present. >"on the fly" box so as to rip the mp3 to wave files before burning the >audio disk. > >This procedure worked flawlessly. > >Conclusion: K3b Works... > >Larry -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9 >Ok, I lied, I looked for an upgrade to kdemultimedia. I found it, > installed it, and am now happy. Oh I see. In that case, never mind. But what kdemultimedia are you using? I'm upgrading piecemeal from a broken install (only had 9.0) to cooker and that one stumped me. See my other post. >Rob -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9 >On Monday 21 July 2003 07:36 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: >> Quick question. Why not use the prcompiled K3B Rpms instead?? > >Are there any for 0.90? I think there is - have you checked cooker-contrib? k3b-0.9-1mdk k3b-devel-0.9-1mdk >Rob -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9 >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >3) Comb through the results looking for devel packages that have that >file: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ urpmf libaudio.so > libnas2:/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so.2 > libnas2:/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so.2.3 > libnas2-devel:/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so It takes some intuition, I'll admit, to find the right libraries that support a particular thing. I seem to remember there was a magic trick to find the RPM that provides a specific file -- specifically, one that *isn't* on your system. A lot of times it is confusing what to install. For instance, I was attempting to compile something recently that needed /usr/bin/gtk-config and couldn't track down the rpm that provides that particular file. 'urpmi gtk' isn't very helpful: it reminds me of my job trying to locate a specific John Smith :). I seem to remember 'qlf' and some other options (maybe it was -qld?) that would do it. My first approach was to run this against my current cooker mirror. Bash says argument list too long, so I then just use it against gtk and eventually find the file. But is there a better approach? Having something like a "reference" box we could ssh into might be an idea ... I'm currently stumped installing a newer kdemultimedia -- I have kdemultimedia 3.05a from 9.0 and have most everything else installed for 3.1.2, except that. I'm getting: devel(libnoatunarts) is needed by kdemultimedia-devel-3.1.2-10mdk libnoatunarts is installed - but I can't find whatever it is urpmi thinks it needs. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] autoconf
Hello people I have my setup box mostly setup ;). With all the reinstalling and updating I've done in the past week, trying to find packages, getting updates, and so forth, I seem to be missing autoconf again. Now I remember that there were two divergent versions of autoconf, 2.1.3 (which I just installed) and 2.54 (which I can't find an rpm for). In the past I went unto gnu.org for this, is that still the best option? Increasingly things (I'm trying to compile a new gtkatlantic) :) are requiring the 2.54 autoconf. ISTR as well there was a way to set things up so that you don't have two conflicting versions of it on your box, using /etc/alternatives, just like gcc. Hints? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] well I'm back again
Well, had some installation headaches in 9.1 but I managed to get some good help from James Sparenburg (hi James!). I'm running off of 9.1 and urpmi'ing a whole bunch of stuff. Anyway my real question now is k3b. The older k3b in 9.0 wasn't too terribly functional. (I have tried gcombust with some success.) For now k3b in 9.1 seems better, but still I am missing a number of recommended programs - things like transcode, tccat, tcdecode, stuff like that. I tried urpmi on them, no lock, none of the packages show up (except for normalize, which is installed). I'm still attempting to make a music cd from a number of MP3s, but that's not working as well as I'd hoped. "Singles" seem fine; I burned a couple last night, using mpg123. I think my trouble is in getting mpg123 working inside a shell loop. I had converted a number of mp3s to what I thought were wav's but gcombust/cdrecord won't recognize them as such. That was with the stuff in 9.0, maybe things are better in 9.1. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] reading dvd (again)
followup of course it helps to link /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Reading DVD first time user
Hey i can mount my DVD (toshiba) and see the files. I have trouble with xine. xine says that it can't read the dvd and dumps core. I have 9.0 up but need to get the rest of the packages (?) for xine dvd. I have already xinetd-2.3.11-1.1mdk libxine1-1-0.beta12.4plf xine-win32-1-0.beta12.4plf xine-ui-0.9.21-1mdk libxine0-0.9.13-8plf xine-ui-fb-0.9.21-1mdk xine-dvdnav-1-0.beta12.4plf xine-plugins-1-0.beta12.4plf need pointers as to what I need further... i'm new to dvd in linux but pretty familiar with linux otherwise. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Paging James Sparenburg
Hey James: If you can see this can you confirm? [EMAIL PROTECTED] or better yet call my answering machine 408-735-9672. I am stuck with an old 9.0 CD because for some reason my computer refuses to boot with the DVD/CD-RW drive in - it hangs on "resolving module dependencies" . I'm not sure my posts are going out right now either. Thanks David E. Fox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cdrw
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] cdrw >Having said that, I have some words of wisdom: "Get A Credit Card!" > >1) A real credit card company will let you file, at least one, > "secondary delivery address". I was surprised at this development. It's logical, given all the id theft and other things going on. I am surprised that my bank wouldn't have any provision for a secondary address. Unfortunately, due to unfortunate circumstances, loss of income and etc., my credit is pretty bad, so getting a 'real' credit card is not doable right now. :( > >2) [more importantly] NEVER EVER, and I mean EVER give out debit card > info on the internet, no matter how much you trust the recipient. If > you do, you can find your bank account RAPED for all it's worth. With I've had this happen once or maybe twice recently. The one time it happened there was a break in to the site and my info was stolen along with everyone elses. I was able to get chargebacks and/or cooperation from most of the unauthorized transactions, and get a new debit card. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel
Somebody scribbled about [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel >For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with > pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags > also work on other kernels I have tried. The trick in making them take How useful is this for older (i.e., 1000) Athlon's? I recognize some of the flags, others are very new (maybe they weren't in gcc prior to 3.2 or something)? >wrc1944 -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] CDRW > > I can't find any 800mb CDr's in the stores ;( Where do y'all >get 'em? USEnet's got some 715 to 775 movies. I can use mencoder Well, if you do find siome lemme know :). I'm going to try some experiments with mencoder (by the way, what happened to that gui front end for mencoder - i think it was called gmencoder or some such, on plf, now i can't find it). mencoder is supposed to auto-quality based on size, iirc - so if you have a target cd size you can just plug that in. my brother does a lot of this although he uses winblows. i want to d/l sone stuff on usenet but i haven't yet tried this. aren't the files all in rAR? ie once you tag a 'movie' what do you have to do to make it watchable? >to reduce their size to fit on 700mb CDr's, but at a loss of a >little video quality. > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html#rescaling -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cdrw
