[expert-it] e mail automatici
salve a tutti, sto cercando il modo di realizzare uno script che invii automaticamente a determinati utenti remoti, una mail con il mio indirizzo ip quando questo cambia. come fare? si accettano suggerimenti!
Re: [expert] Slow Copy WinXX - Linux/Samba :-(
I'm sorry I can't be very helpful, but I am curious: David Rankin wrote: THE PROBLEM: Trying to copy an 8 meg file from Win95 to my Linux/Samba box (named "Nemesis" - for good reason), the transfer speed slows to a crawl. The Win95 copy dialog box starts out by saying 25 seconds remaining , then 60 seconds remaining, then 2 minutes, then 5 minutes, and so on. I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM IN THE PAST. Are you executing the commands from the Linux box or the Windows box (or does the "from" imply the box you are executing from)? When I set up my server, I copied all of my firm's data from the Win95 machine to "Nemesis" with no problem. Approximately 355 Meg copied in ~ 20 sec. (don't quote me on this, but it was less than a minute - after not having to reboot the Linux machine since 1/19, my memory fades - stupid human falability) 355 MB in 20 seconds is very fast -- are you sure that initial copy was successful? (I'd expect at best, on a 100 mhz Ethernet, closer to 40 seconds, and then I'd be impressed. Are the 5 PCs connected to a hub or a switch? On larger networks connected by hub, it's common to get 40% or less of the 100 mbps Ethernet as real "thruput". If the initial copy wasn't successful, maybe that's part of the problem. (But, if you made the initial copy back on 1/19/01, you would have recognized the problem before now.)) Good luck, Randy Kramer
Re: [expert] problem upgrading to 2.2.19?
At 11:17 PM 4/21/2001 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sat Apr 21, 2001 at 09:14:04PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I've been running 7.2 for a couple of months now (2.2.17). Yesterday, while doing the MandrakeUpdate, it told me 2.2.19 was available and recommended, due to a number of security issues. I did the update of the kernel, sources, etc. Now, several hours later, I've finally managed to restore my system to usability (back on 2.2.17). Issues that came up: 1. The kernel source tree was unusable. Attempts to do menuconfig failed due to tk segv'ing. Attempts to do xconfig failed due to a number of (apparently) missing config files pertaining to ipsec and other security things. I'm not sure what this is about. I've asked the fellow (Matthias) who did most of the build work for the kernel about it but, considering it's the weekend, we might have to wait a bit to find out if something is missing or something was included wrong. I did finally get a build by doing 'make config' and scrolling through manually. ugh :) 2. I've been running 100% reiserfs since the 2nd day on 2.2.17, and was chagrined to discover that the 2.2.19 package apparently didn't include a 2.2.19 initrd image, and attempting to use the 2.2.17 image didn't work, since the reiserfs module wouldn't load under the 2.2.19 kernel, so the root FS couldn't load. I managed to get around this by uncompressing the 2.2.17 image, loopback mounting it, copying in a 2.2.19 reiserfs module, etc... You didn't follow instructions then. You need to execute: mkinitrd --ifneeded /boot/initrd-2.2.19-4.1mdk.img 2.2.19-4.1mdk What instructions? I did the upgrade via MandrakeUpdate, which didn't show me anything about special instructions. If I'm not supposed to do kernel updates via MandrakeUpdate, I didn't know that yesterday. Live and learn I guess... Now you have your initrd image. 3. Apparently as part of the rpm "upgrade", my 2.2.17 kernel source tree was rendered unusable. i.e. makefiles, etc were removed so that I couldn't even build a new 2.2.17 kernel or modules. If you upgraded the kernel-source package, then yes, the 2.2.17 sources would have been removed. If you *installed* the 2.2.19 kernel-source package, then you would have both installed. But it didn't just remove them - it left the linux-2.2.17 source tree, but it was all munged up. As far as upgrading vs installing, I wasn't aware I had an option (vis-a-vis MandrakeUpdate). I just checked the update again, and now I'm seeing a warning at the front of the description for the 2.2.19 kernel stuff about not using MandrakeUpdate. I don't remember seeing that yesterday, was that added since then? It certainly seems like a good idea, given what can happen... 