Re: [newbie] failing to unmount
If you go to the updates page of the Mandrake site it has a blurb on this bug. Everyone should be updating their kernel to 2.2.9-27 anyway because of a security bug... but this as well as the initscripts is what is needed to fix the unmount bug.. I have that bug as well.. I have updated initscripts.. I need to download and update the kernel now.. OH NO!! LOL!! hopefully I wont bugger up my system For those that have been following my saga... I now have a working modem and sound card.. YE HA! I have mounted both my windoze partitions on Linux to get access to all my pics and other files. So the sun is a little brighter on my mandrake 6.0 install. james
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:11 PM Subject: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Finally given up on trying to get the onboard sound to work anyone got a recommendation on a good sound card for linux? From what I read in the archives the SB Live isn't ready for linux without some major updating and I would assume the same is true for SB Live/Value. How about the SB [SNIP] I don't really agree with this. The SBLive is a blinding card, and it just depends on your requirements. I mainly (still) use Windows for gaming, which lets face it is the only place where I personally need the SBLive's capabilities (i refer to the SBLive Value when i talk about the SBLive too). Lets be fair here, the cards aren't ready for Windows without obtaining the whole host of upgrades from creative either !! The sound card works admirably under Linux, installs easily (despite plenty of emails asking for help - the solution is dead easy), and allows me to get system sounds under X, play my CD's, listen to MP3s, and use the Mixer. [SNIP} OK, so what is the dead easy solution Joe
Re: [[newbie] Successful install of Real Audio now what?]
Try the Redhat Rpm for G2 Jeanette - Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Successful install of Real Audio now what?] On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, you wrote: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have successfully downloaded and installed G2alpha of real audio. I simply can't get it to work. "I've studied the language tapes and read all the books but nothings prepared me for ..." How do I configure real audio player to connect to the internet? Rick "Mulerider" Murphy = I too downloaded the G2 alpha, but can not get it to install. It downloaded into my /home/name/ folder. Might this be the problem. Should I move it to /bin or /opt ? How did you get it to install after the download?? Mike Mike, Open up your file folder and then click on the G2. bin file. It should be self extracting. If it won't extract then open the file as super user, right click on the file and go to permissions and check all the blocks giving your local user permission to use it. Then go back to local and try to extract it. I am still unsuccessful in getting the darn thing to work. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
Re: [newbie] AIM for Linux
or you can use the java buddy AIM thats at www.aol.com. just look for it. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Ty Mixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] AIM for Linux There is a good Linux AIM client called gaim. I think you can get it at www.linuxberg.com. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 26147713 Original Message On 8/22/99, 8:16:49 AM, "Beo d'Wulfie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] AIM for Linux: Some time ago I stumbled upon a java script which allowed me to use AIM via the web. Well 4 installations later and I've lost the bookmark. Can anyone help? I've tried the home page for both AOL and AIM with no luck. Thanks. Beo new linux user, new pc owner, new stockholder in excedrin
Re: [newbie] failing to unmount
- Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] failing to unmount If you go to the updates page of the Mandrake site it has a blurb on this bug. Everyone should be updating their kernel to 2.2.9-27 anyway because of a security bug... but this as well as the initscripts is what is needed to fix the unmount bug.. Don't know if the kernel upgrade specifically address anything to do with the unmounting bug (i have my doubts as all i updated were the init scripts and then the problem went away), but it's certainly not true to say everyone should upgrade the kernel because of the security bug. I don't have a modem in my PC - i have a laptop running W98 for work, and use that instead. Therefore, as the Linux box is never connected to anyone except itself, this means no security threat !! I have that bug as well.. I have updated initscripts.. I need to download and update the kernel now.. OH NO!! LOL!! hopefully I wont bugger up my system Okay, i haven't read the updates page - but didn't the unmount problem go away after just upgrading the initscripts ?? [SNIP] Martin.
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:11 PM Subject: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? [SNIP] OK, so what is the dead easy solution Joe What's the problem exactly - sorry my ISPs mail has been down since last Wednesday, and even now my mails a bit sporadic, so i missed the original problem. Martin. Pick up a Sound Blaster PCI 512 and am having difficulty with the install (go figure) lost the modem in an attempt to get sndconfig working (connects but no data transfer). Am looking for a url to download Creative Labs linux drivers and perhaps some "dummies" instruction as to what to do with it once I've got it. Joe
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
OK, so I've picked up a PCI512. Pulled the plug and installed the card (why do these things come with covers anyway?) had three minutes and tried a quick and dirty sndconfig from linux 1. Well it couldn't find the card so i tried a couple of SB examples and nuttin' honey. Now the modem doesn't work (connects but won't access any site - arghhh). I recall someone posting a couple of files that needed to be edited but i don't recall which or what to edit. Any help ?? Don't really feel like reinstalling this just because i can't fix it with a simple edit. Also still looking for some help with update / install of the proper SB files. Think PCI512 = Live! With this in mind, Creative isn't being very supportive of Linux for their Live! series of sound cards. Their ISA sound cards plus the PCI64/PCI128 should work okay in Linux. -- Yusry Harfuddin [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Re: [newbie] failing to unmount
Don't know if the kernel upgrade specifically address anything to do with the unmounting bug (i have my doubts as all i updated were the init scripts and then the problem went away), but it's certainly not true to say everyone should upgrade the kernel because of the security bug. I don't have a modem in my PC - i have a laptop running W98 for work, and use that instead. Therefore, as the Linux box is never connected to anyone except itself, this means no security threat !! True.. if your not using the linux box to connect to ANYTHING then there is nothing to worry about security wise.. Okay, i haven't read the updates page - but didn't the unmount problem go away after just upgrading the initscripts ?? Actually I have not shut it down since I have updated Martin.. LOL! So I dont know yet. ;o) James
Re: [newbie] Running script as root
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, James Stewart wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Commands in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local will be run as root when the PPP connection is brought up. Place the commands you want executed as root into that file. thanks. Also, apmd is run when I boot the system. What file do I change to affect how low the battery on my laptop can go before I get system messages every minute warning me about it? It gets very annoying getting messages when the battery has 45 minutes of life left to it. "man apmd" should give the information you need. Already tried that. It tells me how to set-up apmd if it hasn't already been loaded, but not how to change how it's called in the boot sequence. James. edit /etc/sysconfig/apmd -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Netscape Shuts Down and Other Problems
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: I'm running Netscape 4.61 w/128 bit encryption. When I try to log on to some sites with a login dialogue as a user the Netscape process exits completely and leave the following messages when I go to console mode from KDE. Please contact netscape, and ask them to let us compile it our selves.. KFM seems to be crashed !!! Running new KFM !! KFM is already running QFile::writeBlock: File not open i forget this address, but i think [EMAIL PROTECTED], if it's persistant ERROR: /usr/local/netscape/plugins/cpPack1.jar.old: invalid ELF header Cant load plugin /usr/local/netscape/plugins/cpPack1.jar.old not us, what is it While using kpackage I tried to do a file find. I got the following two errors. Kprocess error: Cann't start dpkg Kprocess error: Cann't start kiss No worry, should probably say "Kprocess warning:" Also, another error was generated by xman I'm assuming. stat(usr/man/man1/ghostscript.1.bz2) failed, probably file doesn't exist On this last error I tried running 'stat "/usr/man/man1/ghostscript.1.bz2"' from the console and got a complete listing on this file. At least under RedHat 5.2 xman and all the man pages worked. Try rpm -Uhv \ ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/X11R6-contrib-3.3.2-8mdk.i586.rpm The patch got lost forgoten or other wise misplaced.. sorry -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
- Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:11 PM Subject: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? [SNIP] OK, so what is the dead easy solution Joe What's the problem exactly - sorry my ISPs mail has been down since last Wednesday, and even now my mails a bit sporadic, so i missed the original problem. Martin. Pick up a Sound Blaster PCI 512 and am having difficulty with the install (go figure) lost the modem in an attempt to get sndconfig working (connects but no data transfer). Am looking for a url to download Creative Labs linux drivers and perhaps some "dummies" instruction as to what to do with it once I've got it. Joe The URL to the linux drivers homepage is: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ IF the card is deemed to be an SBLive or SBLive Value, then i can help out, and will send further details on request. If it is under the category 'Sound Blaster PCI' then it would be unfair for me to attempt to help - i have absolutely no experience of these cards whatsoever. I did a little hunting around, but the only PCI card Creative specifically mention in the products section of their website would appear to be the SB PCI 16, which certainly doesn't sound like the SBLive. Let me know. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: if that fails check the fetchmail.debug, and make sure you didn't install both postfix and sendmail. Quick addendum... I went into rpm and found that both were installed. I removed sendmail and rebooted th machine. Beo Thats enough to break it, so i assume it works now then? Uh, nope. It's still not working. :( I'm at a loss as to what to do next. Perhaps go in and do fetchmailconf again from scratch? Beo Maybe if you emailed the verbose output from fetchmail (-v) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] How do I install my scanner Umax S-6E?