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] cdrw >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 23:48, dfox wrote: >> Somebody scribbled about re: [expert] cdrw Lyvim - thanks. I looked at www.usssa.com and did an order - their price was 85.00 for retail box sd 1312 plust 15 $ for media, plus ground. They are in fremont which is pretty close to me. I still have to fax back a charge authorization from work in the morning... we will see. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cdrw
Somebody scribbled about re: [expert] cdrw >ok > >i bit the bullet. Thanks to lyvim and other people's comments, i am > going with a 1312 combo dvd/cdrw, from toshiba. i ordered it from micro > pro and hope it arrives soon. i'll update folks when i get it. Update: boo hoo. I am running into a big catch-22 with respect to my debit card -- the bank can't add the shipping address and i live in an apt so i can't have the package sitting at my doorstep when I come home at 7pm, as it will probably be stolen. Micro pro flatly refused to ship to my work address. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
re: [expert] cdrw
ok i bit the bullet. Thanks to lyvim and other people's comments, i am going with a 1312 combo dvd/cdrw, from toshiba. i ordered it from micro pro and hope it arrives soon. i'll update folks when i get it. with shipping and a 50 pack of media it comes to a little over $113 - not bad. A little moer $ than i thought but it's got two sheeps on the cd compatibility website. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] CDRW > Could a few of y'all with Lite-On's post the results of >'cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0' Just the ID/Rev, and the last Speaking of lite-on's any thoughts on the ltc-4816? One of the local stores is selling it for $72 - and it's a dvd-r / cdrw combo. I don't see it on the cd clone lists - they only list "LTR" models from lite-on. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] CDRW >I have 4 Lite-On burners that work flawlessly. All were under $60. The >DVD/CDRWs tend to be a little higher. I'll keep them in mind. My network card is asante/lite-on fwiw. Are usb drives worth trying at this point? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] CDRW >OK, thanks Ed, same mode supports as my old drive. I don't want >burnfree, but it can be disabled. I'm thinkin this old drive has >got to be replaced sooner or later ;) Is yours scsi? It might be worth keeping. but I think tese days that atapi is getting better and better. otoh, the newer drives can burn really really faxt :). the older drives might be a good choice - my scsi subsystem was purchased about the same time frame (1997/98) it's 50 pin and has a tape drive on there now. trouble is all the newer scsi stuff is ultrawide and i don't have the $ to change or add scsi controllers... -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] CDRW >On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 03:44 am, Kwan Lowe had this to contribute :- > >> I have 4 Lite-On burners that work flawlessly. > >Have to agree with 2 Lite-On burners and one CD reader only. Absolutely >faultless. $40 currently at pricewatch for several liteon's. Could you email me privately your model #'s? Pricewatch doesn't always list them. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] CDRW >For CDRW I've got an ASUS (Yes ASUS) CDRW that rarely burns coasters >despite my best efforts to teach it how. ($40) One thing I have I have taken Lyvim's comments seriously and also am looking for something not too terribly expensive (say lesss than $100). I'm probably not going to be able to get a combo for that $, though. up at the top of the list on buy.com is an iomega usb model for $75. I'm going to do more research on the toshiba suggestion and on some other possibilities. BTW, asus is rated 2 sheeps on a couple of items at that clone cd url which lyvim mentioned. >James -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 cooker printing 'boxes'
Somebody scribbled about [expert] 9.2 cooker printing 'boxes' >This seems only to apply to 9.2 (cooker) and although the test pages >through cups admin print out good looking test pages, printing from >within kmail (for instance) print out just a number of small boxes. after another update, it seems that it might be kmail - specific. I noticed other printer sources (mozilla, for instance) work ok. Maybe it's missing fonts? A test doc where I used 48-point adventure in kword came up ok except boxes for that one particular font, and that's only oh the printer, not on the screen. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CDRW
Somebody scribbled about [expert] CDRW >Hi all, >after compiling K3b 0.9pre 2 after reinstalling KDE, I can now burn >audio CD's on my second somewhat older CDRW.and using Gnome as the WM ! I'm not sure (since I don't have a cdrw) if there really is a difference in the model which would prevent k3b from doing what you want. But while we're on the subject, I'm in the market for a burner. It's about time ;). Is it pretty much a plug-n-play situation these days? I'm likely going atapi, and have a spare connnector (/dev/hdd). I've seen combo dvd readers/cd rws. are these supported? There a several out there that are 'bare bones' it seems - prices under $50. >Richard -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2 cooker printing 'boxes'
This seems only to apply to 9.2 (cooker) and although the test pages through cups admin print out good looking test pages, printing from within kmail (for instance) print out just a number of small boxes. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cooker installation
Somebody scribbled about [expert] cooker installation >I decided I was going to get myself into some deep water and install >cooker. How should I go about doing this? At this very moment I am >mirroring a local copy of this: >ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 Been there, done that :) If you are using fmirror or another tool (I used fmirror) it is pretty easy to do a upgrade install with the hd image. Go to the images subdir of your local copy and dd that file to a floppy. i was using urpmi to auto update but i had part 9.0 part something else (system rebuild from about 1 month ago) and found it worked much better to just upgrade that way. you could also do an 'install' but you need to be careful not to overwrite your medium (probably would have to move it to a partition that mandrake won't touch). Once you install/upgrade you could probably begin to resync with periodic urpmi. >John Drouhard -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Alternatives to editing mp3/ogg files in Audacity?