4. One of my older IDE drives started having odd messages printed out (about timeouts and such) - never a problem under 2.2.17. No idea what this is, but I get some extraneous messages under 2.2.19 as well (such as messages regarding parallel ports, etc.). Well, these were kind of scary, since this is the drive /home is mounted on. #4 may be a random (harmless?) bug. #3 might have conceivably have been something I did wrong (don't see how, though, as all of the 2.2.17 /lib/modules stuff was also deleted as part of the "upgrade". Right. Because you *upgraded*. Upgrades do not keep things from older packages. When you upgrade kernel-sources-2.2.17 to kernel-sources-2.2.19 you are in essence uninstalling 2.2.17 and installing 2.2.19. sorry if i was unclear. obviously i didn't expect the /lib/modules stuff to still be around - i mentioned it as evidence that i had done the upgrade as i had thought. again, i didn't understand why the source tree was partly still there. #2 sounds like a build booboo (if you're upgrading a system from 2.2.17 to 2.2.19, most likely the modules in the old initrd image won't be usable by the new kernel, no?) No, and they're not supposed to be. You're supposed to read instructions or know enough to check for the presence of a valid initrd.img and build it if it doesn't exist. FYI, you only need the initrd if you use reiserfs on your / partition. Otherwise you will not need it. I *did* check for its presence. When I saw there wasn't one, I assumed there were no problems (obviously wrong on my part). What you are missing is this: there is a chickenegg problem in doing this as you describe. As soon as I do the download of the 2.2.19 kernel stuff, the 2.2.17 modules are gone, including the loopback.o module, which I need to create the new initrd image. At this point, I'm still running on the 2.2.17 kernel, so the 2.2.19 loopback.o module won't do me any good. If I try to boot from the new 2.2.19 kernel, I can't mount the root filesystem. #1 is just plain bogus. Didn't anyone do basic regression testing before releasing this??? Yes, testing
[expert] Partition Magic and Mandrake 8
hi, I am having trouble installing Mandrake 8. I have a system with PQ Magic 6 installed and 2 windows systems. When the install gets to the point of Configuring Lilo he gives a partition table error and says it can't install lilo (not even on a floppy disk). Whatever I try i can't boot Linux. I think it has a problem with hidden partitions, Does anyone have some suggestions of what to try? Thanx in advance
[expert] Intranet Mirroring of Mandrake Updates?
Hi Everyone, I work in an intranet area where we do not have connectivity to any internet servers. As such I am curious as to how to leverage the nice Mandrake update features available for use within this environment. What I want to be able to do is to grab the latest .rpm files (same as those in use for the Update feature) that are available and burn them onto a CD-ROM which I will then copy onto a server somewhere on the intranet. I then want my intranet Mandrake to be able to pick the appropriate "intranet location" and get the updates from there. Any ideas/suggestions/recommendations greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cheers. -- ___ (_B_)__ ~(@ @)~ +-oOOo-(_)-oOOo-+ | "I played before the greatest fans in baseball, the Boston| | fans, and I know what you're going to say about that: Old | | Teddy Ballgame loved those fans, all right." --- Ted Williams | ++--+ | Tony K. Olsen | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ++--+
Re: [expert] kernel-2.2.19 and no ReiserFS support!
I checked for that 'fudge swirl' kernel and/or patch and wasn't sure, so I grabbed the file named 'patch-2.2.19.gz'. however, when i started to compile it I noticed that there wasn't anything there for ReiserFS. I've started trying to get 2.4.0 to compile because it supports Reiser, however I keep running into trouble getting it do the modules when it gets to the part with PCMCIA. thats just a matter of getting it configured correctly. just takes patience. does anyone know if the security problems found with 2.2.17 exist with 2.4.0? -- Mark * "what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)" On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, A V Flinsch wrote: On Saturday 21 April 2001 07:44, Mark Weaver wrote: Hello list, Has anyone else noticed this missing from this kernel or am "I" missing something. The other day it didn't dawn on me to check for this until "after" I had begun the installation of the packages for kernel-2.2.19 per the security advisory from mandrake. Much to my shagrin(sp) the kernel paniced when I attempted to restart the machine to use the new kernel. I am running the ReiserFS on my system. I'll never run any other. I've since gotten that mess cleaned up and downloaded the kernel source, but I'm not seeing any support for Reiser while configuring the kernel for compile. Any thoughts? Since Reiser is still considered experimental (for the 2.2.x kernels) code maturity option/prompt for development drivers (should be the first button on xconfig) then check under the filesystems button. Of course this will not work unless the reiserfs pacth has been applied to the kernel source, if you are using the plain vanilla kernel source from kernel.org, then you need to apply the patch. If you are using the triple fudge swirl kernel source from mandrake, this should work...
