[expert] htdig - having a devil of a time getting it going
urpmi htdig urpmi htdig-web rundib -vvv the first part runs instantly, the final error takes a couple of minutes I don't understand the host not found message. Jim Tarvid [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rundig -vvv ht://dig Start Time: Sun Mar 16 21:58:57 2003 1:1:http://nuhorace.ls.net/ New server: nuhorace.ls.net, 80 - Persistent connections: enabled - HEAD before GET: disabled - Timeout: 30 - Connection space: 0 - Max Documents: -1 - TCP retries: 1 - TCP wait time: 5 Trying to retrieve robots.txt file Trying local files tried local file /var/www/html/robots.txt pushed pick: nuhorace.ls.net, # servers = 1 > nuhorace.ls.net supports HTTP persistent connections (infinite) 0:2:0:http://nuhorace.ls.net/: Trying local files tried local file /var/www/html/index.html Local retrieval failed, trying HTTP host not found pick: nuhorace.ls.net, # servers = 1 > nuhorace.ls.net supports HTTP persistent connections (infinite) ht://dig End Time: Sun Mar 16 21:58:57 2003 Deleted, not found: ID: 2 URL: http://nuhorace.ls.net/ /usr/bin/rundig: line 48: 7117 Aborted (core dumped) $BINDIR/htnotify $opts [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rsync+ssh backups - encrypted and compressed
i'd like to be able to leave the backups encrypted and compressed, that is dumped raw into a store and only uncompressed and encrypted when retrieved. is that possible? jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Using SSH without passwd
On Saturday 15 March 2003 03:28 pm, Michael Noble wrote: > I have been trying without success to use ssh to remote > machines as myself and as root. It works fine as long as > I give a password for the UID. What I need is to be able > to use SSH without the need to be prompted for a passwd. > Can anybody tell me how to do this. > > Thanks, > Mike In /root/.ssh on every machine ssh-keygen -tdsa save as empty for no passphrase cp hostname.id_dsa myprivatekey one one machine create a file "config" with one stanza for every machine like this Host User root Compression yes Protocol 2 RSAAuthentication yes StrictHostKeyChecking no ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes IdentityFile /root/.ssh/myprivatekey replace with the name of each host create a file authorized_keys2 with vi. do not cut and paste read each public key into this file (:r xxx.pub) scp config and authorized_keys2 to each machine try ssh works for me Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?
Vincent - Francisco - we love you both. At all times, but expecially times like this, the kindest thing we can do for our friends is cut them a little slack. There are bugs, there will always be bugs, I've been using cooker in production for over a month now and it has been a source of joy. A concise "errata" with a few workarounds would be welcome. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT Linux user from Taipei familiar with available hardware
I'd like to make contact with a Linux person who knows the hardware market in Taipei to act as a purchasing agent on a small scale. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients
On Thursday 06 March 2003 14:35, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > tarvid wrote on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:10:08AM -0500 : > > > > PLEASE PLEASE! DO NOT MAKE THE FIREWALL SERVE A BUNCH OF SERVICES! > > > > Try the converse on for size. > > You're making it sound as if I said either/or. I didn't spell it out > properly then. Do both. > My apologies, I've been caught in the crossfire myself. For most users a $50 nat box off ebay is a better solution than a custom firewall. I don't know why the kiddies haven't been after these but I have yet to have a customer compromised behind one of them. The hazard is the new user who loads a distribution and checks everything. Msec sort of works but I've had to clean up aftter it too often. The real market for Linux solutions are businesses who need to control access both ways (in and out). Transparent proxy boxes are expensive and not all that easy to setup and use. I should have simply agreed and then pointed out it pays to tighten up any server. I build my servers by unchecking everything, letting Mandrake install urpmi and then loading exactly what is needed. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 22:08, Lorne wrote: > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:38 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > > > > PLEASE PLEASE! DO NOT MAKE THE FIREWALL SERVE A BUNCH OF SERVICES! > > Try the converse on for size. Don't restrict access to services on a machine because you should really do that on a separate machine. Wietse must have been misguided when writing TCP wrappers. Then try and answer these two questions. Is it really better to burn a hole in your wall for SMTP than it is to put SMTP on the gateway machine? Can I really get better security by permitting burning holes with persistent http tunnels than by installing a transparenet proxy on the gateway? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:08, Jim Hubbard wrote: > Mandrake has exactly > the right idea with MandrakeClub, but unfortunately, the current EOL > policy (Mandrake's and Redhat's) is just a dealbreaker when it comes > to a server OS. > > Jim Hubbard version upgrades can be frightening things i usually build a new server and migrate the data when i am convinced the new server has a chance often a hardware upgrade is in order and that is not such a big deal but when the old hardware is still appropriate and a lot of servers are involved it is a big deal qa should gather a fair amount of feedback about version upgrades in testing that should be significant in grooming a version before release inevitably things will be missed qa should catch those after release a good faq/howto on those issues would go a long way in miitigating the version upgrade problem jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:53, J.P. Pasnak wrote: > The default mailserver in Mandrake is postfix, and I highly recommend > using it. You will also need to decide if you want imap access, > especially if you want them to have access to some sort of webmail (pop3 > works with some, but none that I would recommend :)). By simply > installing standard 9.0/9.1, postfix and imap2002, setting your hostname > and configuring your firewall to redirect smtp through to your postfix > box, you should be up and running in no time. I use postfix too. The first time in my life I have had human readable config files. I recommend maildir, courier imap (with pop3), squirrelmail and RAV antivirus ($). RAV is $300/year but will save you that in time and aggravation. Search the postfix archives and you will find plenty of starting configurations. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables to block spam
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:09 pm, Scott St. John wrote: > Until I can migrate my clients over to Postfix I have been using the > access lists in Sendmail to block certain repeat spammers. I am wondering > if I could just use iptables to block them and take the load off Sendmail? > > My question would be 1)Is that practical 2)Is the proper way to block an > entire network this: > > iptables -A INPUT -s 209.8.161.0/24 -j DROP > > I added this, however traffic from this network is still reaching my mail > server. I want to block EVERYTHING from that network as they are sending > porn mail to my clients. > > Thanks, > > -Scott I do this at the border gateway for bulk mailers that present a heavy load to my postfix mail server. I use spamcop and a local RBL to catch some more. I also use RAV ($) which does a pretty good job at viruses and spam at the back end. jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive
On Friday 28 February 2003 05:04 pm, Azrael wrote: > I just installed a brand new 120GB Maxtor hard drive. > Formatted ext3 etc. > When I boot up I get a message about DMA timeout on the new partition, > and also when coping files to the new partition.. it feels as if it is > rather sluggish (could be subconscious). that's not good perhaps limiting the udma level will help what is the mobo? jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] voice messaging
On Friday 28 February 2003 05:28 am, mycal62 wrote: > are there any voice messenger clients for linux like msn messenger? > > or any tools to talk to another pc via the internet? Look under Networking, Instant Messaging in the menu. one of my guys had gnomeeting talking to MS NetMeeting. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?
On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:56 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Nobody would like to see winblows gone more than me, believe me. But until > it does go, we've got to work with it and continue to use our collective > mental talents here to help replace it with (hopefully) Mandrake Linux. As > we grease the rails for those peeps here trying to dual boot, we also pave > the way for winblows to be permanently replaced. That's what I think of > when I consider the dual booters and the resultant collateral chatter. > i am not so sure dual-booting is the answer i ran dual boots from 1995 to summer 2000 it wasn't until i dropped windows that i started making any progress on the desktop a $200 box will do an adequate job of running either Linux or that other OS Linux gets cold when it is on the other partition. jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: > I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and > use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). > Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized > for sse2 then get pentium4. If not, then get dual athlon mp. > Get at least 2gb of ram, the faster the better. I always use athlons, > because they work 3 times faster with floating point, but you may not need > that. > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, et wrote: > > snip > > this box should be UFW scsi2 raid I guess U160 is closer the norm now although U320 and FC would be faster (but more expensive. UW SCSI2 is slower in some ways than ATA100 (133). I use 15K IBM drives. I get about 45MB actual transfer which is more than enough for video let alone audio. I remember doing 3MB in the bad old days and the pops were always due to the OS messing with the head. There are a lot of motherboards that come with U160 (Adaptec) adapters. I've been using surplus SGI workstation boards at about $70 a pop but you can get a decent Intel server board for $600 As for recording, the most important thing is to record on a drive which is not used by any other process, that way the head stays where you left it. The benchmark for any recording system sb the korg Multitrack which can be purchased for about $400. I've seen many people spend $25,000 and not do any better. Any serious processing will do a lot of FP so I'd take the dual Athlon advice. There are some MSI dual K7 boards with SCSI that can be had for a little over $200. Save your money for the labor you will invest getting the "Marc" or equivalent to work. While many people juggle 16 tracks in mixing I don't know anyone who knows how to use more than 4 input channels. In fact all the old timers I know use one. The multitrack board will probably be a millstone more than an aid to creativity. Of course you need to keep all the tracks in sync and be able to mix and feed them to the performer - that isn't kmix. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PC Chips 810
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:43 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Hi List! > > I looking for a very cheap mother-board and faced PC Chips 810 > with SIS 730S chipset and ASRock K7VM2 withe VIA KM266 chipset. > cheap is elusive i was impressed with SiS 7xx chipsets but i have replaced almost all of them within a year the via chipsets are doing a little better but i have replaced two kt133x boards in the last year - i think all of the drivers issues have been resolved i bought some dx34 mobos for under $70, found cheap 10k and 15k scsis on ebay along with 512MB ECC for $60 each, 1k P IIIs are around $100 here. i really like the results for normal workstation and server use - game playing is another matter. cheap cmedia 5.1 sound cards work as well as (if not better) than sb if you have a lot of pc133 memory and k7s arround, there are lots of kt133 mobos around for $50 and less - use kt266 if you have DDR against my suppliers advice i bought several ECSUSA (who makes boards for PCChips)., he was right - DFI and MSI have been flawless if not quite stellar in performance jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] www.TrueMajority.com
now now there are some people in this world who do not love their fellow man and i hate people like that - tom l. jim tarvid On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:38 pm, Jim C wrote: > Bad form indeed. > > > Very bad form to send this type (of SPAM) to a tech mail list, From: > > "Adolfo ortiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has just made it to my spam filters Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?