Hello Martin Excuse the delay in giving a return your message. I went to the place that you indicated me and I read the configurations for Umax and, finally, I understood what was the scsi genric card. I thought that was a module to be carried by the kernel, but, actually, it is the form like Sane works with the scsi card of Umax. I followed the recommendations and, finally, my scanner worked in Linux Mandrake. I only need, now, to find the best options of configuration of the card. In fact, I take advantage of to ask somebody that has the same scanner could send me the options used to configure it, it would abbreviate the time I spend with the attempts. I thank your help a lot, as the one of the other companions that answered. Forced to all. "Martin, Darin W." ha scritto: From the Sane umax-scsi documentation at http://www.Wolfsburg.DE/~rauch/sane/sane-umax-config-doc.html It shows to use a driver for an NCR5380 SCSI controller. The sample command they show is insmod g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=255 ncr_addr=0x280 dtc_3181e=1 You may have to play around with the ncr_addr part. They list a whole bunch of IO addresses the controller card can use. -Original Message- From: Joao C Agostini [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I install my scanner Umax S-6E? Hi Thank you for your concern. I had already seen Sane and in its documents I read that was necessary that the kernel should have the module for a generic scsi board, for that I asked the list if somebody knows which is that module and as I do to carry him/it. Who can me that to answer he/she would thank. "Martin, Darin W." ha scritto: Joao, Before spending the money on a new SCSI card, go to the SANE page and try their drivers. They list your scanner and the controller it comes with as supported.. Their site is at http://www.mostang.com/sane/ -Original Message- From: Joao C Agostini [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 10:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I install my scanner Umax S-6E? Hello Thank you very much for the information and for the attention. It is a sad news, but I will take your advice because, I find, this will be the only form of doing my scanner to work. But, even so, I would like something to know on which module for a generic board scsi, do you know? Thank you again. Steve Philp ha scritto: Joao C Agostini wrote: Hello Does by chance anybody have a scanner of the mark Umax S-6E? I saw in the sane that there is the drive for him, but when I made the installation of Mandrake it didn't consist a scsi board for him. I wrote for to Umax so that they informed me which the type of the scsi board that they used for S-6E, but until today I didn't obtain answer. Did I Read in the documents of the sane that the kernel should include a module (?) of generic scsi, what module is this? How do I do so that it is carried by the kernel or so that it is included in him? What should read to enable my scanner? At once thank you very much. The SCSI board that ships with the S-6E is a completely worthless piece of crap and should be tossed into the nearest trash can. Pick up a cheap Adaptec and install the kernel drivers for it and you'll be fine with that scanner. I used to run the same here with an AHA-1524 card (at least, I think that was the number of the card, it's been awhile). -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- João Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brasil - SP ICQ - 33.965.439 usuário Linux # 106644 -- João Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brasil - SP ICQ - 33.965.439 usuário Linux # 106644 -- João Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brasil - SP ICQ - 33.965.439 usuário Linux # 106644
Re: [newbie] Lilo
wait I don't understand. I moved the Dos label above the linux and it still didn't work. I don't have a line that says default=linux or default=dos am I suppossed to add that somewhere? Do I put that line right above the label=dos line? let me know thanks for the help -out neil From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: How do you change the lilo bootup to automatically startup the DOS paritition by default instead of linux? what file do i edit and what do i edit it to? Opps, hit send and forgot to mention. You will need to rerun lilo after the edit -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Netscape Files
Can anyone tell me which files in Netscape contain the "Personal Bookmarks"and the "Address Book?"I found "bookmark.html" it had everything except the "personal" ones. I justwant to back them up so as not to have to go through the *big* hassle ofredoing them if/when I have to do a reinstall! TIA!John PS--Sorry, I posted this to "expert" accidentally!
[newbie] Using KPP to log into an NT Server
Hello, I been unsuccessful at trying to dial into my NT Server from linux. Can anyone help? Where can I find a "good" HOW-TO? Thanks --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
[newbie] KDE hangs when using ZIP drive
Hello, When I attempt to transfer files from my ZIP 100. KDE hangs at the end of the transfer. I have no problems if I'm not in KDE. I also have NO problems if I remove Mandrake and install the "real" RedHat distribution, and use KDE. Any suggestions? --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
Here you go There may be more recent and better aproaches, but here's one http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers//answertips/story/0,3656,2259636,00.html This uses the drivers from the Soundblaster site. Civileme "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:11 PM Subject: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? [SNIP] OK, so what is the dead easy solution Joe What's the problem exactly - sorry my ISPs mail has been down since last Wednesday, and even now my mails a bit sporadic, so i missed the original problem. Martin. Pick up a Sound Blaster PCI 512 and am having difficulty with the install (go figure) lost the modem in an attempt to get sndconfig working (connects but no data transfer). Am looking for a url to download Creative Labs linux drivers and perhaps some "dummies" instruction as to what to do with it once I've got it. Joe -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
Re: [newbie] Lilo
after editing /etc/lilo.conf run the command /sbin/lilo. SA From: "Neil P." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:21:44 - wait I don't understand. I moved the Dos label above the linux and it still didn't work. I don't have a line that says default=linux or default=dos am I suppossed to add that somewhere? Do I put that line right above the label=dos line? let me know thanks for the help -out neil From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: How do you change the lilo bootup to automatically startup the DOS paritition by default instead of linux? what file do i edit and what do i edit it to? Opps, hit send and forgot to mention. You will need to rerun lilo after the edit -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: wait I don't understand. I moved the Dos label above the linux and it still didn't work. I don't have a line that says default=linux or default=dos am I suppossed to add that somewhere? Do I put that line right above the label=dos line? let me know thanks for the help -out neil From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: How do you change the lilo bootup to automatically startup the DOS paritition by default instead of linux? what file do i edit and what do i edit it to? Opps, hit send and forgot to mention. You will need to rerun lilo after the edit "You will need to rerun lilo after the edit" you did this? The very top line, of your lilo.conf says something like? default=dos -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
- Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Here you go There may be more recent and better aproaches, but here's one http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers//answertips/story/0,3656,2259636,00.h tml This uses the drivers from the Soundblaster site. Civileme [SNIP] Tried to checkout that link, but it seemed to be broke, so for the time being try this. My install is still on kernel 2.2.9-19mdk, so the directories in the following will need changing accordingly if you have upgraded your kernel. If you've done that, i'll assume you know enough to just follow the following... http://www/whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.htm The file referred to from Creative's site is 'emu10k1-0.3b.tar.gz'. The instructions were in response to a previous post when the latest version of the driver came out. So far no-one has told me anything to the contrary, so i assume they work (i have given the URL out quite a few times now). If they don't, can someone tell me why and i'll try and correct the instructions (incidentally, i have had a few replies thanking me, so i guess they do!!). Obviously if resources are conflicting with modems and stuff, that might be a different matter altogether. Give it a go and let me know (although i won't get any mail again until the morning now). Good luck, Martin.
