Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
On Sunday 24 August 2003 12:42 pm, you wrote: engage wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:11 am, Larry Sword wrote: Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? Try cdrecord. If you are using KDE then open a Komqueror window and type man:/cdrecord. Using cli a plain man cdrecord. Since most of the frontends use cdrecord they will probable work for burning a dvd as well. (I don't have a dvd burner connected so can't verify this will work) I changed my preferences in gcombust from cdrecord to cdrecord-dvdhack but it didn't work. Sony DRU-510A. /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Drive does not support TAO recording /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Illegal write mode for this drive I see that DVD-R media support was added at the Version 0.1.54. Mandrake 9.1 ships with version 0.1.53. Look in: http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/ Larry Thanks. I'll give it a try after my butt heals. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:11 am, Larry Sword wrote: Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? Try cdrecord. If you are using KDE then open a Komqueror window and type man:/cdrecord. Using cli a plain man cdrecord. Since most of the frontends use cdrecord they will probable work for burning a dvd as well. (I don't have a dvd burner connected so can't verify this will work) I changed my preferences in gcombust from cdrecord to cdrecord-dvdhack but it didn't work. Sony DRU-510A. /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Drive does not support TAO recording /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Illegal write mode for this drive Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
On Sunday 17 August 2003 10:59 am, Byron Poland wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:13, Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? TIA and Regards, Helge You need to install cdrecord-dvdhack this is what Mandrake has in it's distribution for burning dvd's. I use it with a pioneer 104 drive in an external firewire enclosure and it works great. It is all command line though, same options as cdrecord I think. Does it interface well with gcombust or do I need a different frontend? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
engage wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:11 am, Larry Sword wrote: Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? Try cdrecord. If you are using KDE then open a Komqueror window and type man:/cdrecord. Using cli a plain man cdrecord. Since most of the frontends use cdrecord they will probable work for burning a dvd as well. (I don't have a dvd burner connected so can't verify this will work) I changed my preferences in gcombust from cdrecord to cdrecord-dvdhack but it didn't work. Sony DRU-510A. /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Drive does not support TAO recording /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Illegal write mode for this drive I see that DVD-R media support was added at the Version 0.1.54. Mandrake 9.1 ships with version 0.1.53. Look in: http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/ Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? TIA and Regards, Helge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:13, Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? TIA and Regards, Helge You need to install cdrecord-dvdhack this is what Mandrake has in it's distribution for burning dvd's. I use it with a pioneer 104 drive in an external firewire enclosure and it works great. It is all command line though, same options as cdrecord I think. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? Try cdrecord. If you are using KDE then open a Komqueror window and type man:/cdrecord. Using cli a plain man cdrecord. Since most of the frontends use cdrecord they will probable work for burning a dvd as well. (I don't have a dvd burner connected so can't verify this will work) -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
I have embarked myself in a search for such things (with the only drawback - so far - consisting of incompatibilities between the DVDs I create, and older DVD readers (I can read them fine on my DVD burner)) ... mainly for the purpose of archiving stuff in Linux. I know you have asked for -R and -RW, and I am pretty sure you'll get plenty of info about cdrecord, but here are some links for + ones ... just in case ... as I collected them while looking for DVD burning solutions ... http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ http://www.dvdplusrw.org/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gazette/issue83/stoddard.html http://www.dvdrhelp.com/ HTH, Stef On Saturday 16 August 2003 12:13 pm, Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? TIA and Regards, Helge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
Am Sonntag, 17. August 2003 19:11 schrieb Larry Sword: Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? Try cdrecord. If you are using KDE then open a Komqueror window and type man:/cdrecord. Using cli a plain man cdrecord. Since most of the frontends use cdrecord they will probable work for burning a dvd as well. (I don't have a dvd burner connected so can't verify this will work) k3b in CVS has dvd support. Alltough I must admit that I can't get it to compile (autoconf stuff :-/). Further there was a thread on cooker not long ago, that might give pointers. Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 02:59, Byron Poland wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:13, Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? TIA and Regards, Helge You need to install cdrecord-dvdhack this is what Mandrake has in it's distribution for burning dvd's. I use it with a pioneer 104 drive in an external firewire enclosure and it works great. It is all command line though, same options as cdrecord I think. Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I tried using the cdrecord-dvdhack on a late very late model Sony DVD-RW device, but all it did was failed, it just couldn't recognise the media.. later i switched to growiosfs, and used that with Mondo backup, with full success and excellent results. Cheers Mark -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software RAID (IDE) - Setup On Existing Install?
On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:27 pm, Sevatio wrote: I am running LM9.0 . Is it possible to add another IDE harddrive of the same size and make that a mirror of the first drive using software RAID without having to do a full re-install? The Boot + Root + Raid + Lilo : Software Raid mini-HOWTO has a section on this that will walk you through it. Section 4 I believe. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software RAID (IDE) - Setup On Existing Install?
I am running LM9.0 . Is it possible to add another IDE harddrive of the same size and make that a mirror of the first drive using software RAID without having to do a full re-install? Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software suggestion request.
*lol* Ok - I admit - I don't know your programming skills. I was in the intention of making a Voting interface - dynamically driven, with binary inclusion (Picture) for the UT2003 Server I have haning around on the Net - with answer inclusion, votes, and player preferences (what they play). It shouldn't be then difficult to use that code for your requirement. I already wrote such a beast for the Media-DB module (phpWebsite), but there only the movies get rated, (Not comments etc.) and no dynamic questioning. I can't tell when I'll start it as I'm actually coding on a House-Hold Income/Expenses planification interface which is quite more complicated ;) But I'll keep your request in mind. When I'm that far - I'll let you know. Cheers Joerg James Sparenberg wrote: You've obviously never seen me program... *grin* you're time estimate is very optimistic, considering the coder *me*. *grin. James -- | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Work)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : | | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | Home-Page: http://www.solsys.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software suggestion request.
You've obviously never seen me program... *grin* you're time estimate is very optimistic, considering the coder *me*. *grin. James On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 04:19, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi James, I don't think I know such a Software yet - but it shouldn't take more than 3 days to write a phpWebsite module for that. Cheers Joerg James Sparenberg wrote: All, Looking to set up a simple online user survey. The requirements are. 1. able to gather and colate data into mysql. 2. Easy to manage (Marketing types will be controling it.) 3. Able to output results as an e-mail 4. I don't have to write the php pages *grin* 5. Person being surveyed needs to only know how to type and click buttons. 6. browser based admin / setup. We are looking to ask a set of maybe 10-15 questions of our customers on their experience in using the product as well as gather info on what they did / didn't like. The questions may/will change often enough that it should be totally browser based. Any suggestions? James 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
[expert] Software suggestion request.
