Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness
Paul, Do you edit the cron table directly or do you work in a separate file that you periodically implement? I myself use a separate file and on occasion I have made changes to it that I forgot to activate. Miark Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Hi everyone, I have these lines in my crontab: # ** mail ** # main account: daytime every 2 min 00-58/2 05-23 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null # main account: nighttime every 15 min 00-58/15 00-04 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null The main idea is that mailchecks are done every 2 minutes in daytime and every 15 minutes when I sleep (or should sleep ;). But cron keeps checking every 2 minutes also in the nightly hours. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my cron directives?? I don't see it... The MAN pages can only tell me that this is correct, unless I don't sleep enough to see something crucial. Thanks, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] samba GUI interface
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Thanks for info, Damian. Webmin is a pretty sweet program. However, I was looking for program that would act more like windows NetBIOS where I could access files over the network via a GUI interface. I'm not even sure something like that exists but it would be really cool if it did. - Rob B. - Original Message - From: Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] samba GUI interface On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:27:08 -0600 Rob Burris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to view your local network? - Thanks, Rob B. if what you are looking for is a GUI way to configure Samba, you should try webmin. it's got configuration interfaces for nearly every possible service and administration task. first, as root, type this command: service webmin start then open up your regular web browser and connect to webmin's interface by going to https://localhost:1/ it will ask for a login. you wanna log in as root. if you do not have webmin installed, do a: urpmi webmin HTH Damian Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] expired password
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:45, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, My root password has expired. Is there any way that I can login to the system and change the password? Regards, Norman Hello, When LILO asks you to choose a boot option, select linux single (may be slightly different spelling). Then you should be able to do passwd root. Choose a nice password, cross your fingers and reboot! Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness
Miark, I take the simple route: crontab -e After leaving vi, the changes are always immediately activated. I can tell, because also the checks at every 15 minutes are done. Paul --- This quote is malfunctioning. Please try another one ---Original Message--- Paul, Do you edit the cron table directly or do you work in a separate file that you periodically implement? I myself use a separate file and on occasion I have made changes to it that I forgot to activate. Miark Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: # ** mail ** # main account: daytime every 2 min 00-58/2 05-23 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null # main account: nighttime every 15 min 00-58/15 00-04 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Anne, I had such an experience for a lng period until I realized (with the help pf list members) that it was a problem (conflict) between mdk8.1 and kde3 when using *any* screen saver and/or power saving! I have disable all those features and for now I'm just using the 'padlock' icon on kde3 to 'protect' the monitor *and* for long periods, turning off the monitor power!! Those logouts almost drove me crazy, they could happen **any** time... not only for 'power saving' and screen saver, with some nice motifs, conditions! ;-(( So far I've found the problem not the solution though rgd, Ricardo On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Anne Anne, well, look at it this way. it's not a total loss. you were, after all, able to get copy and paste to work in OpenOffice. thats quite an accomplishment. apart from that it merely sounds as though your X server crashed. i doubt you've got any serious file corruption. maybe to the files you had open if that. -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] iptables help
sounds like you are already using ipchains. are you?? you can one use one or the other, (ipchains or iptables) not both. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:29 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] iptables help I have never used iptables that I'm aware of, and was reading about it today. I'm trying to add some IPs to a rule that will block nimda/code red infected computers. But, when I try to write the rule, I get the following error: /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o.gz: init_module: Device or resource busy modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod ip_tables failed iptables v1.2.5: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. What should I do? Todd -- Todd Slater The current tune is Parliament - Gloryhallastoopid - (Gloryhallastoopid) Pin The Tail On The Funky Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. (Bertrand Russell) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] samba GUI interface
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 01:53, Rob Burris wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Thanks for info, Damian. Webmin is a pretty sweet program. However, I was looking for program that would act more like windows NetBIOS where I could access files over the network via a GUI interface. I'm not even sure something like that exists but it would be really cool if it did. - Rob B. OK, first off you have to create mount points for the other computers, then mount them. mount -t smbfs //laptop/c /mnt/laptop as an example. Do this for each computer that you are wanting to view. If you are using KDE, call up your home directory, click on Root Directory, then the folder in the mnt directory that corresponds with your computer. Drag and drop into your linux box. You are going to have to experiment with copying to the win boxes. Another way to do the copying is from the command line: mv /home/bill/foobar.txt /mnt/laptop/foobar.txt this copies the file foobar.txt to the root directory of my windows box. There is a program call LinNeighborhood out there that is supposed to be somewhat like Winsux Network Neighborhood, but I haven't played with that. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] samba GUI interface
On Thursday 15 August 2002 02:14 am, you wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:27:08 -0600 Rob Burris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to view your local network? - Thanks, Rob B. if what you are looking for is a GUI way to configure Samba, you should try webmin. it's got configuration interfaces for nearly every possible service and administration task. first, as root, type this command: service webmin start then open up your regular web browser and connect to webmin's interface by going to https://localhost:1/ it will ask for a login. you wanna log in as root. if you do not have webmin installed, do a: urpmi webmin HTH Damian Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? gnomba, but after the mount is setup, just brows over with anything from MC (MidnightCommander) to Konq Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ugly font
I would dearly like to get rid of that aweful ADMono font, but I can't identify it to delete it. Can anyone point me at the location? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness
Paul wrote: # ** mail ** # main account: daytime every 2 min 00-58/2 05-23 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null # main account: nighttime every 15 min 00-58/15 00-04 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null Just a shot in the dark for kicks. (I'm not familiar with the stuur command -- is that a script or command that you wrote?) Anyway, is there any chance you are checking with something like fetchmail and it is running in a polling mode? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] samba GUI interface
I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to view your local network? I think there is some confusion about what you're asking. Are you trying to view a particular smb mount, or are you looking for something similar to Network Neighborhood where you can see all the machines in your domain? Ric Tibbetts Unix Systems Administration The early bird may get the worm, But the second mouse gets the cheese. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ugly font
On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 12:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I would dearly like to get rid of that aweful ADMono font, but I can't identify it to delete it. Can anyone point me at the location? Anne No, but you do not have to use it if you do not want to. Does this mean you are having problems with your requested fonts being substituted with AD Mono? If so you can probably fix that by turning AntiAliasing off in KDE Control Centre. (On my screen the fonts look great with AA off, but for some people they become ugly. In that case try playing with screen resolutions and density. For example on my screen 1280x1024 16bit has great looking fonts, while 1280x1024 24 bit has ugly fonts) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness
Hi Randy, 'stuur' is dutch for 'send'. It is indeed a script. After sending out the mailq through postfix, 'stuur' invokes a script called cmail (see mail) which runs getmail (I prefer that to fetchmail). I don't use any automatic polling program. I handle that through cron. cmail adds a few lines to my procmail.log file so I can see what has been happening (the mailserver of my provider seems to lose mail these days). This is how I found out that cron runs stuur every 2 minutes also during the night. I doubt that the problem could be that I use 00, 04 and 05 instead of 0, 4 and 5 in the time descriptors??? E.g. 00-58/2 05-23 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null instead of 0-58/2 5-23 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null Paul --- This quote is malfunctioning. Please try another one ---Original Message--- Paul wrote: # ** mail ** # main account: daytime every 2 min 00-58/2 05-23 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null # main account: nighttime every 15 min 00-58/15 00-04 * * * $HOME/bin/stuur 1/dev/null Just a shot in the dark for kicks. (I'm not familiar with the stuur command -- is that a script or command that you wrote?) Anyway, is there any chance you are checking with something like fetchmail and it is running in a polling mode? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] difficulties hooking into internet (ethernet card, cable modem, hub)
- Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:54 PM hey David, do you realize that if I take that same logic, and apply it to your drivers License, then it would reason that you should not allow your parents to ever get a new car, or to move away from you, since the car you first learned to drive in (and even took your first drivers test in) was not your miata (that you drive now), it was your mom's Buick. once you learned to drive, you felt ready for a car that could corner, and have let that old Buick sit in the drive all these years. I don't see the similarity. I would characterize the difference as being between making my primary vehicle the tempermental Porche that has transmission glitches, or the VW Rabbit that runs smoothly if inelegantly. I then drive that to the garage and pick up the Lamborghini or Minivan or Ninja as needed. Mandrake on my machine has no sound, currently. The Nvidia video card has not been set up properly yet. Occasionally I will get up in the morning to find that the machine has locked up overnight, for no discernable reason. The display has shut off and will not come back on; I am not running any Screen Savers, or connected online overnight. There seems to be no drive activity to the Alt-SysRq-chain of command either. This is not acceptable in a gateway computer, to me or my girlfriend. I will discover these problems and fix them in time, I imagine, but I don't have the requisite 9 hour block of time this week. now, if the firewall-router is good enough, then kwel. but if it was my money, I would have rather used a box I was already running, and as long as it is (say less than 100 users) small home network, and I had a linux box running, I would configure the services and let the routing and firewall happen without my buying a firewall-router appliance. and once you get it up, unless you have crummy power, you can forget the linux box as well as you can forget the appliance I haev a P-133 that I could use for that purpose, if I put the hard drive back in (it's my old Windows data), got another two network cards, and went to the trouble of installing a small linux on it and learning the quirks of that distro. For now, my time is worth the cost of an 'appliance' that does its job well, without glitches. I don't use Linux because I'm cheap. I use it because I want the alternative to Windows. However it's not a religion for me. Thanks for your input (no sarcasm intended), David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] snice on X server
Hi, I've found that my Java GUIs are a bit snappier if I give the X server a priority boost. I've been using the su command to execute the snice command on the X server process as root. This is annoying and I would like to have the snice command run automatically for all users. Where in the boot process would be the best place to insert the snice command? Thanks. Jeff Chapman Software Engineer Registered Linux User #218160 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] samba GUI interface
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to view your local network? I think there is some confusion about what you're asking. Are you trying to view a particular smb mount, or are you looking for something similar to Network Neighborhood where you can see all the machines in your domain? Ric Tibbetts nah...Ric, what they're looking for is the config interface that can be found and accessed through webmin. Its on the servers tab in webmin. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] samba GUI interface
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to view your local network? I think there is some confusion about what you're asking. Are you trying to view a particular smb mount, or are you looking for something similar to Network Neighborhood where you can see all the machines in your domain? Ric Tibbetts nah...Ric, what they're looking for is the config interface that can be found and accessed through webmin. Its on the servers tab in webmin. Yeah, that's what I thought at first too, but then reading it, it seemed like he was looking for a way to browse the network, ala network neighborhood. Webmin huh? I've never used it. Does it do anything with samba that swat doesn't? Ric Tibbetts Unix Systems Administration The early bird may get the worm, But the second mouse gets the cheese. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] samba GUI interface
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: I just installed samba on Mandrake 8.2 and I was wondering if there was a GUI interface or network configuration on KDM that would allow you to view your local network? I think there is some confusion about what you're asking. Are you trying to view a particular smb mount, or are you looking for something similar to Network Neighborhood where you can see all the machines in your domain? Ric Tibbetts nah...Ric, what they're looking for is the config interface that can be found and accessed through webmin. Its on the servers tab in webmin. Yeah, that's what I thought at first too, but then reading it, it seemed like he was looking for a way to browse the network, ala network neighborhood. Webmin huh? I've never used it. Does it do anything with samba that swat doesn't? Ric Tibbetts Unix Systems Administration The early bird may get the worm, But the second mouse gets the cheese. well...the actual webmin samba config tool isn't the best but it'll do in a pinch. in 8.2 thats how I access swat. it just seemed the natural way to get to it. course now, unless I'm just feeling lazy, or I'm already in webmin for something, i just do the dirty work for samba in console. Vi is my friend after all. ;) -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake9.0 beta2 install
Computer, MSI k7t266 pro 2 with raid (but disabled in bios) geforce3 via8233 sound chipset with ac97 codec 1800 Athlon processor 512mb ddr ram Install, all 3 cd's md5sum tested ok. no problems with usb detection. programme installer reported one error, tux racer failed. DrakX printer install configuration had problems, only one of four Z53 drivers would configure where normall 3 do. I cancelled lilo install, it refused cancell and buggered up my lilo entries, since this was only a beta2 test I was going to boot on a floppy and save my dual boot lilo.conf entires, this has made unnecassary work to repair the damage. Clearly lilo cancell tab does not work. Desktop config Sound seems to work ok, though not tested all apps. Screen resolution had to be inproved on desktop. as it would not accept best config in Xwindows condig Don't like the increasingly difficult manner inwhich root is being made difficult to set up properly.This is retrograde. Not everyone wants this dictatorial approach. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [Fwd: Mandrake9.0 beta2 install]
Original Message Subject: Mandrake9.0 beta2 install Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:46:52 +0100 From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer, MSI k7t266 pro 2 with raid (but disabled in bios) geforce3 via8233 sound chipset with ac97 codec 1800 Athlon processor 512mb ddr ram Install, all 3 cd's md5sum tested ok. no problems with usb detection. programme installer reported one error, tux racer failed. DrakX printer install configuration had problems, only one of four Z53 drivers would configure where normall 3 do. I cancelled lilo install, it refused cancell and buggered up my lilo entries, since this was only a beta2 test I was going to boot on a floppy and save my dual boot lilo.conf entires, this has made unnecassary work to repair the damage. Clearly lilo cancell tab does not work. Desktop config Sound seems to work ok, though not tested all apps. Screen resolution had to be inproved on desktop. as it would not accept best config in Xwindows condig Don't like the increasingly difficult manner inwhich root is being made difficult to set up properly.This is retrograde. Not everyone wants this dictatorial approach. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Upon further examination, I now realize that the lilo entries were not changed, the situation fooled me because the splash screen that comes up has completely changed , and the entries there, but the script it runs had not changed. Apologies. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix for dummies?
