Re: [expert] Help with IDE RAID & Mandrake 8.0 installation
Perhaps this would be helpful >From the Mandrake/i586/images directory's README: other.img: install that needs "less popular" drivers, mostly NET and SCSI drivers; try this one if your default boot image seems to not provide the driver you need -pete On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, appjaws wrote: > > I bought an IWill KA266-R DDR motherboard, qty2 256DDR memory, an athlon > 1333 processor and qty2 40GB IBM harddisks. All went well in setting up the > disks as raid0 and loading windows98se. > I have partitioned the raid disks for linux swap, / , and /home as well as > windows. This is my problem:- > > 1. Booting from cdrom, all goes well until the install process asks for any > other scsi devices, I select AMI Megaraid and auto probe but it fails. > 2.I checked out the option to review hardware and it appears that the > chipsets were not recognised either. This is the ALi M1647 North Bridge and > ALi 1535D+, CMI 8738 4.1 Sound. > > The CD that came with the motherboard contains instructions and a tar file - > HyperinstallRH-2.2.16.tgz. The instructions refer to installing RedHat, > Could this be used with Mandrake > If so could someone please send details > > Please help, I need my Mandrake Linux system. > > Thanks > Paul Stear > ( This message was unfortunately sent using windows) > > > > >
Re: [expert] non gui dailer
Oren, Your best bet may be to try a LUG in the area, as from what I understand, ISDN setup varies by location. A LUG site for Israel is here: http://www.iglu.org.il/IGLU/ And, the ppp HOWTO is here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/index.html Depending on your ISP's setup, you can use pppd as described together with chat for terminal-based authentication, or using PAP/CHAP for those setups. pppd has a 'persist' option to cause it to redial when a connection is lost. Also, the ISDN faq is here (one of the few ISDN docs not in german..): http://www.isdn4linux.de/faq/ -pete On 1 Aug 2001, Oren Gozlan wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone knows about non gui dailing script for isdn ? > > THNX > THNX > > > -- > - > Oren Gozlan > Mobixell Networks Inc. > p: +972 9 776 0121 > f: + 972 9 740 7373 > c: +972 54 536 047 > www.mobixell.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > > > > > > > > > >
Re: [expert] Still having problems with Mandrake 8 and Thinkpad 760XD pointer.
If you haven't already, I suggest trying XFree86 3.3.6. I had to use that release for my Toshiba Tecra 8100 to work with its docking station. Also, you may want to cat /proc/interrupts to see if there is any IRQ sharing going on w/ the ps2 mouse interface that you can adjust. If you've tried both 3.3.6 and 4.0.3, to further isolate the problem, to see if it's the X server or something else, you may want to give the AccelX demo server a shot: http://www.xig.com/ -pete On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is beginning to get annoying. In order for my eraserhead pointer to > work when X starts, I have to move it back and forth like I'm playing Pac > Man while on speed. It usually takes 2 or 3 restarts of the X server to get > it to work. I posted this as a problem a while back, has anyone ever > figured out the cause and solution? > > (BTW, I'm using XF4.0.3 and a stock Mandrake 8 install) > --- > This message (including any attachments) is confidential and may be > privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by > return e-mail and delete this message from your system. Any unauthorized > use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly > prohibited. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change. ABN AMRO > Bank N.V. (including its group companies) shall not be responsible nor > liable for the proper and complete transmission of the information > contained in this communication nor for any delay in its receipt or damage > to your system. ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (or its group companies) does not > guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor > that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. > --- > >
Re: [expert] LM8 - Using http proxy with MandrakeUpdate
Charles, Unfortunately MandrakeUpdate does use wget to do file transfers. Are there any similar tools that can get through that proxy? If so, a kludge would be to put one of them in place of wget on your system, and maybe write a shell script wrapper to call it with the right options. -pete On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Fox wrote: > Can I force MandrakeUpdate to use an http proxy server to get its mirror > list? Or does it use wget which does not support MS Proxy server > authentication methods? > > Thanks, > Charles > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: [expert] Galeon won't start
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I had this problem before and somehow or other it solved itself.
>
> sher@localhost sher]$ rpm -q galeon
> galeon-0.11.3-1mdk
> [sher@localhost sher]$ rpm -q mozilla
> mozilla-0.9.2-7mdk
> [sher@localhost sher]$
>
> Galeon won't start either when I click on the Galeon desktop icon or when I
> type "galeon" as user in xterm. I even tried to start Galeon by adding
> "kstart" to the executable line: "kstart /usr/bin/galeon". Doesn't work. The
> "Galeon" icon appears for a while in the panel, the icon spins for a good
> while and then just disappears.
>
> I typed "top" in xterm and could see no reference to galeon or galeon-bin.
As the other post mentioned, you need to be using ps ax (or ps aux) for
that. Since there is no guarantee lingering galeon-bin processes will be
using the most CPU, you will not necessarily see it in top.
A problem I've had with galeon is that occasionally the
.galeon/history.xml file (in your home directory) will become corrupted,
which keeps it from loading. I tracked this down a while back by running
strace galeon and seeing what files it was opening before crash & burning.
So, try rm .galeon/history.xml
> I logged out of KDE and shut down the system, unplugged the power cable,
> reconnected it, rebooted, logged back into KDE, tried once again to launch
> Galeon. Again, same problem.
>
> I launched Konqueror as root, went to /usr/bin/ and clicked on "galeon". It
> brought up the Galeon welcome screen, followed by a request for creating a
> profile. So, Galeon seems to work as root. I decided not to proceed since I
> don't need or want a "root" account of Galeon.
Sounds more and more like the bookmarks.xml issue. galeon-bin would
definitely be stopped by a system shutdown. ;)
> This is very puzzling. Unfortunately, I have exhausted my "trial and error"
> options at this point.
Insight tends to better than trial and error. :) If you want to make
sense of strace at your own leisure, try doing small things like echo "hi"
at the command-line under strace eg.,
strace echo "hi"
Along with a bunch of other stuff, you can see things like:
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
(opening up a shared library)
Result of 3 means the open succeeded and the process is reading from that
on descriptor 3, as opposed to:
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
When it tried to open that file, there was an error ( -1 ENOENT)
Then, it writes to standard output (descriptor 1):
write(1, "hi\n", 3hi
)
The output is intermixed w/ standard error (which strace uses for
display), but this can be avoided (and you can get a copy of all the
system calls to look through) by doing:
strace echo hi 2> strace-output
Then, just open strace-output in an editor.