All, Looking to set up a simple online user survey. The requirements are. 1. able to gather and colate data into mysql. 2. Easy to manage (Marketing types will be controling it.) 3. Able to output results as an e-mail 4. I don't have to write the php pages *grin* 5. Person being surveyed needs to only know how to type and click buttons. 6. browser based admin / setup. We are looking to ask a set of maybe 10-15 questions of our customers on their experience in using the product as well as gather info on what they did / didn't like. The questions may/will change often enough that it should be totally browser based. Any suggestions? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:50, Mark Weaver wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:57, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James Heck, I haven't even touched the new distro or the new GUI -- but I do have to work on a number of RH 7.x servers, and man do I miss urpmi. I also think Mandrake RPMs are generally better put together. That is, less likely to be broken and more likely to have the configure options I wanted. In response to James...I've noticed the exact opposite. I'm so fed up with trying to do server with 9.0 I've vowed it will never see any more of the servers I administrate. Whether at home or at the office. 8.2, on the other hand works exceptionally as either a workstation or a server. 9.0 does just dandy as a workstation, but there appears to be a lot needing attention when it comes to the server end. Networking is at the top of the list right now. Mark Well I will admit that Desktops are more of a concern for me than plain servers... And that with MDK it wants a heavy footprint. But I just de-commissioned (by force the hardware died) a 7.2 Mandrake box that had run without a hiccup or a breakin for over 2 years. 24-7-52 ... MDK RH or Slack... each has it's fun points. (slack is very unforgiving ) Biggest problem with RH is that it installs to many problem rpms (telnet r services finger etc) by default. With Mandrake the hassle is for me getting it installed sans gui.(again fewer services fewer holes.) For Laptops... MDK all the way... 2 identical dell boxes the other week... MDK ... installed and running in 30 minutes... RH ... 3 days and only limping. RH and MDK run neck n neck on one point ... I've got updates set up on a cron job... if it comes out I get it and an e-mail to boot. One thing though... MDK does have more options. James __ 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
Re: [expert] Software suggestion request.
Hi James, I don't think I know such a Software yet - but it shouldn't take more than 3 days to write a phpWebsite module for that. Cheers Joerg James Sparenberg wrote: All, Looking to set up a simple online user survey. The requirements are. 1. able to gather and colate data into mysql. 2. Easy to manage (Marketing types will be controling it.) 3. Able to output results as an e-mail 4. I don't have to write the php pages *grin* 5. Person being surveyed needs to only know how to type and click buttons. 6. browser based admin / setup. We are looking to ask a set of maybe 10-15 questions of our customers on their experience in using the product as well as gather info on what they did / didn't like. The questions may/will change often enough that it should be totally browser based. Any suggestions? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Work)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : | | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | Home-Page: http://www.solsys.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:50, Mark Weaver wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:57, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James Heck, I haven't even touched the new distro or the new GUI -- but I do have to work on a number of RH 7.x servers, and man do I miss urpmi. I also think Mandrake RPMs are generally better put together. That is, less likely to be broken and more likely to have the configure options I wanted. In response to James...I've noticed the exact opposite. I'm so fed up with trying to do server with 9.0 I've vowed it will never see any more of the servers I administrate. Whether at home or at the office. 8.2, on the other hand works exceptionally as either a workstation or a server. 9.0 does just dandy as a workstation, but there appears to be a lot needing attention when it comes to the server end. Networking is at the top of the list right now. Mark Well I will admit that Desktops are more of a concern for me than plain servers... And that with MDK it wants a heavy footprint. But I just de-commissioned (by force the hardware died) a 7.2 Mandrake box that had run without a hiccup or a breakin for over 2 years. 24-7-52 ... MDK RH or Slack... each has it's fun points. (slack is very unforgiving ) Biggest problem with RH is that it installs to many problem rpms (telnet r services finger etc) by default. With Mandrake the hassle is for me getting it installed sans gui.(again fewer services fewer holes.) For Laptops... MDK all the way... 2 identical dell boxes the other week... MDK ... installed and running in 30 minutes... RH ... 3 days and only limping. RH and MDK run neck n neck on one point ... I've got updates set up on a cron job... if it comes out I get it and an e-mail to boot. One thing though... MDK does have more options. James O I agree 1000%...MDK all the way. While I really like MDK9.0, I'm still quite frustrated over the networking troubles that seem to exist on the system when it comes to setting it up, getting it running, *correctly*. There don't appear to be these same problems with MDK 8.2. That goes in without a hassle and I've been known to get a server functional with 2 hours. RedHat 8.0 on the other hand is, without a doubt, a workstation ONLY distro. That poor bugger has been so severely crippled when it comes to administrating it as a server I can't even begin to tell ya. More and more...Mandrake is the one and only. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
James, I wholetotally agree with you! On 22 Dec 2002, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:57, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James Heck, I haven't even touched the new distro or the new GUI -- but I do have to work on a number of RH 7.x servers, and man do I miss urpmi. I also think Mandrake RPMs are generally better put together. That is, less likely to be broken and more likely to have the configure options I wanted. On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 12:57, Philip Webb wrote: 021222 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. -- details snipped -- i've been happily running an upgrade 8.2 - 9.0rc1 since September. certainly, 8.0 was awful (very bad KDE) 8.2 quite good, but there's no reason to avoid 9.0 , tho' you might want to try a few things from Cooker. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:57, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James Heck, I haven't even touched the new distro or the new GUI -- but I do have to work on a number of RH 7.x servers, and man do I miss urpmi. I also think Mandrake RPMs are generally better put together. That is, less likely to be broken and more likely to have the configure options I wanted. In response to James...I've noticed the exact opposite. I'm so fed up with trying to do server with 9.0 I've vowed it will never see any more of the servers I administrate. Whether at home or at the office. 8.2, on the other hand works exceptionally as either a workstation or a server. 9.0 does just dandy as a workstation, but there appears to be a lot needing attention when it comes to the server end. Networking is at the top of the list right now. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 23:15, Philip Webb wrote: 021221 John Wilson wrote: The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. you have to do something like 'urpmi-update' or '-rebuild'. That never worked for me, nor did rebuilding the rpm database, which was another suggestion. Having had a bit of a mental breakdown the other day, out of sheer frustration, following which I posted a bit of a rant (apologies for that, everyone) I solved the problem by doing a really minimal reinstall, removing the CD installation sources from Software Manager, and then replacing them with a variety of sources configured from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php ( a great utility, in my opinion). I then installed the latest versions of everything I wanted. Things have been fine since - and I've even now got mplayer installed, which started this whole thing off for me. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was having with a few items (mainly kde 3.0.x) on 8.2, I was convinced to go ahead and go to 9.0 but to upgrade immediately to a Cooker kernel to avoid the 2.3.19 problems (supermount, usb). I have since learned that the Cooker kernels have new problems of their (particularly, it seems, with regards to usb and the atmel wireless driver). Then there are these problems with the software manager. So much to look forward to (not). I get saddled with 9.0 on Monday (when the package will arrive). Has anyone looked into the possibility of forward-porting 8.2 stuff into 9.0? That is, eliminating the 9.0 software manager and compiling/installing the 8.2 software manager in its stead? As it is, with the Cooker kernel problems I am looking at having to build/use the 8.2 kernel to ensure my wireless device works as well as supermount. praedor On Sunday 22 December 2002 06:39 am, David Robertson wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 23:15, Philip Webb wrote: 021221 John Wilson wrote: The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. you have to do something like 'urpmi-update' or '-rebuild'. That never worked for me, nor did rebuilding the rpm database, which was another suggestion. Having had a bit of a mental breakdown the other day, out of sheer frustration, following which I posted a bit of a rant (apologies for that, everyone) I solved the problem by doing a really minimal reinstall, removing the CD installation sources from Software Manager, and then replacing them with a variety of sources configured from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php ( a great utility, in my opinion). I then installed the latest versions of everything I wanted. Things have been fine since - and I've even now got mplayer installed, which started this whole thing off for me. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