Somebody scribbled about [expert] Alternatives to editing mp3/ogg files in Audacity? >I regualrily download streaming-mp3 files with XMMS. And I want to clean > them up with Audacity, but above about 20Mb it crashes while loading > the file. For the record my machine is a AMD 2100+ with 512 Mb of RAM > and about 2Gb free under /home. 2 gigs is a pretty safe limit. OTOH I've seen that audacity requires a ton of disk space. Maybe your disk space is low without your realizing it? I did some editing last week and although i have plenty of space in /tmp where these were stored, I did a check and found it using over 2 gigs - many audio files. it seems audacity breaks the input into as many megabyte-sized .au chunks as is needed for what you are doing, and if you need undo's etc you'll need more than 2 gigs free depending on the size. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Alternatives to editing mp3/ogg files in Audacity?
Somebody scribbled about [expert] Alternatives to editing mp3/ogg files in Audacity? >I regualrily download streaming-mp3 files with XMMS. And I want to clean > them up with Audacity, but above about 20Mb it crashes while loading > the file. For the record my machine is a AMD 2100+ with 512 Mb of RAM > and about 2Gb free under /home. 70+ meg mp3 files? I might have some that big. Much of my hour-length stuff are OTR mp3 which don't require a whole lot of extra space - perhaps 10-15 megs vbr for much of them. It would seem that the trick is to be sure that the whole uncompresssed file (plus edits) is going to fit in memory. >Any ideas on how to edit them? Console would be fine, too, just so long > as I have an indexing method to find the start and stop positions. Depends on what you want to do. If you can export them first as wav, you can do some editing with sox. If you know (roughly) the start and end points, factor in the # of samples and size you can try to do some low level splicing with 'dd'. But that works best with headerless sound files. It's much easier of course to have a visual guide though. Audacity does do a good job overall - except that it crashes here too. I tried noise removal on a part of a sample mp3 and managed to crash it, but I don't think memory was an issue. Also the version I have here (1.1.3 from textar) seems a lot more buggy than the older version I had before I had my wierd system crash a few weeks ago. I'm getting a lot of assert messages on the starting console, for instance, and much is missing, like time marks and such. Audacity also needs *LOTS* of disk space if you save something as a Project rather than exporting to WAV or MP3 formats. And I still notice that exporting to MP3 makes the resulting MP3 double-speed. >Rob -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mplayer wierdness
Somebody scribbled about [expert] mplayer wierdness >Hello > Recently my mplayer installation began acting strangely. It starts in >fullscreen mode no matter what settings I give it and the control I'm noticing the same thing. Before, I could go to fullscreen mode and then switch back, or control other aspects from the keyboard, now I have to wait until the video's done. >Jim -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mplayer and *.mov
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] mplayer and *.mov >For me at least in the course of installing mplayer from plf I now have >QT working in Mozilla. Verified here by using it at Matrix.com I'll have to give it a try. Is it just a matter of putting in the correct mime type (video/quicktime is handled by mplayer)? Or is there a "plugin" needed? Quicktime (*mov) seems to work OK. I pulled down a *mov file and it ran fine with mplayer. At least I think it was a quicktime video. (FWIW - *wmv worked fine in Mplayer, but not in xine (cooker). >James -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] very strange filenames in 'ftp'
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] very strange filenames in 'ftp' >I actually got hit with the UTF-8 stuff as well.. I am not even sure >how it is really meant to work.. How the UTF-8 stuff managed get set, Me neither. Any aussies want to comment? I am unaware of a "y" (i..e, one with two dots, high-ascii, not the regular 'y') in Australian English. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] very strange filenames in 'ftp'
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] very strange filenames in 'ftp' >> David, >> >> Curiosity.. are you running UTF-8? Cause if you aren't and the >> other individual is this could be the problem. ( ssh into a UTF-8 >> enabled box from one that isn't and do man man you'll see the >> same crap.) >> >> James James (replying to the other post) I don't think UTF is at fault here. I don't think I use that encoding. The point is that someone outside put those wierd files there. I was able to remove some of them, only painstakingly, via rm -i, and still there are some. I noticed also that the new proftpd setup places stuff in /var/ftp/pub, my stuff was in an older place /home/ftp/pub. Removing the files (or attempting to) caused a big crash, accidentally lost /bin, /etc. Dunno how that happened, unless a file there was a symlink to something in the root filesystem. In other words, ouch. I had to reinstall. Another salient point -- the filenames inside those diretories are full of long names consisting of floating point numbers and "Randomize", like "Randomize?1.0081230592034029402291E+14" might be a sample file name. I smell an exploit. I don't get much anonymous ftp but have it there for the odd file transfer. Confirmed - nothing UTF related in my /etc/sysconfig/i18n, but admittedly, this is from the reinstall, not the contents at that time. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm build issue - cooker
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] rpm build issue - cooker >>I wrote: >> I've installed >> rpm-helper-0.9-1mdk >> rpm-4.2-7mdk >> urpmi-4.3-12mdk >> rpmdrake-2.1-21mdk >> gurpmi-4.3-12mdk >> rpmtools-4.5-11mdk >> >> in addition to new gurpmi, rpmdrake and so forth. > >$ urpmf /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb >rpm-build:/usr/lib/rpm/rpmb Ah ha... :) I gotta remember that. It even hinted at what rpm to install if the file was not there. Mostly one needs a file present to find out where it was obtained from :). I managed to then obtain some still missing pieces, like rpm-devel and so forth. But the configure errors out with 'librpm not found' although it sure looks like it's there: 389496 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpm.a -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 138088 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpmbuild-4.2.so* -rw-r--r--1 root root 177390 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpmbuild.a -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 907 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpmbuild.la* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 18 May 31 16:59 /usr/lib/librpmbuild.so -> librpmbuild-4.2.so* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 928168 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.2.so* -rw-r--r--1 root root 1370494 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpmdb.a -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 846 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpmdb.la* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 15 May 31 16:59 /usr/lib/librpmdb.so -> librpmdb-4.2.so* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 353928 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpmio-4.2.so* -rw-r--r--1 root root 724942 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpmio.a -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 799 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpmio.la* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 15 May 31 16:59 /usr/lib/librpmio.so -> librpmio-4.2.so* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 853 May 13 08:07 /usr/lib/librpm.la* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 May 31 16:59 /usr/lib/librpm.so -> librpm-4.2.so* (section of output from rpm rebuild) checking for dbopen... no checking for db_create in -ldb-3.1... no checking for db_create in -ldb-3.0... no checking for dbopen in -ldb1... yes checking for poptParseArgvString in -lpopt... yes checking for Fopen in -lrpmio... no checking for rpmdbOpen in -lrpmdb... no checking for rpmReadConfigFiles in -lrpm... no configure: error: *** librpm not found error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.38539 (%build) > >Rolf -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rpm build issue - cooker
After having a working cooker setup I managed to trash my install last week and had to go back to 9.0 (sniff). I've managed to start reconstructing some things and now fmirror cooker, although I don't mirror cooker-contrib. I was able to get 'elm' back but now am experiencing difficulties installing rpmfind. First, rpm (4.0.4 methinks) segfaulted and dumped core when attempting to install rpmfind (rpmfind-1.7-4mdk.i586.rpm) from contrib. I then ditched rpm 4.0.4 in favor of newer rpm. With some wrangling on cooker, I was able to grab the dependencies etc. to get rpm and the other related tools (gurpmi, urpmi, rpmdrake, etc.) installed. But rpmfind won't install, because it needs rpm-4.0.4 specifically. I've installed rpm-helper-0.9-1mdk rpm-4.2-7mdk urpmi-4.3-12mdk rpmdrake-2.1-21mdk gurpmi-4.3-12mdk rpmtools-4.5-11mdk in addition to new gurpmi, rpmdrake and so forth. But I can't build from the rpmfind source rpm. I get a message saying "/usr/lib/rpm/rpmb" not found. Whoever walked off with that, would they please return it? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde 3.1.2 (cooker) konqueror issue
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] kde 3.1.2 (cooker) konqueror issue >You have tell pan what browser to open when clcking links. It's in the >preferences. Yeah. Well, it was set to 'kfmclient' to open profile for web browsing. I switched it to "konqueror %s". -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kde 3.1.2 (cooker) konqueror issue
I notice strange behavior in that konqueror (in 3.1.2, from cooker) doesn't open links when clicked from other applications like pan. The konqueror opens on the default page, but I have to copy and paste the URL manually. It seems to do OK on KDE applications (kmail, for instance). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows
Hi. I'm posting this on behalf of our worksite which has been inundated with lots of spam. At home of course I can install Spam Assassin and get rid of most of this stuff. But at work we are at the mercy of POP mail and Outlook on Windows machines. Of course I am trying to suggest Linux but I don't think this is a realistic alternative that management would be happy with. And we get our mail from a "foreign" server (sbc=pacbell) and we are (I think) dependent on their whims -- i.e., installing filters on the mail server isn't an option. -- dfox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dave's Really KRAD linux bux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's
Somebody scribbled about [expert] 8.2 cd's >Has anyone else on here come across defected 8.2 cd's.. >I came across a set yesterday when I purchased them at staples. Hmm. You may be better off getting them at cheapbytes.com, they are pretty inexpensive. Might just be that a few of the 8.2 cds were defective. I have a spare cd 1 of mandrake 9.0, but you really need all three cd's to get a workable install. >Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Still poblems compiling on Mandrake 9.0
>Hep >There seems to be missing files, /lib/crt0.o - however, there is a >/usr/lib/crt1.o file, which glibc-devel provides. There also seems to be >a missing libc.a file in /lib. My issue is that I cannot compile even the >simplest hello world type program, and I get the following output. I've tried >to figure this one out, no luck so far. It's bad form to reply to my own post, I suppose, but it looks like the problem is fixed. What is missing is a define for LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which (should) be defined, at least to /lib:/usr/lib . It was not defined, thus not able to find the dynamic linker files in /lib. Anyway, that's where the _dl_* symbols get defined. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Still poblems compiling on Mandrake 9.0
Hep There seems to be missing files, /lib/crt0.o - however, there is a /usr/lib/crt1.o file, which glibc-devel provides. There also seems to be a missing libc.a file in /lib. My issue is that I cannot compile even the simplest hello world type program, and I get the following output. I've tried to figure this one out, no luck so far. I've gotten all the components for gcc and g++ installed, but I don't think it's a problem with the compiler RPMs. I do think there's a problem, maybe with the glibc and/or glibc-devel RPMs. I'm on a new stock install of 9.0. I seem to remember a way to create a *.a library archive file out of a shared object file, which would mean not having to download a potentially large file, if it turns out that file is necessary. Compiling worked in 8.1 - although I would still get these wierd unresolved symbols from time to time while compiling portions of KDE. Actually, that part hasn't worked since maybe perhaps 7.2, if at all. It's, sadly, been a rather long time since I was 100% successful compiling KDE (sniff). This is what happens during linking: /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Any help? In particular, where are these defined - what library could I possibly be missing? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help Mandrake can't compile
I'm running into C compiler cannot create executables messages whenever I try to run a compile. I had this working in 8.1 - except that on *some* files (like some kde sources) I would get the same undefined symbols as I now get - except that of course now I get them every time, no matter what sources I compile. Even a simple hello world gets this: (note I asked for some help in the KDE mailing list but never was able to solve this particular missing reference problem). [dfox@m206-157 dfox]$ gcc -O -o hello hello.c /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' I've installed the C compiler and I think everything is right - however, part of it I had to install later because when I did a 9.0 install, all I had was the first CD. I had to get the other ones later. Perhaps I missed something in the install process. I noticed one thing - there are no *.a or *.la files in /lib (i.e libc.so.6) - arent these files required for linking? Here's what is installed [dfox@m206-157 dfox]$ rpm -qa | grep gcc gcc-c++-3.2-1mdk gcc-objc-3.2-1mdk libgcc1-3.2-1mdk gcc-cpp-3.2-1mdk gcc2.96-cpp-2.96-0.80mdk gcc-3.2-1mdk gcc-g77-3.2-1mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UDP Port 4156?
