[expert] Problems upgrading XFree86
Hi, I updated XFree86 to 4.1 from cooker, (as well as Mesa, Glide_V3-DRI-cvs-3mdk, and the SDL), however, I still do not get direct rendering. When I run dri games I get indirect rendering. Is there something I missed? Sheldon. -- === ... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
[expert] passwd verification problem.
Hi,
I'm writing a program where I need to validate a users password.
Right now I'm using crypt and code like the following:
pentry is a pointer to a passwd struct obtained by using the users
userid.
err is in a int initialized to 0;
userpass is a c string containing the users plaintext password.
if ( pentry == NULL ) {
perror(I couldn't get your encrypted password.);
return err;
}
salt[0] = pentry-pw_passwd[0];
salt[1] = pentry-pw_passwd[1];
salt[2] = '\0';
usercrypt = crypt(userpass, salt);
if ((err = strcmp(usercrypt, pentry-pw_passwd)) == 0) {
the strcmp always returns unsuccessful even though I know the passwd I
put in when I try it is correct. Is there something funky I have to do b/c
I'm using shadow passwd's and pam? The pw_passwd shows up in the debugger
as x instead of the encrypted version of the passwd.
I could use another set of eyeballs :)
Thanks.
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[expert] Motherboard and CPU recommendations
Hi, I'm looking at getting an ABit KT7A and AMD 1.3 GHz (both 266mhz fsb) Now, I know that there have been problems with via chipset boards in linux. However, this is a second revision of the board, and I'm always running the latest kernel. Can anyone comment on whether these are ok under linux now? Thanks. -- === ... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
[expert] group passwords
Hi, I have a question regarding the gpasswd and newgrp commands. I created a new group called test, then set the group administrator to be my local userid, (call it foo). Then from my foo account I did gpasswd test and changed the group passwd. Then I added the user user1 to the group test. From user1's account I can newgrp test and change my primary group to test without supplying the password. However, if I try to `newgrp test` from any account that is not a member of the group it fails even if I supply the correct group password. Am I misinterpreting the usage of newgrp? I thought that I could change to a group that I am not in if I have the group password. What's wrong or am I doing something incorrect? Sheldon. -- === ... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
[expert] compiling the 2.4.4 kernel
Hi, I ran into this error while compiling version 2.4.4 of the kernel: look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same of the initrd Then it errors. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Do I have to have an updated mkinitrd package? Cheers, Sheldon. -- === ... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] kvoice and 7.2
Kvoice writes the greeting.wav in the temp directory and it plays fine with another audio player but for some reason kvoice is not connecting with the audio server and doesn't play it. When someone calls in and the modem probably because the sound server in kde1 and in kde2 are different and not compatible. -- Cheers, Sheldon Lee-Wen
[expert] kernel patches
Hi, I'm wondering if someone here knows what patches were applied to the kernel in mandrake 7.0 . rpm -q reports kernel-2.2.14-15mdk I'm owndering b/c I'm in the middle of trying to debug some bad nfs problems with auspex and netapps. -- Cheers, Sheldon Lee-Wen Systems Analyst Design Environment Solutions Ottawa West Metro II Nortelnetworks Phone: (613) 765-6536 ESN: 39+56536 Mailstop 117/D1/C03 Ottawa, Ontario Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] apt
Hi, I was wondering that now that apt has RPM support if there are any plans to incorporate apt and dselect into Mandrake? This, in my estimation would be the last good reason to switch to debian. The reason I'm asking is that redhat and mandrake esp. have great install programs with really nice tools. However, maintainability is a s.o.b. This is debian's great strength and it would be nice to have an OS that's both easy to install and easy to maintain. Anyone else like to see apt on mandrake? Cheers, Sheldon. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] Changing X resolutions fails in runlevel 5, but not 3
On March 9, 2001 11:51 pm, you wrote: It ain't a hardware thing, and the 3dfx already has a heatsink. Various 16 bit resolutions and configured and I have Q3 UT SOF etc. all working fine in runlevel 3. I recently noticed the same thing, whenever i'd start railroad tycoon X would crash, this only happened in run level 5. I changed to using gdm instead of kdm and it seemed to fix it,s o it looks like a bug with kdm. Try changing to gdm and tell me if that fixes it. (Although I'm on RH7 now. Got sick of waiting for KDE2.1 updates) Thnaks anyway, Mike On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 09 March 2001 06:01 pm, Mike MacCana wrote: I have a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000. In runlevel 5, whenever I attempt tp change to another configured reolution, X changes to that resolution and them promptly hangs. I can't even go to another virtual terminal to kill it. In runlevel 3, all is love (ie, its AOK) Any ideas? Mike Well other than that the motherboard, it's chipsets, and the monitor, etc. down to the power supply and the oulet it's plugged into (hopefully on an UPS), and how well it's all configured from the bios on up, all have somethin to do with what you see on the screen, no ; I've got a 3 yr. old V3-2k pci on an BX motherboard oc'd 135%, with X at 1024x768x16 and a very el cheapo ($150) 17" MagView. I just tried C-A- +/- and it switched resolutions just fine. KDE2.1, XF-4.0.2, LM7.2, 2.4.2 The only thing I can think of that might help is the first thing to do with a Voodoo3 is to take one sheet metal screw and use it to attach a $2 cpu fan to it's heatsink. Other than that, I doubt the Vcard is the culprit. Prob'ly the next most important factor is to not try'an run any 3dfx card with X at any resolution more than 16bpp. -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
RE: [expert] recommendations for LM
Hi, My recommendations for LM, move mandrake update to apt now that apt has rpm compatability. I'd love to just do something like apt-get update , or however it works :) Sheldon.
[expert] bootp
Hi, I have some machines that can only operate via bootp. However, I can't seem to find a current package for bootp. I did find bootparamd but the man page is really not that helpful and there seems to be nothing on linuxdoc. Does anyone know how to go about this? It's my first foray into bootp. Thanks -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] Summary: How to move /usr to another partition
Hi, I think you should be able to do this: 1. Make the new partition of sufficient size. /dev/hd? whatever, 2. init 1 3. mount /dev/hd? /mnt 4. mv /usr /mnt (I'm not 100% sure this will preserve softlinks) 5. umount /mnt 6. umount /usr 7. mount /dev/hd? /usr 8. edit /etc/fstab to reflect the change. 9. init ? ? stands for whatever is appropriate. no reboot. === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of jons world domination laser " - Jonisattva For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] Kernel upgrade to 2.2.16 WRECKED USING UPDATEMGR
On January 3, 2001 10:03 pm, you wrote: Hi guys, I did a stupid thing. I tried to update the Kernel from 2.2.X to 2.2.16 using the Update manager. Little needs to be said -- it didn't work. In fact my system won't boot anymore. I get a System Panic can't mount root fs on 08:05. Anyway I need to back out of the Kernel upgrade. Does update manager move the old Kernel and system.map ..etc to backups or does it overwrite everything...? I know I need to run a recovery shell. I'm using 'tomsrtbt ver 2.0.37' I can boot with a floppy but I can't seem to mount the root (/) sda5 disk where my original Linux is stored. Any help beyond this point would be great, especially when I finally get the /boot mounted what do I do to repair the flubbed-up Kernel upgrade? Anyone have any answers...? Did you make a boot disk on install? If you did, boot off of this disk and then reinstall the 7.2 kernel RPMS. If not, mount the root file system somewhere else and possibly copy over the appropriate files by hand. Fernando Proietto Linux 7.1 PII-350-128M -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] login manager background
But I can't remember what the file is I just know after modifying it ages ago, and upgrading to 2.01, it works now. /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 And the section should look like this: if [ -x $KDEDIR/bin/kdmdesktop ];then /usr/bin/kdmdesktop # Commented above line and added next line because of kdedesktop issues # fixes background. # /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -solid "#99" else /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -solid "#99" /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail fi === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] Accessing Voodoo board.
On December 9, 2000 02:47 pm, you wrote: Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: You got the 3dfx kernel module driver to work with 4.0.1? I tried it and it would work, but after I exited from a game X would be hosed. I got weird screen artifacts. Hmm. I sounds like the module isn't loaded. Try an lsmod and see if it is loaded. If not do a modprobe 3dfx. If it is try removing the module (rmmod 3dfx) reloading it with the modprobe. Did you install the latest version of the Glide package? What is the module alias for 3dfx.o? 3dfx, just "modprobe 3dfx" === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican === Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Accessing Voodoo board.