On Sunday 22 December 2002 17:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was having with a few items (mainly kde 3.0.x) on 8.2, I was convinced to go ahead and go to 9.0 but to upgrade immediately to a Cooker kernel to avoid the 2.3.19 problems (supermount, usb). I have since learned that the Cooker kernels have new problems of their (particularly, it seems, with regards to usb and the atmel wireless driver). Then there are these problems with the software manager. So much to look forward to (not). I get saddled with 9.0 on Monday (when the package will arrive). Has anyone looked into the possibility of forward-porting 8.2 stuff into 9.0? That is, eliminating the 9.0 software manager and compiling/installing the 8.2 software manager in its stead? As it is, with the Cooker kernel problems I am looking at having to build/use the 8.2 kernel to ensure my wireless device works as well as supermount. praedor 7.2 and 8.2 were excellent distributions I can only agree. The x.0 versions are the ones to be wary of. Considering the troubles I personally had with 7.0 and 8.0 and the ease of 9.0 (the first x.0 version that didn't leave me pining for the previous version) I just can't wait to see what 9.2 will be like. Should be sheer heaven!;o) So maybe you should just wait for x.2 versions (i.e if you can't take the heat.!) if you don't want to take any chances. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
021222 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. -- details snipped -- i've been happily running an upgrade 8.2 - 9.0rc1 since September. certainly, 8.0 was awful (very bad KDE) 8.2 quite good, but there's no reason to avoid 9.0 , tho' you might want to try a few things from Cooker. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks But V9.0 otherwise working fine (so far).
On Sunday 22 December 2002 08:53 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was having with a few items (mainly kde 3.0.x) on 8.2, I was convinced to go ahead and go to 9.0 but to upgrade immediately to a Cooker kernel to avoid the 2.3.19 problems (supermount, usb). I have since learned that the Cooker kernels have new problems of their (particularly, it seems, with regards to usb and the atmel wireless driver). Then there are these problems with the software manager. So much to look forward to (not). I get saddled with 9.0 on Monday (when the package will arrive). Has anyone looked into the possibility of forward-porting 8.2 stuff into 9.0? That is, eliminating the 9.0 software manager and compiling/installing the 8.2 software manager in its stead? As it is, with the Cooker kernel problems I am looking at having to build/use the 8.2 kernel to ensure my wireless device works as well as supermount. praedor Goodness, I hope not. :) The only problem so far has been with urpmi and Software Manager, important though that is. This distro is the first that flawlessly installed my sound card properly (I didn't have to spend half the day getting noise from the speakers), found the right printer instead of the printer family (HP Deskjet 695C instead of HP Deskject 690 family) and actually set up the ISP without a whole lot of bother. I agree that 8.2 and 7.2 were virtually flawless and I expect that 9.2 will be wonderful too. But for most of my uses so far it's a dream. Now if I could only figure out what a M$ security patch did that has blown that machine out of the water so that it won't connect to Samba or the Internet. But I'll save that for another thread. Thaniks everyone. :) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 12:57, Philip Webb wrote: 021222 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. -- details snipped -- i've been happily running an upgrade 8.2 - 9.0rc1 since September. certainly, 8.0 was awful (very bad KDE) 8.2 quite good, but there's no reason to avoid 9.0 , tho' you might want to try a few things from Cooker. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software Manager Sucks
I've just browsed the list to see if anyone is experienceing the same issues with urpmi and Software Manager as I am and I spotted David Robertson's comments. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I finally upgraded to 9.0 because I figured most of the bugs would be out and, for the most part, they are. But Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm...slowly and it wanted to take over the whole machine..but it worked. It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. Now it's three or four peices none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. KPackage at least reports that properly about installed packages and installs them correctly. But...and it's a big but...the Install Packages keeps blithely insisting I installed everything from all the CDs, which I haven't. As David said one of the joys of Mandrake up to 9.0 was ease of use and ease of setup. This does seem to be gone..right out the window! What I could do on one screen before with software manager now takes 4 and if I'm lucky, which I haven't been so far, it will work. Anyway, I'm back to essentially manually installing packages either from KPackage or the command line. Software Manager is worse than uselsess. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
John Wilson wrote: I've just browsed the list to see if anyone is experienceing the same issues with urpmi and Software Manager as I am and I spotted David Robertson's comments. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I finally upgraded to 9.0 because I figured most of the bugs would be out and, for the most part, they are. But Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm...slowly and it wanted to take over the whole machine..but it worked. It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. Now it's three or four peices none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. KPackage at least reports that properly about installed packages and installs them correctly. But...and it's a big but...the Install Packages keeps blithely insisting I installed everything from all the CDs, which I haven't. As David said one of the joys of Mandrake up to 9.0 was ease of use and ease of setup. This does seem to be gone..right out the window! What I could do on one screen before with software manager now takes 4 and if I'm lucky, which I haven't been so far, it will work. Anyway, I'm back to essentially manually installing packages either from KPackage or the command line. Software Manager is worse than uselsess. ttfn John I am totally agree with you. Does anyone know if it is possible to use rpmdrake from mandrake 8.2 ? I have tried to use rpmdrake package from it, but I can't get it working. Xavier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
021221 John Wilson wrote: Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? one of the Mandrake staff persons fixed it. Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm ... It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. you can still do that: R-click on the R-hand window. Now it's 3 - 4 pieces none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. you can have them all open at once to make comparisons. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. you have to do something like 'urpmi-update' or '-rebuild'. there has been a lot of discussion re these problems since last summer both here on Expert on the Cooker list: check the archive. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software for small newsgroup archive
Hi, subject tells it all. I have a small local newsgroup stored away in my leafnode spool. As the ISP is too lazy to maintain an archive I thought about providing that on my Website. As I said, it's small. Is there any software for that or a howto or something how I can go about that? wobo -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software RAID using scsi controller bussed boxes.