Derek, Thanks for the reply. I currently have my own mail server (Exchange) for my domain and am simply looking to set up postfix as an SMTP gateway so that I can have it filter incoming mail for viruses and spam. On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:47 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 12:05 am, David Johnson wrote: Hello everyone, I'm sure this subject has been covered a thousand times (maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places), but I can't find an answer anywhere. I'm looking for postfix configuration for dummies. I'm currently setting up an LM8.2 machine to rnu postfix along with anomy and spamassassin as an SMTP gateway for my MS Exchange box and I'm having trouble with the configuration. Specifically, I'm having trouble getting it to forward the mail to my Exchange box. I found the setting in MAIN.CF that allows postfix to forward all messages that it does not have a mailbox for and, according to the INFO log file, the forwarding is happening, but the message never shows up in Exchange. I'm not sure what further specific info someone might need to help me troubleshoot this, but the breakdown appears to be happening somewhere between postfix and exchange, I just don't know of a way to find out what is going on short of a sniffer... I would appreciate any help anyone can offer! Postfix takes mail and forwards it onwards. Any mail destinesd for a local mailbox will be put into a mailbox in /var/mail/user_name. To get it into an outlook mail client you are going to need an imap or pop3 sevice running on your machine. Install the imap rpm and you can start up imap or ipop3 services via mandrake control centre to pass the mail onto your users. To get the mail from your ISP mail servers fetchmail is good. fetchmailconf is a a good way to configure fetchmail. Webmin is a good way to configure postfix There is a good guide on www.mandrakeuser.org derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Postfix for dummies?
search the postfix miling list archives,, I saw a ton of this sort of question and answers when I was on it. (it a high volume list) you can look for it on postfix.org you should also look into amavisd while you are there, there is a proodut called amavis-new and it is tied in to spamassasin as well, so you get spam protection and antivirus for all mail going though in one hit.. very cool. rgds Frank. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Johnson Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix for dummies? Derek, Thanks for the reply. I currently have my own mail server (Exchange) for my domain and am simply looking to set up postfix as an SMTP gateway so that I can have it filter incoming mail for viruses and spam. On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:47 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 12:05 am, David Johnson wrote: Hello everyone, I'm sure this subject has been covered a thousand times (maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places), but I can't find an answer anywhere. I'm looking for postfix configuration for dummies. I'm currently setting up an LM8.2 machine to rnu postfix along with anomy and spamassassin as an SMTP gateway for my MS Exchange box and I'm having trouble with the configuration. Specifically, I'm having trouble getting it to forward the mail to my Exchange box. I found the setting in MAIN.CF that allows postfix to forward all messages that it does not have a mailbox for and, according to the INFO log file, the forwarding is happening, but the message never shows up in Exchange. I'm not sure what further specific info someone might need to help me troubleshoot this, but the breakdown appears to be happening somewhere between postfix and exchange, I just don't know of a way to find out what is going on short of a sniffer... I would appreciate any help anyone can offer! Postfix takes mail and forwards it onwards. Any mail destinesd for a local mailbox will be put into a mailbox in /var/mail/user_name. To get it into an outlook mail client you are going to need an imap or pop3 sevice running on your machine. Install the imap rpm and you can start up imap or ipop3 services via mandrake control centre to pass the mail onto your users. To get the mail from your ISP mail servers fetchmail is good. fetchmailconf is a a good way to configure fetchmail. Webmin is a good way to configure postfix There is a good guide on www.mandrakeuser.org derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness
Paul wrote: 'stuur' is dutch for 'send'. It is indeed a script. Ok, thanks! After sending out the mailq through postfix, 'stuur' invokes a script called cmail (see mail) which runs getmail (I prefer that to fetchmail). I don't use any automatic polling program. I handle that through cron. And getmail can't poll at intervals like fetchmail can? I doubt that the problem could be that I use 00, 04 and 05 instead of 0, 4 and 5 in the time descriptors??? I don't think so, but I am not an expert. I just took one shot in the dark ;-) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] full duplex / half duplex
I can't tell you how to force LM to set the card into full-duplex, but I can tell you that normally, a NIC's autodetect works pretty well. The card should try to negotiate the best signalling speed and duplex level that it can. If it did not autodetect full duplex, then it is highly likely that your hub/switch does not support that communication mode. On Wednesday 14 August 2002 07:46 pm, Duke Glover wrote: Hello Mandrake gods, I am running Mandrake 8.0 on a HP Kayak XM600. I have a linksys LNE100TX. mii-tool reports that it is running at 10Mbit, half duplex. How can I set it to run at Full Duplex ? Thanks for any help, Duke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
I fixed the install problem. It was a bad burn. Now I have a different problem. I ran the install and all is well up until it runs the bootloader configuration. It starts the configuration and then just hangs. Any ideas why? I am running an Abit NV7-133, Athlon XP 1500 +, 256 megs RAM, 80 GB IBM harddrive. I currently have Windows98 SE installed (wanting a dual boot config). Thanks Travis Crook Hi all, I was attempting to install 9.0 beta 2 when I got the following error: Error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute /usr/bin/runinstall2 from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory. I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system. Is this because I have a bad burn of the .iso image? Or is it from some other cause? Thanks Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 5:49 pm, Travis Crook wrote: I fixed the install problem. It was a bad burn. Now I have a different problem. I ran the install and all is well up until it runs the bootloader configuration. It starts the configuration and then just hangs. Any ideas why? Not really, but since Beta3 is now out, it may not be worth spending too much time over. Good thing CDs are cheap ;-) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] expired password
How do I get that if I am using GRUB? I don't see the linux single on the menu. Norman - Original Message - From: _nast-mdk81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] expired password On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:45, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, My root password has expired. Is there any way that I can login to the system and change the password? Regards, Norman Hello, When LILO asks you to choose a boot option, select linux single (may be slightly different spelling). Then you should be able to do passwd root. Choose a nice password, cross your fingers and reboot! Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0 Beta - Memory leak in drakconf ?