Also, there are manpages for all of those system calls in manual section
2. So, man 2 open will tell you what open() does. It's rather
C-programming oriented, but the DESCRIPTION and ERRORS sections should
give you the info you're after to see what a call is doing.
If you do this on galeon, and my guess is correct, you'll see something
bad happen shortly after reading history.xml ;)
>
> As a last resort, before sending this message, I uninstalled galeon (rpm -e
> galeon) and reinstalled it. Tried launching it again. Still won't start.
>
> Would very much appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Benjamin
Hope this helps!
-pete
> --
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
RE: [expert] Logging uptime
Alternatively, you can use uptimed. It's page is here: http://cx.capsi.com/code-uptimed.html Apparently it's in mdk8 contrib, too: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake//8.0/contrib/i586//uptimed-0.1.6-1mdk.i586.html -pete On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Gregor Maier wrote: > > On 31-Jul-2001 Mads Rasmussen wrote: > > > > > > I would like to log the uptime of our systems, just I cannot see into the > > future to expect when a system crashes so an aproach that logs, like 1 time > > per hour should do it. > > > > I guess you could run a crontab script that just cat's the uptime output into > > /var/log/uptime > > > > This however will be overwritten when the system comes back up, so I thought > > it would be better to log in two files a live one and a backup one. > > > > Like > > > > uptime > uptime.running > > uptime > uptime > > > just use uptime >> uptime.log > the double >> will append the the output to the uptime.log instead of > overwriting the file. > > -- > E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 01-Aug-2001 > Time: 09:12:27 > -- >
Re: [expert] linux distribution
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Brandon Caudle wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Peter Kok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brandon Caudle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:21 AM > Subject: Re: [expert] linux distribution > > > > Dear Brandon Caudle > > > > Sorry I don't catch your meaning > > You mean you now use Debian or Freebsd? > > > > Which one good as your opinion? I know nothing about Debian! > > > Both are very good I have servers running both. I just think FreeBSD is > rockhard stable and Debain is very close to that, it just depends on how > stable you need your os to be! > > ~Brandon It's not only stability, it's also philosophy of distribution. i.e., FreeBSD has the core of the OS (libc, kernel, standard unix tools) all maintained in one authoritative spot by the same people. Also, the relases occur regularly every 3 months. One of the biggest benefits in my opinion, though, is how the ports system, which contains all the 3rd party add-on packages is decoupled from the main distribution. So, they are constantly updated. i.e., you do not have to wait 1-2 years for the next release of Debian to update some package due to Debian only releasing packages along w/ the OS. -pete
Re: [expert] openldap install
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also, note that there was a CERT advisory today noting that OpenLDAP > > 2.0.8 is vulnerable to some fairly nasty exploits. That should be OpenLDAP < 2.0.8 (or < 1.2.12 for the historic series), so, 2.0.8 and higher are fixed. The CERT advisory is here: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-18.html -pete
Re: [expert] openldap install
Julia, The OpenLDAP site has a nice admin manual at their site - http://www.openldap.org/ Specifically, this chapter would appear to answer your question: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/schema.html Also, note that there was a CERT advisory today noting that OpenLDAP > 2.0.8 is vulnerable to some fairly nasty exploits. The version in LM8.0 is 2.0.7, so hopefully they update it soon. May want to keep that in mind before putting this on a server exposed to the net. -pete On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Julia A. Case wrote: > I installed openldap and all the libraries from LM8.0 today but when I try > to start the server it complains > > No objectClass "top" defined in schema > > I've searched all over and can't seem to figure out how to fix it... > > Julia > > -- > [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] > [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] > [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] > [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ] >
Re: [expert] Sound editing software that does not suckfault
In snd's source tarball, there's a README.snd that has the following
answer:
Guile:
If you get a complaint along the lines of "ice-9/boot-9.scm not found",
it means you're running a version of Snd that has Guile loaded, but
Guile isn't installed locally. You need to install Guile. If Guile
is installed, try running 'guile-config info' to find out where it
thinks its boot files are. If you're using a prebuilt image from
ccrma-ftp, the relevant files should be in /usr/local/share/guile/1.4.
It's not impossible that running snd under strace would show you what the
actual desired path is. In the copious strace output, you should
be able to find lines like:
stat("/usr/local/share/guile/1.4/ice-9/boot-9.scm"...)
If you have installed Guile, but the snd image is looking in the wrong
place, try setting the envinronment variable GUILE_LOAD_PATH to the
correct directory:
setenv GUILE_LOAD_PATH /home/jimb/guile-snap
Another possibility is the %load-path variable; in your ~/.snd file try
something like:
(set! %load-path (cons "/home/bil/test" %load-path)))
(assuming you've put the guile files into /home/bil/test).
If the snd rpm process can't find the guile library, yet you have it
in /usr/local/lib, try the --nodeps switch to rpm (thanks to Charles
Waldman for this tip).
If the configure script says that your guile doesn't have
scm_make_smob_type, yet you do have guile 1.3.4 (or later) installed,
it's probably because the RedHat installer or someone, installed Guile
1.3 in /usr/bin and /usr/lib, but then the new version got installed
in /usr/local/bin. The simplest fix is to remove /usr/bin/guile and
/usr/bin/guile-config. If you get an inconsistent state here (that
is, configure thinks you're loading 1.3, but Snd itself finds 1.3.4),
you will get segfaults when the hooks are accessed (and probably
elsewhere). If you can run Snd at all, try snd --version -- this will
try to catch and report consistency problems.
If you're running linux-snd, you'll need guile 1.4 (it will appear
as libguile.so.8 in ldd).
> Other thing is that configure doesn't find guile-1.4.
> For some reason it thinks it's an older version and I have to manually
edit
> config.h
It's using guile-config to find guile; if you've got more
than one guile-config, it's up to your PATH setting, or
something, which one gets called. In Redhat, an ancient
version gets installed in /usr/bin, then if you install
your own using the defaults, it ends up in /usr/local/bin,
and in many cases, the new version is not noticed. You
could delete or rename /usr/bin/guile-config or change the
relevant environment variable. To see what configure sees,
in a shell try guile-config link or guile-config --version.