civileme wrote: Mark Lucas wrote: I've set up a software RAID 0 on my 8.2 system and it works very well. Until, that is, I need to restart at which point the system won't mount /dev/md0 and complains of 'invalid file type'. I don't have to restart very often (thankfully) but when I do I need to make a backup forst then reset the RAID when the system comes up. This is a real pain! Anybody had a similar problem? Mark Check http://www.civileme.net/Softwaredoc/RAIDdoc.html Your question should be answered there... basically you need a non-RAID /boot partition with an initrd that loads the RAID modules. Civileme heading that way shortly. thanks for 'hot link'. interesting to see how it works with scsi bussed raid boxes. spend any time with scsi as a box buss? would you happen to know of some good sources for info for sharing scsi buss between 2 or more controllers. ria, i am looking to set up a 'full scsi linked system'. _raid ide on lan_ + _raid scsi hd internal system + _raid scsi external_ aka, _ril+sin+sex_ ... you may be giving up your position, but never, give up your posts. i have learned from them all. look forward to next. peace out, rocky. tc,hago. g . Subject: Re: [expert] Software RAID Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software RAID
Thanks for this help but: ... basically you need a non-RAID /boot partition with an initrd that loads the RAID modules. how do I do this? I have /boot on my non-RAID disk. My RAID is mounted at /home. How do I set up the initrd to load RAID modules? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software RAID
Mark Lucas wrote: Thanks for this help but: ... basically you need a non-RAID /boot partition with an initrd that loads the RAID modules. how do I do this? I have /boot on my non-RAID disk. My RAID is mounted at /home. How do I set up the initrd to load RAID modules? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Now I really don't understand... I need to see your disk configuration. Softwarte RAID, at least linux software RAID does not go by the disk, but rather by the partition. You set up the initrd to load RAID by putting the RAID drivers names into /etc/modules.conf and running mkinitrd... Read the URL I gave you and you can do this all at install. If you have an IDE RAID controller working on this system you are very lucky to have gotten as far as you did. http://www.civileme.net/Softwaredoc/RAIDdoc.html Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software RAID
Thanks for this, I'll have another go. To save confusion my system is as follows: 17Gb IDE drive with partition 1 mounted as root 40Gb IDE drive, single ext3 partition mounted on /data 4Gb SCSI drive with various ext2 partitions 2x9.1Gb SCSI drives with RAID 0 partitions to give /dev/md0 mounted on /home raidtab as follows: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 4 nr-raid-disks 2 device /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/part1 raid-disk 1 fstab as follows: /dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/ide/host1/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 /data ext3 defaults 0 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 /usr/local/squid/cache/squid0 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part5 /usr/local/squid/cache/squid1 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/part5 /usr/local/squid/cache/squid2 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/md0 /home ext2 noauto 0 0 Sorry for any confusion. Mark - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Software RAID Mark Lucas wrote: Thanks for this help but: ... basically you need a non-RAID /boot partition with an initrd that loads the RAID modules. how do I do this? I have /boot on my non-RAID disk. My RAID is mounted at /home. How do I set up the initrd to load RAID modules? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Now I really don't understand... I need to see your disk configuration. Softwarte RAID, at least linux software RAID does not go by the disk, but rather by the partition. You set up the initrd to load RAID by putting the RAID drivers names into /etc/modules.conf and running mkinitrd... Read the URL I gave you and you can do this all at install. If you have an IDE RAID controller working on this system you are very lucky to have gotten as far as you did. http://www.civileme.net/Softwaredoc/RAIDdoc.html Civileme 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
Re: [expert] Software RAID
Mark Lucas wrote: Thanks for this, I'll have another go. To save confusion my system is as follows: 17Gb IDE drive with partition 1 mounted as root 40Gb IDE drive, single ext3 partition mounted on /data 4Gb SCSI drive with various ext2 partitions 2x9.1Gb SCSI drives with RAID 0 partitions to give /dev/md0 mounted on /home raidtab as follows: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 4 nr-raid-disks 2 device /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/part1 raid-disk 1 fstab as follows: /dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/ide/host1/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 /data ext3 defaults 0 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 /usr/local/squid/cache/squid0 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part5 /usr/local/squid/cache/squid1 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/part5 /usr/local/squid/cache/squid2 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/md0 /home ext2 noauto 0 0 Sorry for any confusion. Mark OK I had a little more complex situation with one IDE and two SCSI drives for my example. I used diskdrake during install to set everything up and I have no problem even though / is on a RAID5. That was on a Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 with dual PPro 200/512s. I think we need to discover how your system is different. I never had trouble with a reboot. Check your /etc/modules.conf Make sure that the scsi driver is the FIRST thing loaded. If the raid is loaded first, it may have nothing to reference and get autocleaned though that would be quirky in my POV. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software RAID
I've set up a software RAID 0 on my 8.2 system and it works very well. Until, that is, I need to restart at which point the system won't mount /dev/md0 and complains of 'invalid file type'. I don't have to restart very often (thankfully) but when I do I need to make a backup forst then reset the RAID when the system comes up. This is a real pain! Anybody had a similar problem? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software RAID
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 15:00:36 +0100, Mark Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up a software RAID 0 on my 8.2 system and it works very well. Until, that is, I need to restart at which point the system won't mount /dev/md0 and complains of 'invalid file type'. I don't have to restart very often (thankfully) but when I do I need to make a backup forst then reset the RAID when the system comes up. This is a real pain! Anybody had a similar problem? Is / on a RAID0? If so, you need to enable autodetection support in the kernel, which isn't available in the Mandrake kernel. Firstly, write the superblock to the partitions in the RAID, then compile a kernel with RAID0 compiled into it (not as a module). Info on this can be found in the Software RAID HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html). Or better yet, take a look at EVMS (http://evms.sourceforge.net/), which not only replaces both software RAID and LVM, it also does them better. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We like to think of ourselves as the Microsoft of the energy world -- Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software RAID
Mark Lucas wrote: I've set up a software RAID 0 on my 8.2 system and it works very well. Until, that is, I need to restart at which point the system won't mount /dev/md0 and complains of 'invalid file type'. I don't have to restart very often (thankfully) but when I do I need to make a backup forst then reset the RAID when the system comes up. This is a real pain! Anybody had a similar problem? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Check http://www.civileme.net/Softwaredoc/RAIDdoc.html Your question should be answered there... basically you need a non-RAID /boot partition with an initrd that loads the RAID modules. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] software manager problems
I'm having a problem with Software Manager with Mandrake 8.1 on my new computer, which I dont have on the old computer. When I try to install a package not on the loaded disk, a prompt asks for a different disk. It must still be mounted though, because I cant eject and change the disk. I can only do so if I su to root and umount. The old computer is a PII 266 on some generic MB, using ext2. The new one is a 1.13 Athalon on an ECS K7S5A, using ext2 on /, and ext3 on the other partitions. (I had problems booting using ext3 on the / partition). Any help would be welcome. Thanks, Gene Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software Manager
Somehow my 3 source cds were no longer available in the Software Manager's source list so I made new ones using the New option under Define sources. Now when I try to do an update it no longer prompts for the correct cd although it shows in the list which one it wants. If I put the correct cd in it will no longer mount it automatically. Anyone know how to configure this or where to look for information regarding it? Thanks Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] software manager
Hi Guys When i run software manager or mandrake update it gets to analysing the 3rd disk part and then hangs at 97%. I had to kill it the other day as it was taking too long to get to the ftp site and maybe i messed things up with kill -9. any ideas pse ? Cheers Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] software RAID (was Promise Fastrak 100 lite - anyone?)