i'm glad something is out of control mandrake is part of several fine traditions mendicantes - there are people and institutions to whom you lend a hand just because you like having them around goliardi - how else would we learn new songs anarcho-syndicalism - global capitalism isn't really working anyway jim On Tuesday 25 February 2003 12:15 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > All; > I've been watching all the threads, and excitement over the upcoming > 9.1. As well as the critisizm over the rushed release dates. > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel panic after defrag in WinjMe
i am sure most of us have been told to back up their partition tables - now we know why sanity requires that you grab all the data you can before proceeding after that you may be able to fix the existing table without formatting you may need to supply the correct geometry, disk drives lie about that routinely jim tarvid On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:40 am, antonio rodriguez wrote: > Dear All, > > I've downloaded and run gpart, but I'm not getting the results I > expected. By the moment lilo works. I've enterede in rescue mode with > cd1. So I'm able to work in rescue mode, but gpart gives to me: > > *Waarning partition (Extended DOS, LBA) ends beyond disk end,. > Number of inconsistencies found: 1 > > Guessed primary parttion table: > Primary partition(1): > DOS or Windows > > Primary partition(2): > Extended DOS > > Primary partition(unused): > > Primary partition(unused): > > So what's the following? > > Cheers, > > Antonio > > > go to freshmeat grab gparted put it on a floppy and let it try and > > "rediscover" your partitions again. Then replace your winME with 2000 > > *grin*.. > > > > James > > > > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 01:46, antonio rodriguez wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I have Mandrake Linux 8.1 installed on a Duron sharing the hard disk > > > with WinMe. After defrag WinMe I found that I couldn't boot Linux > > > because of a kernel panic. Entering in rescue mode I've ran fdisk so > > my > > > > new partition table has only two sections: > > > > > > /dev/hda1/Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > > > /dev/hda2/Extended > > > > > > How do I could fix this problem in order to have my old 3 partitions > > (W, > > > > Linux and Linux swap)? > > > > > > Any hints appreciated > > > > > > THanks in advance > > > > > > Antonio Rodriguez > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > > Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 13/02/03 > > __ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 13/02/03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 release date?
end of march On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:45 am, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Hello All, > > I was just wondering if someone knows the expected release date of the > actual 9.1 version? > > Sounds like there are a lot of good features being added from 9.0/ > > Cheers, > Lonnie > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] stripped down Mandrake version
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:11 am, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > ... I wish that the Mandrake team would have included an option in > the install for the most basic install similar to what I was looking for deselect all groups, select pacjages individually not tiny but pretty small jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 party
i think we should have them everywhere i am in southwest virginia, i will proselytize over a 150km radius we could link up by irc or im or ... jim tarvid On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:32 am, J. Grant wrote: > Hi, > > Sounds good, is it going to be in France then? or the UK? or somewhere > in Europe? > > Cheers > > JG > > tarvid wrote: > > it is time to plan 9.1 release parties > > > > i propose part celebration part installfest > > > > we are planning to have a local mirror and a half dozen KVM stations for > > installs and a cd (maybe dvd) burning station running full blast > > > > timing should be as close to release as feasible as that is when interest > > is highest > > > > we would like participation to be high enough to build enthusiasm and > > confidence but small enough to give everyone adequate attention > > > > we'll keep one machine reserved for MandrakeClub signups > > > > i'd like to get this right so positive suggestions are welcome > > > > jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 party
it is time to plan 9.1 release parties i propose part celebration part installfest we are planning to have a local mirror and a half dozen KVM stations for installs and a cd (maybe dvd) burning station running full blast timing should be as close to release as feasible as that is when interest is highest we would like participation to be high enough to build enthusiasm and confidence but small enough to give everyone adequate attention we'll keep one machine reserved for MandrakeClub signups i'd like to get this right so positive suggestions are welcome jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel panic after defrag in WinjMe
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:17 am, flacycads wrote: > This is a good example of the wisdom of having a separate /home partition. > Rescues, and if need be, reinstalls are then essentially painless. I've > forgotten exacly how 8.1 cd1 installs, but did you try booting from a linux > floppy boot disk, and trying to run lilo lilo? Perhaps that might work. > > However, defrag is still an essential part of the windows experience- there > is no getting around it, and the improvement is more than marginal for > severely fragged drives. I must have defragged window thousands of times > over the years, and never had any problems whatsoever, so the risk is > virtually non-existent. I'm still not convinced Linux doesn't need > defragging also, and I've done a lot of reading on the subject. > > Robert Crawford > having a separate home partition is wise having an little used separate partition increases the odds of recovering at least that partition when hard disks fail mechanically leaving some unpartitioned space gives you wiggle room when you decide you need to modify partitions supporting thousands of users is much more peaceful if they never defrag and never scandisk more memory and fewer tsrs and services is almost always a far better route to performance jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel panic after defrag in WinjMe
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:44 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > go to freshmeat grab gparted put it on a floppy and let it try and > "rediscover" your partitions again. Then replace your winME with 2000 > *grin*.. > > James > gpart rescued one customer after a viral infection had messed up partitions. defrag and scandisk have destroyed many otherwise semi-functional win9x systems. defrag is an odd game - you risk everything for very marginal improvements. there is no sane reason to play such games. scandisk is a poor substitute for the manufacturers recertification programs jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How do I update the urpmi database for cooker?
On Monday 24 February 2003 08:09 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Ok, I know this will be something simple, but for the life of me I can't > figure it out today. I looked in man -k urpmi but nothing. > > I got this error whilst trying to update from the cooker. > > You may want to update your urpmi database > This probably belongs on the cooker list as it is not a problem for more static repositories. hdlist.cz often does not match the contents of the repository if hdlist.cz references a package not yet loaded, urpmi fails - see if the package you are trying to install is really in the mirror i think the best bet is to resync your mirror jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ACPI and kernel-2.4.21pre4
Don't rule out the rest of the hardware either. I've replaced several motherboards, a few hard drives and a couple of sticks of memory over the past year. Good reason to keep an extra system around for testing. But that doesn't catch the slow death of bad UDMA and almost good memory. Jim Tarvid On Monday 24 February 2003 05:46 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 14:17, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Monday 24 February 2003 05:05 pm, flacycads wrote: > > > Since Praedor seems to be having many weird problems as posted on the > > > list, I'm thinking it might be a power supply and/or temperature > > > problem. The > > ... > I've had that thought as well. > > > Hmmm. I always spring for the super cooling fan on my (AMD) cpus. I > > have a huge double fan cooler with heat compound. My power supply is a > > bit tepid, a 250 Watt job that I will replace with my next paycheck, but > > the fan is fine. I also have an extra case fan installed. I cannot > > recall what cooling system resides on my chipset...I believe it is a > > large(ish) heatsink instead of a fan. > > Going from 250W to 300W cured the stability problems on my 900MHz > Athlon, which had frequently manifested as inability to compile things > like kernels and XFree86. > > > I don't have lm_sensors. > > Highly recommended, though a big PITA to set up. > > > It would seem odd, however, that this heat effect is only apparent in 9.0 > > with 2.4.19 or 2.4.21 kernels. There were no problems of this sort in > > 8.2 with the 2.4.18 kernel. There is also a difference in the nature of > > the problems wrt usb between 2.4.19 and 2.4.21 such that it makes me > > suspect a change in the kernel code rather than a problem with hardware, > > per se. > > that too. 2.4 has been a kind of rocky road as far as the word "stable" > is usually used, actually had me considering *BSD for a bit until I > installed the stuff on some systems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] what could be wrong? PHP viewing
dog is to cat as less is to more try dog http://localhost lots of neat stuff - you can sic dog on a socket for example while never on mandrake, i have seen servers send out stuff with the wrong mime type which browsers use (sometimes badly) to hand off the contents to a renderer if i had thought for another 5 seconds, the second sentence about the server rendering php was more accurate jim tarvid On Monday 24 February 2003 10:08 am, David McGlone wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 24 February 2003 08:38 am, tarvid wrote: > > Check your mime types on the server too. The server renders the php not > > the client (konq). > > > > gives you an excuse to try "dog" to see what you actually received > > Well after a couple hours of searching google and the docs on MDK, I guess > I'll have to ask you how I check the mime types on the server, and what is > "dog"? > > - -- > David M. > Edification Web Solutions > http://www.edificationweb.com > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+WjViAulWMV3BRjARAkIRAKCYQevk5b/C98Wmi0SpWK4YGviCzwCfehIg > jrvX13vcW+iG1NwICAFnpRk= > =XDjW > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] what could be wrong? PHP viewing
mod_php should be installed but is the extension you use configured in apache? Jim Tarvid On Monday 24 February 2003 09:22 am, David McGlone wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 24 February 2003 08:12 am, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > > Am Montag, 24. Februar 2003 13:42 schrieb David McGlone: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I created a "test.php" app and put it in /var/www/html but Konq will > > > not display it, but instead asks if I want to open it using Kwrite. > > > > > > I have all php apps installed, apache, and mysql. > > > > > > http://localhost works fine, but viewing PHP scripts isn't working. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > You have enclosed your php script in , did you? > > yup, sure did: > > > PHP Test > > > Hello World"; ?> > > > > - -- > David M. > Edification Web Solutions > http://www.edificationweb.com > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+WiqKAulWMV3BRjARAvLlAJ9hHPHe8DyCow40SokFejg2VlfaNACeLduZ > pl0R6k8r344xV8V+erxQCuc= > =SQRW > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] embedded systems
looking for pointers on really small Mandrake installs that would fit on a 256MB CF. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] what could be wrong? PHP viewing
Check your mime types on the server too. The server renders the php not the client (konq). gives you an excuse to try "dog" to see what you actually received Jim Tarvid On Monday 24 February 2003 08:12 am, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Montag, 24. Februar 2003 13:42 schrieb David McGlone: > > Hi all, > > > > I created a "test.php" app and put it in /var/www/html but Konq will not > > display it, but instead asks if I want to open it using Kwrite. > > > > I have all php apps installed, apache, and mysql. > > > > http://localhost works fine, but viewing PHP scripts isn't working. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > You have enclosed your php script in , did you? > > Martin > - -- > - > H E L I X Gesellschaft für Software & Engineering mbH > - > Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 > 60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 > - > http://www.helix-gmbh.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+WhpOBG198cnayKQRAjTeAJ4ly3xmFX8yZLJrGSa/AI2ObEaSqgCfS342 > DBmC0JDq36f92/rW5JRLBag= > =IO6z > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing DVDs
On Saturday 22 February 2003 07:51 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > What is the best route to take to play DVDs under Mandrake 9.0? I > would like an X compatible interface, but I have seen there are > several ways to go. > > Rob The best results I've obtained so far have come from plf http://plf.zarb.org/ the best howto came from http://trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ I got mixed results but every DVD I tried did something with one or another player, most of them even worked correctly. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] email component
On Friday 21 February 2003 07:26 am, H. Carter Harris wrote:
> How does one get the ability to email using PHP?
change "to" and "from" in the script below and it should get you through the
night
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Re: [expert] 9.1RC1 install problem " undefined subroutine &main:: called."
On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:17 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: > While trying to install 9.1RC1 I get the above error message, has anyone > else run into this and know a work around? I had exactly the same experience. Finished up the install with drakconf after a reboot and got an almost functioning install.. I still have several glitches which are really irritating. I've been pleading for a url for a list of quick fixes to no avail. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?