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano mentioned this possibility:
If you want to force a different guile do (if you're using bash):
PATH=/usr/marco/nicepath/bin/:$PATH ./configure --with-alsa --with-gtk
where /usr/marco/nicepath/bin is the path where the guile-config you
want
PATH=/usr/marco/nicepath/bin:$PATH make
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Expert wrote:
> Dang, snd does not do much, what do I do with this?
>
>
> [ntr@kittypuss ntr]$ snd
> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
> [ntr@kittypuss ntr]$
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 17 July 2001 02:51 pm, so spoke Laura Conrad:
> > > "expert" == expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > expert> Does anyone know of sound editing software that does not
> > expert> suckfault like mixview or run poopy like SoundStudio?
> >
> > I use snd. Ecawave is probably good too, but can be a pain to install.
>
Re: [expert] 8.0 PowerPack Install
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, David M.Kufta wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just recieved in the post my 8.0 PowerPack which was so graciously given to > me for helping with crash testing for 8.0 > When attempting to install from bootable CDROM, which is a creative > cdrw6424, the cd is found when system boots but then when you recieve the > welcome screen and choose the install vmlinuz loads and then can't find the > cdrom drive and keeps sending back drive seek errors 0x40 0x30 and so on. > I find this rather odd allthough I will say the only install I had done > previously was from a local harddrive I use to mirror. > I would appreciate any suggestions that anyone may have to offer. I had a similar problem with a Toshiba laptop (w/ 7.2). When I created a floppy with the cdrom.img from the CD, then booted with the floppy, it worked. A coworker today was having a problem booting from CD, so I wrote him a cdrom.img floppy. Testing the floppy, on my own system, I noticed that if it doesn't see a CD-ROM drive, it will offer a list of drivers to insert to try & spin up an undeteced CD-ROM drive.Very nice touch. :) -pete
Re: [expert] comparing ftp with rsync
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me please - > A number of my downloads gave the wrong md5sum recently. > Is there anything I can do to get better results? I find that using a command-line ftp client and explicitly specifying binary mode works every time. To contrast, Browsers like to give files weird tempfile names during transfer (which complications resume), randomly crash, and have specious cache handling (i.e., if I click on the iso link and it starts downloading as a textfile into the broser, then go back and click save-as, is it doing the right thing?) > Is there a difference between using ftp to download a file and > using rsync and with an empty local directory? > (eg: rsync -avvP --stats > rsync://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeFreq-20010619-inst.i586.iso > . [full stop for local directory]) > I wonder if the actual download process of rsync has better error checking > as it goes along? afaik, both protocols rely on the TCP layer for that. One big downside of using rsync large file transfer is that it doesn't support resume. -pete
Re: [expert] Lack of Standards?
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, civileme wrote: > > Anyway, we are advocates of standards. There are precisely two distros where > the menus are as identical as possible across window managers, and ours is > one of them. When a friend asked me to help him get WindowMaker set up on Red Hat, I was very glad about using Mandrake. ;) Not only did I have to modify the Xsession script to add an option for starting WindowMaker, now he has to go about building the root menu to run programs, as it only has the bare minimum defaults as supplied in the WindowMaker tarball. This from the WindowMaker package in their base distro... Btw, where are these contribs? I hear them bandied about quite a bit, but I can't seem to find them. -pete
Re: [expert] additional hardware
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Lyric wrote: > > Hey all, > > Now I know that Aureal originally only released a set of beta drivers, but > I was wondering if anyone has picked up what they left off... > http://aureal.sourceforge.net/ is the current project to pick up where Aureal left off. Since it's still based on the binary drivers from Aureal and Aureal went out of business leaving only the binaries (how rude!), it sounds like more trouble than it's worth if you've got another card to use instead. > > The alternative is a tried and proven ES1371 based videocard that I've > currently got running in this machine. > I'd take option #2. ;) I've been using an es1371 since getting a motherboard w/o an isa slot, forcing me to give up using my GUS Max (a sad day to be sure) > AMD Duron 600 > Gigabyte GA-7ZX-1 motherboard > 512 MB SDRAM > Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter > 3 x 4.3GB UW SCSI hard drives > 1 x Narrow SCSI CD-ROM drive > 1 x 20GB IDE drive (purely for raw storage) > Intel Pro 10/100 NIC > Sound and video to be determined by the responses I get from your emails > > If you have any thoughts or suggestions please let me know... > > Cheers > > Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 10 days 6 hours 23 minutes. > >
Re: [expert] xhost problem
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, DStevenson wrote: > I put the xhost 192.168.0.10 into the file as you suggested, no change in > problem. I put it before the xsession command. > > What files are associated with the xhost system? The program xsane returns > the message 'Gtk cannot open display on xyz'. The other machine can open > windows in the other direction though. It is just the one machine. The way I run X programs remotely is using OpenSSH's built-in X forwarding. Under most setups, it should take no more than: ssh -l user server.foo.com Then, at the prompt: $ xsane If you echo the display on the machine you've ssh'd to, it should already have DISPLAY set to something. eg: server:12.0 That way, you not only get pain-free X forwarding, it's wrapped in an ironclad encryption. You also don't need the X ports on your workstation open to any other machines, which can be a considerable security benefit. (since X runs as root and is a large and complex program read: more likely to have a vulnerability somewhere than a small, simpler program ) To explicitly allow X support on the remote side, you may need to say: X11Forwarding yes And, using windows programs like SecureCRT, etc, the ones that do port forwarding generally have a checkbox for 'forward X11 packets' or somesuch in the port forwarding configuration section. For a unix client (the one you initiate the ssh session on) ForwardX11 yes (default in mandrake) And explicit command-line arg is -X to enable ssh forwarding. i.e., ssh -X -l user host.foo.com There are also helpful things such as Compression that ssh can do if you ask it. Compression can be useful when your systems have fast CPU's, but their network connection is not as good as you'd like. Hope this helps! -pete
Re: [expert] How to install EVERYTHING on LM 8.0?