Could some of you good people running 9.0 Beta tell me if you experience the same as me so I can be sure it is a bug and not just something unique to my set up. Open a root terminal and run drakconf (Mandrake Control Centre), select Network Connection, but do not complete the wizard or anything. Just open another teminal and run 'top' and watch it. Do you see the memory usage of drakconf slowly creeping up? As it goes up so does processor usage until the processor usage and the computer starts locking up? (X's memory goes up with drakconf) (I am using drakconf-9.0-0.7mdk which is the version in Beta3) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
Well, since beta3 is out I might just wait until I can try it!! Thanks! Travis Crook On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 5:49 pm, Travis Crook wrote: I fixed the install problem. It was a bad burn. Now I have a different problem. I ran the install and all is well up until it runs the bootloader configuration. It starts the configuration and then just hangs. Any ideas why? Not really, but since Beta3 is now out, it may not be worth spending too much time over. Good thing CDs are cheap ;-) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu 15 August 2002 6:04 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 5:49 pm, Travis Crook wrote: I fixed the install problem. It was a bad burn. Now I have a different problem. I ran the install and all is well up until it runs the bootloader configuration. It starts the configuration and then just hangs. Any ideas why? Not really, but since Beta3 is now out, it may not be worth spending too much time over. Good thing CDs are cheap ;-) Lucky I read this before reinstalling 9.0 beta 2 (due to breaking about 36 things following experiments :) Was beta 3 announced anywhere? Certainly not on the [cooker] mailing list, and linux-mandrake.com still says beta 2 ... Concerning (poor) Linux marketing, I note a serious missed opportunity. Apparently the SSL bug in Konqueror was fixed in an hour and a half. That should've been shouted from the rooftops, particularly as Microsoft hasn't done anything visible yet (last MS security update 7 August) ... Instead kde.org is out of date, with the Applications list broken (? - not updated this month) :( Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9W+VPdasIDb/2nMwRAm1RAJ0TVgTaWopy6hyC2v6bybXYw9bLIgCfSydE US+qzuv9MbX/WD5v9a1GpZw= =sbzs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] expired password
Please excuse my previous post. I did managed change the passwords. Thanks. Regards, Norman - Original Message - From: Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] expired password How do I get that if I am using GRUB? I don't see the linux single on the menu. Norman - Original Message - From: _nast-mdk81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] expired password On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:45, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, My root password has expired. Is there any way that I can login to the system and change the password? Regards, Norman Hello, When LILO asks you to choose a boot option, select linux single (may be slightly different spelling). Then you should be able to do passwd root. Choose a nice password, cross your fingers and reboot! Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness
In reply to Randy's mail, d.d. Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:01:04 -0400: 'stuur' is dutch for 'send'. It is indeed a script. Ok, thanks! No problem. Anything to teach you some dutch! ;-) cmail (see mail) which runs getmail (I prefer that to fetchmail). I don't use any automatic polling program. I handle that through cron. And getmail can't poll at intervals like fetchmail can? Indeed, it can't. Getmail is a python script that I use in a very specific setup. It cannot run in daemon mode. I doubt that the problem could be that I use 00, 04 and 05 instead of 0, 4 and 5 in the time descriptors??? I don't think so, but I am not an expert. I just took one shot in the dark ;-) I'll shoot again tonight and see what gives. Thanks anyway!! Paul -- A life lived in chaos is an impossibility... -Madeleine L'Engle http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.0 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Interesting comparision.
Has anyone noticed how XP doesn't have scandisk like previous versions of Winblows? instead they have chkdsk, which when running in write mode can only run when the drive has nothing else running... (ie at boot do it can dismount the drive if necessary.. sound familiar? they are now doing it the same way fsck does.. how interesting is that.. just thought I'd pipe up with that, sorry, I'll try to keep my outbursts down to a minimium... :-) rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] broke toolbar beta 9.0 2
I istalled X11r6 from #2 cd in RPM and somehow broke all the icons on the tool bar. JOE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness
Paul wrote: No problem. Anything to teach you some dutch! ;-) Well, I do know a little bit of Pennsylvania dutch -- does that count? ;-) Kannst due micha funga? Nur wenn sie hugel bleibe ... (sort of a phonetic spelling) Indeed, it can't. Getmail is a python script that I use in a very specific setup. It cannot run in daemon mode. Thanks (for the info)! I'll shoot again tonight and see what gives. Thanks anyway!! Good luck! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 6:30 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu 15 August 2002 6:04 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 5:49 pm, Travis Crook wrote: I fixed the install problem. It was a bad burn. Now I have a different problem. I ran the install and all is well up until it runs the bootloader configuration. It starts the configuration and then just hangs. Any ideas why? Not really, but since Beta3 is now out, it may not be worth spending too much time over. Good thing CDs are cheap ;-) Lucky I read this before reinstalling 9.0 beta 2 (due to breaking about 36 things following experiments :) Was beta 3 announced anywhere? Certainly not on the [cooker] mailing list, and linux-mandrake.com still says beta 2 ... I saw it on pclinuxonline, and yes it is on the mirrors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions
I've got my email server nearly working (includes fetchmail, postfix, procmail, ipopd). ;-) Main Problem: I can't send email to myself. Sub Problem: My postfix logs don't seem to be running -- are there any simple traps I'm liable to have fallen into which stop the postfix logging mechanism? The logs I'm checking are the info, warnings, and errors logs in /var/log/mail. Postfix is still running, but nothing has appeared in these logs since mid afternoon yesterday. The messages in the info and warning logs concern an email message that had been sitting there for 13 days (which is of no concern as I was only experimenting at the time it was sent -- mail now seems to flow OK). Hmm, I wonder what I did about that time yesterday? Background (on not being able to send email to myself): (I was going to try to find something in the logs, but ...). Anyway: * I'm using postfix as the MTA, and most things seem to work. I've set relayhost to point to my ISP. My home network is private, and my machines are named like System8.Home (System8 is the host (machine) name), and Home is the domain (not fully qualified, and not registered). My user name on system8 is dad, so I set a canonical_map (two ways, i.e., for send and receive, IIUC) to map [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other than that, my setup is fairly vanilla -- the only other parameters I've set are: * defer_transports=smtp * disable_dns_lookups=yes * canonical_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/canonical This is all on Mandrake 7.2 (actually the MandrakeFreq update). All the other settings are, IIRC, as they were upon installation. I do know that if I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly to my ISP (not via my server) it goes to them and comes back later. If I send it via my server, it just seems to disappear (although I suppose it could be at my ISP, waiting to get a nondelivery notice after five days). Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions
Oops, I probably should have mentioned that the problem occurs when I try to send mail to myself addressed as [EMAIL PROTECTED]. (I haven't tried addressing it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I will in case it provides a clue.) Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: I've got my email server nearly working (includes fetchmail, postfix, procmail, ipopd). ;-) Main Problem: I can't send email to myself. Sub Problem: My postfix logs don't seem to be running -- are there any simple traps I'm liable to have fallen into which stop the postfix logging mechanism? The logs I'm checking are the info, warnings, and errors logs in /var/log/mail. Postfix is still running, but nothing has appeared in these logs since mid afternoon yesterday. The messages in the info and warning logs concern an email message that had been sitting there for 13 days (which is of no concern as I was only experimenting at the time it was sent -- mail now seems to flow OK). Hmm, I wonder what I did about that time yesterday? Background (on not being able to send email to myself): (I was going to try to find something in the logs, but ...). Anyway: * I'm using postfix as the MTA, and most things seem to work. I've set relayhost to point to my ISP. My home network is private, and my machines are named like System8.Home (System8 is the host (machine) name), and Home is the domain (not fully qualified, and not registered). My user name on system8 is dad, so I set a canonical_map (two ways, i.e., for send and receive, IIUC) to map [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other than that, my setup is fairly vanilla -- the only other parameters I've set are: * defer_transports=smtp * disable_dns_lookups=yes * canonical_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/canonical This is all on Mandrake 7.2 (actually the MandrakeFreq update). All the other settings are, IIRC, as they were upon installation. I do know that if I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly to my ISP (not via my server) it goes to them and comes back later. If I send it via my server, it just seems to disappear (although I suppose it could be at my ISP, waiting to get a nondelivery notice after five days). Randy Kramer --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Not really, but since Beta3 is now out, it may not be worth spending too much time over. Good thing CDs are cheap ;-) Where? I've gone through a dozen mirrors linked from Mandrakesoft and only see Beta 2. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 8:34 pm, Miark wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Not really, but since Beta3 is now out, it may not be worth spending too much time over. Good thing CDs are cheap ;-) Where? I've gone through a dozen mirrors linked from Mandrakesoft and only see Beta 2. Miark ftp.sunet.se ftp.citil.fr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Upgrading Mozilla
I'm fairly sure my Mozilla got corrupted a while back, as I seem to have problems that didn't exist before. Is it possible to d/l 1.0 and use it to upgrade the current installation, so that I can keep my settings, bookmarks, plugins etc.? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Wednesday 14 Aug 2002 9:22 pm, you wrote: This was cleary an essay-test... -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] test On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:05 pm, you wrote: This is a test message because two of my postings have not been presented. But then I never saw the original post of this thread. As for posts not showing up generally, I check my sent-mail folder and usually find that the post had gone back to a poster rather than the list. HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ugly font
On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 1:19 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 12:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I would dearly like to get rid of that aweful ADMono font, but I can't identify it to delete it. Can anyone point me at the location? Anne No, but you do not have to use it if you do not want to. Does this mean you are having problems with your requested fonts being substituted with AD Mono? If so you can probably fix that by turning AntiAliasing off in KDE Control Centre. (On my screen the fonts look great with AA off, but for some people they become ugly. In that case try playing with screen resolutions and density. For example on my screen 1280x1024 16bit has great looking fonts, while 1280x1024 24 bit has ugly fonts) derek For some reason when I checked AA they all defaulted to AD Mono. You're right - turning it off again has solved the problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 8:25 am, you wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Anne, I had such an experience for a lng period until I realized (with the help pf list members) that it was a problem (conflict) between mdk8.1 and kde3 when using *any* screen saver and/or power saving! I have disable all those features and for now I'm just using the 'padlock' icon on kde3 to 'protect' the monitor *and* for long periods, turning off the monitor power!! Those logouts almost drove me crazy, they could happen **any** time... not only for 'power saving' and screen saver, with some nice motifs, conditions! ;-(( So far I've found the problem not the solution though rgd, Ricardo On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Anne Anne, well, look at it this way. it's not a total loss. you were, after all, able to get copy and paste to work in OpenOffice. thats quite an accomplishment. apart from that it merely sounds as though your X server crashed. i doubt you've got any serious file corruption. maybe to the files you had open if that. Thanks Reicardo. I'm still on KDE2, but I'll check out the power saving etc. I thought I had disabled them all, but I may have missed something. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 8:39 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 8:34 pm, Miark wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Not really, but since Beta3 is now out, it may not be worth spending too much time over. Good thing CDs are cheap ;-) Where? I've gone through a dozen mirrors linked from Mandrakesoft and only see Beta 2. Miark ftp.sunet.se ftp.citil.fr sorry cannot spell ftp.ciril.fr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
On Thursday August 15 2002 01:32 pm, frankie wrote: Has anyone noticed how XP doesn't have scandisk like previous versions of Winblows? instead they have chkdsk, which when running in write mode can only run when the drive has nothing else running... (ie at boot do it can dismount the drive if necessary.. sound familiar? they are now doing it the same way fsck does.. how interesting is that.. Winblows always use to have 'chkdsk' which could only be run in DOS, before the win9x versions began sporting 'scandisk'. To this day, the DOS version of scandisk, /c/windows/command/scandisk.exe, and uses /c/windows/command/chkdsk.exe (that's from my W98 install and'a 'locate' from Linux, so forgive the 'backward' foward slashes ;), does a more thorough (also potentially more dangerous to non-M$ partitions) check/fix than the versions that can run under their bloaty GUI. You have to hack win9x/ME a touch to get to the underlying pure DOS tho. Same for their Registry fix/compress tools (scanreg /fix, scanreg /opt). M$ just keeps tryin harder an' harder to hide 'em from users 'cause can they can fsck up (both M$ and their users ;) So I don't believe they're now doin it, sounds more like business as usual or a regression (innnovation in M$peak) to me specially since they keep wanna stickin with proprietary file systems that suck, only improvement are that M$ continues to make them more proprietary. So I guess there's nothin new at all ;) Well, 'cept for needin to agree to give M$ root class privledges to your software, and rights to your personal information and some other user concessions just so you can apply their bug fix service packs to w2K or XP. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Beta - Memory leak in drakconf ?