I have a question regarding Fisher's > > > exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I > > > have. > > > No statistical test is legitimate in the hands of the inexperienced. No statistical test is legimate in the hands of the experienced when they have an agenda. Mark Twain said there are three kinds of lies - "Lies, damned lies and statistics". It is also why the bottom of my business card used to read "Numerical Advocate" rather than statistician. Lest anybody challenge this as off-topic, there is a wonderful package - 'R' and a somewhat harder to find "pspp" both of which have endless tests to a amuse and befuddle and both of which run on mandrake. My advice, run every test you can find, smile non-chalantly, and pass the burden of legitimacy on to the consumer. Jim Tarvid PS. I really enjoyed the non US contributions to the thread on nature and character of President Bush and his "fatal attraction" with Saddam Hussein. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!
On Monday 03 February 2003 03:40 am, Ron Stodden wrote: > Vincent Danen wrote: > > Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and > > with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can > > we fix it? You presume too much. > > > > Tell us what got "clobbered". My 9.0 machines, with all updates > > applied, are rock solid. > > Alas! My reply was inadvertenly attached to James Sparenburgs's > message below. My apologies. > > All Linux partitions on both machines worked perfectly for about 6 > months after > expert installation. Then these problems started appearing on 3 of the > partitions. > > Interestingly, a reinstall did not fix anything, like it does with > Windows 98 > (but _NOT_ always) - which is a serious requirements or design problem with > the Mandrake installer. I had two Mandrake Linux systems fail with disk in a horrible state in the past six months. Both were SiS AMD boards, the last a K7S6A (SiS745). Both hard disks came back to life with a low level format (One an IBM ATA 100 40GB drive, the other a Maxtor). I replaced the motherboard in the first system and have used it as a developoment machine/workstation for months without incident. The second system I reloaded with (gasp!) W2K which appeared to go well but within a week started acting flaky. Software installations failed, and simple tasks like burning CDs showed instability in disk throughput (fluctuating) buffer levels). After replacing the motherboard in the second system with a VIA chipset board (MS6378), the system appears to be rock solid. I am convinced that hardware is a factor in many bug reports. If bug reports included motherboard/CPU/diskdrive we might spot a correlation in a matter of weeks. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:07 am, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:08 am, tarvid wrote: > > I like my horse, even though he is over 30 now. > > 30?! Wow. What kind of horse is he? Have you retired him to pasture > grazing or do you actually still ride him? > Norwegian Fjord and more of a retired cart horse than a trail horse. My daughter rides him on ocassion. He prefers cookies to grass although he manages to keep his 7 acre paddock rather close. I keep a few goats - cashmeres, saanens and alpines. The place is blessed with a few dozen wild turkeys. The animals help me keep a hazy perspective on human folly. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:54 am, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Wed, January 29 2003 8:43 am, tarvid wrote: > *snip* > > > Bush chooses internationalism when it suits him. > > > > He scuttled Kyoto, ABM and the Biological weapons protocols and ignores > > the Viena and Geneva conventions. > > So, you think implementing a system that protects US citizens from ICMBs is > a bad thing? Come down off your high horse. I like my horse, even though he is over 30 now. I do think that unilateralism is a bad thing, worse than Iraq, worse than Sharon. Of course internationalism has made its mistakes, Korea and Viet Nam come to mind but I contend it makes fewer mistakes than individual heads of state. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: S0: RE: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >There is a clear issue here. > > > >It is international cooperation vs. unilateralism. > > > >The Bush administration has demonstrated its contempt for internationalism > > by: > >1) abrogating the ABM treaty > >2) scuttling the protocols for the biological weapons treaty > >3) ignoring the Geneva Convention > >4) rejecting the Viena convention > >5) ignoring the Kyoto accords > > I will agree with you on counts 1, 2, and 4. The other counts, I have to > disagree with you on. > > 3) When have we ignored the Geneva Conventions? Don't bring up al Quadea > either; the Geneva Conventions specifically apply to combatants in times of > war, not terrorists. > > 5) We never signed the Kyoto accords. It is our soverign right to sign or > not sign onto a treaty. Since we did not sign Kyoto, we never agreed to be > bound by it. If we're talking about global democracy I'm all for it, but > it's a two-way street. Last I checked, Germany and France rather enjoyed > being able to exercise their soverign rights by slapping us in the face. > > On that note, doesn't France still owe us like a trillion dollars from the > Lend-Lease act??? :-) Bush declared war on terrorists (although I would prefer the constitutional route) and you saay it is not a war. Afghanistan looked like war to me. (something about ducks). Bush wasn't too kind to Cairo either. It would seem that a case could me made for topling Sharon as well. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:36 am, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Wed, January 29 2003 8:19 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > *snip* > > > Cowardice has nothing to do with the brain. It is downright dumb to > > call someone a coward who looks and thinks before he follows blindly. > > *snip* > No, but completely disregarding the facts does have a lot to do with the > brain. > FACT: Iraq has had 12 years to destroy it's NCB weapons, it has not done > so. FACT: Iraq was given a last chance, under UN Resolution 1441, to > publicly disarm, in front of UN inspectors, and must comply FULLY, even > Hans Blix states they have not done so. > FACT: Saddam Hussein has used Chemical and Biological weapons against his > OWN people > FACT: When the UN signed Resoluion 1441, it stated certain things that must > be done by a certain time, or the UN would use force. That time is here, > and those things are NOT done, according to Hans Blix. > FACT: Now, that the resolution has NOT been accepted, several nations are > backing down from their original agreement to use force if Iraq did NOT > comply fully. > FACT: The French have oil contracts with Iraq. > FACT: Nearly all the Iraqi weapons are of old Soviet design, where did they > get these designs? Russia and her neighbors, under the old USSR > > Now.. You explain to me why these nations are reneging on their signed > documents? Why, all of a sudden, the SAME nations who AGREED to Resolution > 1441, now are saying that it shouldn't be carried out? Please, explain > that to me. I am waiting. I can explain. Bush chooses internationalism when it suits him. He scuttled Kyoto, ABM and the Biological weapons protocols and ignores the Viena and Geneva conventions. The lone voice crying in the wilderness is often correct, the biggest bully on the block is rarely so. Good grief. It was Nixon, Reagan and the elder Bush who put much of that together all to be destroyed in two short years by Bush the younger. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 10:49 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Sorry to bother you, but we were discussing whether there will be a > future for MandrakeSoft. > After tonight I wonder whether there will be a future for us all and > the world as we know it. > I listened to the US-Amercan president. > I'm not religious, I wish I were. This madman and the options he has > scare me to death. > > wobo There is a clear issue here. It is international cooperation vs. unilateralism. The Bush administration has demonstrated its contempt for internationalism by: 1) abrogating the ABM treaty 2) scuttling the protocols for the biological weapons treaty 3) ignoring the Geneva Convention 4) rejecting the Viena convention 5) ignoring the Kyoto accords Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Damn !@##$! usb @@#!%@! atmel !
Any idea of the output power and receive sensitivity? Jim Tarvid On Monday 27 January 2003 01:43 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > What is wrong?! Why? Why!? WHY!? > > > > I REALLY need wireless to work for me to get work done. > > Anyone have anything to offer? A sledgehammer for both my > > computer and the WUSB11 perhaps? A pair of brass knuckles > > to use in dotting Linus' eyes? > > > > praedor > > yep, a D-LINK DWL-810 ETHERNET TO WIRELESS BRIDGE > > http://www.shipitforyou.com/cgi-bin/sgin0105.exe?UID=2003012710322069&TRAN8 >5=Y&GENP=I&T1=D100+1444&FNM=74 > > hmmm...i see they've upgraded it since i bought mine to their > 22 mbps standard (which is what makes it a DWL-810+). it > will work fine however with any 802.11b access point or > router and any nic with an rj45 socket. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix nonsense
A small script to sync the chroot jail would make life easier. The first time this happens can be frustrating (I know that personally). postfix 2.0.1 is in cooker, 2.0.3 is at postfix.org, it would be really nice if 9.0 had an update. Jim Tarvid On Monday 27 January 2003 09:53 am, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 02:25, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > > this is no postfix nonsens, it is a nonsens in coniguration of postfix by > > mandrake. chroot is a very secure way to do something IF YOU KNOW WHAT > > YOU WANT. > > > > Please, Mandrake, disable the chroot stuff of postfix (at least the > > default settings). It is not worth the trubble. > > > > disable all the chroot stuff in /etc/postfix/master.cf and the > > configuration is much easier. > > This is probably one of those things that Mandrake is damned if they do > and damned if they don't. I think chroot'ed Postfix is a good idea and > well worth the hassle of configuring and hope that Mandrake continues to > do so. I can understand some of the frustrations that some of you are > seeing, but I'd rather they err on the side of caution than ship a less > secure product. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Yenta Socket and Compaq Laptops
Isn't this one of the things ACPI is supposed to fix? ACPI was pretty green in 9.0, I've seen rumblings that the sourceforge project has made progress. I presume that will make is into 2.4.20 and 9.1. Jim Tarvid On Sunday 26 January 2003 09:02 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > OK I've been beating my head against the wall for the last 5 days > I've googled till I'm goggled... and This is what I've come up with. > > > /lib/modules/yourkernel/modules.pcimap uhci is still listed even though > it's been replaced by usb-uhci > > > This normally wouldn't be a problem EXCEPT that with the compaq laptops > everything and I do mean everything gets thrown on irq 11, pci pcmcia > and usb. What happens is that if you insert any cardbus pcmcia card or > any usb product into the box it attempts to reload everything on the pci > bus... which are already running... and conflicts occur and it freezes. > > My choices are > > 1. disable usb sound vga and anything else on the pci bus and let them > load when I insert a cardbus card. > > 2. Figure out where hotplug gets it's irq info for usb and yenta_socket > gets it's info for it's irq and set them to something different from > sound vga etc. > > So my question is where does yenta_socket get it's info on what irq to > set for cardbus cards? > > James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix is braindead!
Check the chroot jail. I had this happen one time when I changed hostname andd IP address after installation. /var/spool/postfix/etc Jim Tarvid On Friday 24 January 2003 12:44 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I don't understand this. I have a fully qualified > hostname (stonekeep.ravenhome.net). I have DNS > configured proper (via kppp). I can ping any > host/site I wish without problems. Postfix, on the > other hand, is incapable of sending any emails because > it invariably fails to find hostnames. From my logs: > > Jan 24 17:40:40 stonekeep postfix/smtp[4000]: > 7460240224E: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, > delay=0, status=deferred (Name service error for > yahoo.com: Host not found, try again) > > This from a message I tried to send to my email > address at yahoo. I can ping yahoo, I can "dig" > yahoo. DNS IS working. Why can't postfix see > anything? Why does it constantly defer mails when all > the hosts I email DO exist, are pingable, and DO have > valid names? > > praedor > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TV Cards under Mandrake...