Is the installer for mdk 8.2 going to make it easier to set up a software RAID under Linux? The main thing that steered me away from pure Linux software RAID after I got past all of the other snags was that I realized maintaining a bootable software RAID would be too much of a pain in the long run for me. The reason for this is that at the time that I decided to go with a 3ware controller I had to go through a long and complicated process to install Mandrake on my system. Doing it once isn't so bad, but when you guys release a new version of your OS I like to upgrade to it and going through the process of upgrading on a bootable software RAID just takes too long. (Now if I just had time to hack and try to optimize the 3ware drivers. :-)) civileme wrote: Not supported unless you are an expert... These RAID controllers are like unto WinModems--really software does the job, which is not a bad thing because it does increase performance, but the drivers just aren't there for linux. Here is an article I wrote for a LUG about the devices. OK if you want a hardware IDE RAID, there is one, and it is OS transparent. http://www.arcoide.com/productspages/products.html There is nothing else that is a pure hardware IDE RAID. Now we have controllers from CMD, Promise, Highpoint, and at least one other plus 3ware. The 3ware controller, while it existed, had GPL drivers. Those are all to some extent Software RAID. Here's how tey do it: Assume this line is your disk space: M- where M is te master boot record. After the controller does its thing, MR--R where the R are date and timestamp info. Also your drive has been destroked in the BIOS to protect those areas. There is also a little info there to toggle which lie the controller will tell the system about wat is real and what is not. The result is that you have precisely one RAID extent, because of this design. The R at the front of the disk is useless because LILO stomps all over it, but the one at the other end is the one used (originally, only the beginning was used so very early controllers are rotally incompatible with linux and in fact their RAIDs are destroyed by an attempted install.) OK let's look at the software RAIDs Hardware Cards Linux Software RAID Extents 1 16 RAID Types 0, 1 0+10,1,4,5 Identical drivesYes Irrelevant Volume mgr No Volumes can be pieces of up to 16 drives Setup at installNo, requires kernel modsYes Cost$30-100 extra Your time Journaling filesystems will work with both. If you really want to use the RAID controller in RAID mode, even after all of this, there is some _experimental_ software to do so here: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/ Of course, this is not for the faint of heart. The one advantage of having this software probably is with Promise FastTrak controllers which do not fully work as IDE controllers in linux. The most useful feature is compatibility with Windows RAID for file exchange on a stand-alone dual-boot system. (A small network has better alternatives). RAID0 does perform better for two drives as far as access time goes. It performs even better if the drives are on different IDE channels, which is achievable with linux Software RAID, but not with the controllers I have tested. Finally, all of the IDE-RAID controllers are closed-source at this time. They may all admit that linux software RAID is better in implementation than theirs, but they are sorely afraid of giving their competitiors advantage in the Windows market. WinRAIDs, anyone? Civileme 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
Re: [expert] Software Manager
At 10:37 PM 10/18/2001 -0500, you wrote: you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work correctly. A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name, and if it finds a different version (hopefully newer) it will download that one instead. Any chance someone could add that? mark Did that ... which is how I've tried multiple servers. :) I agree, it needs some sort of aut-search feature, or a master list of packages and their corresponding locations (with some kind of intelligent auto-update feature to prevent dead links) in the world that the software can grab as part of it's list. - Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager
you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work correctly. A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name, and if it finds a different version (hopefully newer) it will download that one instead. Any chance someone could add that? mark On Wednesday 17 October 2001 06:28 pm, you wrote: So, does anyone else have problems using software manager? Frequently the majority of packages I select to upgrade or install (usually the first) fail to fetch from the server I select. I have tried quite a few servers, same results. Are the files just not there even though SM thinks they are? I have tried this on two different systems as well. Any insight would be appreciated. :) Thanks, Ralph Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager
you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work correctly. A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name, apt (from debian) and apt-get is supposed to be the Right Way to do these sorts of upgrades. Personally I have little experience with these particular tools, not having run Debian. But I think that porting it would not be that major a problem. I've tried a rpm of apt, but it was not usable because the source path files did not include any decent places to search -- which is probably more important than the software itself, is to have a decent sample paths file to start from. It's been suggested numerous times that the debian file format (.deb) is better suited to these types of problems than the rpm file format -- chiefly because of dependency issues. Supposedly, one should be able to type 'apt-get update' and get all files that have changed since the last apt-get, along with all dependencies - so that if package X gets a new version, it'll get X and new versions of packages that depend on X, and if those packages have dependencies of their own, those get downloaded too. I have yet to try this, and have yet to try urpmi, which is Mandrake's an- swer to apt-get (I guess). Even with that, you need a good source path file for it to follow. I have tried rpmfind (with --latest) which can occasionally do a good job at getting new versions, but it sometimes will get bogged down when dependencies (especially complicated ones) enter the picture. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] software recommendations
On Friday 21 September 2001 05:51 am, you wrote: On 21 Sep, Gregor Maier wrote: 1. A decent text editor (Not XEmacs... I hate Emacs) then i should be vi / gvim ;-) but i'm not sure if gvim requires gtk Nope. For something very lightweight, there's always pico... Jed is very good also 2. An FTP client ncftp is a really good tip Yep. 3. CD player tcd is the console app for gtcd, the gnome CD player -- oops, requires glib. There is also a cd tool called cdplay, which comes with MDK. cdp is the console version, cdplay is the non-interactive version. 4. MP3/Media Player mpg123. Da best! 5. mpeg/avi player mtvp: http://www.mpegtv.com xanim: http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html L -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww.nwaa.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] software recommendations
On 21 Sep, Gregor Maier wrote: 1. A decent text editor (Not XEmacs... I hate Emacs) then i should be vi / gvim ;-) but i'm not sure if gvim requires gtk Nope. For something very lightweight, there's always pico... 2. An FTP client ncftp is a really good tip Yep. 3. CD player tcd is the console app for gtcd, the gnome CD player -- oops, requires glib. There is also a cd tool called cdplay, which comes with MDK. cdp is the console version, cdplay is the non-interactive version. 4. MP3/Media Player mpg123. Da best! 5. mpeg/avi player mtvp: http://www.mpegtv.com xanim: http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Il ne sera pas dit qu'un Léonard de mon calibre baisse les bras au pied levé! -Léonard le génie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] software recommendations
Title: software recommendations I'm pulling together a list of gui apps for my own little mandrake based installation (P75, 64MB, 540MB HD). I'm looking for apps that do not use QT or GTK+ (I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible, and I probably wouldn't be installing the libraries anyways). I need: 1. A decent text editor (Not XEmacs... I hate Emacs) 2. An FTP client 3. CD player 4. MP3/Media Player 5. mpeg/avi player I've been playing around with everything that's included with MDK 7.2, but most of the included apps use the aforementioned libraries. Any thoughts?