[newbie] parallel scanners?
anyone know if there is any support for parallel scanners in linux? i have a mustek 1200 III EP that i might like to try soon, but i havent seen any info about parallel scanners, just scsi. :P
[newbie] c compiler doesnt work!
i am trying to install some new software by compiling source. when i run the configure script that comes with the source, it checks for several things. one of the things it checks for is whether i have gcc, then it says ok. next it says 'checking whether c compiler worksno' then it wont continue compilation. is there more configuration that needs to happen for (p)gcc to work? i am trying to run it 'out of the box'. :P
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
Martin White wrote: major snip The URL to the linux drivers homepage is: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ IF the card is deemed to be an SBLive or SBLive Value, then i can help out, and will send further details on request. If it is under the category 'Sound Blaster PCI' then it would be unfair for me to attempt to help - i have absolutely no experience of these cards whatsoever. I did a little hunting around, but the only PCI card Creative specifically mention in the products section of their website would appear to be the SB PCI 16, which certainly doesn't sound like the SBLive. Let me know. Martin. The PCI16 is a rebadged Ensonique (from what I saw when we were selling them). To me it seems as though Creative bought Ensonique as they were falling behind in the PCI sound card race, needed to get one released. I have the SB Live! (full, not value). The only small problem I have is that the Creative modules only support 2.2.5 2.2.10 AFAIR. I have checked the Linux-Mandrake site, but they do not have 2.2.10 listed as an upgrade kernel version. I have copy of the full 2.2.10 kernel source curtsey of PC Plus. Can I use this to upgrade/replace the version supplied with Linux-Mandrake PowerPack? I used to run RH6 (for two weeks) had my SB Live! running under that, so I know it works. Any guidance on upgrading to kernel version 2.2.10? I know that there is a 2.2.11 version now available, but I need 2.2.10
[newbie] Uninstalling PAM
how do i uninstall the PAM package the best way? anyone ever tried to do this? Anyone a really big fan of pam... i personally think its a huge waste and i dont like it at all. Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
go to http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ They have all the files needed to setup a SB in linux.. got my sb live up and going in a matter of a minute.. RReed - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 7:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:11 PM Subject: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? [SNIP] OK, so what is the dead easy solution Joe What's the problem exactly - sorry my ISPs mail has been down since last Wednesday, and even now my mails a bit sporadic, so i missed the original problem. Martin. Pick up a Sound Blaster PCI 512 and am having difficulty with the install (go figure) lost the modem in an attempt to get sndconfig working (connects but no data transfer). Am looking for a url to download Creative Labs linux drivers and perhaps some "dummies" instruction as to what to do with it once I've got it. Joe
Re: [newbie] Lilo
label=dos :) RReed - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: wait I don't understand. I moved the Dos label above the linux and it still didn't work. I don't have a line that says default=linux or default=dos am I suppossed to add that somewhere? Do I put that line right above the label=dos line? let me know thanks for the help -out neil From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: How do you change the lilo bootup to automatically startup the DOS paritition by default instead of linux? what file do i edit and what do i edit it to? Opps, hit send and forgot to mention. You will need to rerun lilo after the edit "You will need to rerun lilo after the edit" you did this? The very top line, of your lilo.conf says something like? default=dos -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
go to http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ They have all the files needed to setup a SB in linux.. got my sb live up and going in a matter of a minute.. RReed - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Alan Shoemaker wrote: Randolphthe pci128 works fine. There was some trouble with the original mdk 6.0 release, but when you've installed all of the sound-related updates it installs and works just fine. Alan -Original Message- From: Randolph Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, August 21, 1999 2:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Hi Joseph. I feel I'm in the same boat as you in regards to downloading and installing hardware drivers for Linux, and I gotta tell ya I'm feeling a little pissed off right now! I had a AWE 64 Value card that worked under Mandrake 6.0, but wanted to upgrade. I checked the supported hardware list and decided to get the SBPCI 128 since it looked to be ok. Well, the Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370 driver that was supposed to work with it doesn't! I found a Linux support page at Creative for this card that referred to a commercial site for a driver (www.4front-tech.com) . Fat lotta good that does me though as I don't have a clue what to do with it! Can anyone refer me to a soucre of DETAILED information on how to install a driver? And where I might find a free one? In conclusion Joseph, this has taught me that whatever hardware you decide upon, make doubley certain it's supported! - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 2:11 PM Subject: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Finally given up on trying to get the onboard sound to work anyone got a recommendation on a good sound card for linux? From what I read in the archives the SB Live isn't ready for linux without some major updating and I would assume the same is true for SB Live/Value. How about the SB PCI128 ? I don't have a clue how to install downloads yet and am looking for something simple (or REALLY detailed instructions on the install [RTFM] -it's probably very simple but PLEASE go easy it's my first time GRIN. OK, so I've picked up a PCI512. Pulled the plug and installed the card (why do these things come with covers anyway?) had three minutes and tried a quick and dirty sndconfig from linux 1. Well it couldn't find the card so i tried a couple of SB examples and nuttin' honey. Now the modem doesn't work (connects but won't access any site - arghhh). I recall someone posting a couple of files that needed to be edited but i don't recall which or what to edit. Any help ?? Don't really feel like reinstalling this just because i can't fix it with a simple edit. Also still looking for some help with update / install of the proper SB files. Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co Cleveland, OH
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
go to http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ They have all the files needed to setup a SB in linux.. got my sb live up and going in a matter of a minute.. RReed - Original Message - From: YH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 7:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? OK, so I've picked up a PCI512. Pulled the plug and installed the card (why do these things come with covers anyway?) had three minutes and tried a quick and dirty sndconfig from linux 1. Well it couldn't find the card so i tried a couple of SB examples and nuttin' honey. Now the modem doesn't work (connects but won't access any site - arghhh). I recall someone posting a couple of files that needed to be edited but i don't recall which or what to edit. Any help ?? Don't really feel like reinstalling this just because i can't fix it with a simple edit. Also still looking for some help with update / install of the proper SB files. Think PCI512 = Live! With this in mind, Creative isn't being very supportive of Linux for their Live! series of sound cards. Their ISA sound cards plus the PCI64/PCI128 should work okay in Linux. -- Yusry Harfuddin [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Re: [newbie] Lilo
the line is label.. that is what chosses default boot i believe RReed - Original Message - From: Neil P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 2:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo wait I don't understand. I moved the Dos label above the linux and it still didn't work. I don't have a line that says default=linux or default=dos am I suppossed to add that somewhere? Do I put that line right above the label=dos line? let me know thanks for the help -out neil From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: How do you change the lilo bootup to automatically startup the DOS paritition by default instead of linux? what file do i edit and what do i edit it to? Opps, hit send and forgot to mention. You will need to rerun lilo after the edit -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM
I don't understand your aversion to PAM and won't try to guess. Before you uninstall PAM maybe read up on it's purpose. The following two URLs has a very good information on PAM. http://temp.redhat.com/linux-info/pam/index.html http://temp.redhat.com/linux-info/pam/why_not_pam.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Justin Fisher Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM how do i uninstall the PAM package the best way? anyone ever tried to do this? Anyone a really big fan of pam... i personally think its a huge waste and i dont like it at all.
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
A big thanks goes to Martin for getting that sorted out. I now have CD Audio, etc. But I would still like to upgrade to 2.2.10 tho...
Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ??
Yeech! Try it with one / between screensavers and answertips and the full .html on the end, not just h? Partly my fault and partly Netscape http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answertips/story/0,3656,2259636,00.html Now that one should work. Civileme Martin White wrote: - Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] new sound card suggestions ?? Here you go There may be more recent and better aproaches, but here's one http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers//answertips/story/0,3656,2259636,00.h tml This uses the drivers from the Soundblaster site. Civileme [SNIP] Tried to checkout that link, but it seemed to be broke, so for the time being try this. My install is still on kernel 2.2.9-19mdk, so the directories in the following will need changing accordingly if you have upgraded your kernel. If you've done that, i'll assume you know enough to just follow the following... http://www/whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.htm The file referred to from Creative's site is 'emu10k1-0.3b.tar.gz'. The instructions were in response to a previous post when the latest version of the driver came out. So far no-one has told me anything to the contrary, so i assume they work (i have given the URL out quite a few times now). If they don't, can someone tell me why and i'll try and correct the instructions (incidentally, i have had a few replies thanking me, so i guess they do!!). Obviously if resources are conflicting with modems and stuff, that might be a different matter altogether. Give it a go and let me know (although i won't get any mail again until the morning now). Good luck, Martin. -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
[newbie] PPA?
I unfortunately have a HP 722c printer. I am trying to install ppa. I downloaded ppa to my home directory, extracted the archive, changed directories, and compiled the program (to the best of my knowledge). There are still some files I need to add. I have some questions though. It said to copy the file to the /usr/local/src directory before all that was done. I have tried several things; /home/Don/ppa.0.8.6.tar.gz cp /usr/local/src , I have cd directories to /usr/local then typed cp ppa-0.8.6.tar.gz and a whole host of other things and ways with no success. So if there is anyone out there who has successfully installed ppa I would appreciate some help. Also how does it work. Do you have to issue a print command from the konsole? Can you use the print command from the pull down menu? How does Ghostscript come into play? Could I just leave it in my /home/Don directory? And finally what files do I need to add and more importantly how. As you can see I am very confused so any help would be greatly appreciated. ThanksDon Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Lilo
No, lilo accepts a default= in the global section, other wise it defaults with the first boot setting, from the top down.. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, RReed wrote: the line is label.. that is what chosses default boot i believe RReed - Original Message - From: Neil P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 2:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo wait I don't understand. I moved the Dos label above the linux and it still didn't work. I don't have a line that says default=linux or default=dos am I suppossed to add that somewhere? Do I put that line right above the label=dos line? let me know thanks for the help -out neil From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: How do you change the lilo bootup to automatically startup the DOS paritition by default instead of linux? what file do i edit and what do i edit it to? Opps, hit send and forgot to mention. You will need to rerun lilo after the edit -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] VMWare - Here is where the help is . . .