I for one would love to hear how you got ATIs to work under Mandrake. I used an old Rage AIW years ago with small problems but when I went to install software for a Radeon 7500 AIW I felt myself slipping down a DRM path upon which I would prefer not to go. I have been following VideoLAN for a couple of years and never found the motivation to overcome the initial obstacles. I see lots of applications for classroom use. Jim Tarvid On Wednesday 22 January 2003 10:03 am, Dave Laird wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Good morning, Lorne... > > On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:23 pm, Lorne wrote: > > I hate to disparidge ATI. I DID use an ATI card for about year. It was > > always a fight though. My XP box hung on a regular basis. I initially > > blamed the other hardware. After an annoying 6 months, I tried it on my > > wife's machine. Same thing. It was a Dell dude. I then tried it on my > > son's > > After reading about the number of "incompatibility issues" (translated to > mean it doesn't work with this platform) and trying it initially with XP, I > finally dumped XP entirely and stuck with Windows 98. This was, of course, > just shortly after XP arrived. *Never*, ever ever use a Microsoft product > when it is a relative newcomer. You have to wait for the patches and > upgrades to arrive before you can use it. > > > machine. Even worse. Bought complete new hardware. Newer machine for > > poppa. > > > > :) Same crap, except MUCH MUCH worse. I of course blamed it on the > > > > motherboard. Took it back and got another. Same thing. Changed > > motherboard brands. I mean BAD! By this time, I'm starting to doubt that > > everybody is wrong but ATI. I bumped into a young fellow at the computer > > store and he about spit out his soda when I said I was trying to use ATI. > > He said Nvidia was the way to go. I knew from past experience that > > Hauppage was good, so returned the ATI card, got the original MB back, > > got a T4400? Nvidia card with 128mb of ram and BAM! Not a whit of > > problems since. So there you have > > See? If I had discovered this forum before now, I would have already made > the transition to Hauppage a long time ago. However, through patching and > perseverence, I now have the ATI All-in-Wonder-Pro AGP working fine under > Linux. If anyone else wants to know the mystical secrets to success, I'll > post them here, otherwise keep them to myself. (It takes less than five > minutes, based upon my experience). > > > my tail of woe. I don't know if they take short cuts with their stuff, > > but if you look at their drivers, they are constantly updating fixing, > > fixing again, updating What is wrong with this picture? Folks are > > having grief with them! I just don't have the time or patience anymore. > > Were it not for getting it work under Linux, it would have gone into the > rather large box in the closet marked "FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT" written on > the outside. Migod, there are things in that box I haven't even *touched* > in over five years. Some development process, huh? 8-> > > > Do they work. yes, but how stable are they? I'm sure that on some > > combinationof hardware they are wonderful. But this is my experience. Of > > course I'm glad you had a good experience with tech support. I sure hope > > they have improved from what I got. They won't last long if they don't > > get it together. IMHO. > > You are quite right. I got lucky the one time, but since I am considering > building a really high-end workstation by the beginning of spring, you can > bet I will be purchasing a Hauppage TV card to go with it for my own use. > Getting the ATI working for a customer actually *addicted* me to television > and video on the desktop. > > However, to avoid the moderator's wrath, perhaps we should start a > scholarly discussion of how to get streaming video working under Mandrake > Linux and KDE, perhaps. I still haven't begun to explore/exploit that one > yet, as I understand it requires a kernel patch, something I'm *never* fond > of doing unless it is mandatory. 8-) What the heck, the week's young, isn't > it? 8-) > > Dave > - -- > Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project > Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 > Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free > system. > > An automatic & random thought For the Minute: > marriage, n.: > Convertible bonds. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+LrLGaE1ENZP1A28RAtGYAKC+oVp2+NnrnQ8SveG+eFwR3oeeQACeO+hf > mASwxCVSOjeQDfKV9S/Zrbs= > =iymU > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it meant to be hard or easy to change network settings?
The easiest way to handle portable devices is with DHCP and assigned addresses by MAC. That way you can provide reverse DNS as appropriate. Jim Tarvid On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:39 am, David Robertson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:44, Damon Lynch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Are the GUI network tools supposed to take care of all changes needed to > > connect through KPPP instead of through an already configured ethernet > > adapter? That is, change the default gateway, change shorewall > > configuration, and make sure that DNS is ok? And do all of this with > > the ethernet adapter still present? I recently had to change the way > > Mandrake connects to the Internet, from cable to regular modem. I tried > > the GUI tool without success, but was able to figure it out manually > > after a little research and changes in /etc/sysconfig/network > > > > If the network GUI tools are supposed to do this automatically (with the > > different profiles), then I suppose there is a bug in them. Or else it > > is a missing feature? Can someone replicate this in the 9.1 beta? > > > > Thanks, > > Damon > > I have to admit that I have always had problems with this. At home I > have adsl and at work a small, fixed-IP mixed lan, with dial-up internet > connection.Every time I move my laptop from one location to the other, I > have to set up the network connection from scratch.And even then I have > great difficulty in dialling out: it seems to connect OK according to > the log in kppp but nothing happens and my browser, for example, can't > access its home page.If I reconfigure the modem 2-3 times from scratch, > eventually it is OK, though the settings are always the same. Setting up > two profiles makes no difference. So at work I just set up the lan > manually then use wvdial for dialling out. > > David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd:
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=DirectTrading&file=info http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=charting&mode=basics&symbol=MDKFF&selected=MDKFF&chart=1&elem=0 But the last trade was on the 13th, the announcement was on the 15th. Under US rules, stockholders take a beating. I have no idea what happens under French rules. Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 21 January 2003 09:11 am, Daniel Anderson wrote: > Hi, > I am forwarding this to the list because I don't know anything about > these things. Perhaps some of you can help him. His email address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks, > Dan > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:01:30 -0500 > From: "Geoff&Angie Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Daniel Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dan,I been looking for a place to find out how much Mandrake stock is but > can't find it.Send out a request for me and see what you getUBU > > --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP JetDirect
Thanks for the help. My nephew came home and we set the IP address through the front panel. Jim Tarvid On Sunday 19 January 2003 12:00 pm, Daryl Johnson wrote: > We had a n/w Brother laser printer in the office and were able to just > browse in to the ip/port numbers. > > Is this possible for you? > > regards > > Daryl > > On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 3:10 pm, tarvid wrote: > > Trying to setup an HP LJ IIIsi with a JetDirect card. > > > > The local net is 192.168.0.0. > > > > The printer barfs the address 10.10.14.60. > > > > I'd like to reset it to 192.168.0.4. > > > > The printer is 1000 miles away which makes this more interesting. > > > > Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] HP JetDirect
Trying to setup an HP LJ IIIsi with a JetDirect card. The local net is 192.168.0.0. The printer barfs the address 10.10.14.60. I'd like to reset it to 192.168.0.4. The printer is 1000 miles away which makes this more interesting. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: OT!!! Re: [expert] YaBir (Yet another Beta install report)
I hope lawyers don't search Google when you need one. Charles - are you an attorney from North Carolina? Jim Tarvid On Monday 13 January 2003 04:31 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 13 January 2003 04:36 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > > Q: What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead > > lawyer in the road? > > A: There are skid marks in front of the dog. > > Hehehe, I like that - here's another: > > Q: What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? > A: A good start! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] postfix 2.0.0.1
Mulling upgrading to the new postfix release. Happiest case is a new Mandrkae RPM. Simon Mudd has RedHat and SRPMS at http://www.WL0.org/~sjmudd/postfix/en/available-packages/ The Mandrake postfix.spec is ancient. The RedHat8 RPM from Simon may work and rebuilding the SRPM is even more likely. I am more or less disposed to a couple of days of intellectual effort to make a Mandrake 9.0 suitable RPM but there are many things to do and if this effort has been done I would happily more on to other alligators. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
Argh. Sign up for PayPal. Then get their debit card. Then you can either transfer money into the PayPal account or they can hot your bank account directly. It will take a few days (2 or 3) but it comes in handy at times like this. There are horror storeis about PayPal around the web but I have used PayPal for several hundred transactions without a hitch. Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 24 December 2002 05:34 pm, John Haywood wrote: > On Tuesday 24 December 2002 01:18 pm, civileme wrote: > > I have some good news and some urgent news > > > > 1. I will be returning to the lists. I will have an email address that > > can handle list level traffic. > > Welcome back - its great to see such loyalty, and expertise not going to > waste > > :) > : > > 2. All of you are desperately needed to complete the push to get > > Mandrakesoft on a self-sustaining level. > > Allrighty - make it easier for me to join the club - I *don't* have a > credit card Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
WB. I just ordered a few boxes for resale and a request for warrants which is about what I can do for the immediate term. Near term, demand generation is probably the key. It's past time for a Mandrake 9.0 party. We keep an image on the LAN and we might snag a few folks to come in and get the GPL version. We are pretty good at installations which we can offer as a service including stuff like phpGroupWare and osCommerce. Does anyone have a litany of Mandrake services which might encourage businesses to bite? Jim Tarvid On Monday 23 December 2002 09:18 pm, civileme wrote: > I have some good news and some urgent news > > 1. I will be returning to the lists. I will have an email address that > can handle list level traffic. > > 2. All of you are desperately needed to complete the push to get > Mandrakesoft on a self-sustaining level. > > For the second one, here is the real story: > > Mandrakesoft started on a shoestring and a hope, originally as a > spare-time project for one person. It was immensely popular from > inception and soon MADE A PROFIT. > > Then arrived the venture capitalists > > They invested monies but wanted an international team of executives to > manage the company. Such a team was acquired. > > Under that team, the expenses went up about 400% without a concomitant > increase in revenue. The direction was modified from a linux > distributor to an internet education company with a hook to linux. > > The soundness of that idea was never proven, as the dot.com bubble > burst and investors worldwide went into full retreat. For Mandrakesoft > this was a curse and a blessing. The curse was the negative cash > position and high burn rate and the blessing was a return to being a > linux company. > > Mandrakesoft has made huge strides in bringing revenue up to meet > expenses and in cutting expenses. They tended to trust the word of > others which has made their forecasts look overly optimistic several > times. > > But now the break-even point, in the worst-case scenario, is in sight > and in a few months. The short term still requires more cash than they > have now, to get out that next release. > > In that next release will be a special piece of software I am > contributing. With little to do since my layoff, I have designed a > semi-intelligent linux binary installer that can handle most of what you > are able to download. It even has hooks to look for things like WineX > and to attempt to install windows executables if you have an emulator > for them. > > But if you want to see that next release, consider a club membership or > giving club memberships as Christmas gifts or buying stock at > approximately the right price. (BTW, MIcrosoft stock which sells at > Like $52 /share has 8 billion shares outstanding on a company that > earns $25 billion a year in revenue BEFORE expenses-- I call that a > heavily watered stock) Mandrakesoft stock is selling for what the > company is probably worth. Remember its assets are PEOPLE and their > products. People like Pixel and Gael Duval and Denis Havlik and > Guillaume Cottenceau make the product and the company what it is. > Mandrake also has a hidden asset in the loyalty of contributors, And > they are finally selling the right way--software is free if you want it > and rather expensive if you expect extensive support. > > So anyway, expect to see me return to the lists now that I have an email > that will handle it without quota problems and (I hope) without any more > crack attacks or DDOSes which is what originally set me to dropping my > mailserver and forwarding to a hidden webmail host. > > Still loyal to MandrakeLinux, > > Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apache under Mandrake