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:47:19 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 've seen mozilla, galeon and many /contrib apps reported (mostly on the CHRPM list, some on the cooker list). Just a note on mozilla an galeon. Both of these are in b3 and will be in the final compiled with gcc-2.9.6 to allow java to work. It seems that None of the java vendors have any plan to source it other than in its currently compiled releases. Charles -- - It could be a torture chamber or a dungeon or a hideous pit or anything! - It's just a student's bedroom, sergeant. - You see? (Men at Arms) -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
yeah, someone gave me a cracked corp copy of XP, and I wanted to know how/if it worked, so I installed it.. now my legit win2000pro machine on my network, and my XP machine, (no longer with the cracked version) both find No updates in windows update, even though this time last month, there were a heap of them, including .NET stuff etc.. So I can only assume that M$ has my static IP in a database somewhere and has locked me out of windows update regardless of what OS I have.. (although it did work with a 98SE machine I setup for a friend. (also legit.) (I'm gonna try going through an annonomiser proxy next and see if that works.) I think its time software became a possession, like a car, your PC's hardware your lounge etc.. instead of a lease. (which it more or less is now.) if I paid for it, I should own those binaries... and can do with them what I like. (with the exception of replicating them and selling the replicants.) (I'm talking about no source commercial software, not open source) Does anyone find it ironic that M$ chose the service packs to change the license agreement ?? they now give themselves the right to have your PC send them your product ID and other info if you accept the license on loading the service pack. I hope mdk9 rules, because I want to ditch all copies of winblows 2000/XP and just keep a win98SE machine around (or win4lin and run it in linux) for those things that just need winblows for now... I am so sick of crashes and sh!t, and the crap M$ are handing out to people to blind or stupid to realise that what they have been handed is brown, mushy and doesn't smell that hot.. If they think they are in trouble now, wait till they crush their own illusion that people own their windows operating system by introducing their subscription model as their main license.. then people will flock to *nix and macs like never before... I desperatly want that to happen, because once all the commercial companies start releasing their versions for linux (and driver support etc.) then the freefall will begin.. the masses will swarm linux and by then it will be more intuitative then ever and people will be saying Bill who??? anyway, enough raving, I've gone and stayed up all night again surfing the net.. time for bed. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision. On Thursday August 15 2002 01:32 pm, frankie wrote: Has anyone noticed how XP doesn't have scandisk like previous versions of Winblows? instead they have chkdsk, which when running in write mode can only run when the drive has nothing else running... (ie at boot do it can dismount the drive if necessary.. sound familiar? they are now doing it the same way fsck does.. how interesting is that.. Winblows always use to have 'chkdsk' which could only be run in DOS, before the win9x versions began sporting 'scandisk'. To this day, the DOS version of scandisk, /c/windows/command/scandisk.exe, and uses /c/windows/command/chkdsk.exe (that's from my W98 install and'a 'locate' from Linux, so forgive the 'backward' foward slashes ;), does a more thorough (also potentially more dangerous to non-M$ partitions) check/fix than the versions that can run under their bloaty GUI. You have to hack win9x/ME a touch to get to the underlying pure DOS tho. Same for their Registry fix/compress tools (scanreg /fix, scanreg /opt). M$ just keeps tryin harder an' harder to hide 'em from users 'cause can they can fsck up (both M$ and their users ;) So I don't believe they're now doin it, sounds more like business as usual or a regression (innnovation in M$peak) to me specially since they keep wanna stickin with proprietary file systems that suck, only improvement are that M$ continues to make them more proprietary. So I guess there's nothin new at all ;) Well, 'cept for needin to agree to give M$ root class privledges to your software, and rights to your personal information and some other user concessions just so you can apply their bug fix service packs to w2K or XP. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 8:07 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Oops, I probably should have mentioned that the problem occurs when I try to send mail to myself addressed as [EMAIL PROTECTED]. (I haven't tried addressing it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I will in case it provides a clue.) Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: I've got my email server nearly working (includes fetchmail, postfix, procmail, ipopd). ;-) Main Problem: I can't send email to myself. Sub Problem: My postfix logs don't seem to be running -- are there any simple traps I'm liable to have fallen into which stop the postfix logging mechanism? The logs I'm checking are the info, warnings, and errors logs in /var/log/mail. Postfix is still running, but nothing has appeared in these logs since mid afternoon yesterday. The messages in the info and warning logs concern an email message that had been sitting there for 13 days (which is of no concern as I was only experimenting at the time it was sent -- mail now seems to flow OK). Hmm, I wonder what I did about that time yesterday? Background (on not being able to send email to myself): (I was going to try to find something in the logs, but ...). Anyway: * I'm using postfix as the MTA, and most things seem to work. I've set relayhost to point to my ISP. My home network is private, and my machines are named like System8.Home (System8 is the host (machine) name), and Home is the domain (not fully qualified, and not registered). My user name on system8 is dad, so I set a canonical_map (two ways, i.e., for send and receive, IIUC) to map [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other than that, my setup is fairly vanilla -- the only other parameters I've set are: * defer_transports=smtp * disable_dns_lookups=yes * canonical_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/canonical This is all on Mandrake 7.2 (actually the MandrakeFreq update). All the other settings are, IIRC, as they were upon installation. I do know that if I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly to my ISP (not via my server) it goes to them and comes back later. If I send it via my server, it just seems to disappear (although I suppose it could be at my ISP, waiting to get a nondelivery notice after five days). Randy Kramer --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Derek, Thanks very much for your reply! I realized a little later that I still had the myhostname and myorigin set to fast.net which was part of my problem. (And, at least for the myhostname was a definite mistake.) Once I removed those, I could send mail to myself. Now I realize that some of what I want to do is at crosspurposes with some other things I want to do. For example: * My mail on the Internet needs to look like it's coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that: * mail hosts that will only relay for a known subscriber will relay for me (I guess that depends on the envelope address), and * replies to emails I send will come back to me (I guess that depends on the header address) AFAICT, I need an entry in canonical to change my local address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to the one that's valid on the Internet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), at least when I send mail from the Linux mail server (which I will do on occasion) -- my Windows email client (Netscape) lets me specify my email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so at least the header address on outgoing mail is correct * On the other hand, on my local network, there is more than one user, and, it would be ideal for local mail to use addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that ruth or [EMAIL PROTECTED] could send mail directly to me (and vice versa) and be handled by the local mail server (the one I'm setting up) instead of going out to my ISPs mail server and then coming back. All in all, I find it very confusing, and I guess it's partially because I'm doing something somewhat out of the ordinary (sharing one outside world email address among several family members). Anyway, I do want to thank you, I think I'm back on track to accomplish something (even if it's just to redetermine what I'm trying to do). (And writing this is sort of a thinking on paper exercise that hopefully helps me do that.) I have more comments / questions below, if anyone has time to respond to any of them. Well if mail from your ISP comes into your clients mailbox then that confirms fetchmail is getting it OK, and procmail is working. There should be a procmail log associated with each mail. There should also be a postfix log record when a mail comes in. (Syslog should also record the passage of the mail) I found the syslog and can see things happening there. I know where the procmail log is and have looked at it (right now my bigger concern is outgoing
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Beta - Memory leak in drakconf ?