On December 5, 2000 05:14 pm, you wrote: I've have being trying to get my Voodoo 3 working under XFree86-4.0.1 with the Glide drivers. I compiled and installed Device3Dfx-2.3-5. I then removed the Glide_V3-DRI packages and installed the Glide_V3-2.60 packages. Now, when I attemp to run the test files that come with the Glide packages I get a segmentation fault . You got the 3dfx kernel module driver to work with 4.0.1? I tried it and it would work, but after I exited from a game X would be hosed. I got weird screen artifacts. Hmm. I sounds like the module isn't loaded. Try an lsmod and see if it is loaded. If not do a modprobe 3dfx. If it is try removing the module (rmmod 3dfx) reloading it with the modprobe. Did you install the latest version of the Glide package? === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican === Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Kernel Options - Frame Buffer and Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
Are you using the 3dfx.o kernel module with XFree 4.0.1? or with the custom X server on the website? Anthony Russello wrote: I just recently swapped a Voodoo3 3500TV AGP into my Linux machine (quite a waste seeing as how there don't seem to be any TV tuner drivers for the card, but it was a spare), what I did was follow the instructions found at http://linux.3dfx.com I believe. Downloaded the three RPM files they had, then ran the installs as their website specified, worked like a charm. Thanks Quick question for any MDK 7.2 users who have Voodoo 3 3000 AGP video cards. If so, what options did you compile into the default kernel source to use the video frame buffer? I see support for other video cards in the kernel source but nothing for the Voodoo series. TIA. 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] | ++--+ There's plenty of semicolons to go around Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican === Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] kde 2.0.1
Why are there no kde 2.0.1 packages? I know there are ones in cooker, but if I'm correct, those are linked against qt2.2.2, which is linked against glibc-2.2 which alot of stuff depends on and the update tool isn't exactly as swift as apt (and I don't want to update to everything in cooker that depends on glibc). -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican === Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Can't get VMware to configure on my system.
Hi, I've found in the past that Mandrake has shipped the kernel source and headers configured for the uni-processor kernel. Then, when you go to use vmware on an smp system you get errors installing it about mismatched headers. What you need to do is get the .config from /usr/share/doc/kernel-smpxx/ somewhere in there is the config file. Copy it to /usr/src/linux/.config and then do a "make dep clean; make " Could someone who is running an SMP kernel under mandrake 7.1 please email me a copy of your unmodified .config file from you /usr/src/linux directory. I am gonna try one more time to rebuild the dependancies and C header files to match my SMP kernel. I have still had no luck getting the VMware to configure on my system still. Send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Kernel Options - Frame Buffer and Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
Are you using the 3dfx.o kernel module with XFree 4.0.1? or with the custom X server on the website? Anthony Russello wrote: I just recently swapped a Voodoo3 3500TV AGP into my Linux machine (quite a waste seeing as how there don't seem to be any TV tuner drivers for the card, but it was a spare), what I did was follow the instructions found at http://linux.3dfx.com I believe. Downloaded the three RPM files they had, then ran the installs as their website specified, worked like a charm. Thanks Quick question for any MDK 7.2 users who have Voodoo 3 3000 AGP video cards. If so, what options did you compile into the default kernel source to use the video frame buffer? I see support for other video cards in the kernel source but nothing for the Voodoo series. TIA. 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] | ++--+ There's plenty of semicolons to go around Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican === Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Can't get VMware to configure on my system.
Hi, I've found in the past that Mandrake has shipped the kernel source and headers configured for the uni-processor kernel. Then, when you go to use vmware on an smp system you get errors installing it about mismatched headers. What you need to do is get the .config from /usr/share/doc/kernel-smpxx/ somewhere in there is the config file. Copy it to /usr/src/linux/.config and then do a "make dep clean; make " Could someone who is running an SMP kernel under mandrake 7.1 please email me a copy of your unmodified .config file from you /usr/src/linux directory. I am gonna try one more time to rebuild the dependancies and C header files to match my SMP kernel. I have still had no luck getting the VMware to configure on my system still. Send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?
/usr/share/doc/kernel-2.2.17/kernel-2.2.17-21mdk-i586.config /usr/share/doc/kernel-smp-2.2.17/kernel-2.2.17-21mdk-i586-smp.config Alex Yung wrote: Thanks Andrew. I was under the impression that installing the kernel source would also include the SPEC file. This is how Debian works. Thanks again. On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Andrew George wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 10:57, you wrote: There is nothing wrong with the MDK kernel. I have to recompile the kernel because of the WinModem in my boss' laptop. If you follow up on the WinModem HOWTO, it suggested the kernel re-compilation. If I want to get myself fire, I would suggest what sprach skidley said. Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach skidley am Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:44:02PM -0400: I hate kernel rpms and think thye shouln't exist as rpm, it sucks, get the tarball and do a "real" kernel compile. Any particular reason why you don't like the enhancements and bugfixes done by the Mdk people? Also, what's bad about using a compiled kernel that's also used by a lot of other people, and thus may create more bugreports? Alexander Skwar Grab the Kernel srpm and install it...it should have everythign you need Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican === Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Xfree864 Voodoo3 and 3Dfx.o
Hi, I have a clean, normal installation. I just "upgraded" from mdk7.0 and I want to play myth2. So I downloaded the kernel module driver from linux.3dfx.com, compiled, replaced glide with the glide from the website and installed myth2. Myth2 runs great. However, the problem is (this may not be new to you but this is my first time using XFree4) that when I exit the game X is all screwed up. This same thing happens if I log into the console and do startx -- :1 vt9 or some such thing. It's really screwy. Anyone know what's going on and how I can fix it? Do I have to turn off XFree4's tdfx and dri modules? I'm also assuming the config file is /etx/X11/XF86Config-4 is that correct? Cheers, Sheldon. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican === Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] A mess of questions!
#2. Since I am using NAMED from BIND, is there any need of having the YPBIND package installed? No ypbind is for NIS. #3. I posted this one last week and got 0 replies. Probably b/c you are asking too many things at once. You may have better success if you post each seperate problem seperately. Sorry. I don't know the answer to the rest. How do you do port forwarding with the new ipchains? The IPCHAINS howto was written prior to the new format. Specifically, how do you use ip_portfw and ip_autofw? Aren't those the old tools for the 2.0.x kernels? I think you can do it all just with ipchains. Not sure though I only looked at it once. === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] ICQ for Linux
What about kicq-1.0.0 ? I use it and it seems pretty good. Alexander Skwar wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:31:13AM -0400, Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root wrote: Does anyone know of a good ICQ client for Linux? I'm running LICQ at Hmm, LICQ is supposed to be quite good. Nonethesless, I use GnomeICU as it integrates best with Gnome because of a very neat panel applet. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191 -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
[expert] cdr or cdrw suggestions
Hi, I'm looking to pick up a CD-R or CD-RW drive soon and I'm looking for suggestions on a really nice and fast unit. I know it's best to go for scsi so that's what I'm looking at. Any suggestions on models from those of you with scsi burners? Cheers, Sheldon -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] Compiling kernels.
I don't think make oldconfig is what this person is after. From: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html `make oldconfig' will attempt to configure the kernel from an old configuration file; it will run through the `make config' process for you. If you haven't ever compiled a kernel before or don't have an old config file, then you probably shouldn't do this, as you will most likely want to change the default configuration. I think make oldconfig I what your after. (Someone else please conferm this) Cheers, Scott -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] high securiy server
I believe that you can change the security level from drakconf. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, Yesterday I saw something in one of the posts about Vmware and decided to go and get it. It's installed and working, but I have No idea how to use it, nor where the documentation is for it. The `man' page is really no help at all. Anyone have any suggestions on where to find info for this? You can download the docs from their web page. Basically you make a configuration with their "wizard" and then once you turn it on it's like booting a new machine w/ an empty hard drive. You can boot from a floppy or put in a bootable cd to boot from a cd. Just install an OS under it and away you go. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
[expert] dyndns update script
Hi,
I put together a quick script that will use the dyndns
ddns client to update a dyndns dynamic hostname (although
you could modify it to use something else and update a static
one too.) It does two things. 1st it checks to see if the
ip dns has matches the ip your service provider gave you
or dhcp has assigned you. It also checks to see how long it
has been since the last time you updated your dyndns entry.
(recall dhs's policies on updating you entry). If it has
been longer than 25 days or you ip has changed then it
updates it.
I added modified this section of my ifup script (starting line 117)
to look like this:
if [ -n "$DHCP" ];then
echo -n "Determining IP information for $DEVICE via dhcpcd..."
if /sbin/dhcpcd $DEVICE -h $HOSTNAME ; then
echo " done."
echo -n "Checking Dynamic DNS Configuration... "
/root/bin/up-dyndns $DEVICE #this is the script!
else
echo " failed."
exit 1
fi
Hope this can help someone :)
Sheldon.