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > =_1032842397-30049-15 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Where are you finding portsentry for Mandrake? I just looked at about 5 > mirror sites and couldn't locate it. I found it on the 8.1 set of RPMS I downloaded a while ago. portsentry-1.1-3mdk > Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UDP Port 4156?
> And post about 10 or 20 packets worth here. Don't send any more than > that as we have to be considerate of those who are still getting their > mail via dialups. Hell, I'll give you my /etc/hosts.deny :( - not It's currently over 5000 lines. I thought it was isolated but it's pretty widespread. Anybody see anything on port 4156? > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UDP Port 4156?
> Tcpdump is showing me a great deal of activity on udp port 4156. The > problem is that it's clogging my network and slowing > everything down. What is this port? Lets compare notes. Please send me some info at [EMAIL PROTECTED] tsoft.com. I have just gotten a massive DOS from people probing that port. My box was unusable pretty much most of the weekend. I posted a message to newbie, but haven't heard much confirmation yet. You should first install portsentry, and add in the port for 4156 to its config file. After doing this, my system was more or less usable. From my logs, it's still going on - at least it was this morning. I have a prettty large /etc/hosts.deny file if you want to compare it. I have checked Internet Storm Center and CERT, nothing seems to be there that is specific to port 4156. > > > > =_1032820961-1174-2799 > Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" > Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > =_1032820961-1174-2799-- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just a late night, low traffic test.
> hu? it's even latter down here! ;-)=20 It's 10am here sunday you guys woke me up! > Ricardo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bug in g++ optimizer
> The program that show the bug is this (printf added by me, confirue > just relies on returned value): Hmm. What does the generated code do? (g++ -S) I might take a look, althouigh I'm not an expert at reading assembly. Still a minor point -- you are comparing floats for exactness. Does the bug repeat if you use ints instead? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] using <
> Is this exactly what I'm looking for: keep all commands in the same line > but with information about line feed. I tried ';', not worked. Any other > guess? Why does it all have to be on one line? Maybe I am misunderstanding what you're trying to do. Are you trying to send arguments to a program, or data? If the former, perhaps getarg is the way to go, but my Fortran is quite rusty :(. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] using <
> I have a programme did in fortran that works like that: > > #>my_programme.exe < input Fortran source should be able to read from stdin like other programs but there are going to be some differences. Using a "here" document goes something like: #! /bin/sh # do something something < > But this does not work! only works if I give enter after < my_arguments [Enter] and at last EOF. My guess is there has to be a line feed somewhere, otherwise the shell doesn't see the last EOF. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question
> I think dfox was having more fun with the humor of the idea than the > reality.. Well, somewhat. I haven't tried that in quite a while, but I did run a couple of experiments pitting stuff like chess master vs an atari 2600 chess cartridge and a Radio shack dedicated pocket type chess computer. Basically you set one chess program to play white, the other one black, and then you input moves from one machine to the other, back and forth. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question
> Good grief! how in the world did one get any work done seeing as it took > all night just to compile one program? Not easily, to be sure. When I was just starting computer classes, turn- around time for some cobol jobs could be as long as six hours. You'd go into the lab early in the morning, and then come back a few hours later, to see if your program got compiled and/or ran. But then we had a rather overloaded 370 system, and it was used for all campus DP; students got a rather low priority. Usually things were OK, but during registration and finals it got really bogged down. Considering a fairly large user base, I figure one did pretty well actually. After all, compiling is a pretty stressful task. But then again, compiling large jobs (kernel, emacs, that sort of thing) took several hours to complete when I first started on a 386sx running Linux. But of course, you could do other things in the meantime. :) (Remember running DOS and sitting there staring at a screen, not able to do anything until a download completed?) And then (even some years later) really big jobs (parts of kde) could take all night to compile, especially on an underpowered system without enough RAM. (Our school system back then had a whopping *2* mega- bytes of core, and could only address sixteen in virtual mode. Must have been a *ton* of disk paging going on back there in the machine room). > Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question
> Don't forget the TI and the one I wrote my first piece of code on ... > the HP-45 RPM programmable Calculator. (more fun than the mainframe... memories :) My first programming was done on a TI 59 calculator. It's actually a good approach, particularly when later on learning assembler level programming both on mainframes and TRS 80s. It's a lot like machine language - except for the most part the instructions do more. It's more that way on the HP than on the TIs because the HPs use RPN. I still have an HP (model 16C) not as powerful as the 59, but my 59 died years ago :(. Interesting thing about calculators - the newer ones are so much more powerful. My brother for instance got a TI-82 or soemthing recently as part of a class requirement. He's not that strong in math, but that thing can do nearly everything - I mean it's like having Mathematica in a handheld... :) > James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question
> Not only was there discrepancies with the 'signed' zero, but IBM used to do > a core dump and bring production to a screeching halt because of a 'divide > by zero' error. > At least we didn't get the whole core dumped (on paper) -- worst case scenario for us students was that we'd get something like a data exception error and have our program abend with a dozen pages of dump printout or so. I was taking (and helping out) courses at a local community college, learning 370 assembly along with other stuff. I got pretty good at being able to debug stuff ;). Our computer staff made everyone put in a hook to a timing routine that would fix all those infinite loop problems - it would just abend with a systim error. FWIW, you could do the same thing (I think) in Linux with signal() and hooking onto SIGALRM, setting up code that for instance aborts after so many seconds of cpu time. Of course, with today's computers, even ones we used back then - 30 seconds of machine time is quite a lot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question