- Original Message - From: Martin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 8:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] VMWare I have / had the same problems (i say had, as the eval license has run out and i doubt i'll bother trying again !!) What exactly is in the VMWare tools program?. I thought it contained tools to transfer files between the guest and host OSs. After getting W98 up as a guest OS i could only use 640x480 16 color, and then assumed, that perhaps it was a graphics card driver. You should look at http://www.vmware.com/support/support.html and news://news.vmware.com/ Hoyt
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM
Well, what will you substitute? You can run without authentication those things capable of running without authentication by starting LILO Boot: linux 1 You might want to drag stuff over to runlevel 1 with the Sys V editor and see what will work. Windows 9x is set up to run with bolt-on authentication, and it has many applications written by Microsoft that *depend* on access to the core operating system. You have seen the results, I imagine. A new exploit every few days, and $7.6 BILLION in the first 6 months of 1999, attributable to the use of those exploits, in business losses. Running Windows 9x connected to the internet is just *begging* to be cracked. But, just as Office 97 is bound to the Windows Op systems very tightly, so is PAM to Linux. If you have other authentication modules to substitute, the source code is available to hook 'em in in place of PAM, and I suppose you could recompile with PAM excluded as well. Might be a task of large proportions to find and eradicate the whole set of hooks. And if you did, something like the bliss virus would be far more capable against your system than it is now. I apologize for the previous boisterous response to your inquiry, but I really want you to know PAM is there for a reason, and is looked for by many services, resources, processes, etc. So the effect of eliminating PAM would be either that you are denied access to many things completely or that you have little or no protection from anyone you might be connected to. Civileme Justin Fisher wrote: how do i uninstall the PAM package the best way? anyone ever tried to do this? Anyone a really big fan of pam... i personally think its a huge waste and i dont like it at all. Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
Re: [newbie] VMare
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Smallhorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] VMare I decided to try vmware (30 day eval.), but have not been able to get it to work at all (I am trying to use it with a pre-existing install of Win98 SE as the guest OS). The problem that I am experiencing is that the virtual machine hangs as it starts the LILO boot sequence. The only thing displayed is: LI I have read everything regarding dual-boot etc at vmware's web site, but to no avail. I have also tried fdisk /mbr then re-installing linux (something to do with HDD geometry problems), but this didn't work either. I would really like to give vmware a good workout, to see if I want to purchase it. If someone can help it would be greatly appreciated. FYI, the system specs are as follows: PIII 450 with 128Mb RAM (64Mb allocated to VM) dev/hda = primary master - 8.4Gb (Windows 98 SE install) dev/hdb = primary slave - 4.3 Gb (linux install) dev/hdc = secondary master - 5.1 Gd (windows games, etc) Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee 16Mb video card Thanks, Chris. PS. I also get a XFree86 DGA initialization failed error message - but I assume that this is because of the driver that I am using for the Banshee video card. I used the raw disk option to use my current installation of Win98 in VMware, but it just went to a black screen after the "boot". I don't use lilo, but the problems do sound similar. Everything is detected in the VMware BIOS, but I don't even get to the Windows splash screen. I haven't even tried using it in more than a month. I wouldn't mind some assistance in this area as well. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I hope I'm doing this posting stuff right..it's all new to me... Hi guys, All I can tell you is it took the better part of my spare time last week to get vmware installed and working. (I'm such a newbie!) Never did get Win98 to finish loading. Error from vmware and Windows. Stuff I do not understand . However, I did get Caldera 2.2 installed and running along with the server for it and toolbox. It is awesome! When it's in full screen you cannot tell it is a virtual machine. With one click, it's sent to the background and you can use your regular desktop. Incredible! This allows me to play with my Caldera distro without it becoming contaminated by my Mandrake install.that's another weird story on its own. If this WIndows problem is surmountable, it is well worth the $99 for the software.My nickel's worth, Tom _BTW this email is being sent from COL in a vm on top of Mandrake 6.0___ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] X Windows / KDE Problems
I upgraded my system with the KDE.RPM's from the ftp.linux-mandrake.com site.. Ran XF86Config and set up everything as it was.. Ran startx and now get an error about not being able to find Font Server.. Everything was perfect before upgrading.. Any ideas? -Rick
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM
How to make it clear? PAM has been around long enough that many things depend on it. If you don't have it, every program will have the default level of security the vendor gave it and it will be pretty immutable. So, if you don't like it, you have to deal with the mass of software that expects it with something else, or not use any of that software. Certainly, if you find fellow travelers who don't like pam, there is room for a project to develop something better. But uninstall it? That would be rather problematic. Civileme Justin Fisher wrote: how do i uninstall the PAM package the best way? anyone ever tried to do this? Anyone a really big fan of pam... i personally think its a huge waste and i dont like it at all. Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
Re: [newbie] Using KPP to log into an NT Server
Well, the flavor of the server platform should not matter if it supports dial-in access The authentication procedure followed is another matter. That is part of the login which should be accomplished to establish a connection from the server. Kppp supports the frequently used protocols chat script and PAP. There is also a very high security protocol called CHAP. You will need to use the same protocol that your NT box expects. As Microsoft would say, "Contact your System Administrator". Or just try them to see which one connects. I do assume you have an account on the NT box for dialup and that you have used dialups before from another platform. If this is not true, then you will need to make sure the appropriate work is done at your NT box. http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I been unsuccessful at trying to dial into my NT Server from linux. Can anyone help? Where can I find a "good" HOW-TO? Thanks --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: Another addendum: I noticed this when playing with it again... I'm getting some lines that don't appear in my verbose capture in my previous post. Enter password for beo@id -un: blahblah Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: blahblah fetchmail: fetchmail: IMAP connection to id -un failed: host is unknown fetchmail: fetchmail: POP3 connection to id -un failed: host is unknown ##***##*** [beo@localhost beo]$
Re: [[newbie] Good AGP card]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a good AGP card to replace my aging Viper V330. (Plus i need room for an ethernet card:) I have about $180 to spend, and no more. I would like something that can render in 32bits (ie. not a Voodoo3). I was looking at a Diamond Stealth III S540 w/ the new Savage 4 chip. Any comments would be great. Thanks, Jerrud I don't believe XFree86 (3.3.3.1 or 3.3.4) supports the Savage 4 chip. When 3.3.5 comes out (soon) I believe it is expected to support the #4. Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Good AGP card
I have had very good luck with tnt based cards. No real problems getting set up and will go very high res. Rick Murphy wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a good AGP card to replace my aging Viper V330. (Plus i need room for an ethernet card:) I have about $180 to spend, and no more. I would like something that can render in 32bits (ie. not a Voodoo3). I was looking at a Diamond Stealth III S540 w/ the new Savage 4 chip. Any comments would be great. Thanks, Jerrud I've bought a savage4 but I haven't installed it in my daughters computer. I'm not sure there are drivers for linux yet. I upgraded my computer from a viper 330 to a matrox G-200. I bought the matrox for $29. It is an agp card and works great with linux. I've had no problems at all with it and the quality of the graphics is outstanding. I've upgraded it to 16 meg. Linux picked it right up and installed it with no problem. I'm running it in an asus ss7 p5a with an amd KIII 450. The matrox has my recommendation and is a card you should consider. Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
Re: [newbie] modem ??