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::hostent;
use Socket;
use Env qw(HOSTNAME);
#
# User Configuration Variables #
#
$command = "/usr/sbin/ddns --modify";
$config = "/etc/dyndns.conf";
$ifconfig = "/sbin/ifconfig";
#
# Do NOT Edit below here unless you #
# know what you are doing! #
#
$host = $ENV{HOSTNAME};
$DEVICE = $ARGV[0];
if ($DEVICE eq "") { die "Usage: up-dyndns device\n"; }
unless ($h = gethost($host)) {
warn "$0: no such host: $host\n";
}
# Processing config file
open (INPUT, "$config") || die "Unable to open $config for reading.\n";
$day_data = INPUT;
chop $day_data;
($temp,$date) = split('=',$day_data);
($last_day,$last_month,$last_year) = split('/',$date);
close (INPUT);
# Get our IP according to dns.
$dns_IP = inet_ntoa($h-addr);
# Get our actual IP according to ifconfig
open(IFCONFIG,"$ifconfig $DEVICE |") || die "Unable to get local IP address for
$DEVICE.\n";
$line = IFCONFIG;
$line = IFCONFIG;
($temp,$line) = split(':', $line);
$line =~ s/\s//g;
$line =~ s/[A-Z]|[a-z]//g;
$actual_IP = $line;
close (IFCONFIG);
# Find out how long it has been since we updated dyndns.
$age = find_age($last_day,$last_month,$last_year);
# Update dyndns and out config file if necessary.
if ( ($dns_IP != $actual_IP) || ( $age = 25 ) )
{
print STDOUT "Updating Dynamic DNS from: $age days ago, Address: $dns_IP to
$actual_IP \n";
# update dyndns ip address
open(OUPUT,"$command |") || die "Unable to execute ddns.\n";
#@output = OUTPUT;
#print "@output\n";
close (OUTPUT);
# update date in conf file
($sec, $min, $hour, $now_dd, $now_mm, $now_, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime;
$now_ += 1900;
$now_mm++;
open (OUTPUT, "$config") || die "Unable to open $config for writing.\n";
print OUTPUT "DATE=$now_dd/$now_mm/$now_\n";
close (OUTPUT);
}
else { print STDOUT "Dynamic DNS OK\n"; }
# Subroutine to grab $mm and $dd and calculate the number of days since the last
update
sub find_age
{
$ = @_[2];
$mm = @_[1];
$dd = @_[0];
# Get the current date.
($sec, $min, $hour, $now_dd, $now_mm, $now_, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime;
$now_mm++;
$now_ += 1900;
$find_age=0;
$find_age=$find_age + $now_dd - $dd;
if (($now_mm $mm || ($now_mm == $mm ($now_dd - $dd) = 0)) (int($find_age +
0.5 + ($now_mm - $mm) * 30.41667) = 365) $now_) * 12) + $now_mm) -
((($) * 12) + $mm)) 12) { $find_age = int($find_age + 0.5 + ($now_mm - $mm) *
30.41667); } #less than a year
else { $find_age = int($find_age + 0.5 + ($now_mm + (($now_ - $) * 12) -
$mm) * 30.41667); }
if ($mm == 2$now_mm != 2) { $find_age = $find_age - 2; } #month of February
return $find_age;
}
[expert] oops forgot a file for dyndns
Here is the conf file.. pretty simple. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican === DATE=31/7/2000
[expert] dyndns update script
Hi,
I put together a quick script that will use the dyndns
ddns client to update a dyndns dynamic hostname (although
you could modify it to use something else and update a static
one too.) It does two things. 1st it checks to see if the
ip dns has matches the ip your service provider gave you
or dhcp has assigned you. It also checks to see how long it
has been since the last time you updated your dyndns entry.
(recall dhs's policies on updating you entry). If it has
been longer than 25 days or you ip has changed then it
updates it.
I added modified this section of my ifup script (starting line 117)
to look like this:
if [ -n "$DHCP" ];then
echo -n "Determining IP information for $DEVICE via dhcpcd..."
if /sbin/dhcpcd $DEVICE -h $HOSTNAME ; then
echo " done."
echo -n "Checking Dynamic DNS Configuration... "
/root/bin/up-dyndns $DEVICE #this is the script!
else
echo " failed."
exit 1
fi
Hope this can help someone :)
Sheldon.
--
===
"... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and
violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... "
- Buddha
For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout:
http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
===
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::hostent;
use Socket;
use Env qw(HOSTNAME);
#
# User Configuration Variables #
#
$command = "/usr/sbin/ddns --modify";
$config = "/etc/dyndns.conf";
$ifconfig = "/sbin/ifconfig";
#
# Do NOT Edit below here unless you #
# know what you are doing! #
#
$host = $ENV{HOSTNAME};
$DEVICE = $ARGV[0];
if ($DEVICE eq "") { die "Usage: up-dyndns device\n"; }
unless ($h = gethost($host)) {
warn "$0: no such host: $host\n";
}
# Processing config file
open (INPUT, "$config") || die "Unable to open $config for reading.\n";
$day_data = INPUT;
chop $day_data;
($temp,$date) = split('=',$day_data);
($last_day,$last_month,$last_year) = split('/',$date);
close (INPUT);
# Get our IP according to dns.
$dns_IP = inet_ntoa($h-addr);
# Get our actual IP according to ifconfig
open(IFCONFIG,"$ifconfig $DEVICE |") || die "Unable to get local IP address for
$DEVICE.\n";
$line = IFCONFIG;
$line = IFCONFIG;
($temp,$line) = split(':', $line);
$line =~ s/\s//g;
$line =~ s/[A-Z]|[a-z]//g;
$actual_IP = $line;
close (IFCONFIG);
# Find out how long it has been since we updated dyndns.
$age = find_age($last_day,$last_month,$last_year);
# Update dyndns and out config file if necessary.
if ( ($dns_IP != $actual_IP) || ( $age = 25 ) )
{
print STDOUT "Updating Dynamic DNS from: $age days ago, Address: $dns_IP to
$actual_IP \n";
# update dyndns ip address
open(OUPUT,"$command |") || die "Unable to execute ddns.\n";
#@output = OUTPUT;
#print "@output\n";
close (OUTPUT);
# update date in conf file
($sec, $min, $hour, $now_dd, $now_mm, $now_, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime;
$now_ += 1900;
$now_mm++;
open (OUTPUT, "$config") || die "Unable to open $config for writing.\n";
print OUTPUT "DATE=$now_dd/$now_mm/$now_\n";
close (OUTPUT);
}
else { print STDOUT "Dynamic DNS OK\n"; }
# Subroutine to grab $mm and $dd and calculate the number of days since the last
update
sub find_age
{
$ = @_[2];
$mm = @_[1];
$dd = @_[0];
# Get the current date.
($sec, $min, $hour, $now_dd, $now_mm, $now_, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime;
$now_mm++;
$now_ += 1900;
$find_age=0;
$find_age=$find_age + $now_dd - $dd;
if (($now_mm $mm || ($now_mm == $mm ($now_dd - $dd) = 0)) (int($find_age +
0.5 + ($now_mm - $mm) * 30.41667) = 365) $now_) * 12) + $now_mm) -
((($) * 12) + $mm)) 12) { $find_age = int($find_age + 0.5 + ($now_mm - $mm) *
30.41667); } #less than a year
else { $find_age = int($find_age + 0.5 + ($now_mm + (($now_ - $) * 12) -
$mm) * 30.41667); }
if ($mm == 2$now_mm != 2) { $find_age = $find_age - 2; } #month of February
return $find_age;
}
DATE=31/7/2000
[expert] sysrq keys
Hi, Just wondering from you mandrake guys in the magic sysrq keys option was enabled for the stock kernel on LM7.0 Is so is there anything that needs to be done configuration wise to enable it? Thanks. Sheldon. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] Dial on Demand
[snip] Why don't you contribute your stuff about DoD to the mandrakeuser.org and merge it with the stuff Tom has already gathered there? We try to show the MUO as a part of our support system and it would be great if this site would get more of the excellent solutions I often see on this list. I'm sure Tom would appreciate it. Sure if you could get him to actuall post the stuff you send him. I've sent him things a few time (in feb) and they still aren't posted so I stopped trying. === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
Re: [expert] High definition console 2
- Emacs and the fb impact performances. Specifically, do we want to load emacs just to see two windows side by side? what would the VI guys say? - we say something like windows who need windows? gui's are for sissys. ;) sheldon. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
[expert] glibc 2.1.3
Hi,
Being adventurous I upgraded my glibc to 2.1.3 from the
cooker rpms. Anyhow, now that I'm trying to compile I'm
getting the message:
gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall -fPIC
-D__WINE__ -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o registry.o registry.c
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Any clues ?