On Thursday 15 August 2002 12:18 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Could some of you good people running 9.0 Beta tell me if you experience the same as me so I can be sure it is a bug and not just something unique to my set up. Open a root terminal and run drakconf (Mandrake Control Centre), select Network Connection, but do not complete the wizard or anything. Just open another teminal and run 'top' and watch it. Do you see the memory usage of drakconf slowly creeping up? As it goes up so does processor usage until the processor usage and the computer starts locking up? (X's memory goes up with drakconf) (I am using drakconf-9.0-0.7mdk which is the version in Beta3) derek I tried it and yes the memory usage does go up very slowly but cpu jumps around a lot and does not climb. The memory usage is a slow but steady climb, I did not wait to see it get hi enough to lock up the sys but it did go from about 2.4% to 3.2% in 5 minutes. Does seem to be a leak there, anyone else check it? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to configure KMail to get mail from local mail file
I've just configured fetchmail and gotten it working with postfix and messages are being delivered to my local mail file (/var/spool/mail/djohnson). I have configured KMail to get the mail from this same local file, but the messages do not show up in KMail. I think I am missing something simple, but am at a loss as to what it might be. When I set up the incoming mail account, I simply accepted all the defaults for a local mail file except that I checked Enable interval mail checking. Does anyone have any ideas for me? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
On Thursday 15 August 2002 01:39 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 8:34 pm, Miark wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Not really, but since Beta3 is now out, it may not be worth spending too much time over. Good thing CDs are cheap ;-) Where? I've gone through a dozen mirrors linked from Mandrakesoft and only see Beta 2. Miark ftp.sunet.se ftp.citil.fr and at: ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/ The mirrors are obviously not all updated yet but that's three. :-) -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org If God had a beard, he'd be a UNIX programmer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions
SNIP Now I realize that some of what I want to do is at crosspurposes with some other things I want to do. For example: * My mail on the Internet needs to look like it's coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that: * mail hosts that will only relay for a known subscriber will relay for me (I guess that depends on the envelope address), and * replies to emails I send will come back to me (I guess that depends on the header address) AFAICT, I need an entry in canonical to change my local address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to the one that's valid on the Internet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), at least when I send mail from the Linux mail server (which I will do on occasion) -- my Windows email client (Netscape) lets me specify my email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so at least the header address on outgoing mail is correct SNIP I have a similar setup myself. Because I do not have a Fully Qualified Domain Name, anyone I send mail to could reject it because the IP address would not match the domain name. So that is why I relay via my ISP's SMTP server. Then a reverse DNS would look OK because the IP address of the host sending the mail will match the host name in the header (my ISPs) My ISPs mail server does not mind my not having a registered host name, because I am directly connected to their network, so they know who I am. Mail servers do not bother looking at the 'From' field in the mail because you could be using a different identity. (For example this mail apparently comes from cwcom.net while in fact my ISP is ntlworld) The identity of who is sending the mail is simply set up in the mail client. Kmail for example allows you to assume an identity based on which folder you are currently browsing. Take a look at the headers of this mail, and you can trace it through my system.(Read from bottom up) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screensaver
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 23:32, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 August 2002 6:35 pm, Jose Mirles did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I would like to use xscreensaver in Windowmanager under Mandrake 8.2. My question is, how to I create a menu entry to lock the screen when I want to? rather than a menu entry, try right clicking the taskbar, go to add applet lock/logout. that should give you a nice little button to lock the screen (as well as logout) on the taskbar by the system tray area. Oops! I meant Window Maker. -- Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE Linux user 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day - coincidence? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Beta - Memory leak in drakconf ?