Garrett Williams wrote: I have installed mandrake 6 and have the xserver runing on a dimond stealth II card. My next step is to get the modem to run... 1. Comm one and two are being set up just fine at boot. 2. the modem hans compatible "rockwell modem" works with pnp disabled, within windows. 3. the file /etc/pcmcia/config has been set up. 4. setserial -g /dev/ttyS* returns com 1 - 4 with 4 -3 as unknown. 5. PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 ERRORS: 1. 'cat /proc/devices' returns no file by that name. 2. echo "ATDT123-4567" /dev/cua3 (modem set to com 4) returns nothing 3. echo "ATDT123-4567" /dev/ttyS3 (modem set to com 4) returns nothing 4. 'cardctl ident' returns no information 5. minicom does not access the card. I belive that the card is not being seen by the OS at boot. I could use more information about how to set /etc/pcmcia/config with the card settings. Some step by step instructions on setting up PNP from bios to OS. Please DONOT refer me to a book or a howto. I have been working on this for over a month now and have read them all. I need the basic stuff like comand line argurments for pnp dump that does not return a long list of time outs... If I'm not mistaken, PCMCIA cards don't use the pnpdump utilities. Configuration information for those is in /etc/pcmcia. As much as you hate to hear it, read the pcmcia-cs documentation, it really is good and helped me setup my eth/modem card back when I had my laptop. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM
Justin Fisher wrote: Absolutely Not. There are substitutes for PAM. How has unix evolved these 30 some years w/o it? What about shadow and md5? or just shadow and des? or just plain des for that matter. I dont care if i dont have a I snipped the paragraphs of ranting and raving, since they really had absolutely no value whatsoever. You listed quite a few distributions that ship without PAM, pick one. The rest of us rather LIKE the fact that we can easily implement new authentication methods without having to recompile half our systems. If they're non-PAM distributions are so prevalent, choose one of them. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Justin Fisher wrote:
Absolutely Not. There are substitutes for PAM. How has unix evolved
these 30 some years w/o it? What about shadow and md5? or just shadow
and des? or just plain des for that matter. I dont care if i dont have a
/etc/shadow file. However, i do not like having a ton of extra system
calls for something that used to be done in one step. Pam is a waste. It
is not an increase in security by any means. It is simply a name placed
on something, a buzzword if you will. Slackware linux doesnt have it.
Redhat used to not have it. Many many many distributions dont have it. I
dont see how you can get off comparing the lack of PAM on your system to
running a version of the OS produced in Redmond Washington. It is
absurdity. Next time i dont think i will use Mandrake linux or Redhat or
any other linux 'buzzword' distribution as i am using now - it is because
of crap like this that i have to put up with. All i want to know is what
steps do i need to go through in order to rid my system of PAM. Yes i
know that many systems were compiled and linked to its library. Yes i
know that many many packages for mandrake 6 depend on it. But is there a
package i can download to replace the packages that were compiled and
linked to PAM and replace also the PAM package itself with a standard
password suite.
If I am wrong in my thinking that PAM is not a security increase over a
standard shadowed password suite with md5 encrypting please correct me.
But as I understand it, all PAM does is check to see if the calling
program is 'validated' per say to access the password suite. This is a
waste.. it should and IS handled all at filesystem level with only
allowing certain users (root) readable and writeable access to certain
files (/etc/shadow). Sure, If you are a complete moron and make the file
writeable or even readable by a user other than the superuser.. then you
might need PAM.. otherwise.. its a waste. I hope i made my point clear.
Thanks.
maybe a good starting place would be /usr/doc/pam-0.66/txts/pam.txt
Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Civileme wrote:
Well, what will you substitute?
You can run without authentication those things capable of running without
authentication by
starting
LILO Boot: linux 1
You might want to drag stuff over to runlevel 1 with the Sys V editor and
see what will work.
Windows 9x is set up to run with bolt-on authentication, and it has many
applications written by Microsoft that *depend* on access to the core
operating system. You have seen the results, I imagine. A new exploit
every few days, and $7.6 BILLION in the first 6 months of 1999, attributable
to the use of those exploits, in business losses. Running Windows 9x
connected to the internet is just *begging* to be cracked.
But, just as Office 97 is bound to the Windows Op systems very tightly, so
is PAM to Linux. If you have other authentication modules to substitute,
the source code is available to hook 'em in in place of PAM, and I suppose
you could recompile with PAM excluded as well. Might be a task of large
proportions to find and eradicate the whole set of hooks.
And if you did, something like the bliss virus would be far more capable
against your system than it is now.
I apologize for the previous boisterous response to your inquiry, but I
really want you to know PAM is there for a reason, and is looked for by many
services, resources, processes, etc.
So the effect of eliminating PAM would be either that you are denied access
to many things completely or that you have little or no protection from
anyone you might be connected to.
Civileme
Justin Fisher wrote:
how do i uninstall the PAM package the best way? anyone ever tried to do
this? Anyone a really big fan of pam... i personally think its a huge
waste and i dont like it at all.
Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [newbie] Connecting Mandrake Update to Cooker
Still a dummie when in it comes to scripts. So, WHERE in the script
do I insert this?
Thanks!
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Original Message
On 8/22/99, 3:53:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re:
[newbie] Connecting Mandrake Update to Cooker:
[snip]
but i'm in a nice day :) here is patch for
/usr/X11R6/bin/MandrakeUpdate.pm :
---
-
--- /usr/X11R6/bin/MandrakeUpdate.pm Wed May 19 02:50:52 1999
+++ /tmp/MandrakeUpdate.pmThu Jul 22 15:32:14 1999
@@ -30,13 +30,11 @@
open F, "find . -name '*.rpm' |";
@to_update = map { chop; $_ } F;
} else {
- open F, "wget --passive-ftp $mirror/updates/$version/ls-lR -O -
|";
+ my $sub = "cooker/Mandrake/RPMS";
+ open F, "wget --passive-ftp $mirror/$sub/ -O - |";
foreach (F) {
- if (/^([^ ]+):$/) {
- $rep = "updates/$version/$1";
- } elsif (/^-/) {
- $rep =~ /SRPMS/ and next;
- $name = (split ' ', $_)[8] and push @to_update,
"$rep/$name";
+ if (m|([^]*)/a|) {
+ push @to_update, "$sub/$1";
}
}
}
---
-
you also have to manually edit your ~/.mandrake-update to point to a
cooker
directory (eg mirror: ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel)
Re: [Re: [newbie] PPA?]
Steve Spiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Whitman wrote: I unfortunately have a HP 722c printer. I am trying to install ppa. I downloaded ppa to my home directory, extracted the archive, changed directories, and compiled the program (to the best of my knowledge). There are still some files I need to add. I have some questions though. It said to copy the file to the /usr/local/src directory before all that was done. I have tried several things; /home/Don/ppa.0.8.6.tar.gz cp /usr/local/src , snip I may be wrong here (I'm a relative newbie) but shouldn't that be: cp /home/Don/ppa.0.8.6.tar.gz /usr/local/src I have tried that among other things. I got no such file or directory. Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Getting Real Audio to work phase II
Well Troops, I believe I've got the real player G2 installed right. I downloaded a wav file and got the G2 to play it. What I need to do is somehow get both it and netscape configured to auto load the programs when I click on them. Will the G2 player work with Netscape 4.6 or do I need to go to 4.61? Has anyone successfully configured the G2 player? If so what are your preference settings for proxy and connections? I've configured netscape navigator to launch realplayer when a real media link is clicked using the instructions from realplayers web site but I can't get it to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea." JB
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: Another addendum: I noticed this when playing with it again... I'm getting some lines that don't appear in my verbose capture in my previous post. Enter password for beo@id -un: blahblah Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: blahblah fetchmail: fetchmail: IMAP connection to id -un failed: host is unknown fetchmail: fetchmail: POP3 connection to id -un failed: host is unknown ##***##*** [beo@localhost beo]$ Ah, you want forward ticks ` not back ticks ' around the id -un -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] kernal modules - video4linux - FM tuner - dev/radio
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:13:52 -0600 (MDT), Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I need to run as root: isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf This one gets handled automaticly in rc.sysinit You are right about that. Since I didn't have any ISA cards before I didn't have a /etc/isapnp.conf until I created it. So the rc.sysinit script didn't have the isapnp.conf script to feed iaspnp. modprobe videodev.o modprobe radio-cadet.o io=0x330 just put them in /etc/conf.modules options radio-cadet io=0x330 post-install videodev modprobe radio-cadet Now if i'm remebering correctly, when something requests v4l the kernel will autoload videodev, then radio-cadet. This part didn't work. I still had to run modprobe at the root CLI prompt to get the card to tune to my favorite FM station. No big deal. I can put it in rc.local, I have already stuck a few things in there for my IDE CD-R. I couldn't find any information on /etc/conf.modules. Do you have any recommendations on a good book for Linux or Unix System Administration? I found "A Practical Guide to Linux" by Mark Sobell to be good for using Linux but it is a light on the Administration side. Thanks, PBen The io=0x330 I got from digging into the source code of radio-cadet. So where do I stick the three lines above? I assume that it goes into rc.local right? Well I am learning a few things about Linux and trying to remember enough C to figure it out what the HOWTOs don't cover. Yes you could also modprobe from rc.local Thanks, No problem, let me know if the conf.modules doesn't work and i'll dig out my radiocard and bush the dust off..