--
===
"... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and
violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... "
- Buddha
For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout:
http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
===
[expert] what I want
Hi, I'd basically like to see all of the packages updated. There are some packages that seem never to have gotten updates. I'd like to see all of the helix-gnome stuff. I'd like to see some of the linux4kids stuff. realplayer, java 1.2.2, updated xmms stuff and all the plugins (pretty much) and all of the skins (pretty much). Definately a solid dist of the kdevelop tools, the new gdb and insight, blender, more themes, Geheimnis, Acroread4, portsentry, logcheck, hostsentry. You know lots of stuff. Well, you asked. :) Sheldon. -- == "Comments are a very useful outlet for those pissed off emotions you can get when coding. While there's no-one there to take it out on at 3AM, you know that at some point in the future you're going to give someone a really bad day." Satisfaction guaranteed. - nlvp (slashdot poster) For a kick ass OPL'd FRPG visit http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ==
Re: [expert] could not open default font 'fixed' --help
Or possibly did you recently add any font's such as true type fonts during your last x session? Civileme wrote: giancarlo wrote: Hi Suddently my XWindowns stopped to work. When I do startx I recive the follow message: -FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' What I did. I reinstall the follow rpm pakages; XFree86-3.3.6-4mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-Xnest-etc XFree86-Xvfb-etc XFree86-xfs-etc but it didn't work. What so now? Thanks a lot. -- João Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 33.965.439 usuário Linux # 106644 Somehow your /tmp was scrubbed, removing files pointed to by links--the files are sockets but the links say they are there and of course they are gone. Check /tmp for directories and files I think (tm) you might be able to restore service by running Xconfigurator or by running X without the font server. Then run /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart This structure was changed in 7.1 so the sockets reside in /root/tmp and are not subject to this sort of deletion. Civileme -- == "Comments are a very useful outlet for those pissed off emotions you can get when coding. While there's no-one there to take it out on at 3AM, you know that at some point in the future you're going to give someone a really bad day." Satisfaction guaranteed. - nlvp (slashdot poster) For a kick ass OPL'd FRPG visit http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ==
[expert] hydrogen
Hi, I've got a question. In the 7.1 beta XFree86 4.0 is included. Does anyone have the status on: a) It's stability b) If it's DRI or not. I 'm guessing not b/c I'm assuming they are using a 2.2.x kernel. c) How will it work with a voodoo3. I know that there are special drivers for a voodoo3 for dri but what about non-dri - assuming there is no dri stuff. Also, if it IS dri then am I correct that the only version of glide that works with the DRI drivers is version 3 which isn't compatible with V2 so I if this were the case, be able to play myth2, quakeIII, etc. Cheers, Sheldon.
Re: [expert] reconfiguring disk
4 should work, because 3.0 did. Actually, I don't know if it worked for PM3.0 did NOT have linux support. It recognized linux partitions for what they were but you could not manipulate linux ext2 partitions. PM4.0 supposedly had linux ext2 support but I'm warning you as one who has tried it not to use it. It is VERY good at mangling your files. Just try it on a partition that holds a relatively large file. It's very risky at best, especially if you run VMWare, count on your vmdisk being totally hosed. Sheldon -- == "Comments are a very useful outlet for all of those really pissed off emotions you can have coming your way when coding. Whilst there's no-one there to take it out on at 3 in the morning, you just know that at some point in the future you're going to have given someone a really bad day." Satisfaction guaranteed. - nlvp (slashdot poster) ==
[expert] useful/missing softlinks
Hi, Just to let you mandrake guys know that you are missing some useful softlinks that really should be there: librpmbuild.so.0 - librpmbuild.so librpm.so.0 - librpm.so and in /etc/X11R6/lib/ libglut.so - libglut.so.3.7.0* libMesaGL.so - libGL.so.1.2.0* libMesaGLU.so - libGLU.so.1.2.0* Alot of programs assume you have mesa installed as libMesa** I believe that that's the way mesa installs if you compile it from source. (At least last time I did it a while ago it did). Sheldon. -- == "Comments are a very useful outlet for all of those really pissed off emotions you can have coming your way when coding. Whilst there's no-one there to take it out on at 3 in the morning, you just know that at some point in the future you're going to have given someone a really bad day." Satisfaction guaranteed. - nlvp (slashdot poster) ==
Re: [expert] You people just don't get it
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote: What I meant is that novice users use the distro too, and they are not so smart in figuring out, what is not working correctly...And that is... MY question is, what the heck would a NOVICE be doing setting up a server If you're a NOVICE, you should call in an expert to help you set it up, or to set it up FOR You and show you which switches to pull and which buttons to push for what effect. John Or at least RTFM sufficiently. I was a newbie once and got to where I am mostly by reading all avaliable documentation first. (usually :) ) -- == "Comments are a very useful outlet for all of those really pissed off emotions you can have coming your way when coding. Whilst there's no-one there to take it out on at 3 in the morning, you just know that at some point in the future you're going to have given someone a really bad day." Satisfaction guaranteed. - nlvp (slashdot poster) ==
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Well, now that Adobe owns it, the UI might improve -- they're on version 6, is that what you have installed? Whatever version there is for linux. I think it's 5.5.6 beta 2. Anyhow, for some reason yesterday it stopped working. My luck eh. Sheldon.
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
"Stephen", Yes, I have used word for large files and I've used it since msword version 6.0 I'm the author of an open content FRPG, http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican it's split into two word docs which combined total ~412 pages. I've never had msword choke on them. I've had msword for some reason grow the file size without reason. Once the file size grew to 63MB. I had to cut and paste everything to a new file (and then spend hours reformatting) and the size went down to ~20MB. However, now that I've moved to LInux I'm looking for something just as good for Linux so I an port my document over. I'd REALLY like it if it had an open, sane file format but I think right now that would be asking too much. (Hopefully KWord will mature to the point where I can import my docs to a reasonable extent). Cheers, Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Interface (API), and should run just as fast (maybe faster?) as they do under an MS API implementation. I just installed a cvs snapshot of wine (last night) that was made into a stripped rpm. I must say that while it still isn't stable it is damn fast. It is at least as fast as running under windows. I ran starcraft and msword. However, like I said its still really unstable. Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Hmn... well, you might try Adobe Framemaker (as I mentioned earlier on the list). Apparently there is now a Linux beta available (and as a note to others: Framemaker was originally a Unix app, it was ported to Windows) and it already runs in Solaris. It's *excellent* for large documents. I've already got it installed. I've used it before when I worked at Nortel. However, it's VERY not-user-friendly. I think the UI sucks. Although, it does produce VERY nice output. Cheers, Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: It might have been a virus but there is a much more direct reason: During editing a Word doc Word doesn't erase parts you erase and replaces them with the new text. It just adds the new text and hides the old. If you look at a doc which has been edited several times you'll see all the old contents in it (if you look at it with a "normal" editor. That behaviour caused some embarrassing moments. That makes sense. It was a file that I had had for a long time, many years, so I'm not surprised. Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Is there a download/trial version of Applixware I might try? I don't think I'll ever get wpoffice2000 unless they offer a download/trial version so I'm looking for other options. Thus spake Deryk Barker: Thus spake Sheldon Lee Wen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sun has released a preview of 5.2 (~80-100 MB and available for Windoze and Linux). Yes and it chokes on large complex msword docs. I wonder how good CorelOffice2000 is? Last time I used corel wp to import a word doc it choked too, but that was a much older version. I've been happily using Applixware for some 18 months. It's imported Word-7 Excel-7, Lotus 123 and even a 120+ overhead Powerpoint 7 presentation. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
Sun has released a preview of 5.2 (~80-100 MB and available for Windoze and Linux). Yes and it chokes on large complex msword docs. I wonder how good CorelOffice2000 is? Last time I used corel wp to import a word doc it choked too, but that was a much older version. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening
I had the same problem with an isp that assigned me an invalid hostname on connection. If I opened an xterm before I dialed and then once connected used the xterm to set my hostname back to what it was then everything "unfroze." Wierd I know. Civileme wrote: Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Okay, my turn to ask questions: I am setting up a machine for someone else who will only have dialup access to the internet. I have managed to configure the modem without any trouble; kppp can dial in, connect, and authenticate, and I can even surf and ping and all that good stuff. Here's the *strange* part: Once connected, I can't *open* anything. Nix. Nada. I can't open anything on the Kpanel, I can't open apps from the Kmenu... the system is paralyzed. All I can do, it seems, is disconnect kppp. No error messages of any kind. If I have Netscape open when I connect, I can surf normally. If I don't have Netscape open, I'm SOL -- because it won't open. After I disconnect -- bingo, I can open apps again. Peculiar, no? -Stephen- Your .kde might be corrupt--does this occur for ALL users or one user? There are workarounds such as configuring ppp from DrakConf-Networking and deleting the kppp and its icons if it is specific to kppp. More likely though, is a problem with ~/.kde. Depending on security level, there might be something in some of the configuration or options files. The fast test, if it is a ~/.kde problem is to rename ~/.kde to something else and let it be regenerated by ctrl-alt-backspace and logging in as the same user. If kppp then works, you know where the problem lies and you can retest as you put in every customized setting. If the same behavior evinces, then that is not the problem and you can delete the newly formed ~/.kde and rename the old one back to restore customizations. Other places to look? /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/ifup-ppp Civileme -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: [snip] If you don't use "init", lilo doesn't know what to do with the parameter. Yes it does. I use "linux 3" at the lilo prompt all the time. No problems. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] NIS problems
2) After the server is found I log off and try to log on with the username/password entries of the server's maps. I do not get an authentication failure, which means that the entries were found, the username/password form disappears for a couple of seconds but then appears again. I never manage to log in. Why I cannot? The user configuration files found on the server were not suitable for the client? What do I have to make sure, in order not to get that problem? What do you get from doing a "ypmatch username passwd"? Also could it be that the problem is not with nis? try to log in via the console and see if you get any error output. Also check your /var/log/messages to see what the output is then let me know. It's been a while since I did nis stuff but I'll see what I can do. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Joystick/SB AWE32 Game Port
I've had the same problem. If someone can find a solution please post it. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
[expert] kde2 rpms on contrib disk.