[expert] Test
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Re: [expert] Test
i know what you mean...it appears that the "reply-to" is still broken. not to mention that the usual volume of mail seems to have dropped to half of what it has been in the past. -- Mark * "what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)" On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Guys Just I want to make sure that I am subscribed to this mailing list OOzy __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] Sound Only One Side
I'm trying to use a program called mpegrec 1.0 by Andrew Sandoval. The problem I'm having is that after I record something and try playing it back using xmms, sound only comes out of the right side of my speakers. When I try recording something by typing, cat /dev/dsp myvoice, I get a recording that comes out of both sides of my speakers. I know it's not lame because I tried converting a wav file into mp3 format and playing it back with sound coming out perfectly. I've also tried recording using sox and piping the stdout to lame, but I get the same one-sided audio output. I've tried real-time mp3 recording with the cdrom as my input and that works perfectly also. I tried adjusting the balance in kmix and I got some interesting results. When I set the balance all the way to the left (the side that isn't getting recorded), I get no sound at all from the microphone. When I set the balance all the way to the right, all the sound comes out of the right side of the speakers. I've tried looking in xload to see if my system is being overloaded or not. xload doesn't give me a load of 100% so that's good. I've also tried unplugging my speakers from the sound card while recording but it did not change anything. Here is my computer setup: Pentium II 266 Sound Blaster PCI128 (ES1370) Shuttle HOT637 mobo Linux Mandrake 7.1 96MB RAM Maxtor Diamondplus HDD 7.5 Gigs Altec Lansing ACS48 Any suggestions into what may be wrong will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Re: [newbie] HELP:8.0 kernel panic
Dale, it's asking you "where" the "/" root partition is located so it knows where to look for the kernel. tell me...is Mandrake the second OS on your drive and do you have only one drive? -- Mark * "what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)" On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Dale Kosan wrote: L could sure use some help here.I downloaded and installed 8.0 final and when it rebooted I received the following message: VFS:cannot open root device "2106" or 21:06 Please append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs on 21:06 I tried to boot with rescue floppies that the install made and low and behold there is nothing on the disks! I think the problem could be either the Western Digital drive or the add on pci card Pomise ATA 100 card.7.2 did not have a problem with the card so I am not sure what is up.I also installed 8.0 on my Toshiba laptop and same thing as with 7.2, seems to not like my Linksys PCMP 200 nic.Could someone please help a newbie in distress.Thanks for your time.
[expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
Its driving me crazy! Everysince upgrading from 8.0 final from 8.0 beta3, many applications segmet out where before worked. Its seems that almost all programs that did not come with 8.0 final segment fault. I have tried recompiling the ones that I could with kgcc, kg++ and the such. However, I still get most of them crashing. The binary only packages, such as vmware (workstation or gsx) are hopeless. My system is a AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz. I basically installed 99% of 8.0 final. PLEASE HELP!! Its driving me crazy... TIA
Re: [expert] ping, ping, doesn't ping
ok well im an et in the navy so i might be able to help, now you have ip addresses and hub and new cables however you must also check access rights now usually with a unix based system there are host databases which contain ip address host name and security access(may or may not be included) if one computer has a host name of jack the other computer on the lan must have that exact host name along with the exact ip address, also new cables do not gaurantee good quality, it is possible that the cable was defective before you ever bought it, or the hub may seem to work properly but could also be defective, also what type of lan cable are you using are you using T cable which is like an oversized phone jack or some other type that requires a hub. another factor that kills an lan connection is the ethernet card does it work with linux check the paper work, and check your proc files, also the ethernet card could be damged as well or maybe has a bad jumper setting we use cards that use cable rg-58 and aui cable which also contains a fuse any number of things will cause the lan card to use the wrong connector therefore no connection. thats all i can think of at the moment if you have any other questions just ask me i do this all the time as a network administrator on my ship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am tryint o reconnect my home LAN but I can't getmy machines to ping each other. Everything is fine. IP configuration is right, HUB is working, cables are new and connected. Don;t know what the problem may be
Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
On Sunday 22 April 2001 17:23, you wrote: Its driving me crazy! Everysince upgrading from 8.0 final from 8.0 beta3, many applications segmet out where before worked. Its seems that almost all programs that did not come with 8.0 final segment fault. I have tried recompiling the ones that I could with kgcc, kg++ and the such. However, I still get most of them crashing. The binary only packages, such as vmware (workstation or gsx) are hopeless. My system is a AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz. I basically installed 99% of 8.0 final. PLEASE HELP!! Its driving me crazy... TIA -- I'm not very impressed with what people are reporting about their experience with the new stable release of Mandrake, version 8.0. Does anyone have anything *good* to say about it? I might end up just sticking with my 7.2 version, which I've updated with KDE 2.1.1 already. No sense dealing with unnecessary hassle. Thanks, Eric _ Eric Krout Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~ekrout (Soon, EricKrout.com) Bucknell Computer Science Engineering '03 Chairman, Bucknell's Assoc. for Computing Machinery (ACM)
[expert] alsa rpm for my version of mandrake
ok i need alsa 0.5.10 because its the only one compatible for my sound card however the only rpms i find are made for a slightly newer kernel 2.2.19 i am running 2.2.17 and i cannot upgrade do to bandwidth constrictions, can anyone help find or make alsa-0.5.10_2.2.17.rpm?
Re: [expert] kernel-2.2.19 and no ReiserFS support!
Hi go to: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=754mode=threadorder=0 they are explaining how to install 2.2.19 with reiserfs support. On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 07:44:24AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Hello list, Has anyone else noticed this missing from this kernel or am "I" missing something. The other day it didn't dawn on me to check for this until "after" I had begun the installation of the packages for kernel-2.2.19 per the security advisory from mandrake. Much to my shagrin(sp) the kernel paniced when I attempted to restart the machine to use the new kernel. I am running the ReiserFS on my system. I'll never run any other. I've since gotten that mess cleaned up and downloaded the kernel source, but I'm not seeing any support for Reiser while configuring the kernel for compile. Any thoughts? -- Mark * "what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)" Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] OT, but hopefully humorous
On 20,Apr/01 20:19, you wrote: And you're using Netscape 4.x because...??? At least use Opera or Konq, my friend. but some sites use https:// --- Konq does not appear to know about that ( not bothered to follow this up of course ) - I just botch the awkward sites using Netscape :-( Regards, RJP -- RJP - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sedric.demon.co.uk.
Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
I did a clean install and all went well except that many of the apps I selected didn't load during install, like sndconfig- I *think* anything from the ext-iso. But I installed from hdd, so I kinda happy read: surprized it worked at all. I just downloaded anything I noticed I needed and installed afterwards-like kdegames. I think a fresh install is the key. All my hardward was automagically configured and worked right out of the box! (Except I did need to load nvidia drivers-and had to use rpms, the tar.gz wouldn't load.) But I get lots more framerate than ever before. Like 2000fps testing with gears, 400 at full screen. (That's about 33% better). And gnome actually looks great now. I'm tempted to use it. No crashes, everything working. Easy, painless. Don't worry about it unless you have some of exotic hardware. I recommend it. Can hardly wait for the retail package. -s On Sunday 22 April 2001 05:17 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2001 17:23, you wrote: Its driving me crazy! Everysince upgrading from 8.0 final from 8.0 beta3, many applications segmet out where before worked. Its seems that almost all programs that did not come with 8.0 final segment fault. I have tried recompiling the ones that I could with kgcc, kg++ and the such. However, I still get most of them crashing. The binary only packages, such as vmware (workstation or gsx) are hopeless. My system is a AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz. I basically installed 99% of 8.0 final. PLEASE HELP!! Its driving me crazy... TIA -- I'm not very impressed with what people are reporting about their experience with the new stable release of Mandrake, version 8.0. Does anyone have anything *good* to say about it? I might end up just sticking with my 7.2 version, which I've updated with KDE 2.1.1 already. No sense dealing with unnecessary hassle. Thanks, Eric
[expert] 8.0 and PCMCIA Ovislink card
Hello folks, Under 7.2, the only wall that stop my laptop to definitively migrate to linux was my PCMCIA Fast Ethernet Ovislink card; It was impossible for me to install it. Now under 8.0 in the installation the card seems to be recognized, but after that it gives me an error about module can't be charged and a grave sound that means "not recognized card". Yesterday I was very happy because I reached to conect my laptop, runin windows :-(, to my main linux box using IP masquering and in that way I can use my cable modem conexion for both. I think the installation of this PCMCIA card couldn't be so difficult, but I have not idea about what to do; It is not a rare card (Ovislink) could anybody help me, Please. Thanks a lot for your help, Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
[expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.
Hi i am trying to make win2k to run inside VMware in mdk8.0 - i have an 13 gb ibm drive with wintendo on the first 4gb (/dev/hda1) and mandrake on the rest. When i try starting VMware it all goes fine, but when coming to the lilo point it just hangs (i think it may be the grafical lilo-thing that is messing it up) Please help ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stud. Scient. Mathematics | TLF(home):39699914 - 116 Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 kbenhavn NV - room 116. Url: www.math.ku.dk | "Politics is for the moment, equations are forever" - Albert Einstein
[expert] Interesting problem
Sirs, I have just installed Mandrake 8.0 release and have decided to use it to replace my NT4 server. That server's previous job was as an internet server, and file server. I installed Mandrake 8.0 with a few problems. The biggest of which was that it would _NOT_ under any circumstances, see any SCSI hard disc at address 0. I had to reset my Adaptec 2940 UW to boot at address 1 and have all drives with addresses of 1 or higher. Right now it works this way, so fine, no big deal (7.2, 7.1, and 7.0 had no problems with this same configuration). The second problem, which is why I am writing this to you, is that while using Mandrake's Internet connection sharing, I am able to share the connection with no problems until i reboot... Then, when I reboot, the machine with not obtain an IP address from my ISP. The only way I can get it to reobtain that IP address is to actually disable to internet connection sharing, disable the little firewall, and reboot the computer. Then it will obtain an IP, and I can turn on the internet sharing again. That just seems bizarre to me. My NT4 server had no problems running this job, and I just decided to combine machines to quite down the room. I would rather not have to begin using that old server again, but I can't have this machine dying every time i reboot for whatever reason. It's also my Linux workstation, so occasionally I make a mistake and have to reboot. If anyone has any insight to this, or requires any log files, config files, or any further information in order to assist me, I would greatly appreciate it. After six hours of toiling, I seem to have only gotten to a workaround, rather then a fix... Thanks Anthony
Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