> I found it (my copy) on a 1.2 disk. I even installed a small DOS > partition with my old DOS 6 and even connected an old 1.2 drive just to Hey, for extra fun, run battle chess inside a dosemu session (assuming that it will do so) and then haev gnuchessx running - pit gnuchessx against battle chess and see who comes out the winner :). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question
> Hmm, is it against the laws if I send you an dd-outfile of my > single-floppy-DOS? It's just 1.44M which you could dd on a 1.44 floppy. Technically yes. Will anyone care is another matter. :) does it have to be DOS 6? What about an open dos image? Isn't DR DOS now GPL or a reasonable equivalent? I've been out of the DOS scene for so long ... ;) > wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend
> Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It > would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice > to preview what the fax program is planning to send). ksendfax (part of kde) might be a possibility, but I don't know if it would tailor itself to hylafax, although in a awy I don't see why it wouldn't. sendfax (or 'fax send') itself is a 'front end', and in reality, hylafax is more like sendmail, a transport agent, than an app that sends faxes (applies to mgetty+sendfax too). I ran hylafax for a little while, but now I don't have a modem (just DSL) and therefore can't send faxes :(. I did experiment with methods of sending faxes in Star Office, but that didn't work all that well - multiple page faxes were a problem. Still, sending a fax is 1% (or less) actually transmission, and the rest is editing/previewing, which can be done in any editor, somewhat like printing is. And receiving - the fax subsystem (hylafax) should do all that auto- matically, all the user needs to do is see what was faxed and/or print it - and there are several tiff / g3 type viewers available. > praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: memory leak
> total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 753750 2 0 11504 > -/+ buffers/cache:234518 > Swap: 784 0784 Well, that seems reasonable. Cached RAM is pretty high, but that just depends on prior activity - for instance using gcc a lot or other big jobs, the cache will get utilized to "remember" those pages because they may be pressed into service again (like another gcc run). But if processes come along and request RAM, the OS will just reuse what's in buffers and cache. So, your memory isn't 'gone' it is just allocated in case something comes along again that needs it. Buffers (i.e., disk cache) get reused for process memory if there isn't disk activity going on -- if there's plenty of memory available elsewhere, buffers tend to not take up that much space, unless there's a lot of recent disk activity. For instance if you get up in the morning you may notice a large number in buffers first thing in the morning. That's because 'locate' was just run a few hours before -- and that works the disk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Maxtor 4G120J6 okay? (was: Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB
> I think it meant the diskdrives die soon if they are in a power-on state > for more than eight hours a day. That is what I have heard at least, Well, my IBM Deskstar has been in such a state since about October of 2000. :) I suppose the advisory only applies to newer drives, then. > -Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Maxtor 4G120J6 okay? (was: Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?)
> As for the new IBMs, I'll try them when they take down that advisory > about not running 24/7. Til then, they are welcome to their > technological innovations without me. Does that advisory just recommend against leaving them on full time or are they expecting 80-90% actual use (as in head movement, drive light on) during that 24/7? I run my 30 G Destkstar 24/7 and it actually doesn't just sit idle - it does some work for news/mail and other stuff, but may be idle (i.e., just spinning) for some lengths of time. > Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ejecting the tape
> know how to tell /dev/st0 to spit out the tape when everything is > finished. I imagine 'mt -f /dev/st0 eject' will work. I just push the button on the tape drive. Scripts have a problem doing that, though. :) > daRmaTTeR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Travan Tape drives
> Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base tap= > e drive and use it for Mandrake? Because SCSI based DAT drives work better :). Personally I have not had a Travan-based drive, but one thing I noticed is that the cost of the tapes themselves are rather expensive. DATs are cheaper (my dds-4's were $5 a pop when I got them) and even though the cost of the drive may be less expensive, if you plan on needing a number of tapes you may be better off with DAT. > Matthew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?
> It's not a cpu loader, no more than memtest86 is just a ram tester. > There's no way for any software program to separate the cpu/cache/ram > subsystem. If a system can run cpuburn (eg, 'burnk7' for an Athlon) Well, looking at the burnK7 (or other portions of cpuburn) I was very skeptical as to how it could really stress the system, as it ks just a couple of floating point instructions in an endless loop. But from others' input, it seems to peg the cpu temperature meter pretty high, higher than i would think for such a piece of software. The loop is too short to not fit in cache (or probably the instruction pipeline itself -- that depends on the size, I'm not sure) and depending on CPU timing issues and stalls (usually affecting older Pentiums) it might not exercise the processor as much as is desireable. I ran across a similar burning type program (shareware) back in my DOS days - it was purported to be an industry-standard burn in tool, and said it was doing all sorts of complicated floating point operations, cubic splines, fast fourier transforms, and so forth. I'm not so sure that's all that better, especially given that dumb DOS compilers would insert fwaits before floating point instructions, and the coprocessor wouldn't get all that hot anyway :). > memtest86, might not pass cpuburn. It's an old overclocker's tool to > test for stability, been around for years. And hardware that passes memtest86 may fail in a stressful session with gcc. :( Memtest is sequential and performs a selected set of tests on the memory, but it can't (or doesn't) simulate the somewhat random-like access to memory that gcc does. Then again, gcc doesn't randomly 'walk' all over your whole memory space, but only a small subsection of it. > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Memory Leak?
> The program .. VI yep it had been up for about 2 hours and was > slowly consuming all my cpu power. Has anyone else noticed this or vi? I find that odd. Was it related to the size of the file you were editing? > James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?