Hi, If I install the kde2 and qt2 rpm's on the contrib disk will it blow my existing kde installation away or will they coexist? It'd be nice if it added it to the chooser for kdm and let me switch back and forth. Does it do this? Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Is XFree 4.0 DRI usable with kernel 2.2.x (was: where is tdfx.o)
Now, there is a "tdfx.o" module in the 2.3.x tree, but _not_ in the 2.2.x Does that mean that XFree 4.0 might be usable on a 2.2.x kernel (at least the docs say so) but that the DRI component (3D hardware acceleration) is usable only on 2.3.x ??? I believe that is correct. I don't know for sure but I recall reading that the DRI component needed to coordinated with the kernel and that in 2.3.x they added dri support. Also, I believe that they changed quite a bit of stuff in the 2.3.x series compared to the 2.2.x series w/ respect to kernel structures, etc, so a kernel module for 2.3.x most likely won't work with a 2.2.x kernel. Sheldon.
Re: [expert] Netscape bashing
Civileme A user comes to me and says, "StarOffice won't SAVE! What am I supposed to do?" [snip] Anyone else have a similar experience? Well, yes, but on HP-UX Netscape would do that occasionally. On a different netscape rant I have had a myrid of problems with netscape and StarOffice working together. Occasionally it won't even start. Someone (my wife, kids, brother, mother, etc) on my box will click on star office and nothing will happen. If you run it from the commandline it returns right away, no errors. OR, it'll load but as soon as you try to open a file or open star writer it'll segfault. The solution? Remove the users .netscape directory. I don't know why but this seems to fix it every time. Go figure. Crappy product. Can't wait for KDE2's Konquorer or maybe Mozilla under Linux will shape up. Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
[expert] request for updates
Hi, I have a few requests for updates. indent 2.2.5 2.2.4 is buggy and doesn't always work. Also it's needed for the CADP toolset (Linux LOTOS CASE tool) to function properly. Please put the HOWTO's in. There is no reason for this omission as far as I can see. (or make them available) Krabber ( if it isn't already. I don't remember ) SOX 12.15 or newer if there is any. (Needed for Krabber) -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] ZIP drive under Mandrake 7.02?
Andrew, See my script attached below. If you get errors running it cut and paste it into a new file. For some reason I've run across wierd errors mailing scripts to people. I think some hidden control characters get let lying around or something. The script will start an older zipdrive, the one that uses the ppa driver. If yours in newer or is the 250MB one change all occurances of ppa to imm. You can put this in your run level. Once the script runs ( ./zipdrive start ) then add the following entry to your fstab: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipvfat noauto,user,exec,uid=1001,gid=100,umask=002 0 0 change uid, gid and umask to whatever you want or just remove them. If you have problems let me know. (I'm gzipping it to avoid those problems I was talking about). Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz == zipdrive.gz
Re: [expert] HelixCode GNOME
Vincent, Has anyone tried out the HelixCode GNOME? Wow! I was (and still am) severely impressed. I tried it. At first I had problems but as soon as I deleted my old gnome and enlightenment dir's (and other related ones), it worked fine. I still get problems with it starting more than one panel. (BTW: I installed from rpm). Now that it mostly works I should say that it's a BIG step in the right direction. More of that and I might switch from KDE. What is going to happen with Mandrake making use of this? This should be included in the base Mandrake distribution as a (IMHO) replacement for the regular GNOME. I really hope that Mandrake includes these packages. Better if they make their own rpm's and put them on the update. Anyways, I installed and have only one problem with it right now (the desktop icons seem to be broken) but other than that it's incredible! Really makes a difference! Yeah. I've got the same problem. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
[expert] xfree4.0
Any idea when we'll see xfree86 4.0 rpm's and the corresponding updated kernels? -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] partitioning
Mage, I installed 6.1 a couple of weeks ago and liked it so Why not 7.0 ? Is there a utility (like the commercial product PartitionMagic) that will allow me to resize the partition without having to reinstall? DON'T use PM to resize a linux partition. While they apparently have ext2 support I actually tried using it once to resize my linux root partition and it screwed up alot of files. Their support for ext2 isn't great, unless they've fixed it since then. The other option is to just create a new partition for say an existing directory, say /usr/local or something. I don't know off hand if you'll run into any problems doing it for /usr itself though. Then copy (probably with cp -a) everything in your /??? to the new partition, rename /??? to /???.old, mount the new partition to /??? then you can rm -R -f /???.old if it's something that's not vital you could just move it instead of copying it. Cheers, Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] vim leaves c behind
Yup, I noticed too. I took out the stupid word wrap thing now I get a c. Go fig. "Sang Y. Yum" wrote: Has anyone noticed this? After editing a file with vim, I get a "c", like this: [sang@pikatsu sang]$ vi test.txt c[sang@pikatsu sang]$ vi test2.txt c[sang@pikatsu sang]$ What gives? Sang = Sang Y. Yum http://www.yumnet.dyndns.org/~sang San Diego, CA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] adding TTF's doesnt seem to work
"David G. Thiessen" wrote: This all worked. I think the problem is the fonts I dl'ed for the gimp. They dont have the .ttf extension, but .pfb. The fonts are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont and .. .. .. .. .. /sharefont and /URW. My ttf fonts are now available, but the fonts needed by the GIMP I cant get running.. Any more assistance? You generated the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files? You don't run ttmkfdir for non-truetype fonts. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] adding TTF's doesnt seem to work
"David G. Thiessen" wrote: yes, i have the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files. i also did run ttmkfdir. You can't use that b/c those are not truetype fonts. run mkfontdir instead. If you ran ttmkfdir then you fonts.dir and .scale files may very well be empty or invalid. If they are empty you won't get any fonts. what do i need to do or undo to get these fonts to work in GIMP? -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] adding TTF's doesnt seem to work
David, I have tried adding more TTF fonts as detailed on the MandrakeUser.org website and according to the instructions posted on the gimp.org website, but I still cant seem to use these fonts in any of my apps. The fonts FAQ is wrong. I have sent them this updated one but they haven't posted it yet. (They've had it for more than a month). Oh well. POST IT GUYS!!! Also, once you have added the font's you have to restart the xfs server. /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart. When i use the KDE font manager, i dont see the new fonts. After restarting xfs then add them to kde using the font manager. When i use the gimp, the fonts are not usable. When i use WP8, i cant use the fonts. I have looked at my /etc/X11/fs/config file, and i see the fonts in the path. I have included the file below. Does anyone know what I could be doing incorrectly!? /etc/X11/fs/config: # # Default font server configuration file for Red Hat Linux 6.0 # # allow a max of 4 clients to connect to this font server client-limit = 4 # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one clone-self = off # alternate font servers for clients to use #alternate-servers = foo:7101,bar:7102 # where to look for fonts # Some of these are commented out, i.e. the TrueType and Type1 # directories in /usr/share, because they aren't forced to be # installed alongside X. # catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk, /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW # in 12 points, decipoints default-point-size = 120 # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75 default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100 # how to log errors use-syslog = on Cheers, Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz == Title: MUO -X - Fonts Administration Connectivity Forum Hardware Installation Kernel Modules LinuxBasics OtherResources SiteMap Troubleshooting X Main - X Fonts On X Anyone Seen My Loupe? Covers: Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? My Fonts Are Too Small! Adding Fonts Font Viewers Font Resources Related Resources: X Window User HOWTO, 7 Font Deuglification mini-HOWTO man xfs Translations: Dec. 12, 1999 Tom Berger Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? By default, X only supports bitmapped fonts, while are not scaleable. If you scale them anyway, they will look
[expert] ghostscript erros
Hi, I'm having a problem with ghostscript opening some postscript files. I get the error: unknown device x11alpha Anyone know what this means and how to fix it? Thanks. Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Merging Partitions from Seperate Harddrives - Possible?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote: Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are view as one partition? you may want to look into the logical volume manager for linux. It will let you do this. I know it was under development but I don't know the current status of it. Sheldon. - -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1i iQA/AwUBOLbHx/1zJb/TtW9UEQLgLgCeK0K/y5ZnI4kJYFe8ME3d3oI3fwAAnj2I XaQs9xJWsX15JgsA5a1DOffE =kDKL -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[expert] sendmail
Hi, Quick question. I'm using my machine for sending email (smtp) but I always get mail bounced back from hotmail, no one else. Here is what I get: The original message was received at Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:45:25 -0700 from IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [139.142.203.140] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to mc2.law5.hotmail.com.: DATA 554 Transaction failed 554 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Service unavailable Reporting-MTA: dns; tormak.dhs.org Received-From-MTA: DNS; tormak.dhs.org Arrival-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:45:25 -0700 Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: DNS; mc2.law5.hotmail.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 554 Transaction failed Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:47:47 -0700 I'm not an email expert so if someone could let me know what I'm doing wrong that would be great. I'm using sendmail not postfix btw. Thanks. Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
Re: [expert] Extending / partition
I'm not sure about the status of a logical volume manager for linux (I know one is/was in development) but with an LVM you can resize any volume or stretch it over multiple disks/paritions. Under linux however you may have to format to do the initial setup. Not sure, under HP-UX and some other UNIX's you don't. On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, you wrote: Okay I have seen a zillion ways to do this over the last couple of years and read hundreds of lines of mans, howto's, and email's, HOWEVER; I will ask this list for pointers again ! My / 3 gig partition is full. I have created another ext2 fs of 2 gigs on the same HD. How do I merge it into The present / so that after reboot (I guess that would be necessary?) The new / partition would contain 5 gigs? -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
[expert] StarOffice woes.