Upgrading to 8.0 broke all my fullscreen OpenGL apps. All my hardware worked without any trouble, and windowed OpenGL works without a hitch, but going to fullscreen crashes the X-server. I'm running the default XFree 4.0.3 on a voodoo3 AGP. Any ideas? I want to try tuxracer! On Monday 23 April 2001 19:50, you wrote: I did a clean install and all went well except that many of the apps I selected didn't load during install, like sndconfig- I *think* anything from the ext-iso. But I installed from hdd, so I kinda happy read: surprized it worked at all. I just downloaded anything I noticed I needed and installed afterwards-like kdegames. I think a fresh install is the key. All my hardward was automagically configured and worked right out of the box! (Except I did need to load nvidia drivers-and had to use rpms, the tar.gz wouldn't load.) But I get lots more framerate than ever before. Like 2000fps testing with gears, 400 at full screen. (That's about 33% better). And gnome actually looks great now. I'm tempted to use it. No crashes, everything working. Easy, painless. Don't worry about it unless you have some of exotic hardware. I recommend it. Can hardly wait for the retail package. -s On Sunday 22 April 2001 05:17 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2001 17:23, you wrote: Its driving me crazy! Everysince upgrading from 8.0 final from 8.0 beta3, many applications segmet out where before worked. Its seems that almost all programs that did not come with 8.0 final segment fault. I have tried recompiling the ones that I could with kgcc, kg++ and the such. However, I still get most of them crashing. The binary only packages, such as vmware (workstation or gsx) are hopeless. My system is a AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz. I basically installed 99% of 8.0 final. PLEASE HELP!! Its driving me crazy... TIA -- I'm not very impressed with what people are reporting about their experience with the new stable release of Mandrake, version 8.0. Does anyone have anything *good* to say about it? I might end up just sticking with my 7.2 version, which I've updated with KDE 2.1.1 already. No sense dealing with unnecessary hassle. Thanks, Eric -- Madness takes its toll; please have exact change Will Reinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] Serial port/mouse problems - need debugging suggestions (solved)
Thanks for the various suggestions. I have finally managed to solve the problem. As usual when something sounds like a hardware problem - it probably is a hardware problem. Whether the problem was dodgy serial ports on the motherboard, conflicts between the ISA i/o card and the sound card I don't know. What I do know is that after a day of messing around I got the mouse working (disabled on bord serial and floppy controllers) and used the ISA card. The ISA card had a floppy controller on it that may was causing problems with the on board controller. While this was giving certainly giving Floppy Device errors on bootup, it might also have been interfering with the serial ports (I have no idea as to why though) It took me another couple of hours to get the machine working as an X-terminal. I did spent several hours working out why the performance was unusably bad and eventually found a resource conflict between the network card and a sound card. Why did I put a sound card in a machine that will be used solely as an X-terminal? Buggered if i know. I do know this though... Human stupidity (mine) and computer hardware can waste your time. Aaron
Re: [expert] Is that sshd process really serving ssh?
Thanks Rusty, Mark Karl. Well to be honest, i first wanted to solve this so that i could keep (me) from locking myself out of my box, which i did in a fit of stupidity awhile ago. So i wrote a simple script that has been doing the job, until a friend pointed out the issue that i just brought up. It seemed like an interesting problem, so i decided to persue it. And the point is taken, that if someone could kill the sshd process that let him/her in, then he could also kill the watchdog that keeps it up. I like the netstat -l solution, it's simple and it works. Another suggestion was to try to telnet to port 22 (or whatever port i have it running on) and check for a signature response. Another way would be to keep track of the PID that the orginal server had. Oh, another is to have init/inittab do the deed. A final one that i'll add is to start sshd with something like daemon or another such program that starts applications in daemon mode and makes sure they stay running. Anyway, thanks again for your help. I will play it with a bit more, and in the meantime i have adjusted the logic (logistics) that let me lock myself out. Plus the simpleton watchdog that works well, except that it doesn't make that distinction between server and doer. Cheers, j --- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, John Wolford wrote: I have a question that might be off-topic for this list, but then again maybe not. Probably mildly so. Comp.unix.programmer is a good spot for questions like this. How can i tell if a given sshd process is serving ssh? Other than trying to connect to it, that is. sshd is always serving ssh, in some sense. The main daemon is listening for new ssh connections, and the spawned daemons are servicing existing connections. It sounds like you're trying to make sure that there is an sshd actually listening, regardless of whether there are sshds servicing connections. running on a box, and there is a script watching to make sure that it's