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > > This may seem like a trivial question, but it's been driving me crazy. I > have to reinstall LM 8.0, and, for the life of me, I can't find any > option to INSTALL EVERYTHING. One click of the mouse and you just > install everything on LM 8.0 (at least the 2 CD version, which totals > 3.6 gig, I believe). Red Hat 5.2 used to have that option. You could > just select "Everything", relax, go for a walk, walk on your hands, > whatever. You didn't have to THINK about what to download and what not. > I switched to Mandrake after Red Hat 6.0 so i don't know whether that > option is still available in Red Hat. However, I can't help but wonder > whether a) such an option does exist buried somewhere deep within LM 8.0 > or b) whether there is no such option at all, and if not, then, by God, > why not? I don't mean selecting groups of programs or sets or parts of > sets. I mean clicking on an option that says: INSTALL EVERYTHING, every > file and byte on these CD's. After installation, you can aquaint > yourself with all the goodies in LM 8.0, but why force the user to have > to THINK about what's on those CD's before installation. Just get it on > the hard drive first, get LM 8.0 fully installed and then you can enjoy > leisurely exploring its riches. >From what I can tell (I have no special information as the mandrake developers might), there are two ways of going about doing this: 1) Select all package groups at the package Group selection part at install time, then use Individual Package selection to select the remaining ones. Or, 2) After having installed, run rpm -i *rpm in the RPMS/ directory of both CD's (assuming the GPL edition) Of course, you'll get lots of error messages about packages already installed, and possibly that a package conflicts with another one (eg., postfix and sendmail may not want to be installed together). > Does any of this make sense to you all? Has anyone ever wondered about > this. I mean, even if you have a 20 Gig hardrive, you won't be able to, > you can't install all of LM in one go. There is no option for it. Am I > right? I certainly hope I am wrong. I sure could use such an option > right now before I go really batty. Being a Debian refugee, the option "install everything" just doesn't feel right. Debian got me used to having a huge number packages that are completely extraneous and some which are mutually incompatible. > > Thanks so much for listening. Looking forward to your answers. > > Benjamin -pete
Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That works fine under Linux Mandrake, as well, but her > K6-2's motherboard (Asus A7V) did not recognize the full size of the drive > out of the box. Correction - the motherboard is P5A, not A7V. You'd just break pins trying to use a K6-2 in an A7V (being for athlons and all). ;)
Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?
My vendor of choice is ucdweb- http://www.ucdweb.com/ They've been a very reliable vendor for me - first experience was February 1998, buying drives for a database server's RAID. 4 IBM 4GB SCSI disks - all of which are alive and kicking over 3 years later. :) By comparison, the majority of the Seagates from that period and younger I've had bit the dust some time ago. I most recently got a 75GB IBM IDE disk from them for my g/f's workstation. That works fine under Linux Mandrake, as well, but her K6-2's motherboard (Asus A7V) did not recognize the full size of the drive out of the box. One of those Promise Ultra100 cards was required to get everything working together. Mandrake 8 works happily with it with the ide=reverse option in lilo.conf (or on the lilo boot prompt before you've had a chance to edit lilo.conf) Anyway, the prices: IBM 20GB ATA/100 7200RPM drives w/ 8.5ms seek are $98, Maxtor 20GB ATA/100 7200RPM 9.5ms seek are $92. (the low-end maxtors presumably w/ 5400RPM are $81) Hope this helps! -pete On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Larry Sword wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > > > > Dear friends: > > > > I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM > > 8.0. I would appreciate your professional advise. I am considering > > buying it from TigerDirect. The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of > > 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a buffer of 512 and 3 > > The Ultra ATA/100 @ 5400 RPM will not give you much improvement with > your present motherboard and onboard ide controller. > You might want to look at a drive with 7200 RPM which would give some > speed boost. > IBM, or Maxtor; I've had good success with these. > LM 8.0 will have no problem handling a 20.4 Gig drive assuming that your > motherboard and BIOS supports drives of this size. > A 20 Gig 7200 RPM drive goes for about $79-89 here in San Diego, but > then we have an extremely competitive market. > > > years warranty for $74. I am not concerned about whether it's the state > > of the art. My AMD K6-2 is already an antique. But I am concerned about > > reliability and performance. And, most of all, I would like to know > > whether LM 8.0 can handle a 20.4 Gig hard drive in the first place. > > > > I would appreciate your opinions. > > > > Thanks so much. > > > > Benjamin > > > > -- > > Sher's Russian Web > > http://www.websher.net > > Benjamin and Anna Sher > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Larry > -- > Sword'sEdge > VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 >
Re: [expert] Where is "xv" ?
I've got a copy from Debian's non-free. The about box says: "XV IS SHAREWARE FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY", i.e., not free software. I think once ee got decent, it pretty much became a replacement. -pete On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Thomas Sourmail wrote: > > I bought Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Power Pack. Does anyone > > know where "xv" program/package is? I can't find it > > on any of the 7 CD's. "xv" has been included in every > > It doesn't seem to be any more.. I wonder whether they didn't try to go > commercial. > > Strange thing is it used to be installed on our RedHat 6.2 machines, and > all at the same time, the package disappeared from the machines ! > > Thomas. > > >
Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)
Wild. Line 92 in mine (latest updates applied to mdk8) doesn't show anything of the sort. Here are my versions of packages I gather would be related: drakxtools-newt-1.1.5-100mdk perl-base-5.600-30mdk perl-libwww-perl-5.50-1mdk rpmdrake-1.3-52.1mdk perl-5.600-30mdk drakxtools-1.1.5-100mdk The specific file that it's failing on is in drakxtools-newt: $ urpmf my_gtk.pm drakxtools-newt:/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm You may want check to see if you've got them installed and update if needed by hand. (eg., rpm -Uvh rpmdrake-1.3-52-mdk.i586.rpm ) ftp.tux.org has rpmdrake-1.3-52-mdk.i586.rpm here: /distributions/mandrake/updates/8.0/RPMS There are a couple libgtk+ updates, also: libgtk+1.2-1.2.10-1.1mdk.i586.rpm libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-1.1mdk.i586.rpm Hope this helps! -pete On 29 Jun 2001, Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "ninjaz" == ninjaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ninjaz> $ urpmf Gtk.pm > ninjaz> perl-GTK:/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/Gtk.pm > > OK, I've installed perl-GTK and now I get: > > [root@serpent /etc]# rpmdrake& > [2] 7627 > [root@serpent /etc]# syntax error at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 92, near "} @_" > syntax error at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 96, near "} @_" > Compilation failed in require at /usr/X11R6/bin/rpmdrake line 6. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/X11R6/bin/rpmdrake line 6. > > [2]+ Exit 255rpmdrake > > > > -- > Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) > (617) 661-8097fax: (801) 365-6574 > 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 >
Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)
$ urpmf Gtk.pm perl-GTK:/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/Gtk.pm When it's installed, it looks like: rpm -qa | grep -i gtk <--snip--> perl-GTK-0.7005-3mdk perl-GTK-Gnome-0.7005-3mdk The .pm and @INC stuff shows it's a perl program having the problem. And, those module tend to have capitalized names. -pete On 29 Jun 2001, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "Ron" == Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ron> First Question: run rpmdrake from the command line. > > I must not be installed right. I get: > > [root@serpent /etc]# rpmdrake& > [2] 31204 > [root@serpent /etc]# Can't locate Gtk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/libDrakX >/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 >/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 >/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 16. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 16. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/X11R6/bin/rpmdrake line 6. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/X11R6/bin/rpmdrake line 6. > > [2]+ Exit 2 rpmdrake > > Guessing that it's a gtk related thing that isn't installed, I did: > > [root@serpent /etc]# rpm -qa | grep gtk > libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-1mdk > libgtkxmhtml1-1.2.13-1mdk > libgtk+1.2-1.2.10-1mdk > > What else would I need? > > > -- > Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) > (617) 661-8097fax: (801) 365-6574 > 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 >