> No, I wouldn't say it's all that ridiculous. Of course these things are > relative: what you do with your machines may not require you to ever It's not ridiculous either, unless you're thinking of emailing it somewhere :). > drop into swap. Kernels around 2.4.10 and earlier had serious problems > with memory, and requiring a few extra meg of memory would not I'm not sure I agree, but that's a minor point. Surely some of these kernels had wonky use of swap, but AFAIK all linux kernels viewed swap as additive, rather than as 'backup store' on BSD systems. BSD is why most older people quote the 1.5 X as much as RAM, or even 2X swap for what you have in RAM rule. Of course, recent kernels have been getting more well behaved; I seem to remember that this was just an anomaly of some 2.4.x kernels, though. > disk space, you'll see that 512M or even a Gig of swap is actually > smaller than on older machines. Again, it's all relative and depends on > your usage patterns. Case in point: my 386sx slackware/sls system many years ago. IIRC, I had 16 megs of swap on a 345 meg drive. This comes out to 4.6% of the drive used as swap. A gigabyte on a 30 gig drive only comes out to 3.33% of the drive committed to swap. > the swap space. But you should also consider what would happen if you > run out of swap space. Hint: it's not pretty. My favorite swap related anecdote (true story - this actualy happened:) A friend of mine (who is a fairly light Linux user, had migrated from a Sinclair with 128k or so of RAM to a 386 with 4 megs. He thought 4 megs was more room than he'd ever need. He didn't set up a swap partition at all - and then look what happened when he tried to run 2 copies of emacs at the same time. The kernel took *46 minutes* just to respond to the ctrl-x ctrl-c commands to quit one of those instances.) And of course, this was all in-memory thrashing since there wasn't any swapping to disk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
> when a system drops to 'save energy sleep mode', then is awoke, > there should be a routine that checks for shutdown time from osc, I guess that would be more useful for laptops than desktops. I don't use laptops and have so infrequent access to them and am wondering if there's sufficient clock 'drift' on them compared to desktops, or even compared to smart clocks in other appliances. (i.,e there are smart clocks out there that pull time from WWV codes or whatever other trusted / reliabvle sources the technology supports) so you never have to reset them from a power outage. Personally, running ntp to a reliable host (aka tick.usno.navy.mil) like USNO atomic clocks or others is decent enough, and my clock doesn't drift that much. But for desktops it sounds like it would be easier just to run ntp more frequently; laptops are less likely to be connected to the network than desktops, and they are more likely to need a 'sleep' mode. Of course, if you want to be geeky, you could get your offset from your GPS receiver and ditch 'standard' time completely: the gps would figure your current mean sun time or what have you, correcting a mingte for each 17 miles travelled, all automatically :). > if linux is going to rule world, it is going to have to > wake up with world and tell correct time. Interesting point. When I first started using linux (1994?) it was the only OS I knew of (besides BSD) that would autocorrect for daylight savings. Prior to that, I had to set the DOS/windows clock twice a year. Nowadays, other devices (such as my VCR) autocorrect for DST; that's pretty modern technology. My microwave still has to be reset after a power outage though :(. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] memory-problems
> after calling pptp two- or three times between a short time the swap couldn't > be found, and the system takes a very long time for EVERY action, I than make. I don't see how the swap partition couldn't be found -- apart from not properly listing it in /etc/fstab of course. It's either there or not there, and in my experience it is never just 'sometimes' there. I don't use pptp, but maybe there is something amiss there -- have you tried 'top' to see what processes are eating up the RAM? There may be other things besides pptp that are eating memory. In particular, jabber if instaled is a big hogger of memory. But then again, you maybe didn't install that. Your memory report is about average but that is going to vary over time, and over time some of that swap should be used. If 'free' reports 0 available for swap then you may not have it properly attached. What does 'w' indicate? High load average could also be a cause for slow responses between commands. If yours is a memory issue, does the disk get used a lot (indicating heavy swapping)? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime
> James, no doubt about it, you are one sick puppy, and I love it. I had a > bunch of NT and assorted windows' discs, and I used them for target > practice with my new 9mm. They worked really very well mpeg :) > drjung Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 2)
> If not, then there's something very amiss, cause sox usually tells you > what is going on; I've never seen it unable to do anything at all > before. At the very least you should be getting an empty wav file. BTW, And I've found that when going direct to .ogg if the record slider isn't toggled apropriately, one ends up with a very small .ogg file even after lettnig it record for sometime. That's a clue that no (or at the very least, not enough) data is being sent to and from the sound card. I suppose the card needs to be 'full-duplex' in order to make this work - maybe not. But most of the modern sound cards probably are. (That lets you talk and record at the same time, useful for PC Phone type stuff, fwiw.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)
> Lyvim - this is way cool - keep it coming. I am a bit skeptical that > it would work, since xmms is playing the file in the background but > hell, it's going to be worth a try. :) Following up: There is a wrinkle - first you can issue ./configure --prefix=/usr instead of editing the Makefile, but that's a pretty minor issue. Sox's idea of where the manual pages differs from where Makdrake puts them,though. If you do a 'man sox' after you do an install, you'll think the old version is still there :(. So we need to clean up: sox puts the man pages in /usr/man/man1 instead of /usr/share/man/man1. By default, they are not compressed, and Mandtrake compresses its manpages using bzip2 compression. So as root, you'll need to cd into /usr/share/man1 and move the sox manpages to /usr/share/man/man1: cd /usr/man/man1 mv sox.1 soxmix.1 play.1 /usr/share/man/man1 Then compress sox.1: cd /usr/share/man/man1 rm -f sox.1.bz2 bzip2 sox.1 rm -f play.1.bz2 bzip2 play.1 # play is pretty short, so bzip2 is optional, but you don't want to carry two copies of the same manpage... Since 'rec' is a link to the play manpage, you'll need to re-establish the right links. 'soxmix' is also a link to the 'sox' manpage. rm -f soxmix.1* rec.1* ln -sf sox.1.bz2 soxmix.1.bz2 ln -sf play.1.bz2 rec.1.bz2 Now you should have updated manual pages in the rigth place. One other slight thing - your original post has a buch of =20 characters at ends of lines. This may cause it to be harder to read (ex 'login' becomes 'login=20'.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)
> This is what it takes to record broadcasts off the net in ogg format.=20 > Using Sox (which is the best sound util ever made) you can also record > just about anything that your soundcard puts out; VERBATIM.=20 Lyvim - this is way cool - keep it coming. I am a bit skeptical that it would work, since xmms is playing the file in the background but hell, it's going to be worth a try. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
> 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" ) I doubt that's a serious issue. It's kind of silly, really, since any portion of RAM is just as quickly issued as any other. But this is virtual memory (modern OSes) we're discussing. And virtual memory is viewed simplistically as having some memory on some other media (i.e., a swap partition). That is only one aspect of it. In reality, virtual memory means that a process residing at some address N need not really reside at address N on the RAM chips. Realisically, N is only an offset which is maintained by the processor, with the OSes help. One might be able to find out where a process resides physically in the RAM if it starts at address 1 and continues to address 2, but it would be kind of pointless. And, if the process is larger than a page of memory (4K) then one page might be located way away from the others. In fact, in a continually running system, it's practically guaranteed that this is the case. So you end up with something like: .12221 ..1..3...3 ..3.11 . . 3.332...1 .2.22. The 1,2,3 etc. represent processes, of course. As far as the process (is concerned, process 1 occupies continuous virtual addresses starting at 1 for instance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cpp0 not found
> gcc -Wall -g -c -o memtest.o memtest.c > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cpp0': File or Directory not found > make: ***[memtest.0] Error 1 I've never heard of 'cpp' being pronounced 'cpp0' before :). Ever cince I started using linux, the c preprocessor has always been 'cpp'. I suggest maybe some links have been broken, assuming of course you've installed the compiler and devel stuff (you did that, right?) :). Mandrake is a bit convoluted in this, but check /etc/alternatives. There are some links (cpp, gcc, etc) that point to the desired version of things. 'cpp' is typically in /usr/bin, but many places make a symlink over to /lib/cpp or some other place, and the 'real' cpp is buried underneath /usr/lib/gcc-lib/gcc-/cpp. > I installed all of the relevant devel apps. Did I miss one? I see. Probably not, cpp is integral to the rest of the C system. > This is a bit urgent b/c I bought a memory stick and I get core dumps so > I have to test. For a non-build-it yourself solution, there shouldl be a memory testing floppy image of 'memtest' on your Mandrake boot CD. Look in the images directory. You can copy the imagte over to a blank 3.5" floppy, boot from that, and run your tests. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] which link to use?