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail
Maybe if you emailed the verbose output from fetchmail (-v) Hokay, back at the linux box and here it is. *grin* Okay, I'm rather pleased that I figured out how to get the verbose output into a file... gads, I'm /almost/ beginning to understand how this stuff works... I modified the line you gave me a bit and entered the following through the shell: fetchmail -N -L --postmaster 'id -un' --nobounce --keep -u beo mail.visi.com -v temp2.txt Those quotes are facing the wrong direction. Use the other quote (the one below tilde). -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM
Well sometimes i say things before really thinking, i apologize. but to think seriously that pam provides more security to your system .. please! security goes WAY WAY WAY beyond your password suite type. I admit that yes, if you have an old des non shadowing system that houses many many users than yes, you should use another scheme for security reasons. But other than that, no, pam doesnt provide any security increase. Yes i did say somethings before really reading thoroughly, sorry once again. I think we all do sometimes, please dont discredit me because of this. Again the table is open for ideas and correct me if you think im in error Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: We'll ignore the fact that you want to insult people who are only trying to help by calling them morons and not get into any name calling ourselves. If you had gone to the two URLS I'd suggested you would have seen that PAM allows you to set your level of security to anything you want. It provides one source to control all your security needs, from zippitty-doo-dah, in which case I want your IP number, to tighter than Fort Knox with a bout of constipation. The idea behind PAM is to give you a one stop configuration for all your security needs rather than having to re-compile everything anytime you change your security methods. As far as deleting it, I don't know how because the thought has never crossed my mind. I prefer to learn to work with my tools rather than just throw them out because I don't understand them quite yet. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Justin Fisher Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM Absolutely Not. There are substitutes for PAM. How has unix evolved these 30 some years w/o it? What about shadow and md5? or just shadow and des? or just plain des for that matter. I dont care if i dont have a /etc/shadow file. However, i do not like having a ton of extra system calls for something that used to be done in one step. Pam is a waste. It is not an increase in security by any means. It is simply a name placed on something, a buzzword if you will. Slackware linux doesnt have it. Redhat used to not have it. Many many many distributions dont have it. I dont see how you can get off comparing the lack of PAM on your system to running a version of the OS produced in Redmond Washington. It is absurdity. Next time i dont think i will use Mandrake linux or Redhat or any other linux 'buzzword' distribution as i am using now - it is because of crap like this that i have to put up with. All i want to know is what steps do i need to go through in order to rid my system of PAM. Yes i know that many systems were compiled and linked to its library. Yes i know that many many packages for mandrake 6 depend on it. But is there a package i can download to replace the packages that were compiled and linked to PAM and replace also the PAM package itself with a standard password suite. If I am wrong in my thinking that PAM is not a security increase over a standard shadowed password suite with md5 encrypting please correct me. But as I understand it, all PAM does is check to see if the calling program is 'validated' per say to access the password suite. This is a waste.. it should and IS handled all at filesystem level with only allowing certain users (root) readable and writeable access to certain files (/etc/shadow). Sure, If you are a complete moron and make the file writeable or even readable by a user other than the superuser.. then you might need PAM.. otherwise.. its a waste. I hope i made my point clear. Thanks. Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Civileme wrote: Well, what will you substitute? You can run without authentication those things capable of running without authentication by starting LILO Boot: linux 1 You might want to drag stuff over to runlevel 1 with the Sys V editor and see what will work. Windows 9x is set up to run with bolt-on authentication, and it has many applications written by Microsoft that *depend* on access to the core operating system. You have seen the results, I imagine. A new exploit every few days, and $7.6 BILLION in the first 6 months of 1999, attributable to the use of those exploits, in business losses. Running Windows 9x connected to the internet is just *begging* to be cracked. But, just as Office 97 is bound to the Windows Op systems very tightly, so is PAM to Linux. If you have other authentication modules to substitute, the source code is
Re: [newbie] X Windows / KDE Problems
What is the file called for XConfigurator? I can't seem to locate it.. At 06:15 PM 8/23/1999 -0400, you wrote: Why did you run XF86Config? if you just ran a rpm -Uvh on the kde rpms, you didn't need to reconfigure X. Try running Xconfigurator instead of XF86Config. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: I upgraded my system with the KDE.RPM's from the ftp.linux-mandrake.com site.. Ran XF86Config and set up everything as it was.. Ran startx and now get an error about not being able to find Font Server.. Everything was perfect before upgrading.. Any ideas? -Rick -- Brett jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] X Windows / KDE Problems
The error I get is failure to set default font path.. How can I correct..? -Rick At 06:15 PM 8/23/1999 -0400, you wrote: Why did you run XF86Config? if you just ran a rpm -Uvh on the kde rpms, you didn't need to reconfigure X. Try running Xconfigurator instead of XF86Config. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: I upgraded my system with the KDE.RPM's from the ftp.linux-mandrake.com site.. Ran XF86Config and set up everything as it was.. Ran startx and now get an error about not being able to find Font Server.. Everything was perfect before upgrading.. Any ideas? -Rick -- Brett jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: if that fails check the fetchmail.debug, and make sure you didn't install both postfix and sendmail. Maybe if you emailed the verbose output from fetchmail (-v) Hokay, back at the linux box and here it is. *grin* Okay, I'm rather pleased that I figured out how to get the verbose output into a file... gads, I'm /almost/ beginning to understand how this stuff works... I modified the line you gave me a bit and entered the following through the shell: fetchmail -N -L --postmaster 'id -un' --nobounce --keep -u beo `id -un` mail.visi.com -v temp2.txt -v -a temp2.txt Here is the output (unfortunately as a attachment *sigh*) ... sorry it's so long. Beo -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] rpms for gcc?
what rpms do i need to install to get gcc to work? i have several installed but i cant get it to work right. any info or tips? :P
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail using the correct quotes
Steve Philp wrote:
Maybe if you emailed the verbose output from fetchmail (-v)
Hokay, back at the linux box and here it is. *grin* Okay, I'm rather
pleased that I figured out how to get the verbose output into a file...
gads, I'm /almost/ beginning to understand how this stuff works...
I modified the line you gave me a bit and entered the following through
the shell:
Those quotes are facing the wrong direction. Use the other quote (the
one below tilde).
Ahhh, don't /I/ feel silly. *snark* Okay, attached is the output using
the other quote... It seems to have found stuff, but neither pine, nor
elm, nor *shudder* mail finds it.
Beo
fetchmail: 5.0.7 querying beo (protocol auto) at Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:59:08 -0500 (CDT)
fetchmail: 5.0.7 querying beo (protocol IMAP) at Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:59:08 -0500 (CDT)
fetchmail: 5.0.7 querying beo (protocol POP3) at Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:59:08 -0500 (CDT)
fetchmail: Query status=2
fetchmail: 5.0.7 querying mail.visi.com (protocol auto) at Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:59:08
-0500 (CDT)
fetchmail: 5.0.7 querying mail.visi.com (protocol IMAP) at Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:59:08
-0500 (CDT)
fetchmail: IMAP * OK baal IMAP4rev1 v11.237 server ready
fetchmail: IMAP A0001 CAPABILITY
fetchmail: IMAP * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4REV1 NAMESPACE IDLE SCAN SORT AUTH=LOGIN
THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
fetchmail: IMAP A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0002 LOGIN "beo" "*"
fetchmail: IMAP A0002 OK LOGIN completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0003 SELECT INBOX
fetchmail: IMAP * 6 EXISTS
fetchmail: IMAP * 5 RECENT
fetchmail: IMAP * OK [UIDVALIDITY 933166991] UID validity status
fetchmail: IMAP * OK [UIDNEXT 3874] Predicted next UID
fetchmail: IMAP * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
fetchmail: IMAP * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)]
Permanent flags
fetchmail: IMAP * OK [UNSEEN 1] 1 is first unseen message in /var/mail/beo
fetchmail: IMAP A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
fetchmail: 6 messages for beo at mail.visi.com.
fetchmail: IMAP A0004 FETCH 1:6 RFC822.SIZE
fetchmail: IMAP * 1 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 12374)
fetchmail: IMAP * 2 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2254)
fetchmail: IMAP * 3 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 1412)
fetchmail: IMAP * 4 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2538)
fetchmail: IMAP * 5 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2583)
fetchmail: IMAP * 6 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 1406)
fetchmail: IMAP A0004 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0005 FETCH 1 FLAGS
fetchmail: IMAP * 1 FETCH (FLAGS ())
fetchmail: IMAP A0005 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0006 FETCH 1 RFC822.HEADER
fetchmail: IMAP * 1 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {1603}
fetchmail: reading message 1 of 6 (1603 header octets)
fetchmail: SMTP 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Postfix (Beta-19990317-pl04)
fetchmail: SMTP EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP 250-localhost.localdomain
fetchmail: SMTP 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP 250-SIZE 1024
fetchmail: SMTP 250-ETRN
fetchmail: SMTP 250 8BITMIME
fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=12374
fetchmail: SMTP 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:beo@localhost
fetchmail: SMTP 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP DATA
fetchmail: SMTP 354 End data with CRLF.CRLF
fetchmail: IMAP )
fetchmail: IMAP A0006 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0007 FETCH 1 BODY[TEXT]
fetchmail: IMAP * 1 FETCH (BODY[TEXT] {10771}
fetchmail: (10771 body octets) ..