Hi, I'm having a hell of a time with star office51 that I downloaded from sun. Everytime I run it it shows the splash screen and then pops up a dialog box saying that an unrecoverable error occurred. So I deleted the .sversionrc file and my Office51 directory. Initially I had it network installed and ran a local install from the directory where the network install was located. Before rerunning the the installer I removed the directory from my home dir. I've done this to death. I tried another net install and a full install into my home dir over and over. I tried making sure that java is installed and playing around with my environment variables. Funny thing is that root and my wife have no problems running it. But everyone else gets the same error. So I tried copying my wifes home account and replacing mine with the copy. I got farther but I'd still get the same error after it was loaded. So I backed up my home directory and made a new one. Same problem. So I made a new user and logged in as him and installed it from a net install. Same problem. I'm beyond baffled now. Any suggestions? -- == "Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply." -Jon katz ==
[expert] updated/fixed xwindows-ttfonts faq/
Hi, I've fixed and expanded the FAQ that was here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html There were some errors in the steps and I expanded it for people who have broken ttfonts. I originally emailed it to the email address on the home page but no one has posted it or bothered to reply so I'm sending it to you guys. Gael- maybe you can beat him over the head with it "s'il vous plait" -- ====== Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. == Title: MUO -X - Fonts Administration Connectivity Forum Hardware Installation Kernel Modules LinuxBasics OtherResources SiteMap Troubleshooting X Main - X Fonts On X Anyone Seen My Loupe? Covers: Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? My Fonts Are Too Small! Adding Fonts Font Viewers Font Resources Related Resources: X Window User HOWTO, 7 Font Deuglification mini-HOWTO man xfs Translations: Dec. 12, 1999 Tom Berger Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? By default, X only supports bitmapped fonts, while are not scaleable. If you scale them anyway, they will look crumbly and rugged. This bipmapping is one reason why X eats up so much memory: instead of vectorial descriptions it sends bitmaps (i.e. small pictures of each displayed character). Later there came support for PostScript Type 1 and Speedo fonts which are scaleable, but the Type 1 font rendering machine is mediocre at best. Furthermore are good Postscript fonts very expensive and therefore can't be included. There are a lot of free fonts but their quality doesn't match commercial ones. (Thanks to Gael and Pablo for correcting me about this.) Now X supports TrueType fonts via the X Font Server 'xfs', but isn't able to do nifty stuff like anti-aliasing yet (some window managers however - like Enlightenment - do. The results are not very convincing, though). Many X applications don't know about TrueType at all. 'Hinting' works differently than with PostScript so that even if the application allows using TT fonts, the results could differ widely from what you might have expected. Hopefully this problem will lessen as soon as XFree 4 will be released (expected around February 2000), which will feature a major reimplantation of the font rendering subsystem. Until then, one has to resort to shifts for the m
Re: [expert] updated/fixed xwindows-ttfonts faq/
Ooops. Wrong one. Don't worry bout this one. Let me find the right one. Sorry. Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Hi, I've fixed and expanded the FAQ that was here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html There were some errors in the steps and I expanded it for people who have broken ttfonts. I originally emailed it to the email address on the home page but no one has posted it or bothered to reply so I'm sending it to you guys. Gael- maybe you can beat him over the head with it "s'il vous plait" -- == Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project. -- Andy Tanenbaum, oh how wrong you are :) ==
[expert] new/fixed xfont.html tutorial.
Hi, Here is the actual fixed xfont.html file for mandrake-user.org -- == Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project. -- Andy Tanenbaum, oh how wrong you are :) == Title: MUO -X - Fonts Administration Connectivity Forum Hardware Installation Kernel Modules LinuxBasics OtherResources SiteMap Troubleshooting X Main - X Fonts On X Anyone Seen My Loupe? Covers: Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? My Fonts Are Too Small! Adding Fonts Font Viewers Font Resources Related Resources: X Window User HOWTO, 7 Font Deuglification mini-HOWTO man xfs Translations: Dec. 12, 1999 Tom Berger Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly? By default, X only supports bitmapped fonts, while are not scaleable. If you scale them anyway, they will look crumbly and rugged. This bipmapping is one reason why X eats up so much memory: instead of vectorial descriptions it sends bitmaps (i.e. small pictures of each displayed character). Later there came support for PostScript Type 1 and Speedo fonts which are scaleable, but the Type 1 font rendering machine is mediocre at best. Furthermore are good Postscript fonts very expensive and therefore can't be included. There are a lot of free fonts but their quality doesn't match commercial ones. (Thanks to Gael and Pablo for correcting me about this.) Now X supports TrueType fonts via the X Font Server 'xfs', but isn't able to do nifty stuff like anti-aliasing yet (some window managers however - like Enlightenment - do. The results are not very convincing, though). Many X applications don't know about TrueType at all. 'Hinting' works differently than with PostScript so that even if the application allows using TT fonts, the results could differ widely from what you might have expected. Hopefully this problem will lessen as soon as XFree 4 will be released (expected around February 2000), which will feature a major reimplantation of the font rendering subsystem. Until then, one has to resort to shifts for the most serious problems. section index / top My fonts are too small! The Xconfigurator might still prefer 75dpi (dots
Re: [expert] Suspected FS corruption bug
In practically ever case of problems similar to what you described I have found the cause to be bad ram. About 1 of every 10 PC100 SDRAMS we have received from our vendor have been bad. They would pass the short POST at power-on but hey raised hell after words in a number of subtle ways. OK. I ran the ram check and your right. The ram has gone bad. Sucks. Thanks, Sheldon. -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
[expert] Suspected FS corruption bug
Hi, I'm beginning to suspect that there may be a bug in the stock mandrake kernel that causes file system corruption. (I installed mandrake7.0 almost a week ago now.) Eg. I downloaded star office to my home directory and then su'd and copy'd the file to the directory I wanted to install it in. I untarred it and installed it; had some problems with kde integration so figured I'd just reinstall it. ( I was tired ok! ) However the second time I untarred it I got crc errors. So I copied it back from my home dir and untarred it and it worked. However half way through the install I got crc errors while extracting files (I had previously removed the old install and setup directories so there were no preexisting files there). So I downloaded it again and it worked fine for about two hours then some lib's started getting corrupted and it refused to load, it would immediately segfault. So I completely deleted it and the install directory and untarred it again and ran it and got crc errors. Anyways I ended up downloading it again and reinstalling it. Then I was tired so I shutdown the computer normally with "shutdown -h now" I waited until it was done and went to bed. When I fired up the computer today I got alot of errors on the root drive and a nasty fsck. If this is fs corruption as a result of a bug in the kernel or something else is there a way that I can specifically test this? Sheldon. -- ====== Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] Suspected FS corruption bug
Palmer C Byrne wrote: In practically ever case of problems similar to what you described I have found the cause to be bad ram. About 1 of every 10 PC100 SDRAMS we have received from our vendor have been bad. They would pass the short POST at power-on but hey raised hell after words in a number of subtle ways. Hmm. OK I'll check the ram. However this machine was running fine for about 4 months until I put mandrake 7.0 on it. Never had any problems with this machine with mandrake 6.0 on it. Cheers, Sheldon. -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] Suspected FS corruption bug
does it happen with the 'kernel-linus' ? I recompiled my kernel last night from stock source code I downloaded last night. I'll let you know how it goes. So far no problems except wierd errors with VMWare's NT install. But that's most likely due to the fact that I transferred the entire VMWare disk to this machine over the internal network. I've fixed it now if I notice anything more I'll let you know. The suggestion about the memory is also possible I guess. Does linux have problems with ECC PC100 SDRAM? I've got a "ram exam" program I'll run on it to see if it turn's anything up. Cheers, Sheldon. -- ====== Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] Two persistent kfm bugs
Did you check permissions on the mounted diretory? I have found kfm does that if you try to put stuff in a mount you don't have permissions to that is not ext2fs. may want to add mode,group or uid to the options in the fstab or whatever is appropriate for you. -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
[expert] bug?