Written documentation rarely matches the version and environment you are running in. I suspect your plan was doomed from the start. I make backup copies of configurations suffixed by the date (and if necessary a serial number). When I try something, I can easily get back to a version that worked. When I am content with a configuration, a "diff" of the two files and a few short notes does wonders later. Webmin almost works and if you follow the step above, leads to a fairly efficient tool for manipulating apache behavior. For the most part, the packagers put together a fairly rational set of options. I remember when apache/php/mysql did not work out of the box.. Now with maybe a tweak or two, servers work great almost out of the box. But... Systems don't work. When they appear to work, it is because they are based on an earlier system which also appeared to work but really didn't work either. Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:07 pm, you wrote: > I installed apache as part of an 8.2 Mandrake install. Everything about > the install went great and when I configured my router and a DNS server (on > another box), I was able to see the default web page on the server. > > I wanted to learn something about the application so I bought the O'Reilly > book and started working through it. My plan was to use "apachectl stop" > to stop the conf that was set up by Mandrake, create my own conf using > O'Reilly exercises in the book and test the exercises by starting the test > confs using "httpd -f /usr/www/site.first/conf/httpd.conf -d > /usr/www/site.first/htdocs". Is there anything fundamentally wrong with > this plan? > > Everything worked for a couple of exercises but now, a couple of weeks > later, I'm having trouble getting anything to work. Was there something > setup during the installation/compile that prohibits is keeping it from > working using the steps above? > > Thanks for any help in advance. Carter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity
Minor update on Charles' post: IBM sold much of their hard drive production to Fujitsu. Really nice IBM SCSI drives are available on Ebay cheap. 3% is not too bad. I've never had a hard failure on an IBM drive either (one bad sector). The problems with the "glass" drives rose exponentially with the number of platters (should have been linear since it was a head alignment problem but ...). The IBM warranty was based on "average" use (business day), I don't know of anyone who was ever refused replacement on the number of hours. The number of hours is stored on the drive (as is the number of spinups ...). SMART is a nice thing - too bad the raw numbers are inconsistent between drives and manufacturers. Heat and power interruptions are the enemies of hard disk drives. Try to avoid stacking them like plates in the cupboard. Get a UPS. I never willingly power anything down. I haven't bought WD drives for over a year but I do have a few still spinning. Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 17 December 2002 06:32 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:39:07 -0800 > > Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm have problems finding this anywhere on the IBM web site or by > > search. Can you please provide the source document you have for this?? > > This all came about because the warranty that IBM used for about a month > some time in 01 only warrantied their drives for X number of hrs, > something that worked out to about 10 hrs per day. > This wording was quickly removed and recanted. > > A statement was issued by them that even during that period all their > drives were/are tested and perform within norm during 24/7 operation. > The only IBM drive which had serious issues was the 75GXP > > I personally have 22 hds ranging from 12gb to 60gb and age from 5 years > to less than 6 months split about 50/50 between IBM and pre-buyout > Maxtors. > Thus far I have suffered 2 Maxtor failures and no IBM failures. > The only problem I have with IBM drives is that they are not available > locally. > > On the subject of drives another which has not been mentioned is > Fujitsu. > Stay away. > They, in Sept. admitted that at least 3% of their drives sold in Japan > will have to be replaced but they made no admission in regards to drives > sold elsewhere. > In the US a class action law suit has been filed against Fujitsu of > America and HP for sale of system with said drives. > Now not being produced for the desktop market many pre-built systems > were/are sold with these drives. > If you have 1 of these systems my suggestion would be to replace it or > at the very least make very frequent back-ups. > The drives most prone to failure are the MPG3xx, MPG3204AT, MPG3307AH > and the MPG3409AH. > Additional info on the class action suit can be found at > www.sheller.com/fujitsuclassaction.htm > > > Charles > > > Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years > of marriage make her something like a public building. > -- Oscar Wilde > -- > Charles A Edwards > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix does not work after migrating to 9.0
postfix runs chroot in default mandrake installs. check /var/spool/postfix/etc to make sure it is identical to the same files in /etc. Jim Tarvid On Monday 16 December 2002 03:58 am, you wrote: > I migrated yesterday to 9.0. > > I saved my account and the etc structure so that (I thought) I could > reconfigure easily. > > So, In 8.2 I had an IMAP service on my PC which was using the Postfix SMTP. > My server is scarlet.poglianis.net (the domain does not exist in > reality, it is just inside my firewall). > > I tried to configure all the postfix files as they were before, but NO > LUCK. When I try to connect to any of my IMAP folders, I get the error > saying "Could not connect to mail server scarlet.poglianis.net; the > connection was refused". > > What did I do wrong? > I saw that the config of postfix changed between 8.2 and 9.0. (at least > the part under /var/spool/postifx seems to have changed quite a lot). > > Thanks a lot indeed. Best regards > /stefano Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Geheimnis
On Friday 06 December 2002 04:13 am, you wrote: > Hello > > Does anyone know where to get RPM's for geheimnis? > IMO, it's the best graphical tool for GnuPG. Alternative suggestions > are also welcome (I've tried gnomepgp, tkpgp, gpa). > > Thanks > > Guy Have you tried seahorse? Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?
It's not although AMDs groveling before MS and the world makes me wonder. Try $ startx >$HOME/startx.log 2>&1 [RET] and see what's in the log file Jim Tarvid On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:14 pm, you wrote: > I've just installed Mdk 9.0 on an Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4 ghz machine. When > I fired up X it took hela long (like 5 min!) for it to start. I tried > everything I could think of and then eventually installed Mdk 8.2 > overtop of it as an experiment. Sure enough, X is just as slow in 8.2 > as it is in 9.0. I've set the system so that it has a whole Gig of space > for swap so I don't think that this is the problem. My video card is an > AGP Vodoo 3 2000 and it has worked fine on other machines running Mandrake. > > Now I've never owned an Athlon XP processor before and my greatest fear > is that it is a Win-processor similar to other monopoly-ware fomented by > M$ such as Win-printers and Win-modems. Say it aint so, because if it > is, it means that the only way I can fix this is to get a hammer and > make sure nobody else gets screwed by this particular processor. I'll > do it too. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] disabling APIC in BIOS enables nic on Sis 7xx motherboards - repository for recommended settings
Thanks to someone one this list and I apologize for losing the name, I set APIC to disable on a SiS745 motherboard and the nic now works. It seems to me a lot of grief would be avoided by collecting a database of non-default BIOS settings. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 10:55 am, you wrote: > I thought I had my system set up to not expire passwords, but apparently, I > got it wrong. :-) When logging in today, I got a popup window warning me > that my password would expire in 6 days. > > I suspect it's something under /etc/security somewhere, but I'm not sure > which file, and what has to be in it to turn off password expire. Does > anyone know what needs to be set where to turn it off? > >--Dave The data is in /etc/shadow and the handles are in passwd (and other places). I don't know where the defaults are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] linux demo for windows xp and 9x users
I make a software CD for my windows customers which includes browsers - mozilla and ie, apache, php, gimp, mysql, winpt/gnupg, putty etc... At this point in time there is a fairly even distribution of Win9x and WinXP customers. At least half the CD is available for a Linux demo. Run (not boot) from CD or a small hard disk installation on a windows file system is preferable. Any suggestions? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Digital camera advertisment
On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:38 am, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > Hello friends, > I would like to buy a digital camera with usb conection; I would like to > have it fully runing with my Mandrake 9.0 and gphoto2. > > But, I am very confused; lots a lots of cameras; someone are listed as > mandrake 9.0 supported hardware; some more in the "gPhoto2) supported > cameras. > > Obviously the newest cameras are still not supported, particularly those > with USB Mass-storage driver. > > Do you have experience in those digital cameras?, if the answer is yes, I > would like to know your comments and experience; please!, help me to select > one appropriate. > > Thanks so much in advance I hooked up an Olympus D-380 via USB and it popped up as a "removable storage device". I didn't try very hard but Gphoto2 didn't easily connect to it. I could browse to the flash on the camera and download files with ease. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club
Of course, but it does explain why amounts charged vary slightly from amounts posted on the web site. Obviously this bothers some people. I don't know an easy fix other than to route US payments through a US bank for prices quoted in US dollars. The alternative is to quote the exact Euros and put the approximate US price in parentheses. Jim Tarvid On Monday 18 November 2002 08:33 am, you wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:23 -0500, Jim Tarvid wrote: > > On Monday 18 November 2002 08:09 am, you wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:35 +0200, Marek wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Does anyone know if the club fees are deducted in dollars or euro ? > > > > My countries exchange rate makes the euro option almost $10 more. > > > > > > AFAIK the subscription fees are in USD. But why not look at > > > > > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club > > > > > > for all information? > > > > > > > > > wobo > > > > Credit card charges are made in Euros even though the price quoted is in > > US $. > > That's because it's a French bank. > > wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club
On Monday 18 November 2002 08:09 am, you wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:35 +0200, Marek wrote: > > Hi > > > > Does anyone know if the club fees are deducted in dollars or euro ? My > > countries exchange rate makes the euro option almost $10 more. > > AFAIK the subscription fees are in USD. But why not look at > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club > > for all information? > > > wobo Credit card charges are made in Euros even though the price quoted is in US $. That means the cost varies a bit with the exchange rate. My experience is that the difference is small (~1%). Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)
On Monday 11 November 2002 12:34 pm, you wrote: > On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 04:27 PM, Jim Tarvid wrote: > > I had three reboots last night due to a nasty power outage. > > > > In two of the three cases, named loaded zones (180) slowly and httpd > > had > > trouble with name resoltion (130 virtuals) (makes sense). In both > > cases, the > > machine could be made functional by stopping and starting named and > > httpd, > > maybe more than once. > > > > In the third case, the machine came up flawlessly. > > > > This has happened before on different hardware. > > > > I am beginning to blame BIND 9.2.1. > > > > I am mulling my options. > > > > 1) find a named replacement > > djbdns is nice. And fast. And secure. And fast. > DJB writes good code. It is the arrogance I have trouble with. > > 2) move named to a separate server > > 3) not start either on boot up and write a script to make sure the > > zones load > > properly before starting httpd > > 4) abandon mandrake as a server OS > > Any of these would work, except for the last one. I don't think it's > Mandrake that is causing your problem... I've got djbdns running on > all three webservers, each with their own local cache, and two of them > as DNS servers for the domains I host. No problems at all, and they > run, boot up, shut down, etc. all without problems. The servers are > all mdk8.2, so I'm quite certain that #4 probably wouldn't make much > difference. Moving named to a seperate server, or replacing named with > something else (djbdns would probably be your best > solutions. I didn't have this problem with 8.2 either. I didn't ahve this problem until BING 9.x. I took a look at MyDNS and it would fit nicely with my RBL system (which is in MySQL). Now if I could get postfix to log to MySQL I could blacklist on the fly. That would be worth some effort. Thanks. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)