fetchmail: IMAP )
fetchmail: IMAP * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
fetchmail: IMAP A0007 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: SMTP. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP 250 Ok: queued as CBA2E47E3
fetchmail: not flushed
fetchmail: IMAP A0008 FETCH 2 FLAGS
fetchmail: IMAP * 2 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent))
fetchmail: IMAP A0008 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0009 FETCH 2 RFC822.HEADER
fetchmail: IMAP * 2 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {1541}
fetchmail: reading message 2 of 6 (1541 header octets)
fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=2254
fetchmail: SMTP 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:beo@localhost
fetchmail: SMTP 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP DATA
fetchmail: SMTP 354 End data with CRLF.CRLF
fetchmail: IMAP )
fetchmail: IMAP A0009 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0010 FETCH 2 BODY[TEXT]
fetchmail: IMAP * 2 FETCH (BODY[TEXT] {713}
fetchmail: (713 body octets)
fetchmail: IMAP )
fetchmail: IMAP * 2 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent \Seen))
fetchmail: IMAP A0010 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: SMTP. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP 250 Ok: queued as E681147E4
fetchmail: not flushed
fetchmail: IMAP A0011 FETCH 3 FLAGS
fetchmail: IMAP * 3 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent))
fetchmail: IMAP A0011 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0012 FETCH 3 RFC822.HEADER
fetchmail: IMAP * 3 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {1000}
fetchmail: reading message 3 of 6 (1000 header octets)
fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=1412
fetchmail: SMTP 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:beo@localhost
fetchmail: SMTP 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP DATA
fetchmail: SMTP 354 End data with CRLF.CRLF
fetchmail: IMAP )
fetchmail: IMAP A0012 OK FETCH completed
fetchmail: IMAP A0013 FETCH 3 BODY[TEXT]
fetchmail: IMAP * 3 FETCH (BODY[TEXT] {412}
fetchmail: (412 body
RE: [newbie] rpms for gcc?
Can you be specific with some of the error messages you are getting when you try to compile? This would give us a better idea of what may be missing. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of pete moss Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] rpms for gcc? what rpms do i need to install to get gcc to work? i have several installed but i cant get it to work right. any info or tips? :P
Re: [newbie] X Windows / KDE Problems
It's Xconfigurator. Upper case X, lower case c. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: What is the file called for XConfigurator? I can't seem to locate it.. At 06:15 PM 8/23/1999 -0400, you wrote: Why did you run XF86Config? if you just ran a rpm -Uvh on the kde rpms, you didn't need to reconfigure X. Try running Xconfigurator instead of XF86Config. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: I upgraded my system with the KDE.RPM's from the ftp.linux-mandrake.com site.. Ran XF86Config and set up everything as it was.. Ran startx and now get an error about not being able to find Font Server.. Everything was perfect before upgrading.. Any ideas? -Rick -- Brett jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] X Windows / KDE Problems
try to run setup... - Original Message - From: Rick Knospler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X Windows / KDE Problems What is the file called for XConfigurator? I can't seem to locate it.. At 06:15 PM 8/23/1999 -0400, you wrote: Why did you run XF86Config? if you just ran a rpm -Uvh on the kde rpms, you didn't need to reconfigure X. Try running Xconfigurator instead of XF86Config. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: I upgraded my system with the KDE.RPM's from the ftp.linux-mandrake.com site.. Ran XF86Config and set up everything as it was.. Ran startx and now get an error about not being able to find Font Server.. Everything was perfect before upgrading.. Any ideas? -Rick -- Brett jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lilo
If at installation I didn't put lilo in the MBR can I still have it default to DOS if I change the lilo.conf to be the dos partition first and I rerun lilo?? let me know thanks neil thanks neil - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 1:24 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Lilo To re-run lilo you run '/sbin/lilo' at the command prompt as root. And yes, it does matter if you put Lilo in the mbr. Having Lilo in the mbr allows you to run a multiple boot system. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neil P. Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo I don't know what it means to rerun lilo after editing? Explain. Also, does it matter whether or not I put lilo in my MBR or not during installation of linux 6.0? because I didn't do that. I put it on my linux hard drive instead of the dos hard drive (my MBR). -out neil - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: wait I don't understand. I moved the Dos label above the linux and it still didn't work. I don't have a line that says default=linux or default=dos am I suppossed to add that somewhere? Do I put that line right above the label=dos line? let me know thanks for the help -out neil From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: How do you change the lilo bootup to automatically startup the DOS paritition by default instead of linux? what file do i edit and what do i edit it to? Opps, hit send and forgot to mention. You will need to rerun lilo after the edit "You will need to rerun lilo after the edit" you did this? The very top line, of your lilo.conf says something like? default=dos -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] Lilo
I fail to see why it won't as long as Lilo remains the first thing your system sees as soon as the BIOS is finished its magic. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neil P. Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo If at installation I didn't put lilo in the MBR can I still have it default to DOS if I change the lilo.conf to be the dos partition first and I rerun lilo?? let me know thanks neil thanks neil - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 1:24 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Lilo To re-run lilo you run '/sbin/lilo' at the command prompt as root. And yes, it does matter if you put Lilo in the mbr. Having Lilo in the mbr allows you to run a multiple boot system. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neil P. Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo I don't know what it means to rerun lilo after editing? Explain. Also, does it matter whether or not I put lilo in my MBR or not during installation of linux 6.0? because I didn't do that. I put it on my linux hard drive instead of the dos hard drive (my MBR). -out neil - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: wait I don't understand. I moved the Dos label above the linux and it still didn't work. I don't have a line that says default=linux or default=dos am I suppossed to add that somewhere? Do I put that line right above the label=dos line? let me know thanks for the help -out neil From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: How do you change the lilo bootup to automatically startup the DOS paritition by default instead of linux? what file do i edit and what do i edit it to? Opps, hit send and forgot to mention. You will need to rerun lilo after the edit "You will need to rerun lilo after the edit" you did this? The very top line, of your lilo.conf says something like? default=dos -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Justin Fisher wrote: Well sometimes i say things before really thinking, i apologize. but to think seriously that pam provides more security to your system .. please! security goes WAY WAY WAY beyond your password suite type. I admit that yes, if you have an old des non shadowing system that houses many many users than yes, you should use another scheme for security reasons. But other than that, no, pam doesnt provide any security increase. Yes i did say somethings before really reading thoroughly, sorry once again. I think we all do sometimes, please dont discredit me because of this. Again the table is open for ideas and correct me if you think im in error Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Really read that doc, heres a snipet to get the techies drooling :) " The flexibility of Linux-PAM is that you, the system administrator, have the freedom to stipulate which authentication scheme is to be used. You have the freedom to set the scheme for any/all PAM-aware applications on your Linux system. That is, you can authenticate from anything as naive as simple trust (pam_permit) to something as paranoid as a combination of a retinal scan, a voice print and a one- time password! " I don't know about anybody else but i'd be damned impressed with "a combination of a retinal scan, a voice print and a one- time password!" ;) On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: We'll ignore the fact that you want to insult people who are only trying to help by calling them morons and not get into any name calling ourselves. If you had gone to the two URLS I'd suggested you would have seen that PAM allows you to set your level of security to anything you want. It provides one source to control all your security needs, from zippitty-doo-dah, in which case I want your IP number, to tighter than Fort Knox with a bout of constipation. The idea behind PAM is to give you a one stop configuration for all your security needs rather than having to re-compile everything anytime you change your security methods. As far as deleting it, I don't know how because the thought has never crossed my mind. I prefer to learn to work with my tools rather than just throw them out because I don't understand them quite yet. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Justin Fisher Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstalling PAM Absolutely Not. There are substitutes for PAM. How has unix evolved these 30 some years w/o it? What about shadow and md5? or just shadow and des? or just plain des for that matter. I dont care if i dont have a /etc/shadow file. However, i do not like having a ton of extra system calls for something that used to be done in one step. Pam is a waste. It is not an increase in security by any means. It is simply a name placed on something, a buzzword if you will. Slackware linux doesnt have it. Redhat used to not have it. Many many many distributions dont have it. I dont see how you can get off comparing the lack of PAM on your system to running a version of the OS produced in Redmond Washington. It is absurdity. Next time i dont think i will use Mandrake linux or Redhat or any other linux 'buzzword' distribution as i am using now - it is because of crap like this that i have to put up with. All i want to know is what steps do i need to go through in order to rid my system of PAM. Yes i know that many systems were compiled and linked to its library. Yes i know that many many packages for mandrake 6 depend on it. But is there a package i can download to replace the packages that were compiled and linked to PAM and replace also the PAM package itself with a standard password suite. If I am wrong in my thinking that PAM is not a security increase over a standard shadowed password suite with md5 encrypting please correct me. But as I understand it, all PAM does is check to see if the calling program is 'validated' per say to access the password suite. This is a waste.. it should and IS handled all at filesystem level with only allowing certain users (root) readable and writeable access to certain files (/etc/shadow). Sure, If you are a complete moron and make the file writeable or even readable by a user other than the superuser.. then you might need PAM.. otherwise.. its a waste. I hope i made my point clear. Thanks. Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Civileme wrote: Well, what will you substitute? You can run without authentication those things capable of running without
Re: [newbie] X Windows / KDE Problems
If you don't want to fix the font server you can edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the FontPath to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc -tj On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: The error I get is failure to set default font path.. How can I correct..? -Rick At 06:15 PM 8/23/1999 -0400, you wrote: Why did you run XF86Config? if you just ran a rpm -Uvh on the kde rpms, you didn't need to reconfigure X. Try running Xconfigurator instead of XF86Config. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: I upgraded my system with the KDE.RPM's from the ftp.linux-mandrake.com site.. Ran XF86Config and set up everything as it was.. Ran startx and now get an error about not being able to find Font Server.. Everything was perfect before upgrading.. Any ideas? -Rick -- Brett jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems
Dear all:
I am a Slackware user, but I have heard so many good things about Read
Hat that I decided to give it a try. So far it has not been a positive
experience . . .