Re: [expert] software recommendations
Hi. If you accept console tools there are lots of ncurses-based programs that are very good that fill most of your needs: * George Jones (IT) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 1. A decent text editor (Not XEmacs... I hate Emacs) Personally i like vim, but there are lots to choose from. 2. An FTP client For a not-so-common choice try mc, you can enter ftp servers with it doing a cd ftp://some.ftp.server/somedir; 3. CD player There are several, don't remember which ones right now (long time i haven't listened to audio CDs :) ) 4. MP3/Media Player There are good frontends to mpg123, and you can always use mc :) 5. mpeg/avi player I don't really know about those, but as there are commandlinetools for those there must be some frontends To sum it up, go to freshmeat.net and start browsing :) --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] software recommendations
Title: software recommendations 1. Jedit - A great java programmers editor 2. ncftp - great command line ftp program -Original Message-From: George Jones (IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:44 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: [expert] software recommendations I'm pulling together a list of gui apps for my own little mandrake based installation (P75, 64MB, 540MB HD). I'm looking for apps that do not use QT or GTK+ (I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible, and I probably wouldn't be installing the libraries anyways). I need: 1. A decent text editor (Not XEmacs... I hate Emacs) 2. An FTP client 3. CD player 4. MP3/Media Player 5. mpeg/avi player I've been playing around with everything that's included with MDK 7.2, but most of the included apps use the aforementioned libraries. Any thoughts?
RE: [expert] software recommendations
Title: RE: [expert] software recommendations 1 2. An FTP client For a not-so-common choice try mc, you can enter ftp servers with it doing a cd ftp://some.ftp.server/somedir HA! Now there's something to try. I use MC quite a bit for quick browsing and configuring. Always thought it would be nice to do more from there. George E. Jones IV Store Systems Support Borders Group Inc.
RE: [expert] software recommendations
On 20-Sep-2001 Richard Kuryk wrote: 1. Jedit - A great java programmers editor 2. ncftp - great command line ftp program I'm pulling together a list of gui apps for my own little mandrake based installation (P75, 64MB, 540MB HD). I'm looking for apps that do not use QT or GTK+ (I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible, and I probably wouldn't be installing the libraries anyways). I need: 1. A decent text editor (Not XEmacs... I hate Emacs) then i should be vi / gvim ;-) but i'm not sure if gvim requires gtk 2. An FTP client ncftp is a really good tip 3. CD player 4. MP3/Media Player mpg123. 5. mpeg/avi player I've been playing around with everything that's included with MDK 7.2, but most of the included apps use the aforementioned libraries. Any thoughts? And have a look a freshmeat.net -- E-Mail: Gregor Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21-Sep-2001 Time: 07:48:31 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] software recommendations
George Jones (IT) wrote: I'm pulling together a list of gui apps for my own little mandrake based installation (P75, 64MB, 540MB HD). I'm looking for apps that do not use QT or GTK+ (I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible, and I probably wouldn't be installing the libraries anyways). I need: Do you accept Motif? If yes, NEdit (included in Mdk 7.2) and xdir are answers to 1. and 2. 1. A decent text editor (Not XEmacs... I hate Emacs) 2. An FTP client 3. CD player There used to be a simple one, but I forgot its name. Something like cdplayer? 4. MP3/Media Player Don't know 5. mpeg/avi player xanim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] software manager
I did some updates from cooker and now when I run the software manager to try and install a package I get bad rpm message. However, when I drop to the cl and do an rpm -Uvh it installs just fine. Has anyone else encountered this? Any suggestions of what I might need to update to get it working again? Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software Manager Problem
Hi All, I just got LM 8.0 Powerpack. I've been trying to add the CDs as extra sources in Software Manager, but it always seems to fail to read the second disk that I put in, and the drive becomes unusable until I reboot (i/o error is the message that I seem to remember) . I'm running a Pioneer 16x DVD ROM drive, of an ASUS Mobo (Can't remember the model at the moment) with a Slot A 700Mhz Athlon. Any help greatfully accepted.
[expert] software manager upgrading?
I finally gave up on cooker (for now). Did a clean install of 8.0 and it seems to work pretty well. I was going through uninstalling packages I don't use (using Software Manager), and I noticed something kind of odd. I had done an upgrade of a dozen or so packages that were newer than what was installed on my system. So now, I'm scrolling through a list of installed packages, and I notice that, for example, samba now has a 2.0.7 *and* a 2.0.9 showing up. Is this deliberate?