Hi, I'm posting this again b/c I've been having email difficulties and I'm not sure it got through the first time. If it did I apologize. I'm beginning to suspect that there may be a bug in the stock mandrake kernel that causes file system corruption. (I installed mandrake7.0 almost a week ago now.) Eg. I downloaded star office to my home directory and then su'd and copy'd the file to the directory I wanted to install it in. I untarred it and installed it; had some problems with kde integration so figured I'd just reinstall it. ( I was tired ok! ) However the second time I untarred it I got crc errors. So I copied it back from my home dir and untarred it and it worked. However half way through the install I got crc errors while extracting files (I had previously removed the old install and setup directories so there were no preexisting files there). So I downloaded it again and it worked fine for about two hours then some lib's started getting corrupted and it refused to load, it would immediately segfault. So I completely deleted it and the install directory and untarred it again and ran it and got crc errors. Anyways I ended up downloading it again and reinstalling it. Then I was tired so I shutdown the computer normally with "shutdown -h now" I waited until it was done and went to bed. When I fired up the computer today I got alot of errors on the root drive and a nasty fsck. If this is fs corruption as a result of a bug in the kernel or something else is there a way that I can specifically test this? Sheldon. -- ====== Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
[expert] Suspected FS corruption bug
Hi, I'm posting this again b/c I've been having email difficulties and I'm not sure it got through the first time. If it did I apologize. I'm beginning to suspect that there may be a bug in the stock mandrake kernel that causes file system corruption. (I installed mandrake7.0 almost a week ago now.) Eg. I downloaded star office to my home directory and then su'd and copy'd the file to the directory I wanted to install it in. I untarred it and installed it; had some problems with kde integration so figured I'd just reinstall it. ( I was tired ok! ) However the second time I untarred it I got crc errors. So I copied it back from my home dir and untarred it and it worked. However half way through the install I got crc errors while extracting files (I had previously removed the old install and setup directories so there were no preexisting files there). So I downloaded it again and it worked fine for about two hours then some lib's started getting corrupted and it refused to load, it would immediately segfault. So I completely deleted it and the install directory and untarred it again and ran it and got crc errors. Anyways I ended up downloading it again and reinstalling it. Then I was tired so I shutdown the computer normally with "shutdown -h now" I waited until it was done and went to bed. When I fired up the computer today I got alot of errors on the root drive and a nasty fsck. If this is fs corruption as a result of a bug in the kernel or something else is there a way that I can specifically test this? Sheldon. -- ====== Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2
Denis, serious What is it doing with this ld-linux library (normally, one would expect a program to LOAD a shared library, not to start as a child of it, or have I missed something?) I posted this before Denis. Most likely something like user level threads. User level threads run out of a shared library. It could also be using some compatibility libs like you mentioned. This could keep it ld-linux running constantly. It would also explain why if you kill it it kills netscape. If I'm wrong let me know wny. -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] Q3TEST/Linux/Banshee/GL problem
Svante, q3demoTEST-1.10-5 works OK on a rawhide/Matrox Millenuim/Voodoo 2 PC using libMesaVoodoGL.so.3.3, as well as q3test-1.0.8 with libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.1. Where do you get libMesaVoodoGL ?? -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2
Denis, There if I'm correct there is a bug in glibc 2.1 ld-linux. The only reason that I can think of that it is running as a process is that netscape is using user level threads. If netscape dies you can kill ld-linux too. :~i was wondering why is it when i run top i can see ld-linux.so.2 running :~occassionally. Isn't it a library file? Should it be running as a process?? Cheers, Sheldon. -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2 and amd
I have not seen such problems with 6.1, but then I decided the upgrade to Netscape 4.7 wasn't worth it, and stuck with 4.61. I'm on 6.1 and still using the old netscape and I have this problem occassionally too. Sheldon. -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] how do I allow users to ftp in
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Sheldon Lee Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve, Even IF you turn on MD5, you can still have legacy passwords in /etc/passwd. There's also a conversion utility to convert a legacy passwd file to shadowed. What would that be? I've enabled the MD5+shadow and reset my password but I still can't ftp in as myself. what wuftp version you use ? i think i have fixed all these thing in wu-ftpd-2.6-2mdk. Where can I get it? It's not on your ftp server or on a couple of the mirrors I checked. --Chmouel -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] how do I allow users to ftp in
Steve, Even IF you turn on MD5, you can still have legacy passwords in /etc/passwd. There's also a conversion utility to convert a legacy passwd file to shadowed. What would that be? I've enabled the MD5+shadow and reset my password but I still can't ftp in as myself. Sheldon. -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] how do I allow users to ftp in
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: what wuftp version you use ? i think i have fixed all these thing in wu-ftpd-2.6-2mdk. Where can I find it? I've look on the mdk ftp site and some mirrors and can't find 2.6-2. -- == Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2
Hi, 1011 tty1 S 0:06 /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /usr/i386-glibc20-linux 1025 tty1 Z 0:00 [netscape defunct] 1026 tty1 S 0:00 (dns helper) while running. Bizarre, huh? It also has a tendency to lock up MUCH more than in 6.0. When it does lock up, you have to kill off the ld process to get Netscape down. I'm mystified. How the hell was Netscape compiled in this release? I see this alot. Actually it happens even when netscape isn't running if I remember correctly. RPM shows this: [sheldonl@khardan sheldonl]$ rpm -q --whatprovides ld-linux.so.2 glibc-2.1.1-9mdk glibc-2.1.1-16mdk so it leads me to believe that this is a glibc bug. ld is the loader but I think it may be required to run constantly when a program uses shared libraries that it needs to access continuously or things like user level threads. There is a newer version of glibc out but I haven't tried it b/c I don't want to break my system. Any ideas? Cheers, Sheldon. -- == Sheldon Lee Wen "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD DOSUTILS directory) what is non -destructive, but there is *a lot* of things you have to adjust before and after the resizing. PartMag does everything automagically. (You need to have Win or DOS partition or a special floppy to use this though) Don't do this to a linux partition though. It says it can handle it but it's destroyed many a file on my filesystem on every occasion I tried it. I ended up reinstalling linux. -- == Sheldon Lee Wen "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
[expert] ld-linux.so.2
Hi, I noticed after a while of my box being up that ld-linux.so.2 seems to increase largely in memory and cpu usage. It keeps creeping up in size. Is this a memory leak? Is there a fix? Sheldon. -- == Sheldon Lee Wen "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2