On Monday 11 November 2002 06:53 pm, you wrote: > Jim Tarvid wrote on Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 06:27:01PM -0500 : > > I had three reboots last night due to a nasty power outage. > > > > In two of the three cases, named loaded zones (180) slowly and httpd had > > trouble with name resoltion (130 virtuals) (makes sense). In both cases, > > the machine could be made functional by stopping and starting named and > > httpd, maybe more than once. > > httpd being slow is a symptom of not being able to resolve dns. > Agreed. PHP fails and says so. > > In the third case, the machine came up flawlessly. > > I am beginning to blame BIND 9.2.1. > > Make note that during this whole time, it's quite possible that your > cablemodem/dsl provider had equipment down somewhere further up the > line, resulting in not being able to reach your gateway. As a test, > unplug your network cable and reboot the machine. If everything starts > going slow, it's probably due to not being able to reach your gateway. > It is an AT&T T1 which I was using from another machine at the time. I know when the gateway is down. If this machine is having trouble reaching the gateway it is because networking is not functional on this machine. I suspect that is not the case because I can ssh in from another machine during this ugly process and stop named which allows the boot to proceed normally except that httpd is often not functional. > IOW, I think it's a NETWORKING issue, having nothing to do with bind or > httpd or any other program that's running. > > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)
First this system does have a UPS. But there are other reasons to reboot. And DNS and HPPTD should work on a reboot. Sometimes with Mandrake 9.0 they don't. Named is buggy and I need an alternative. or a fix. Jim Tarvid On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:58 pm, you wrote: > Carroll Grigsby said: > > On Sunday 10 November 2002 06:27 pm, Jim Tarvid wrote: > >> I had three reboots last night due to a nasty power outage. > > > > Jim: > > There is an old proverb that says an ounce of prevention is worth a > > pound of cure. Any chance of fitting a UPS into the budget? I put one > > in last summer, and it's already saved me a lot of grief. > > ObAOL: Me too! > > :-) > > Seriously, if you're running any computer, especially if you're using it > as a server, a UPS is *not* optional IMNSHO. I can't even begin to count > the number of times that my UPS boxes (yes, I've got more than one > scattered throughout my equipment) have saved my bacon. They're really > cheap insurance. And you find that you're really glad you've got 'em, > particularly when there's a nasty power outage. > > They also help smooth out power, so that your machine gets cleaner power > during normal operations. I can't sing their praises enough. :-) > >--Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)
There is a UPS and it held up for an hour. I rigged another UPS to a generator and managed to hold on for over four hours but ... Two reboots were required One to switch to the generator system and once to switch back. The generator system is not large enough to run the whole system plus charge the batteries. But in any case, reboots should bring up healthy systems. On two different machines, this does not always happen with Mandrake 9.0. Jim Tarvid On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:26 pm, you wrote: > On Sunday 10 November 2002 06:27 pm, Jim Tarvid wrote: > > I had three reboots last night due to a nasty power outage. > > > > In two of the three cases, named loaded zones (180) slowly and httpd had > > trouble with name resoltion (130 virtuals) (makes sense). In both cases, > > the machine could be made functional by stopping and starting named and > > httpd, maybe more than once. > > > > In the third case, the machine came up flawlessly. > > > > This has happened before on different hardware. > > > > I am beginning to blame BIND 9.2.1. > > > > I am mulling my options. > > > > 1) find a named replacement > > 2) move named to a separate server > > 3) not start either on boot up and write a script to make sure the zones > > load properly before starting httpd > > 4) abandon mandrake as a server OS > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Jim Tarvid > > Jim: > There is an old proverb that says an ounce of prevention is worth a pound > of cure. Any chance of fitting a UPS into the budget? I put one in last > summer, and it's already saved me a lot of grief. > -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????
I must admit to cheating a bit, I bought an Orinoco for this purpose. Using MCC, I changed the SSID and set the device to channel 6 and connected to my AP instantly. If I had read enough, I am sure I would have screwed it up. Which is why we need a repository of things that work as well as a list of questionable installations and configurations. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)
I had three reboots last night due to a nasty power outage. In two of the three cases, named loaded zones (180) slowly and httpd had trouble with name resoltion (130 virtuals) (makes sense). In both cases, the machine could be made functional by stopping and starting named and httpd, maybe more than once. In the third case, the machine came up flawlessly. This has happened before on different hardware. I am beginning to blame BIND 9.2.1. I am mulling my options. 1) find a named replacement 2) move named to a separate server 3) not start either on boot up and write a script to make sure the zones load properly before starting httpd 4) abandon mandrake as a server OS Any thoughts? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PC Chips 810lmr motherboard
On Friday 08 November 2002 09:20 pm, you wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with the PC Chips 810lmr motherboard? > Specifically, does Mandrake 9.0 recognize the on-board video, sound and > ethernet? Are there any gotchas with this board? > > TIA, > > Joeb If you haven't bought it yet and are tempted because it is cheap don't do it. If you have, Linux will work as well as the other OS but save your pennies, odds are you'll need a replacement. Jim Tarvid PS. I've seen a couple of these work and the equally damned ECS boards are sometimes simply amazing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's
Working is clear, defective is elusive. Have you tried making a boot floppy diskette? If the contents will copy to your hard disk, you could try a hard disk install. This is also a time to find Linux friends in your area, It is likely at least one could help you set up a network install. Jim Tarvid On Wednesday 06 November 2002 07:39 am, you wrote: > Has anyone else on here come across defected 8.2 cd's.. > I came across a set yesterday when I purchased them at staples. > it stops in the middle of the boot.img being very dissapointed of not > having the 8.2 standard version. > > I'm not able to afford the powerpack version and no broadband to dowload > it.. Let me know if there is a workaround my defected cd's before I return > them to staples. > > Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] bind starts slowly at boot sometimes Mandrake 9.0
I have about 180 zones which will reload in a few seconds under normal conditions. Nov 4 21:13:37 horace named[3360]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named Nov 4 21:13:37 horace named[3360]: using 1 CPU ... 180 or so Nov 4 21:13:38 horace named[3362]: zone sccomputersonline.com/IN: sending notifies (serial 2002061500) Nov 4 21:13:38 horace named[3362]: zone turkeyfryer-outlet.com/IN: sending notifies (serial 2002061500) This was after watching a reboot take about 15 minutes to get through 20 Nov 4 20:53:32 horace named[1828]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named Nov 4 21:11:14 horace named[1830]: zone downtowngalax.com/IN: loaded serial 2002061400 Nov 4 21:11:24 horace named[1830]: zone draftwoodforestproducts.com/IN: loaded serial 2002061400 Obviously there are no resource constraints - bind is simply waiting 10 to 30 seconds between zones on the bad reboots and does 90 or so per second on a restart. Also obviously, this is not acceptable on a production server. So what should I do? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bing dependencies
the only rpm i found was from PLD it installed and ran normally i don't know of an equivalent function in Mandrake. Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 05 November 2002 03:50 pm, Larry Nguyen wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to install bing. So here I am...typing urpmi bing and got the > below message. I thought it's kinda odd ? > > > [root@athlon rhs]# urpmi bing > The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: > drakconf-9.0-6.1mdk > drakcronat-0.1.2-9mdk > drakfirsttime-0.16-12mdk > draksync-9.0-1mdk > drakxtools-1.1.9-53.1mdk > drakxtools-newt-1.1.9-53.1mdk > harddrake-ui-1.1.9-53.1mdk > mdkonline-0.16-5mdk > rfbdrake-0.8.3-7mdk > rpmdrake-2.0-27mdk > do you agree ? (Y/n) > > > So, it will remove all the above when I just want to install bing ? > > -Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] performance issues - named and apache
Under normal circumstances, one of my servers handles dns for 180 domains and apache about 100 virtual servers. Twice recently, once with 8.3 (cooker) and last night with 9.0 life turned sour. On a reboot, named loads zones very slowly - one every 20 to 30 seconds. Apache comes up broken in one way or another, last night it was PHP timing out on name resolution. In both cases cpu load was less than 0.2, memory was 25% of real memory and df never exceeds 50% for any partition. That is, the problem is not resources. Obviously, tasks are waiting for each other. An obvious fix is to put DNS on a separate server. Currently I have the server is doing DNS for its own domains. It shouldn't take too much of a machine to do my DNS. Another would be to get DNS to finish its load before starting other servers dependent on DNS. Is there a fix? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mandrake 9.0 - squirrelmail - default.pref
new user logins failed with the message can find ../data/default_pref the file exists but is at /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs i copied it to /var/www/squirrelmail/data and the problem went away is this something wrong in the Mandrake package? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] proftpd doesn't work ?
I had a couple of problems with proftpd. One was caused by dhcp and hosts/dns. When I got my naming and ip problems straightened out, proftpd started normally. I fiind it helpful to put a tail on /var/log/messages when I restart servers after reconfiguration. The second was I forgot to install proftpd-anonymous and tried to patch the config files by hand (Ben Reser pointed that one out to me). Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 22 October 2002 07:58 pm, Rodrigo Sanchez Olavarria wrote: > Hi experts ! > I have been trying to install ProFTPD from my new MDK9.0 > distribution, but it doesn't work ... > When I used gnome RPM to verify proftpd-1.2.5.. , one problem > was found in /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd file ...: > "md5, file size, modification time " > > When I shutdown or reboot my computer, the daemon says "FAILED" to > shutdown proftpd ... .. > I downloaded from linux-mandrake.com the package again, but the > problem persist ... > > I'm wrong ? proftpd ? > > Rodrigo > DGF, U. de Chile Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] syslog - mysql
looking for the easiest way to get syslogs in mysql. I want to do things like find all the user machines that attempted SMTP connections through the border gateway router. we do a lot of remote logging so ideally this is a syslogd daemon replacement rather than client replacements. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake Festival
Anybody know of a festival or Celebration in honor of 9.0 in the next few months on the East Coast of the US? If there isn't one, I'd be willing to host one in Galax, VA. We've done them before and they can be a lot of fun. But I'd still like to find a gathering in a preferably warm place in the next few months to get out of here for a few days. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Apache and Mandrake 9.0
I almost apologize (but I didn't say RTFM). There is too much documentation, much of it too old. Webmin is wonderful. Mandrake is easy. When it isn't, a day or two making it easy is a good idea. Jim Tarvid On Wednesday 16 October 2002 12:50 pm, Robert Fox wrote: > You're a bunch of help. I read through the documentation, but as you > may know - there's a lot of it! It's not very obvious - and the feback > in the logs is sparse. > > I though that when one uses the Mandrake Wizard for Apache and specify > an Intranet server, that it sets up the necessary rights to read that > directory - apparently NOT. > > I found the problem - and I used Webmin to change the /Directory section > to allow all instead of the default localhost. > > Thanks again for all the responses. > > Cheers, > R.Fox > > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 17:39, Dave Sherman wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 10:03, Robert Fox wrote: > > > Thanks for the tip but there is no .htaccess file there (did an ls -a) > > > > > > Any other suggestions? > > > > How about reading the Apache documentation? > > > > -- > > Dave Sherman| "They that can give up essential liberty > > MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety > > > > | deserve neither liberty nor safety." > > |- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...