Re: [expert] GCC 3.0 - Question on GPL
Joe, The Official GPL FAQ is here: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html There is an entry for specifically covering your question: "Q: I use the C or C++ programming language, and I compile with GCC. Must I release software I write in the language under the same license as GCC? A: Use of GCC makes no requirements about the license of your program." Also witness the *BSD projects, who are mostly all BSD licensed (aka, the subvertible by proprietary interests license). They use gcc as their compiler. The effects of gcc being GPL licensed mean that if you make changes to it, you must release the source code of your changes to the people to whom you distrubte the changed gcc. GPL does not change the license of programs who want to use its code - it is just a prerequisite that the programs have a GPL-compatible license as a prerequisite for using the GPL'd code. So, someone violating the GPL gets asked to remove the GPL'd code, or comply w/ the GPL's terms (violator's choice). -pete On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Shahrimi Johann wrote: > Hi all, > > just a question. > GCC is a GPL, open source software and it comes with libraries that will be > used in the programs that are created using them. > > These resulting programs that we developed, do they fall under GPL/Open > Source as well since GPL is otherwise known as Contagious License? This > normally means that if one used codes that fall under GPL then the resulting > programs are GPL as well. If one did not use any GPL codes other than GCC, > does that programs/software became proprietary or open source? > > Thanks in advance for the answer. > > Best Regards, > > Joe > RLU# 186063 > "Reading is the essence of knowledge" > > > >
Re: [expert] Most Popular Linux Broswers
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Michael Leone wrote: > > > 6) Lynx (this is obviously a worst-case scenario, as Lynx is a > > text-based browser). > > Dunno about "worst"; I know some folks (very few, to be sure) who use it. Of > course, they always complain when they go to some site with graphics, or > Flash animation, etc. > FWIW, I regularly use lynx for remote administration purposes. For instance, if I want to download Apache source to a server, I use lynx http://httpd.apache.org/ Then, I can navigate to the mirror list and download right there. :) I don't use lynx for normal browsing, though, that's what Galeon is for. It all boils down to "right tool for the job". Regarding lynx users complaining about visiting sites with graphics / flash - They aren't complaining that it has those things. Just that the ONLY way to use them is through flash or by reading the images. A well-designed site (accessible for lynx users, blind folks, etc) will use ALT tags to let the text-users know, and if they are using flash for a main navigational control, will also feature an HTML version of the site. -pete
Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux
there's lots of good info google found: A couple walk-through articles - http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=11&aid=9814 http://freeos.com/articles/3799/ http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features192.html The official site (as found on http://freshmeat.net/ )- http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ Make sure you're not running a vulnerable version, though: http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=2266 -pete On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Darcy Brodie wrote: > Rusty Carruth wrote: > > > Darcy Brodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello > > > I know that it isn't a good idea to give normal users root access, > > > but I need to set up a couple of Mandrake boxes (they will only be in > > > text mode, as these will be remote terminals to a Unix network) so that > > > a normal user can shut down without having to login as root. The > > > process needs to be as simple as possible, to prevent the user from > > > messing it up > > > > My favorite trick for that is to make a user 'shutdown' (or something > > else, if you want it to be a little harder for non-permitted folks to > > guess it ;-) (cute - spell it backwards: nwodtuhs - oh, never mind ;-) > > > > Anyway - give it some password so only those who are supposed to do shutdowns > > can get to it, and make its shell be /etc/halt or some such. > > > > Or - use sudo. That's possibly the best of all possible answers... > > (never used it myself though, I've always just had anyone who > > needed to reboot (very small number of folks!) do control/alt/del ;-) > > > > rc > > > > Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE > > FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 > > Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 > > ICBM: 33 20' 44"N 111 53' 47"W > > Sorry, I am not familiar with "sudo". what is it, or where can I find out more > about it, > > Darcy > >
[expert] Re: making nautilus less obnoxious or removing ? [solved]
Regarding nautilus elbowing out access to the desktop in Window Maker upon accessing GNOME Help, I was able to resolve the situation by doing this: Run this gnome configuration tool (you can do this from Window Maker): gnome-panel-properties-capplet In Document Handlers -> URL Handlers, modify the entry for Protocol ghelp, adding --nodesktop. The resulting entry appears as: nautilus --nodesktop "%s" Then click 'set', 'ok', close the configuration tool, and try using Help in a GNOME app (eg., Galeon). It should work properly now. -pete On Wed, 23 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got Mandrake 8.0 here. At install time, I selected Nautilus as the > file manager. I had never tried it before, but thought it would be cool > to check out. > > Now, the problem I'm having is while using my favorite window manager, > Window Maker, and choose the help option in any GNOME program (eg., Galeon > -> Help -> Galeon Manual), Nautilus takes over the desktop, hiding any > programs opened before it was, and essentially disables all WindowMaker > functionality. The only way I've found to recover from this is to switch > to a console and kill all processes with nautilus in the process name. > > I've looked around a bit to see how to fix this, but haven't really come > up with much. Eg., when trying to remove it in rpmdrake, all of gnome is > listed as a dependency. Any suggestions on the right way of fixing this > on Mandrake 8? > > -pete > > >
Re: [expert] I don't like CUPS
Check out your /etc/cups/printers.conf Info YourPrinter Location DeviceURI smb://winusername:winpassword@WinPrintServer/WinPrinter The win* entries in DeviceURI should contain your Windows networking username, password, printserver and printer name. Also, it's likely you'll need to put your workgroup name in /etc/smb.conf, and perhaps WINS server as well. eg: workgroup = WINDOWSFIENDS name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast wins server = 192.168.66.6 I've been using Mandrake with this setup on both 7.2 and 8.0. Before updating 7.2 to latest update packages, I seem to recall an issue because there is a space in the printer name I use. But, it has worked ever since. -pete On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, WORLOK wrote: > I used to be happy with Redhat Printtool and lpr. > > I used to be able to connect to my dept printer, which is running off an > NT/W2K domain PDC. > > Since installing Mandrake 7.2, this CUPS thing just won't communicate. > > It's weird since from the same machine I can mount Windows shares using > mount -t smbfs no problem. > > It doesn't matter what driver I use either, HP LJ 4, Postscript generic. > > It seems the print job never gets to the printer, but no errors are > issued. > > Under Redhat 6.x I was able to send print jobs to this printer from my > linux box. Win2k running under my VMWARE VM sends jobs fine, from the > same physical machine. Go figure. > > What bonheaded thing am I missing? > > Thanks, > > > Tom >
[expert] making nautilus less obnoxious or removing ?