Andrew, huh? ld-linux is the 'interpreter' which ELF executables ask the kernel to launch to get them running. How do you get a process called ld-linux.so.2? I'd be interested in seeing your 'ps auxfw' output. color me crazy but it's there. Anyway, you should be studying... I am. I was doing an assignment for Natural Language Processing when I noticed it. My friend Jon noticed it to. Apparently on his machine after three days of uptime it was taking up 30 megs or something. --- here it is. 10:29pm up 4:46, 1 user, load average: 3.09, 2.11, 1.76 87 processes: 78 sleeping, 5 running, 1 zombie, 3 stopped CPU states: 67.1% user, 24.6% system, 0.0% nice, 8.2% idle Mem: 79296K av, 73324K used, 5972K free, 30768K shrd, 11480K buff Swap: 128448K av, 46828K used, 81620K free 23048K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 636 root 3 0 19068 13M 1516 R 0 8.5 17.6 7:27 X 702 sheldonl 14 0 3240 1992 616 R 0 5.9 2.5 0:49 kbgndwm 22644 sheldonl 0 0 14180 8596 2560 D 0 2.6 10.8 1:08 ld-linux.so.2 13577 root 1 0 408 408 324 D 0 1.9 0.5 0:00 rm -- == Sheldon Lee Wen "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. == USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 1148 68 ?S17:43 0:02 init root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 17:43 0:15 [kflushd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 17:43 0:00 [kpiod] root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 17:43 0:12 [kswapd] root 7 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 17:43 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] bin285 0.0 0.0 11440 ?SW 17:43 0:00 [portmap] root 337 0.0 0.2 1204 204 ?S17:43 0:00 syslogd root 347 0.0 0.0 14360 ?SW 17:43 0:00 [klogd] root 366 0.0 0.1 1296 120 ?S17:43 0:00 crond root 381 0.0 0.0 11920 ?SW 17:43 0:00 [inetd] root 426 0.0 0.0 12200 ?SW 17:43 0:00 [lpd] root 464 0.0 0.0 1180 60 ?S17:43 0:03 gpm -t ps/2 root 479 0.0 0.0 6208 44 ?S17:43 0:01 httpd nobody 505 0.0 0.0 62320 ?SW 17:43 0:00 \_ [httpd] root 493 0.0 0.0 17480 ?SW 17:43 0:00 [safe_mysqld] root 499 0.0 0.0 3348 48 ?S17:43 0:00 \_ [mysqld] root 532 0.0 0.0 3348 48 ?S17:43 0:00 \_ [mysqld] root 533 0.0 0.0 3348 48 ?S17:43 0:00 \_ [mysqld] root 549 0.0 0.0 11160 ?SW 17:43 0:00 [vmnet-bridge] xfs574 0.0 1.8 4660 1428 ?S17:43 0:09 xfs -port -1 root 626 0.0 0.0 11240 tty1 SW 17:43 0:00 [mingetty] root 627 0.0 0.0 11240 tty2 SW 17:43 0:00 [mingetty] root 628 0.0 0.0 11240 tty3 SW 17:43 0:00 [mingetty] root 629 0.0 0.0 11240 tty4 SW 17:43 0:00 [mingetty] root 630 0.0 0.0 11240 tty5 SW 17:43 0:00 [mingetty] root 631 0.0 0.0 11240 tty6 SW 17:43 0:00 [mingetty] root 632 0.0 0.0 60080 ?SW 17:43 0:00 [prefdm] root 636 2.6 13.2 22304 10536 ? S17:43 7:22 \_ /etc/X11/X -dpi 100 -auth /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/A:0-gCua root 637 0.0 0.0 69480 ?SW 17:43 0:00 \_ [prefdm] sheldonl 656 0.4 1.4 6768 1168 ?S17:45 1:08 \_ kwm sheldonl 694 0.0 0.6 6380 476 ?S17:45 0:01 \_ kwmsound sheldonl 695 0.0 1.9 7168 1524 ?S17:45 0:09 \_ kpanel sheldonl 707 0.0 0.4 2924 392 ?S17:45 0:01 | \_ xload -nolabel sheldonl 697 0.0 2.6 10008 2128 ?S17:45 0:07 \_ kfm sheldonl 767 0.0 0.3 7028 308 ?S17:58 0:00 | \_ konsole -icon konsole.xpm -miniicon konsole.xpmi -cap sheldonl 768 0.0 0.0 20440 pts/0SW 17:58 0:00 | | \_ [bash] root 769 0.0 0.0 19400 pts/0SW 17:58 0:00 | | \_ [su] root 770 0.0 0.0 20120 pts/0SW 17:58 0:00 | | \_ [bash] sheldonl 778 0.2 2.2 7732 1788 ?S17:59 0:39 | \_ konsole -icon konsole.xpm -miniicon konsole.xpmi -cap sheldonl 779 0.0 0.0 20560 pts/1SW 17:59 0:00 | | \_ [bash] root 1774 0.0 0.0 19400 pts/1SW 18:01 0:00 | | \_ [su] root 1775 0.0 0.7 2044 572 pts/1S18:01 0:00 | | \_
Re: [expert] what gives with bookmarks?
Hi again, (Hi Andrew. Long time no talk?) :) Anyways, for alot of netscape fixes including the bookmarks problem see my netscape FAQ http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cnetscap.html If it isn't any of those problems check your preferences.js file like Andrew said. If you get confused you can always just close netscape, delete your preferences.js file and restart netscape. It'll regenerate that file, then you have to set your preferences again. Before restarting it though check the permissions and ownership on your bookmarks.html file by "cd ~/.netscape; ls -asl | grep bookmarks.html" make sure it's owned by your and you have read/write access to it. Also, when netscape is loaded up if you don't get your bookmarks import them, arrange as necessary and then close them, DO NOT do a save or save-as on then. Cheers, Sheldon. (It's the damned sysadmin in me I tell you.)
Re: [expert] Netscape FAQ Update
It can be found at http://www.leeloo.org/nsfaq/ -- == Sheldon Lee Wen "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
[expert] Netscape FAQ Update
Hi, Just to let you all know; I've updated the Netscape FAQ. It not contains pointers to solving problems with Netscape hanging on startup if you have no internet connection up and improving stability. Cheers, Sheldon. -- == Sheldon Lee Wen "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] Few questions
Andrew Morton wrote: http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html Thanks andrew. I couldn't remember where it was and didn't have the time to search for it. -- == Sheldon Lee Wen "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] IBM Aptiva and Linux
Hi, [snip] If it's got USB, disable it. The other thing is that IBM aptiva's (the older ones anyways, not sure about the new ones) came with either an mwave card or a winmodem and soundcard. I'm not sure about the status of the mwave card running under linux, maybe someone else can comment. If you have a winmodem you're most likely out of luck there too. In either of these cases you would need to get a new modem and/or sound card. Also, the proprietary IBM stuff, like fast shortcuts and cd controls on the keyboard might not (probably won't) work either. I'm not too sure though as I've never tried it. Also the DVD may not work. I'm not sure what the current status of DVD drivers for linux are. Cheers, Sorry I'm not that helpful. Sheldon. -- == Sheldon Lee Wen "Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance." -- Sifu. ==
Re: [expert] Helios is out
This is great news. One question that is on my mine is: Does this kernel blow up VMWare? If not I'll start the download ASAP! cheers, Sheldon. Darin wrote: The official announcement is on the main site, theres an ISO on the primary and seconday mirrors! WooHoo! I'm glad I've been using fmirror on my system here for the last few days.. I was wondering why there were no updates today. -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
[expert] Linux install on Compaq aero
Hi, I'm wondering how to go about getting linux installed on a compaq aero 486sx/25 The challenge is that had only 1 pcmcia slot and the floppy drive plugs into it. I can get a cdrom drive that plugs into the parallel port but how do I enable this during the installation? Thanks Sheldon -- == Sheldon Lee Wen #include disclaimer.h "My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer" ==
Re: [expert] updates ...
Linux Group DIFI wrote: Hi, try to use the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel I,ve had the unmount problem too and it's resolved. Yeah but VMWare doesn't work with it. Sheldon. (I hope) R.A.F. Brett Jones wrote: I currently have this problem and have come across no fixes. I've tried the tips in the pcmcia how-to with zero results, and I've tried running the latest 2.2.10 kernel packages from the cooker dist. I'm just running the 2.2.9-19 kernel and living with the umount trouble. Maybe one of the Mandrake soft people have some pointers Brett. I don't know if this has been mentitoned or if you need it, but after upgrading the initscripts package I still had unmount problems. What I found that worked was NOT starting any NFS services. If I leave NFS out I don't get an unmount problem when I shutdown. Hope this helps and that you don't need nfs. :) On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: I updated the kernel and initscripts packages due to the unmount problem at shutdown time... well now i have another problem, the cardmgr program can't load the modules for the pcmcia and it saids that's because a lack of memory ... does anybody of you have (or had) the same problem? how did you fixed? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- == Sheldon Lee Wen #include disclaimer.h "My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer" == -- ====== Sheldon Lee Wen #include disclaimer.h "My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer" ==
[expert] HTML error on Lothar page.
Hi, On the Lothar web page in the last comment reading: !-- /FOOTER - You are missing a hyphen "-" the line should read: !-- /FOOTER -- But I think you already know this. Anyhoo, b/c of this the page won't load b/c all the following tags are commented out. Cheers, Sheldon. -- ====== Sheldon Lee Wen #include disclaimer.h "My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer" ==