[expert] Software and Hardware Inventory
Hello: There are several software packages for MSWindows which can assist the network administrator to keep track of software and hardware installed at each of the clients, but I have not been able to find a similar product for Linux. Anybody knows of any who can point the way? Thank you. -- Alfredo J. Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tegucigalpa, Honduras
[expert] Software Manager
Okay, I've got Mandrake 8.0 installed, and now there's this Samba update out. Since MandrakeSoft seemed to think MandrakeUpdate was such a bad thing, I'm trying to figure out this Software Manager they include. I got it set for security updates and picked a mirror, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to install the Samba update without resorting to ftp and the command line. This is not a new problem to me. I tried figuring this out before beta2 even hit the streets. I had to resort to rpm -Fvh and rpm -Uvh more often than not. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [expert] Software Manager
Hi well, the new software manager has a lot of problems. where is the search in description or file list? but I think the most important problem is the fact that some of the packages only appear in flat mode view. some of the most important ones are: fvwm - my favorite window manager bind-utils - how come this is not installed by default (even in workstation mode)? have you ever heard of a unix without nslookup? knsplugin - konqueror doesn't accepts netscape plugins without it. many others that I can't think of now. I hope they'll fix that soon. On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:00:42PM -0700, Digital Wokan wrote: Okay, I've got Mandrake 8.0 installed, and now there's this Samba update out. Since MandrakeSoft seemed to think MandrakeUpdate was such a bad thing, I'm trying to figure out this Software Manager they include. I got it set for security updates and picked a mirror, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to install the Samba update without resorting to ftp and the command line. This is not a new problem to me. I tried figuring this out before beta2 even hit the streets. I had to resort to rpm -Fvh and rpm -Uvh more often than not. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] Software RAID 5 and data curruption
I have done some more experimenting with a 2.4.0 kernel that I hacked together a little while back a couple of days after 2.4.0 was released. (I have all of the drives set to autotune with this 2.4.0 kernel.) I found that when I ran 'badblocks -wv /dev/md0' on a three disk IDE raid device it report 0 bad blocks out of 90 million total. When I tried to build a four disk array with the fourth disk failed and copy files over, bad stuff happened once again. Here is an excerpt out of my /var/log/messages log when I tried to copy files over: Jan 28 17:21:50 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114184 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 1114190, count = 2 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114190 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114191 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114199 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114220 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114222 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114227 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114242 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114243 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114251 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114258 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114267 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114271 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114274 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114279 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114284 Jan 28 17:21:51 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114291 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114117 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114121 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114126 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114137 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114142 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114144 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 1114146, count = 1 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114146 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114149 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114153 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114155 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114159 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114166 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114171 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114176 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 1114178 Jan 28 17:22:47 tick kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone
Re: [expert] Software RAID 5 and data curruption
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sending this again seeing that my last post never showed up on the list. My efforts to set up a software raid in my "spare" time has progressed a little from last time around, but it seems that I have run into a rather significant snag. That's weird. Civileme, is this indicatave of a problem with the hard drive tuning? (I know that Jason tried -u0, but what do I know, I try to stick with scsi most of the time ;-) I'm not TOO surprised that things worked unusually when running with one of the drives off, but it would feel much better if it had worked perfectly, eh? ;-) The only other thing I could guess is maybe some kind of collision on the ide bus? I'm grasping at straws here... I've done sw raid with scsi (2 controllers, 3 drives, raid 5 - I said a bit about it a day or so ago) and it worked fine, but then all I did was set it up, try some performance tests, then fill the drive up ;-) Are there any clues in /var/log/messages or friends? rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM: 33 20' 44"N 111 53' 47"W
[expert] Software RAID 5 and data curruption
I am sending this again seeing that my last post never showed up on the list. My efforts to set up a software raid in my "spare" time has progressed a little from last time around, but it seems that I have run into a rather significant snag. I am basing my attempt to build a root software raid 5 on the software raid HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html). Here is a list of relevent configurations: I. Harware 1. Asus K7V m/b with BIOS version 1.007. 2. In-Win Q500 case w/ 300W p/s and 3 1/2 fan rigged to the front of the chassis blowing over the internel 3 1/2 disk cage. 3. 4 IBM DLTA-307045 4. Promise Ultra100 controller acting as ide[23]. 5. Promise Ultra66 controller acting as ide[45]. 6. 256 MB of ECC PC133 RAM w/ ECC enabled. II. Software configuration 1. ide2 is the drive that I live off of for the moment. 2. ide[345] are the test drives. 3. software RAID 5 is what I am shooting for, so if I don't mention what RAID level I am using assume that. 4. default disk tunning goes as follows unless otherwise specified: hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -X69 /dev/hde hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -X69 /dev/hdg hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -X68 /dev/hdi hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -X68 /dev/hdk 5. Stock mdk 7.2 kernel. Here is how I first noticed a problem. I was experimenting with a four disk RAID 5 with one failed disk. (Add it in once everything else is moving smoothly because last disk to add is the disk that I am currently running off of.) I got through all of the initial stuff of building a software raid and I made a copy of my machine to the raid devices using cp -a. When I went to boot off of a boot disk I noticed that there where errors initializing /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 (/dev/md0 is the / directory and /dev/md1 is the /home directory) and the machine would kernel panick on boot. When I booted the normal way I saw that in the first round /dev/md[01] got errors on the first round of initialization while /dev/md[234] didn't and then all devices would get started in a second round after the / file system was mounted. When I mounted /dev/md[01] (mount /dev/md0 test or mount /dev/md1 test) I would get errors while mounting, but it would mount. /dev/md[24] (/dev/md3 was set up as swap) would not give me errors. This section concerns the stage of confirming a real problem. The errors that I got seemed to demand further testing so I umounted all raid devices and ran e2fsck on /dev/md[0124] and came across hundreds or maybe even thousands of errors of many types including duplicate blocks. (I lost count of how many errors.) After a little playing around I went back and typed in hdparm -u0 for all of the disk drives and tried to recopy the / directory. When I recopied, umounted the device and reran e2fsck I got a whole bunch errors like I did before. I then went and tried running 'badblocks -wv /dev/md0'. After a little while this reported back approximately 1400 bad blocks out of a 6 GB RAID device. This section concerns the more thurough testing that I conducted to try to isolate the problem as best as possible. After seeing all of those bad blocks show up on a software RAID device with one disk intentionally failed, I decided to see what would happen if I distroyed the RAID devices and test each disk with one standard linux partition per disk taking up the whole 45 GB disk. In my first aborted attempt I noticed that after I started checking the first disk, the other two would stalled. This was fixed by re-unmasking the IRQ's for each device (hdparm -u1 /dev/hd[2345]). I went and typed in badblocks -wv /dev/hd[gik]1 for each of the disks again on different virtual terminals and let them run simaltaniously. (I noticed that when all disks where being written to a second or so would go by where nothing was being flushed to disk and everything else would go and then a flurry of disk activity that would last a couple of seconds causing everything except for the blinking curser to pause. I also noticed when I opened top that my 800 MHz Athlon was tacked out.) To my surprise the first disk (/dev/hdg1) finished a few minutes after the other two, but non of them incurred any errors. I then decided to see what would happen if I built a software RAID five using three disks w/ no failed disks, using the entire disk for one RAID device. When I did this and ran 'badblocks -wv /dev/md0' I came up with a final of 233,604 bad blocks out of 90,069,632 blocks total. I looked over some of the output and it looked like series of blocks would be marked bad of seemingly random lengths at seemingly random intervals. Plus on sequental passes it looks like there is no consistancy between where the blocks are marked bad. When I checked for blocks in read-only mode I came up with no bad blocks. When I checked for bad blocks using the non destructive write mode the first time around the machine locked up about 15 hours and 50 minutes into the test.