My grandson ran into this on one computer and we wound up replacing the drive. Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 15 October 2002 10:33 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: > Hi, > > I burned some 9.0 CDs, only to uncover a strange problem... > > Since ((CD1, CD2) > 650MB > CD3); and having both 650MB & 700MB blanks, I > decided to burn on appropriately sized blanks... [A while back, I burned > LM8.2 onto 700MB CDs, so the media should not be an issue.] > > When trying to use the newly "burned" LM9.0 CDs, I got I/O errors... long > story short... turns out CD1 & CD2 are *blank* -- not burned at all... > tried several times; the only clue that something is not right at burn > time is that the fixation times out. Doing a simulation burn, everything > appears to be OK. > > CD3 burns fine. > > The only difference I can see between 8.2 and 9.0 are the >650MB 9.0 > ISOs... > > Anyone have a clue? Writer is an HP7500+ > > Thanks, > Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] an easy way to setup a masquerade-box
True but. Does it set up dial on demand? I had to modify ppp options to make that work and they were somewhat quirky. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cppp2.html#Demand helped a lot Jim Tarvid On Monday 14 October 2002 02:38 pm, Todd Flinders wrote: > Mandrake Control Center can automate this process by clicking Network & > Internet and then Connection Sharing. > > Just set up the workstations to use DHCP and they'll retrieve all the > information they need. This is the simplist and quickest way to take care > of this problem. You should also have a firewall on the server to protect > the workstations. > > Some networking applications on the firewall may need port forwarding which > is a bit more complicated. However, a lot of firewalls have GUI frontends > that can handle the port forwarding as well. > > On Monday 14 October 2002 03:46 am, hans privat wrote: > > hi, > > am looking for an easy and hopefully fast way to setting up a masquerade > > box as well as a firewall. > > > > that's my situation : > > am having 4 boxes. > > 3 workstations and one box, which have a connection to the internet. > > from every workstation it should be possible to start a connection to > > the internet like "on demand" so far it is possible. > > > > now my question : > > is anybody there, who can help me here or where I can get some "easy to > > use" info-docs, how I can realize this. > > > > thanks in advance > > bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux apps
On Sunday 13 October 2002 12:31 am, Michael Holt wrote: > Hey all, anyone know of a check printing program for linux? I'm using a > windows based program called 'versa check' through win4lin right now, but > I'm always searching for ways to become 'windows free'. > > Mike Freecheck and gnuMICR Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives in Linux
The samples are not large enough to draw a scientific conclusion but in terms of incidence rates (events per drive per unit time) Maxtor seem to be the lowest. It would be neat to gather enough samples to make a good scientific judgement. Jim Tarvid On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:43 am, J. Grant wrote: > June-Jerry Kreps wrote: > On Tuesday 01 October 2002 05:51 am, J. Grant wrote: > > Is there any infomation on drives/manufactors that work well with linux > then? If WD are that bad I'm stuffed, i just bought a new drive from them. > > JG > > > I have two WD drives, 30 GB each, and they work great. > JLK > > luckily for me my WD drive was ranked 2nd in this review. Realy you need > a huge test set to get consistent results though > > http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1540/ > > JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radius
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:55 am, Scott St. John wrote: > At 09:54 AM 10/1/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >We've been using IC RADIUS (Cistron before) for a couple of years. > > What kind of modem racks are you running? > Cyclades and USR. > >Curiously it is on the last RedHat server in the house. I don't think > > there are any issues which would come up with Mandrake. > > There are rpm's for Red Hat 7.x, I did my typical try first, read doc if > don't work > routine yesterday and it said that I had to install MySQL Devel libraries, > did that, > but still had some trouble with it. I will let you know how I make out so > if/when > you convert your last RH box to Mandrake you know :) > Because of the local patches it is just as easy for me to use the tar ball. I think this is all socket level stuff so it is pretty generic. Jim Tarvid > >We carry two local patches (one of them is moot) so changing requires a > >bit of > >effort. A lot of people are running FreeRADIUS and it has SQL support so > > that would probably be my first choice on a new system > > To tell you the truth I am not sure why the owner of the company wanted IC > Radius. > I think he bought something called ISP Suite and they recommend that. The > idea was > to move Radius and Postfix to use MySQL for user authentication. > > Thanks for the reply. > > -Scott Logging to MySQL has its charm. We use Maildir so there it is just as easy to use system authentication as MySQL. Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Radius
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 09:14 am, Scott St. John wrote: > I am about to install Radius for our modem racks and was curious if anyone > on the list is using Radius under Mandrake and if you are, which one? I am > looking at IC Radius, but I see there is also Free Radius. Let me know > your experiences, thanks! > > -Scott We've been using IC RADIUS (Cistron before) for a couple of years. Curiously it is on the last RedHat server in the house. I don't think there are any issues which would come up with Mandrake. We carry two local patches (one of them is moot) so changing requires a bit of effort. A lot of people are running FreeRADIUS and it has SQL support so that would probably be my first choice on a new system Both ICRADIUS and Cistron have worked well for us. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0
On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:41 pm, Vox wrote: > "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware > > requirements. But the only thing I am having trouble with is the > > Modem. I'm looking for a reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware > > modem. Can you recommend any. > > None. Internal PCI modems suck. Get an external one. USRobotics > external is a good choice. > > Vox Gee. modems suck. Hang some antennas and share a decent connection. The actiontec "call waiting" modems have Lucent chipsets and a real hardware engine. With 8.2 you needed a makedev/setserial script to get them going. I will try 9.0 in a couple of days. The one "topic" I tried was "ok". If I spent some more time with it, I might have even gotten to like it. Vox is right in that externals are the easiest to use, If you are doing a lot of interactive stuff, the connect times on a v.34 are quicker than v.90 or v.92. If you are doing a lot of downloads, try to find a better connection. Even ISDN is a delight compared to analog. I'd be interested in your results. I am on a crusade to learn what works for regular people as opposed to the technical issues between "x" and "y" chipsets and motherboard features. Jim Tarvid I have had good luck with Lucent win-modems for about a year. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Motherboard Question
Much wisdom in the reponse but... 1) Stability is an issue but most of my problems show up in the disk subsystem. I have had some nasty crashes which went away when I replaced the drives. 2) Performance is an issue but I suspect that too is in the disk subsystem. Processing HTTP logs is the biggest single burder on my servers. That generates tons of stuff few people read, so I think changing content of log analysis will take care of that one. Mail is a close second but that one is solved by judicious non-use of synced log files. 3) When I rebuild a server, newer technology is better than older and larger aggregates of RAM are better than smaller. The latter is probably the more important of the two so I would rather use single 512MB PC2100 than two 256MB faster SDRAMs. 4) Workstations are a different matter. I am content with much less than a game player but I do have an urge for decent multimedia - DVD , 6 channel sound, fast ripping. The most notable performance issue is fast program loading. That too is in the disk subsystem. So much of Tom's hardware doesn't speak to me. I'd like to avoid spending a lot of time on both hardware compatibility and software installation issues, I have lots of things to do. Unfortunately, what we see are reports of people having problems and others speculating on the latest whiz bang technology. It would be much more useful if someone maintained a database of "this worked for me". Jim Tarvid On Sunday 29 September 2002 06:59 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:58, Ralph F De Witt wrote: > > Hi: > > I am contemplating building a new system. The two motherboards that I am > > looking at are, one a MSI KT3 Ultra2 w/o raid, lan, and video, and two a > > MSI KT4 Ultra w/o raid, lan, and video. This will be my primary > > workstation. I am wondering will these boards will work with Mandrake 9.0 > > and how well the built in audio works on both. And your preferences. > > - -- > > Yours, > > Ralph. > > I can see right off that you've been doing your homework. Not bad. > There are some concerns with the newer DDR400 based mobos, though. This > is evident by looking at the following: > > http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q3/020905/kt400-11.html#opengl_be >nchmarks > > And the Directx benchmarks as well. The conclusion of this article is > interesting: > > http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q3/020905/kt400-16.html > > But not truly "conclusive". Because if later day bios upgrades are able > to fix the memory standards that as of right now have not been > finalized, then the KT4 Ultra may well be the best choice for the > future. As you can see right now the KT333's are showing faster > benches. A bios upgrade may well fix that, however. > > Regarding the KT3 Ultra, this pick is perhaps a little confusing. If > you are considering a mobo with KT333 architecture, there are many more > superior choices available. Here are the benchmarks for a roundup of 18 > mobos that includes the KT3 Ultra: > > http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q2/020509/kt333-29.html > > This in fact was the roundup that I was using to choose my next mobo. > As of now tho, the memory architecture has moved onward and I will > probably wait for Abit to release a KT400 mobo. The advantage with this > set of mobos is that they have been out for awhile and they are better > known personalitywise. It is very unlikely that you will see any > problems with the top performers in this list. Speaking of performance, > the KT3 Ultra is in the bottom half of both the opengl and directx > benchmarks. Dis is not good. > > When I was planning on getting one of these, I was looking at three: > > 1) Epox EP-8K3A+ -- Pros: Top performer, solid brand, reputation for > dependability > > Cons: Unsure of overclocking virtues compared to Abit AT7 > > 2) Enmic 8TTX2+ -- Pros: German manufacturer, looked solid, top > performer; real fast and stable > > Cons: New company, no history, unsure of overclocking virtues compared > to AT7 > > 3) Abit AT7 -- Pros: I have extensive prior experience with this > brand and know the overclocking and stability virtues of this brand, the > quality has never let me down. > > Cons: Not a top performer (unless overclocked !) hehe > > In which case it can theoretically exceed the default performance of any > of the 18. Depending on CPU limitations. > > Let me smash a few myths right off the bat. 1) An overclocking mobo is > typically superior stability (and quality) wise to a mobo that is > typified as a "server board", AKA Tyan mobos. The overclockers HAVE to > be more stable in worse situations than the much overpriced and
[expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system
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Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?