running. But if someone logs in via ssh, another sshd process gets spawned for that connection. If that person were to somehow kill the sshd server process (the parent of the spawned sshd) then s/he could continue on with the connection but nobody else would be able to get in. The watchdog would not know this because it would see a sshd in the process list, which is all it is checking for. But i would like There are a number of ways to approach this. The first thing I usually think when anyone talks about a watchdog process is why not use init? For something this simple, a respawn entry in inittab may be all you need. If your watchdog script needs to do something more complicated than that (logging, e-mailing if something goes wrong, etc.), then you should basically do what init does - spawn sshd and wait() for it. You'll want to use something other than a shell script for this - perl, python, or C can all do this easily. If you're really stuck on pure shell scripting, you can either keep track of the listener-sshd's PID and check for that, or you can grep the output of netstat -l and make sure something is listening for ssh. There are probably other ways to check, but these seem easiest. Now on to the harder question. Why do you need to do this? Sshd is quite stable, and shouldn't need more of a watchdog than any other server. Are you experiencing problems with sshd dieing? If so, those should be tracked down and stomped. Users, of course, can't kill the listener process unless they're root, in which case they can kill the watchdog too. Generally, adding a layer of complexity without having a specific reason is likely to cause more problems than it solves. -- Mark Rafn[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.dagon.net/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:15:26AM +0200 or thereabouts, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: Hi i am trying to make win2k to run inside VMware in mdk8.0 - i have an 13 gb ibm drive with wintendo on the first 4gb (/dev/hda1) and mandrake on the rest. When i try starting VMware it all goes fine, but when coming to the lilo point it just hangs (i think it may be the grafical lilo-thing that is messing it up) Lars, I am somewhat confused. It sounds like you are using mdk as your host, and W2K as your guest OS inside of Vmare, inside of mdk. I have not used mdk v8 yet, but given your above remarks, something is wrong. VMWare does not start by using lilo at all. it is started, once it is installed in mdk, inside of VMware, from the command line in your personal dir. Lilo has nothing to do with Vmware, and is just used for your host OS, to get Linux and whatever other OS you use started. If you installed W2K inside of VMware as a guest, open VMware from the command line, then open W2K from within VMware. Also, I do not know if it works with the 2.4 kernel yet. I use it with 2.17 in mdk 7.2. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Before you criticize someone walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry he'll be a mile away -- and barefoot.
Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
I agree, I can't even burn the dang iso image, this sucks, Beavis uhh huh huh. both xcdroast and eroaster said: Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W8432T' Revision : '1.07' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 4194304 = 4096 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB mkisofs 1.13 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) cdrecord: WARNING: Track size unknown. Data may not fit on disk. Track 01: data unknown length padsize: 30 KB Total size: 0 MB (00:00.00) = 0 sectors Lout start: 0 MB (00:02/00) = 0 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 0 Is not unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11635 (97:26/65) ATIP start of lead out: 337350 (75:00/00) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 00 00 00 Disk type:Phase change Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) CDB: 2A 00 00 00 27 1D 00 00 1F 00 Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 27 B5 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 10165 (valid) write track data: error after 20506624 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 52.766s Fixating... cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable error status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 4B 4A 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 07 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x07 (write error - recovery needed) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 19274 (valid) cmd finished after 70.773s timeout 480s Fixating time: 70.788s cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s cdrecord: fifo had 387 puts and 324 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 297 times full, min fill was 95%. mkisofs: Broken pipe. cannot fwrite 32768*1 On Sunday 22 April 2001 05:17 pm, so spoke Eric Krout: I'm not very impressed with what people are reporting about their experience with the new stable release of Mandrake, version 8.0. Does anyone have anything *good* to say about it? I might end up just sticking with my 7.2 version, which I've updated with KDE 2.1.1 already. No sense dealing with unnecessary hassle. Thanks, Eric
[expert] Mandrake 8.0 and VIA686a Chipsets: Gotta Big Problem, Houston....