My machine is configured as follows:
Pentium 75MHz
64MB RAM
ide0 @ 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 @ 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 (serialized with ide0)
hda: Conner Peripherals 1275MB - CFA1275A,
1220MB w/256KB Cahce, CHS=619/64/63
hdb: Maxtor 72004 AP,
1916MB w/128KB Cache, CHS=973/64/63
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM DVD-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048KB Cache
Partition check:
hda: hda1, hda2, hda3
hdb: hdb1, hdb2
I have Windows 95 and Slackware Linux currently installed. The first
hard drive has a partition for Windows 95 and two partitions for Linux
(/swap and /). The second hard drive has one partition for Windows 95
(mounted under Linux) and a partition for Linux (/usr). Everything works
fine so far . . .
When I tried installing Mandrake 6.0, I was under the impression that the
installation would take care of deleting or repartition the hard drives.
However, this is not the case.
After the installation type is selected and the kernel is loaded. I see
a message "Running install..." and everything hangs.
When I check with ALT-F4, I can see the following error messages:
VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
status error: status 0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
hdb: drive not ready for command
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1 (22,0)
hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04
hdc: lost interrupt:
hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason=0x1)
hdc: lost interrupt:
hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason=0x1)
...
I do not understand why the hard drives are used and mounted correctly
with Windows 95 and Slackware.
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks,
Gabriel
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Re: [newbie] Fetchmail using the correct quotes
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Maybe if you emailed the verbose output from fetchmail (-v) Hokay, back at the linux box and here it is. *grin* Okay, I'm rather pleased that I figured out how to get the verbose output into a file... gads, I'm /almost/ beginning to understand how this stuff works... I modified the line you gave me a bit and entered the following through the shell: Those quotes are facing the wrong direction. Use the other quote (the one below tilde). Ahhh, don't /I/ feel silly. *snark* Okay, attached is the output using the other quote... It seems to have found stuff, but neither pine, nor elm, nor *shudder* mail finds it. Beo try just a plain old, mailto -s "Mail test" beo@localhost ~. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: Ethernet Efficiency was[newbie] 10/100 Ethernet?
25Meg = 25 x 1024 x 1024 x 8 bits = 209715200 bits= minimum transfer time of about 20.97 seconds Now that doesn't include all the packet headers, but we are showing a healthy 66% or therabouts with a 30 second transmission. But was that two machines linked with nothing else on? What happens when it's multiple? The 40% figure is from IBM, but I agree that it approaches that limit as the number of machines (and collisions) increase and also as the packets vary in number of octets (smaller packets require the same number of header octets as larger ones.) It is ethernet plus TCP/IP that yields the 40% figure. I frankly don't know enough about other protocols to guess at a calculation. Ethernet itself, well, I don't think we can talk about a communication technology for computer to computer without involving a message protocol. Anyway, thank you for the data. Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R u serious on the 40% efficiency on Ethernet topology? any reason why? coz a rough benchmarking i did when using samba transferring a 25 meg file took about 30s on a 10base-T network. BIG SNIP
Re: [Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems]
Hey Jeanette!!! Did you read my post here. IT DONT" WORK!!! On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: Use the Redhat RPM G2 version. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems] Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where exactly dose one get a copy of Realplayer that actually works? I have failed to find one. I downloaded version 5.0 made for RedHat 5.2 in RPM format (only option I had to pick from). The program doesn't even take off running. I can't get it to run. I am seeing a lot of hype out there about a version 6.0 copy in it's beta stages. I'd take that if I could find it. Postman. I've d/l the G2 player, but when I try to install it I get a message that says "can't execute". Any suggestions? It seemed to d/l w/o any problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Can Cheapo Lexmark Printer Work with LINUX?
Ok, call me dense. I went and bought a lexmark 2050 printer a couple of years ago for my windows system. I can't afford a new printer at the moment, and would like to use my Lexmark under Mandrake. For some reason, everything seems to spool ok, but nothing ever prints. Not to mention that during installation, there aren't any selections for Lexmark inkjet printers. Am I screwed? Or does anyone here know where a guy can get a driver for this particular animal? Thanks Kurt *** *** The RULES have CHANGED! You can now get PAID to surf the Web! FREE *** *** signup, get paid fifty cents per hour, up to forty hours a month!! *** *** Nothing to lose - Signup today! *** ***-*** *** http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=DDV630 *** ***
RE: [newbie] Lilo
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, RICHARD FRIEDMAN wrote: As far as I (also a newbie) understand it, you could do what you ask and LILO would default to DOS but, what's the point? If LILO isn't in the MBR, then, unless you have another boot manager in MBR, DOS (or Windows) will automatically boot anyway. And if you DO have another boot manager in MBR, you don't need to change LILO to default to DOS. Just change the boot manager you are using to default to DOS. If I am wrong, I hope someone will correct me. :-) Tada, guess who's beeen paying attention. ;) Nice job Rick Rick Friedman Salant Corp. - MIS 800-472-8013 x75105 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The closest thing to heaven on earth is... Yankee Stadium! -Original Message- From: Neil P. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Lilo If at installation I didn't put lilo in the MBR can I still have it default to DOS if I change the lilo.conf to be the dos partition first and I rerun lilo?? let me know thanks neil thanks neil - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 1:24 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Lilo To re-run lilo you run '/sbin/lilo' at the command prompt as root. And yes, it does matter if you put Lilo in the mbr. Having Lilo in the mbr allows you to run a multiple boot system. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neil P. Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo I don't know what it means to rerun lilo after editing? Explain. Also, does it matter whether or not I put lilo in my MBR or not during installation of linux 6.0? because I didn't do that. I put it on my linux hard drive instead of the dos hard drive (my MBR). -out neil - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: wait I don't understand. I moved the Dos label above the linux and it still didn't work. I don't have a line that says default=linux or default=dos am I suppossed to add that somewhere? Do I put that line right above the label=dos line? let me know thanks for the help -out neil From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Neil P. wrote: How do you change the lilo bootup to automatically startup the DOS paritition by default instead of linux? what file do i edit and what do i edit it to? Opps, hit send and forgot to mention. You will need to rerun lilo after the edit "You will need to rerun lilo after the edit" you did this? The very top line, of your lilo.conf says something like? default=dos -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] slashdot poll
On http://slashdot.org, there's a poll asking for your favorite distribution. Mandrake _currently_ got 8% of the vote ;-) Greets, Gaël. -- Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 6.0 on http://www.linux-mandrake.com