I've got Mandrake 8.0 here. At install time, I selected Nautilus as the file manager. I had never tried it before, but thought it would be cool to check out. Now, the problem I'm having is while using my favorite window manager, Window Maker, and choose the help option in any GNOME program (eg., Galeon -> Help -> Galeon Manual), Nautilus takes over the desktop, hiding any programs opened before it was, and essentially disables all WindowMaker functionality. The only way I've found to recover from this is to switch to a console and kill all processes with nautilus in the process name. I've looked around a bit to see how to fix this, but haven't really come up with much. Eg., when trying to remove it in rpmdrake, all of gnome is listed as a dependency. Any suggestions on the right way of fixing this on Mandrake 8? -pete
Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: > I bought a nice 40 gig drive a while back (although it > is NOT the boot disk), made one big partition, and its > happy: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 2190632819352 126 39% / > /dev/hda119487 3675 14806 20% /boot > /dev/hdb2 39365712 3767460 33598564 10% /news > > The only downside is trying to figure out where the blasted > COMMAS go! :-) df -h is your friend: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 11G 5.5G 5.3G 51% / /dev/sda1 48M 17M 29M 37% /boot Only trouble is that stodgy old Unix systems like Solaris don't come w/ tools who grok it. (kind of like the z switch to tar, or show-context & recursive modes of gnu grep) -pete
Re: [expert] Naughty fonts!
I've got an intereseting one, where after reading fonts in from Windows, Galeon has serious issues with font spacing. I.e., the words will run outside surrounding table borders and such. One site this is very noticeable on is LinuxToday - http://www.linuxtoday.com/ Anyone seen this? I tried rm -rf'ing .galeon to see if it was a deuglication procedure that caused this, but apparently not. The WM I'm using is Windowmaker, btw. And, a second machine I have has none of these problems with Galeon (which displays fonts the best out of all the browsers I've tried on the system) -pete On Thu, 10 May 2001, Todd Flinders wrote: > To turn on anti-aliasing go into the KDE Control > Center. Click LookNFeel->Style. Click the checkbox > for anti-aliasing (in the middle). > > --- rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are serious problems with fonts in LM8.0. This > > is *very* noticeable in > > KDE for instance. The optimisations they used in > > compiling libtype1.a screwed > > up alot of things, for instance. To fix your problem > > check out what I already > > have, and if you have more specific questions, re: > > me. > > > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU XF86 Font > > Deuglification > > http://users.evitech.fi/~arndb/cooker-type1-fonts/ > > the libtype1.a problem - > > *must* read > > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/check out the > > article "Fixing ugly fonts in > > KDE" > > > > This should fix all your problems and then some. > > Note that one of the only > > things that window$ is good for is true type fonts. > > Use Micro$oft fonts > > religiously since they look great. Microsoft was > > always concerned about the > > look of their os and invested countless $$$ in TTFs. > > Grab Arial, Times new > > roman, and courier and install them like the FDU > > link at the top says, and > > KDE will look like a dream. If you want a > > screenshot, e-mail me to see the > > difference. > > > > PS - I still haven't figured out anti-aliasing and > > it still dosen't work yet > > for me. I'm working on it. > > -Rees > > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ >
Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.4
2.4.4 is the latest in the new stable series. The development series has an odd minor number. In the case of 2.4.4, 2 is the major number, 4 is the minor and the .4 is the point release number. Eg., 2.3.x and 2.5.x would be development (kernel developer/brave soul-oriented). The 2.2.x is the old stable series, and 2.4.x is new stable series. Point and major version number can be even or odd and be stable series. It's only the minor you need be concerned with. -pete On Sun, 6 May 2001, michael wrote: > Isn't 2.4.4 experimental, and for brave souls only? > Won't the next stable kernel be named 2.4.5? > > -- > -m- >
Re: [expert] konquerer no long works...