Install of 8.0 went well, and this version is really beautiful! But we do have some anomalies, perhaps with the new kernel 2.4.3, that did not show up in 2.4.1 or 2.4.2. From the time I first rebooted after install, stderr is sending the following lines to syslog (from dmesg): Apr 20 20:25:00 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 4probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard. Apr 20 20:25:00 localhost kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. This message repeats through the boot and into syslog during the sessionsyslog and /var/log/messages were up to 15MB in two days. At the same time, the CPU is getting creamed by the kapm-idled process (pid 3 on boot), anywhere from 51-85% of the cycles are being grabbed by this process. I don't know what this process is, but it looks like it has something to do with power management. At this point, if I confirm that the 2.4.3 kernel is having a problem with power management on motherboards with certain Athlon-class chipsets, I might recompile the kernel and take out APM, but I hope Mandrake can check this out and patch the kernel. FYI, I did not get these messages/CPU overload problem with kernels 2.2.18, 2.4.0 or 2.4.1. System Info: Athlon 650 MHz MSI-6195 mobo (AMD 756 chipset) [note: I had similar problems with FreeBSD 4.2 on this board) Corsair PC100 CAS2 SDRAM Appreciate if any Mandrake developers on the list check this out. Tom Snell
Re: [expert] VMware 2.0 and Mandrake 8.0.
I am have same problem. I cannot, for the life of me, install a new vmware machine because of the lilo problem. I have not tried grub or to see what exactly the problem is, since I just kept using the old ones. Oh yeh, the problem started when I got 8.0beta2 and was there for beta3. Now, with 8.0 final, vmware segments and does not run anyways. This 8.0 final release is not as half as stable as Mandrake's other final releases. It feels like a beta or maybe even an alpha. On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: Hi i am trying to make win2k to run inside VMware in mdk8.0 - i have an 13 gb ibm drive with wintendo on the first 4gb (/dev/hda1) and mandrake on the rest. When i try starting VMware it all goes fine, but when coming to the lilo point it just hangs (i think it may be the grafical lilo-thing that is messing it up) Please help ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stud. Scient. Mathematics | TLF(home):39699914 - 116 Copenhagen University - | Home address: Bispebjerg parkalle Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 22 - 2400 københavn NV - room 116. Url: www.math.ku.dk | Politics is for the moment, equations are forever - Albert Einstein
[expert] xinetd
Hi all, A while ago I asked some questions about xinetd and got some usefull pointers. But, still having a few probs which I need to get sorted before going to 8.0 2 pc's both runing 7.2 with the dist kernel 2.2.17-mdk. 1 runs ok with the script files in /etc/xinet.d/ sutably altered to point telnet to another app, and the real telnet to another port as listed in /etc/services the other pc is behaving a little oddly to say the least ! same config but telneting to port 23 goes straight to the front end login.. So I stoped xinetd made the needed addtions to inetd.conf and ran inetd both port 23 and 17200 both point to the frontend ! :( so next step chmod 0 /etc/xinet.d/* so all files in that dir are unuseable resated inetd ,and the same occurred again. chmod 0 /etc/services chmod 0 /etc/xinetd.conf no telnet fuction working as it should now be :) stopped inetd and started xinetd telnet to port 23 goes where it should and to port 17200 strange ? took out the line in xinetd.confincludedir=/etc/xinetd.d/ restarted xinetd no telnet fuctions :) put the line back in and restarted xinetd telnet functions again BUT /etc/services /etc/xinetd.conf the contents of /etc/xinetd.d/ have nil attributes, ie no rwx or anything So the question is does the xinet deamon tottally ignore any file attributes including its own config file ??? or is there something sneaky Mandrake have done to mirror the config files somewhere else as part of their security measures , rthis machine is set at msec 3. Just a bit confussed with this any ideas ? TIA Best Regards 73 Richard Bown http://www.gb7tf.org.uk e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] amprnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] NTS G8JVM@GB7IPT.#28.GBR.EU Tlf. +44 1952 502550 mobile +44 7850 876224
[newbie] HELP:8.0 kernel panic
L could sure use some help here.I downloaded and installed 8.0 final and when it rebooted I received the following message: VFS:cannot open root device 2106 or 21:06 Please append a correct root= boot option kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs on 21:06 I tried to boot with rescue floppies that the install made and low and behold there is nothing on the disks! I think the problem could be either the Western Digital drive or the add on pci card Pomise ATA 100 card.7.2 did not have a problem with the card so I am not sure what is up.I also installed 8.0 on my Toshiba laptop and same thing as with 7.2, seems to not like my Linksys PCMP 200 nic.Could someone please help a newbie in distress.Thanks for your time.