I think we are missing the point. With hard disk space ubiquitous and cheap, why not load them to the hard drive. To make life easy would this work? mkdir /iso dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 ... dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd2 ... dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd3 mkdir /mnt/cd1 mkdir /mnt/cd2 mkdir /mnt/cd3 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd1 /mnt/cd1 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd2 /mnt/cd2 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd3 /mnt/cd3 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd1 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd2 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd3 Jim Tarvid On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > > I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down > > multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard > > drive. Is there a traditional place to which I should copy all the RPMS > > (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I just make a new partition called /cds and > > copy them to /cds/cd1, /cds/cd2/ and /cds/cd3? > > > > -- > > Matt > > um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditribution you've chosen to > install on your system. Urpmi takes the misery out of having to hunt down > the package you want to install that you're not sure which CD it's on. > > EX: urpmi some-package-name > > If the package is on the CD's and you're logged in as root it will tell > you which CD to place in the Drive so you can install the package. If it's > not on the CD's then it won't know what you're talking about and it will > tell you so. > > Another very painless way you can do this very same thing is to use the > systems software manager. It's called rpmdrake. This is the same little > gem of a program that allows you to do the updates for your system. Get to > know it. It's not the monster some would have you believe it is. You can > also use the search function contained on it to search your system to see > if the package you're looking for is already on your system. > > Try one or both of these methods the next time you wish to install a > package that you think may be on the CD's, but you're not certain. I have > a feeling you'll be very pleasantly surprised. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printer margins in KDE/Konqueror
I think you are correct about KDE/Konqueror thinking my printer is set to "A4"but it is set to "US Letter". in konquerorrc I find [KPrinter Settings] PrintCommand= Printer=tek It is the same in kmail. I don't think setting Paper size has any effect. Before making a change to paper size selection. ls -lat /home/tarvid/.kde/share/config | less total 184 drwxr-xr-x2 tarvid tarvid 4096 Aug 1 10:36 ./ -rw---1 tarvid tarvid 1300 Aug 1 10:36 konq_history -rw---1 tarvid tarvid 2121 Aug 1 10:23 kickerrc -rw---1 tarvid tarvid 93 Aug 1 10:23 kcontrolrc -rw---1 tarvid tarvid 21648 Aug 1 10:15 kmailrc -rw---1 tarvid tarvid108 Aug 1 09:06 kdeprintrc After making a change, saving it and clicking OK twice total 184 drwxr-xr-x2 tarvid tarvid 4096 Aug 1 10:36 ./ -rw---1 tarvid tarvid 1300 Aug 1 10:36 konq_history -rw---1 tarvid tarvid 2121 Aug 1 10:23 kickerrc -rw---1 tarvid tarvid 93 Aug 1 10:23 kcontrolrc -rw---1 tarvid tarvid 21648 Aug 1 10:15 kmailrc -rw---1 tarvid tarvid108 Aug 1 09:06 kdeprintrc So where is the change recorded? Jim Tarvid On Thursday 01 August 2002 09:35 am, you wrote: > Jim Tarvid wrote: > >A long standing irritation. I get chided everytime I go to a windows > > machine to print out a web page. > > > >Under the best of circumstances, 2 or three lines form the bottom of one > > page appear at the top of the next. At worst, it is really ugly. > > > >alignmargins upchucks with several error messages and part of the intended > >text. It doesn't solve the problem in any case. > > > >Since almost acceptable output can be obtained from other programs, and > > other machines running other operating systems, I am loath to screw up > > settings in the printer nor the workstation. > > > >Jim Tarvid > > > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Well, sounds like you have the european paper size set in Konqueror and > are using letter size paper. Either change your paper size settings or > change your paper. > > Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Printer margins in KDE/Konqueror
A long standing irritation. I get chided everytime I go to a windows machine to print out a web page. Under the best of circumstances, 2 or three lines form the bottom of one page appear at the top of the next. At worst, it is really ugly. alignmargins upchucks with several error messages and part of the intended text. It doesn't solve the problem in any case. Since almost acceptable output can be obtained from other programs, and other machines running other operating systems, I am loath to screw up settings in the printer nor the workstation. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kdeinit nspluginviewer task saps machine
Noticed the hard disk flashing as I approached the machine first thing in the morning. Found nspluginviewer banging away |-kdeinit---nspluginviewer 4:22am up 22 days, 20:53, 3 users, load average: 2.26, 2.36, 1.99 138 processes: 135 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 99.6% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 255780K av, 231496K used, 24284K free, 0K shrd, 61324K buff Swap: 1023584K av, 158432K used, 865152K free 66436K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 26150 tarvid18 0 7232 20 8 R98.9 0.0 606:03 nspluginviewer [root@dev root]# ps auxw | grep nsplug tarvid 27741 0.0 0.0 42820 240 ?SJul27 1:52 /usr/bin/nspluginviewer -dcopid nspluginviewer-24089 tarvid 26150 87.4 0.0 31324 20 ?RJul30 609:27 /usr/bin/nspluginviewer -dcopid nspluginviewer-24232 killall nspluginviewer cleans up Konqueror/KDE 2.2.2 Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget
Rod was right. I use rsync over ssh and it works great. /usr/bin/rsync -avrpogtl --delete -e ssh samnite:/home/ftp/pub/mandrake-devel/ /var/ftp/pub/mandrake-devel/ In scripts I use expect. For a single file I use scp. Jim Tarvid > > Seriously, you should use rsync. One user states that "rsync > > is everything that ftp (ie curl, wget, etc) ought to have been". > > > > It is also much faster downloading a new version with unchanged > > name by using a special incremental download and update-in-place > > technique that none of the ftp or html downloaders have. > > > > See "man rsync". > > > > -- > > Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] > > > > Web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 Install errors
> > Trying to install 8.2 on a system with 500Mhz Celeron/192MB/20GB. Here > are the consistent problems: > > During install, at least one package fails. > Disk 2 is not accepted, even though it takes just fine on other > computers. > On first boot, I'll get the first "L" in lilo and then a repeated 2 > digit number sequence. > If I change IDE controllers, it will say invalid system disk. > Changed out the IDE cable, no change. > From bootdisk I get "Kernel panic: some syncing error thats too long > for jason to remember haha :-p" > Change out hard drives and will boot off one controller (until kernel > panic) but not the other. > > I'm inclined to think MOBO, but I'd like a second opinion. > > Thanks > > > -- > jason > gmaestro.org I've seen this often myself. I can get around the CD switching problem by an FTP install. I do it so often it is conveninet to set up an image on one machine largely for this purpose,. I recertify drives if I have any doubts. I've tossed more than one motherboard in the trash lately. We seem to be pressing things. In at least one case I think the problem was inadequate (marginal power supply) and in another inadequate cooling (small CPU fan)but 500Mhz Celerons are usually kind in this regard. I'd turn off DMA in the BIOS before I gave up. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Assertion failure in journal_unmap_buffer
> Got one of these this morning. > > Assertion failure in journal_unmap_buffer() at transaction.c:1857: > "transaction == journal->j_running_transaction" > > Linux horace 2.4.18-6mdk #1 Fri Mar 15 02:59:08 CET 2002 i686 unknown > > Should I update? > > ftp://samnite/pub/mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS/kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk.i586.rpm > > Jim Tarvid After upgrading, I got another one today Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffc 2.4.18-8.1 I used this box as a workstation for several weeks. Is it unsuitable as a server? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Compaq Evo D310
On Thursday 11 July 2002 02:59 pm, you wrote: > Tommy Eaton wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:04:12AM -0400 : > > I recently purchased a Compaq Evo D310 as a test server for Mandrake 8.2. > > I was dismayed today after I attempted to install 8.2 and found that it > > was giving nothing but problems with video and network. Now, while I am > > very much a newbie to this operating system, I have installed Mandrake on > > more then 10 other computers with no problems. This one does not appear > > to auto detect its network or video capabilities. When I suggest it to > > try the Intel Pro/100 for a NIC (which I believe is what the on board NIC > > is) it doesn't find it! Is there something obvious I'm missing here or > > does Mandrake just not work on this system? Thanks in advance! > > Check in the BIOS. You need to make sure that if there's a "PNP Aware > OS" option, that it's set to no. Beyond that, I've not laid my hands on > one of these, so it's hard to tell. > > Can you post the results of: > lspci -v > lspcidrake -v > > Blue skies... Todd The Evo D310 is an 845G chipset board with onboard Intel graphics and LAN. I know the 815 boards work. The 845G is relatively new. I have a few around but they are unfortunately customer machines with Windows. I know the video and nic on the 815EEA worked. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Travan Tape drives
I have been using an old Tandberg QIC drive with some success for QIC carts. I have a Travan or two in the junk box but I an loath to dig them out unless I have to. The only trouble I have ever had with tape drives is non-standard lengths of carts. Linux has picked them up every time. The carts are another matter, some work - some don't. Jim Tarvid On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:54 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 21:46, Jim Tarvid wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:26 pm, you wrote: > > > Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base > > > tape drive and use it for Mandrake? > > > > Only because they are ugly, unreliable and smell bad. > > > > If you overrule that advice -- > > > > Buy two, make sure the carts interchange, and verify the backups by > > loading them on a second machine. > > > > I used them for years on an old RedHat box. Got them to work fairly well > > by twidling parameters. It felt good to look at the carts on the shelf, > > but... > > > > I keep an old Debian box around for no other purpose than backing up > > other servers. It has a CDRW so I can archive things in pieces. It has > > saved my ass many times. > > > > Not once in 30 some years of computing has a tape been so kind. > > > > One of these days DVD-R media will be cheap. In the meantime, I keep > > carving the world into 650MB pieces. > > > > Jim Tarvid > > Jim, > > I've got a bunch of tapes here that were originally done on a Colorado > 1400. They are DC-2120's (QIC 80) and some Verbatim MC3020's (QIC > 3020). The 1400 drive is long gone and I've got to get the data off of > them; what would you recommend as far as the best model of compatible > tape drive to get, so I can read them? Would a Travan drive handle it > or is there a better alternative? > > Also one of these Verbatims rewound to the end, and the tape snapped > loose from the spool in the cartridge. Is there a service out there > that will retrieve the tape data that you know of? > > Thanks -- > > LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Assertion failure in journal_unmap_buffer
Got one of these this morning. Assertion failure in journal_unmap_buffer() at transaction.c:1857: "transaction == journal->j_running_transaction" Linux horace 2.4.18-6mdk #1 Fri Mar 15 02:59:08 CET 2002 i686 unknown Should I update? ftp://samnite/pub/mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS/kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk.i586.rpm Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Travan Tape drives
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:26 pm, you wrote: > Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base > tape drive and use it for Mandrake? Only because they are ugly, unreliable and smell bad. If you overrule that advice -- Buy two, make sure the carts interchange, and verify the backups by loading them on a second machine. I used them for years on an old RedHat box. Got them to work fairly well by twidling parameters. It felt good to look at the carts on the shelf, but... I keep an old Debian box around for no other purpose than backing up other servers. It has a CDRW so I can archive things in pieces. It has saved my ass many times. Not once in 30 some years of computing has a tape been so kind. One of these days DVD-R media will be cheap. In the meantime, I keep carving the world into 650MB pieces. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