I find strace helpful in such situations. i.e., in a terminal: strace konqueror > /tmp/konqueror.trace 2>&1 Using this method, I was able to track down a problem with Galeon (it would load then hang) to something to do with history.xml After deleting .galeon/history.xml, Galeon started working again. You may also want to try this from a different user account. If it works for other user accounts, but not yours, the problem is likely something to do with your user account's konqueror settings or permissions. If it works as only root, then it's likely a permissions problem. -pete On Sat, 5 May 2001, Neal Lippman wrote: > Any help appreciated. I am using konquerer under KDE 2.1 (the MDK rpms). THe > underlying system is MDK 7.2 with a self-compiled 2.4.4 kernel. > > I am unable to get konquerer to run. At first, it would run when I selected > it from the panel or the "K" menu, but if I right-clicked on a link and > selected "new window" the new window would open and then immediately close. > > Now, when I try to run it from the K menu or the panel icon, it briefly > appears in the applications area on the panel, no winow opens, then it exits. > I cannot find any errors in any /var logs. > > Anyone with any ideas? > > Thanks. > > Neal >
Re: [expert] Security test program
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Gavin wrote: > it suggested I try using it to see how secure the passwords my friends > employees are using. Btw, you need to get explicit permission from the owner of the machines before undertaking any sort of security audit. Not doing so can result in prison time and huge fines. Eg., Randall Schwarz, the perl god who co-authored some of the O'Reilly perl books, had criminal charges brought by Intel (whom he was consulting for at the time) for using a password cracking program for the same reason you mention. You can find more info about it here: http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/ -pete
Re: [expert] TV Tuner Install
According to those messages, the bttv driver is already being loaded. Do you see the bttv module loaded when doing lsmod? Also, how about modprobe bttv? Or modprobe /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/bttv.o (specifying the full path?) When trying to get a Hauppauge WinTV 401 working on 7.2, the drivers bundled were the kernel ones, which are hopelessly out of date, and not functional. On 8.0, running xawtv would hard freeze the system when using XFree86 4.0.3, and I had to revert to 3.3.6 to get it working. (Actually, every system I've tried 4.0.3 on has had major issues which resulted in reverting to 3.3.6) -pete On Sun, 6 May 2001, Eric Chun wrote: > I'm trying to get my tv tuner working in Linux. I tried the following > command as root under the /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/ directory: > /sbin/modprobe bttv.o > then I get this error: > modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/bttv.o > > I'm not quite sure why I get this error. I checked the > /var/log/messages file and found this: > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: Linux video capture interface: > v1.00 > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: i2c: initialized > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: bttv0: Brooktree Bt878 (rev 2) > bus: 0, devfn: 96, irq: 10, memory: 0xea003000. > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found. > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: bttv0: NO fader chip: TEA6300 > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: bttv0: model: BT878(Hauppauge new) > > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: bttv: PCI display adapter: Matrox > G200. > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 > ... ok > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: bttv: PCI display adapter: Matrox > G200. > May 6 07:36:39 localhost kernel: bttv: PCI display adapter: Matrox > G200. > May 6 07:36:40 localhost kernel: bttv0: PLL: switching off > > Does this mean I don't have to manually install the bttv.o module? > > Here's what I have in my computer: > Phoebe Micro TV Master > Matrox Millenium G200 > Intel Pentium II 266 MHz > 96 MB RAM > xawtv 3.42 > Mandrake 7.1 > >
Re: [expert] Security test program
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Gavin wrote: > I would like to know if you or anyone else in the expert group have ever > used the progeam called JOHN THE RIPPER to I want to install it and do some > security checks (passwords for other users) . If you have used it before > could you please give me the pro's and con's using this software. I've found that this type of program is usually fairly useless to overall security, and often results in worse security because efforts are diverted away from more pressing issues. Eg., I've seen installations where the users use insecure protocols (eg., ftp, rsh, telnet), showing their password in the clear to anyone who cares to listen, where the top focus of the security team was finding out who had weak passwords and who was looking at naughty websites. The main usefulness of this sort of thing will be in a NIS environment where everyone can see everyone's encrypted password, and to check for user accounts with the same account name as password, or with a password containing a word from the GECOS field (usually used for the user's full name) Otherwise, you already have to be root to even see the encrypted passwords of the users. As for that particular program, I haven't used it, but it may not work against Linux Mandrake passwords, anyway (my box uses md5, for instance, and I think it may assume standard Unix DES-encrypted passwords) Likewise FreeBSD defaults to md5, and OpenBSD defaults to the even more computationally intense Blowfish. > > A book I'm reading now is call REAL WORLD LINUX SECURITY, Intrusion > Prevention, Detection, and Recovery. by Bob Toxen, and it suggested I try > using it to see how secure the passwords my friends employees are using. also > if anyone has read the book linux hacking exposed, please give me your > feedback. > I've read through a "Hacking Exposed" type book a friend at work has. It seemed more oriented toward showing admins that, yes, script kiddie tools do exist, and are trivially easy to use and, toward teaching the next crop of script kiddies the basics needed to get started, as opposed to a real help to securing your site. Sure, there were tidbits here and there, but the title of the book was accurate being "Hacking Exposed" rather than something such as "Securing Unix". I believe the most pressing concerns are: 1) Do not allow any logins (ftp, web, telnet, etc) that are not secured. If your users need to upload web pages, for instance, you can use mod_dav + mod_ssl to do this securely. If they need to upload files to shell accounts, the newer OpenSSH's come with an sftp client and server. Secure login can be done using OpenSSH. IMAP daemons can be wrapped using stunnel. 2) Audit which ports are open. Turn off the daemons you're not using. For the ones you are using, but only need access to at the office (eg., print server services), firewall accordingly. 3) Audit setuid binaries. This can require some experimentation, which is what a test system can be helpful for. Ideally, as few programs as possible will have setuid bit turned on. 4) Use secure daemons. Not all daemons are created equal. Eg., qmail and postfix were both designed from the ground up for security. Sendmail was not. Likewise with BIND vs djbdns. You can also chroot and run BIND at a lower privilege (there's a mini-HOWTO on the subject at the LDP - http://www.linuxdoc.org/ ) 5) Pay attention to security notices. Apply patches to affected services. If you used the principles in 4, you may have limited your exposure here (eg., for the BIND exploit of the month, BIND could not have been used to compromise the whole machine, if you had set it up in a chroot environment running as ann on-root user) > > Thanks for your help. > No problem. > > Sincerely, > > Gavin (Japan) > -pete
Re: [expert] hard drive experiences (was 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list))
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Walter Luffman wrote: > Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital, IBM, > Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These makers > have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right? > > Okay, who has horror stories to tell about Seagate and Fujitsu? I've heard nasty stories about Fujitsu, but I had 2 of them (IDE) in my 486, and they outlived the power supply in its tower case. :) Regarding Seagate, I've had problems with them developing lots of badblocks. In the two systems I had functioning as servers w/ seagate drives (SCSI) they both began dropping blocks within 1-3 years. One of those has a fairly hard-hit RAID w/ 4 IBM drives the array. None of those have failed yet (after 3+ years) All of the new systems I've built in the past year or so (around five) have IBM drives now. None of those has had any problems at all, and some of them are servers with constant load. -pete
Re: [expert] How do I copy a partition?