[expert] software RAID - disk mirroring restore
Does anyone know where I can find an article in RAID 1 restoration when hda fails? I can't seem to find anything current. Thanks Andy Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Software RAID on root fs
Hello,
I am planning on Trying to configure my linux box as a (Software) RAID 1 box.
The only problem I saw was that you cannot just make your root filesystem
("/") as a RAID. Why is that (what's the point of having RAID if your root
filesystem is not redundant).
I noticed that there are several work arounds on the internet. Has anyone
ever tried this? Please let me know. Any information on (software) RAID is
welcome because I never did this before.
Marcus
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[expert] Software
Title: Software Does anyone know of a software that runs on Linux that will record keystrokes of another machine on the network?
Re: [expert] Software
Richard Humphrey wrote: Does anyone know of a software that runs on Linux that will record keystrokes of another machine on the network? Boy, couldn't *that* be used as a great cracking tool... Wouldn't you need a "keystroke server" (possibly a module in the kernel, to trap keystrokes), and an open port on the "other machine" to capture the strokes and then send them to the collecting machine? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Software
How would that differ from keystroke logging of users on a given machine and forwarding that data to a remote machine? If you find such a program let me know because it's on my list of things to do to make sure users can't be logged by any trojans etc on our network. :) *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Ken Wahl wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Richard Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a software that runs on Linux that will record keystrokes of another machine on the network? Don't know of any in particular but a good first place to look might be packetstorm http://packetstorm.securify.com -- #-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-# | Ken Wahl, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 3CF9AB36 | | PGP Public Key: http://www.ipass.net/~kenwahl/pgpkey.txt | #-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Powered by Linux Mandrake --=-=-=-=-=-=-# Linux up 3 days, 14:03, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.04, 0.01 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Software
man you just complicat things, a server first of all the program would be installed on the system its recording, which works a lot better, sure you could try and record a keystroke across the net but the error rate would be a little high, if its on the system it can record it then if you modify this program it would send a transcript of this to your terminal like in a text file, but most key loggers are used to record the keystrokes of another user on the same computer, or in corperate management where it does what i stated up above, to manage their employees use of the system this works on networks but in the internet i wouldnt recomend it In a message dated 28-Sep-00 14:30:11 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Boy, couldn't *that* be used as a great cracking tool... Wouldn't you need a "keystroke server" (possibly a module in the kernel, to trap keystrokes), and an open port on the "other machine" to capture the strokes and then send them to the collecting machine? Ron Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Software
well you may deplore me for suggesting such a thing but check a site called hackers.com they have files that can record keystrokes along with other files you probably shouldnt use except in certain circumstances, however im not sure how many of them will work in linux, but if they have one it will say (linux) right next to it In a message dated 28-Sep-00 11:16:52 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know of a software that runs on Linux that will record keystrokes of another machine on the network? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Software RAID
Which versions of Mandrake (if any) have the "new" software RAID patches (i.e. 0.90 RAID support) compiled into the distributed kernels? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Software RAID install
I just did a search of the archives and didn't see this. Sorry if this has been covered already - I'm new to the list. I want to install to a software raid device (/dev/md0) I can create the device prior to install. I have a 2.2.13ac kernel with software raid support that I can place on the install disk. This will autodetect and autostart the raid. So it will be available for the install. I guess my question is whether the install system will allow me to use /dev/md0, for example, instead of /dev/hdx? I'm trying to avoid using a small install partition and doing the copy thing. This system has more drives in it than the box can already handle and I can't afford to waste the space for an install. BTW, I'll be booting from a diskette and/or CD after the install. This is done bye using root=900. For those thinking about using software raid get 2.2.13ac and ignore all the initrd stuff from the How-To. The kernel will start the raid if the partition types are set to raid - very nice. Thanks, Scott --- Scott Patten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wasatch Communications Group http://www.wasatch.com
[expert] Software RAID on Helios!
Hi, I found that the Software RAID still problem on Helios... 2.2.13-7mdk! When I use mkstart /dev/md0, its results error: invaild argument... Its happen on 2.2.9-19/27, 2.2.11-1, 2.2.13-4/5/7... kernel But work fine on 2.2.11-2 (but always out of memory) The final version I can use still 2.2.10-34! -- Rgds Kit KB Computer Technology Co. ICQ: 28280598 http://www.knb.com.hk
Re: [expert] software raid level 1
What I was asking, is if it works as supplied in Mandrake 6.0, or if I need to go further. Can I assume from your post that it does work out of the "box"? Basically, mkraid aborts with no helpful info. I have read lots of howtos and other info on the web, but am having problems determining what goes with what, and a search on the mandrake site for raid turns up nothing. Using an older version of raidtools, I was able to get md0 greated and added (mkraid, mdadd?) but the docs with that version said I needed to then mdrun and there was no mdrun supplied, nor could I find one. Basically, what should work? I don't mind poking around some more if I know it should work. Thanks for the offer. drew On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, you wrote: What is not working? I can help if you give me more information with your exact problem! Carl - Original Message - From: drew Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 3:40 PM Subject: [expert] software raid level 1 Has anyone got software raid level 1 to work under mandrake 6.0? It has been giving me grief for about a week now. If, so, can you point me in the right direction? drew
[expert] software raid level 1
Has anyone got software raid level 1 to work under mandrake 6.0? It has been giving me grief for about a week now. If, so, can you point me in the right direction? drew
Re: [expert] software raid level 1
What is not working? I can help if you give me more information with your exact problem! Carl - Original Message - From: drew Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 3:40 PM Subject: [expert] software raid level 1 Has anyone got software raid level 1 to work under mandrake 6.0? It has been giving me grief for about a week now. If, so, can you point me in the right direction? drew