> I figure I need to link somehow /dev/modem to point to /dev/ttySHSF0. I > know of symlink-ing things, but I'm a little hesitant to try trial error. Typically, I use 'ln -sf' as my preferred method of linking. I guess that's the method my fingers learned. It has the advantage '-f' of forcing the link, and we had to do that on some things. Anyway, remember the order of arguments - that's probably the most important thing. Otherwise the link goes in the opposite direction, and you'd end up linking /dev/modem (which doesn't exist) to the /dev/ttySHSF0 file. (I'm a bit curious as to why you'd link to this device. Is it a special type of modem driver device? Usually one uses /dev/ttyS[0-4]. As root try # ln -sf /dev/modem /dev/ttySHSF0 (be sure about the order of arguments.) For more info, read the ln(1) manual page. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Icecast, Shoutcast
> I'm using Shoutcast, the problem is that I cannot make it streaming song > titles, and another problem I have with it is setting up multiple mount > points. I can't help with the first part as I haven't yet tried shoutcasting but you might find symlinks to be a possible solution to your multiple mount point issue. That is, assuming you have a situation where some of your mp3s are in one directory and some are in somewhere else. You could create symlinks for all the 'elsewhere' files in your primary mp3 directory. > Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
> Can you get a brand name next time you talk to him? ok will do. I sent him an email just now... > LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
> My DirecTivo came with a 3.5 in 40G Maxtor drive in it. My previous=20 > Dishplayer had a 17 G drive that is now in my kids PC. I think it is a=20 > Quantum but cannot remember for sure. ISTR my brother saying they had a couple different models. He also had a PC quantum drive (6 gig I think) fail fairly early in life. His other drives are SCSI on the main machine -- he says one of them went south a while back. I don't recall the details, oh well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] convert .ogg => mp3??
> I used RipperX to rip a cd and it converted the media to .ogg, how do I > change them to mp3 or can that be done.?? sure. First decode them to a file by 'ogg123 file.ogg -f file.wav' then use an mp3 encoder to encode that back to an mp3 format. Generally spaking, the .ogg format is supposed to be a better choice. But mp3 is of course more popular. > dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
> Most of those links (and others) refer to IBM HDD's over 40GB > havin problems. I just recently had a 10 month old, IBM 30GB 7200rpm > ata/100 2mb drive fail. My Linux drive ;( Mechanical problem. The Ouch... Mine's the same drive, from about Oct 2000. Here's to crossing fingers :). > Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
> Yes...very interested. Master Jedi Dfox may be interested as well. ;) Yeah, it might prove interesting. I've heard people network to them and control them from Linux. I wouldn't be suprised to see a regular PC like drive in there. My brother recently took apart a spare Dish Network controller (similar to Tivo in the digital recording dept) and just added the drive to his spare computer. I didn't ask him what brand the HD was. He did notice wierd 'formatting' problems from time to time, but probably that was software - like frames of the Simpsons coming up during a recording of wrestling or what have you. > LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
> Form what I've seen, they're focused on the 'budget' market (OEMs, etc.). > Hmm. Any idea what the set-top boxes might use (tivo, dish network, mp3 players etc.) ? One would seemingly want to have at least as good (if not better) reliability because these drives can easily get more usage (in terms of writes/rewrites) than the typical desktop or server machine. For instance, the drives in embeeded tivo-type devices are routinely re-recording a section of disk with new video as long as there is power to the machine. This is at least true with dish network combo digital video recorders/dish tuner boxes. > Sridhar Dhanapalan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
> been shutdown that long before. 'Sides, if a HDD can't stand to be > off, get 'cold' (room temp), then restart it's defective IMO. Well, yeah, that's self-evident :). Besides, most (non-Linux) usage of the drives feature frequent powerup/shutdown cycles, so that should be nothing new. > Also, FWIW, when I called IBM for an RMA, I asked if there were > known issues with FS's other than vfat, specifically ResierFS and Why should there be? The drive would just access data differently than if the same data were accessed by Windows. > consistently gets 40mb/sec.and sells for damn near half what > I paid for that IBM just 10 months ago, and it's 10GB bigger. My 30 meg deskstar (purchased 10/2000) is still humming very nicely. I haven't managed to fill it up yet :). I have had very little success with seagates, but the last seagate I bought was back in around 1991 :(. My older Maxtor drive lasted nearly 7 years before I took it out - I probably could plug it back in now and it would still work like it was brand new (ca. 1993 brand new, but wtf). My other drive (1.6 gig maxtor) is pretty clean, but there have been one or two bad spots on the drive surface since I got it back in 1996, so right now I'm just using it for /var. Everything is reiserfs here, except for /var, which is ext3, because I couldn't figure out how to use badblocks in conjuction with reiserfs, and mkreiserfs doesn't seem to have a bad block checking option. > Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