My favorite method of copying partitions on systems on Linux is cp -ax (the -x switch tells cp to stay on the current filesystem) Eg., with / mounted as /, and the new one mounted as /newroot, you can say: cd / cp -ax . newroot Make sure to tell lilo and fstab about the change, of course. Also, you may want to look into GNU parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html It can resize ext2 partitions, as long as the start of the partition stays fixed (so in your case, it would work for / , but you would need to handle /usr another way (if you want to change the size of /usr to fill what / had before, anyway) -pete On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Phil wrote: > Hello all, > > I originally made my "/" partition too large (only 2% is used) and now I want > to shrink it because the /usr partition is full. My plan is to save the "/" > partition, delete the partition and then create a new one. I have already > saved the /usr directories. > > The question is, how do I copy just the contents of the partition without > copying the entire Linux disk (cp -a would copy the entire disk)? > > -- > Regards, > Phil > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
RE: Offlist: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list)
I believe the source of this Western Digital thing is Andre Hedric's discovery: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0001.3/1207.html "WDC drives blow off the CRC check of UDMA.This is BAD and STUPID. Several of the OEM chipset makers have allowed this crap to exist. ATA-2 (style) can not handle ATA-3/4 transfer rates without the CRC checks, you end up continuing the DMA writing regardless if you lost data that would have been saved if the UDMA CRC was intact. "This is a pure hardware issueI do not know yet if there is a way to check/recover with out death to DMAing for all WDC products. The best case at the moment is to consider blocking all WDC products from using the ATA-3 and newere standard." -pete On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Todd Lyons > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Offlist: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications > (Software Installeris first on that list) > > > "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > > > This was not a Windows/Linux issue at all. You are asserting that somehow > > the drives depend upon Windows for proper functioning. They do not. > > They depend on drivers being modified for the functionality that was > removed from firmware. > > --- > Firmware in the DRIVE or in the BIOS? > > If Bios this is a non-sequitor... > > If it's drive firmware you are talking about (I.E. actual firmware > controlling drive electronics "below" the IDE interface level)to date this > has -NOT- been done. > > The OS does not communicate with the controller/drive mechanism at a low > enough level for this to be doable. > > While this may change in the future, doing so will require revamping the > entire IDE design which purposely isolates the user/OS from controlling > anything lower than sector structure access... > > --- > > This methodology prompted people to call software modems winmodems. > > --- > > Yes with all the associated horrific... > > --- > > > They are beginning to apply this same methodology to drives, but in much > smaller proportions. > > --- > > Not so. > > There is a vast distinction between drive IDE "firmware" updates, versus > driver replacement of actual hardware functions as in Winmodems. > > The former may mean some addition difficulty for Linux programmers trying to > wring the best performance out of a device, but there is no inherent > dependence upon the OS itself. > > The latter represents a complete departure from the IDE/ATA standard, > effectively creating a new class of "non compatible" (or WinCompatible if > you talk to Bill G.) devices... > > In turn this is a VERY bad move for companies such as WD and others. IDE > drives are being used in everything from imbedded systems to MP3 players > (something which I've been recently playing with from a design level). > > WD and others do not (yet) produce a "WinDrive" as mis-stated in this > discussion nor are they even close to this... > > --- > > I don't think it's fair to call them WinDrives either, but if you look at > WD's > website, it does specifically state for Microsoft Windows products. It > does not exclude others, but it does not support nor offer to support > them (them being us). > > --- > > This is more evasion than design. WD's drives have no more or less reliance > on the OS than any other manufacturer's devices... > > It is more likely that this is merely a ploy to avoid fielding questions > from non MS$ shops... > > --- > > All in all, it looks like WD has placed their bet that M$ will be the > 800 lb gorilla forever and a day. We aim to disappoint them. > > --- > > There is no evidence of this (yet). Just speculation on the part of some > people that one thing means another. > > --- > > Civilime is the one who can best explain it. Unfortunately, he won't be > back until next week. > > --- > > Civilime began this several months ago when he complained of trouble with > WD's when mixed with other types of drives. > > This had nothing to do with OS dependence vis-a-vis Linux... in his original > postings he correctly stated that this was more an issue with controller > timings with certain integrated controllers used on some motherboards. Linux > had a tendency to push the drive chain differently causing problems... > though this was not a WD or Linux problem per se... more of a design flaw in > the integrated IDE controller configuration used by some manufacturers. > > Pushing the bus speeds, as done by overclockers, tended to exacerbate the > problem... as did other slower devices on the same IDE chain (such as > CD-ROM's, etc.). > > For some reason the original discussion has degenerated into "WD is > producing WinDrives.." being a profound truth... > > If this were so, I'd be an outspoken critic... however given that I've been > playing with the
Re: [expert] Mounting an NTFS drive
Brian, This is the line I've put in /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /windows ntfs uid=0,gid=266,umask=006 0 0 the uid=0,gid=266 means that all files are owned by user 0 (root) and group 266 (which I've created in /etc/group for windows, putting whichever users I want to have access in) umask of 006 means allow all permissions to root or folks in the windows group, none for world. You may also want to make sure that the /windows directory (or wherever you're mounting the ntfs partition) is readable and executable by the windows group. -pete On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Brian Hartman wrote: > Hi, all. > > I'm trying to get my NTFS drive mounted so that I can enter it from my user > account. So far, I've only been able to mount it so that root can get in. > Does anyone know what the line in /etc/fstab has to look like to get it to > work? Thanks in advance. >
[expert] xfs trouble -
Ever since importing the Windows truetype fonts on my Linux Mandrake 7.2 system, I've been having trouble with xfs. I used the strong truetype checking option to help avoid problems, but when xfs is started as the xfs user it gives the following error and dies. This is what I get when I run xfs -port -1 from the commandline: _FontTransSocketINETCreateListener: Unable to get service for -1 _FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for tcp _FontTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.font-unix should be set to root FontCacheInitialize: hi=1048576, lo=786432, bal=70 xfs error: Element #6 (starting at 0) of font path is bad or has a bad font: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" Aborted The same thing happens when I ask xfs to -droppriv However, when I run xfs as root, it starts and runs fine: SocketINETCreateListener: Unable to get service for -1 _FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for tcp FontCacheInitialize: hi=1048576, lo=786432, bal=70 After perusing strace output, I can't find anything that is unreadable by the user xfs, so I don't know what to make of this error, as it doesn't appear to be a filesystem permission problem. I've also tried with explicitly specifying -config /etc/X11/fs/config when running as root to make sure the fonts it's trying to use are the same. Any hints? -pete Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