On Thursday August 15 2002 05:19 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 10:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, I'm usin drakconf-9.0-0.6mdk in beta2 'urpmi --auto-select' updated to cooker within hours of the beta 3 gcc/libs switch over, no problems. Also, some apps were not yet rebuilt for gcc-3.2-0.3 before the beta 3 iso's started appearing. Some might not be yet, or any time soon. I've seen mozilla, galeon and many /contrib apps reported (mostly on the CHRPM list, some on the cooker list). Like you I am running Beta2 with urpmi --auto-select keeping me current. I have observed this problem since I installed Beta2. I am just downloading Beta3 and shall try again in a fresh install tomorrow. I just wanted to get some corroberation before I report it as a problem to Cooker since I cannot believe I am the only person who has noticed. I shall also be looking closely to see if some other issues with the drak tools are still present. (BTW: You do not say if you can see the problem?) derek Usually I pay the most attention to mem leaks right after I do a kernel change, tho it is something I sort'a regulaly check. Never seen anything more than a few mb's of /swap used, 'free -m' numbers are consistent and normal. I've run 9.0 since early June, 24/7, used as my only system. Several different kernels. Some precompiled, but mostly my own compiles of Mandrake's kernel-source rpms . and no, I haven't experienced any leaks. A very few times along the way I've had a coupl'a apps that showed a propensity for going to 100% cpu usage. Since I monitor cpu temp and load constantly, I've usually found those were fixed by my next cooker 'urpmi --auto-select'. Which on a dialup is done often, almost constantly. The very serious cooker participants are rsync'ing to cooker mirrors on very high speed connections, many doin so hourly, or at least several times daily. So I pay particular attention to what they're reporting. Sometimes learning _not_ to upgrade to this patch level of a particular app, 'least till some other apps had been fixed to match. I believe your main problem is you're usin beta3's version of drakconf on beta2+cooker. Maybe some other drak(e), perl, drakxtools, hardrake, mcc, rpm(drake) patch level mismatches possible too. That's what I meant by 'volatile' in my previous post. Ain't gonna fly ;) The only thing that saved me from a similar fate is Tues. night after starting an auto urpmi cooker update, I was reading the changelog and cooker lists. They weren't rebuildin everything against the new gcc/libs for nothin ; I cancelled the d/l's as it was apparent I was fixin to _really screw up_ my beta2+cooker with some newer, incompatible gcc/beta3 stuff ;So I can only encourage y'all... if your gonna play with cooker, reading (lurkin on) the cooker lists is, IMO mandatory. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] samba GUI interface
Not supposed to be--it's there, and on the 3rd disk of 8.2 under the rpms4 section. It does require that smbmnt,smbumount and smbmount have their permissions set correctly--that's really all the configuration needed. I've used it for years. e There is a program call LinNeighborhood out there that is supposed to be somewhat like Winsux Network Neighborhood, but I haven't played with that. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:02:09 +0800 frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am so sick of crashes and sh!t, and the crap M$ are handing out to people to blind or stupid to realise that what they have been handed is brown, mushy and doesn't smell that hot.. If they think they are in trouble now, wait till they crush their own illusion that people own their windows operating system by introducing their subscription model as their main license.. then people will flock to *nix and macs like never before... I desperatly want that to happen, because once all the commercial companies start releasing their versions for linux (and driver support etc.) then the freefall will begin.. the masses will swarm linux and by then it will be more intuitative then ever and people will be saying Bill who??? anyway, enough raving, I've gone and stayed up all night again surfing the net.. time for bed. rgds frank I watched Steve Jobs keynote address from Mac World in streaming mpeg4 with AAC audio on QuickTime 6, and if it hadn't been for the eye candy, I could have sworn I was watching an M$ show. The new Mac business model looks a lot like the M$ model--moving to subscription services (that were once free). I guess Mac OSX users are especially pissed that they will have to pay full price for Jaguar (or, Jagwire as Steve says). To stay current with Mac OS would have involved several pricey upgrades in a short time. I was seriously considering buying a Mac until I watched his address. Sure, OSX looks cool, but I have a feeling there are a lot of hidden costs waiting down the road. I'm really happy with Mandrake Linux, and you can't beat the price and the support community. I wouldn't even be surprised to see the Mac fanatics defect at some point. Cheers, Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough - the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not. (Floyd Dell) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and Email Server Questions
Derek, Thanks for the followup! I was curious so I tried sending you mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- it basically bounced so I assume that is not a good Internet email address for you. (There was also a reference to spews, so possibly it is your address, but currently blacklisted?) quote Hi. This is the qmail-send program at newmx1.fast.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 212.187.213.75 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 553 [1] misc13, see http://spews.org/ask.cgi?S610 Giving up on 212.187.213.75. /quote Anyway, I was curious. Derek Jennings wrote: The identity of who is sending the mail is simply set up in the mail client. Kmail for example allows you to assume an identity based on which folder you are currently browsing. That's a good point -- I did some looking and found that even Pine let's you set the email address of your identity -- I guess I assumed Pine would not have that capability -- now I'm assuming all email clients have that ability. I guess I'll see what happens. ;-) (I don't suppose there is an easy way of doing that for mail sent from the command line? Don't answer -- it's just idle curiosity.) Anyway, assuming they all have that capability, I now realize it does make more sense for me to use that ability rather than the canonical mapping capability because I can then send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the Internet or [EMAIL PROTECTED] locally. About as good as I'm going to get, I suspect. (Aside: I did figure out how to use a canonical map for sending only -- basically in the Postfix config file you specify a sender_canonical_map (or recipient_canonical_map) file the same way you would specify a bidirectional canonical map and then create the file.) Take a look at the headers of this mail, and you can trace it through my system.(Read from bottom up) I took a brief look -- I wonder if somebody has created a GUI email header parser that displays the headers in some way to easily make sense of them? regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
On Thursday August 15 2002 06:02 pm, frankie wrote: yeah, someone gave me a cracked corp copy of XP, and I wanted to know how/if it worked, so I installed it.. now my legit win2000pro machine on my network, and my XP machine, (no longer with the cracked version) both find No updates in windows update, even though this time last month, there were a heap of them, including .NET stuff etc.. So I can only assume that M$ has my static IP in a database somewhere and has locked me out of windows update regardless of what OS I have.. (although it did work with a 98SE machine I setup for a friend. (also legit.) (I'm gonna try going through an annonomiser proxy next and see if that works.) http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25996.html might help, I dunno, I haven't given Billy a nickel in a long time. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crontab weirdness (solved, I think)
In reply to Randy's mail, d.d. Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:33:10 -0400: Indeed, it can't. Getmail is a python script that I use in a very specific setup. It cannot run in daemon mode. Thanks (for the info)! I'll shoot again tonight and see what gives. Thanks anyway!! The problem seems to have resolved itself. Almost. I removed the zeroes from the numbers and that works. Perhaps I am kidding myself with this though, I have other crontab lines with 05 etc in them and they work just like that. Paul -- The real essence of work is concentrated energy. -Walter Begehot http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.0 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision.
(response below) I watched Steve Jobs keynote address from Mac World in streaming mpeg4 with AAC audio on QuickTime 6, and if it hadn't been for the eye candy, I could have sworn I was watching an M$ show. The new Mac business model looks a lot like the M$ model--moving to subscription services (that were once free). I guess Mac OSX users are especially pissed that they will have to pay full price for Jaguar (or, Jagwire as Steve says). To stay current with Mac OS would have involved several pricey upgrades in a short time. I was seriously considering buying a Mac until I watched his address. Sure, OSX looks cool, but I have a feeling there are a lot of hidden costs waiting down the road. I'm really happy with Mandrake Linux, and you can't beat the price and the support community. I wouldn't even be surprised to see the Mac fanatics defect at some point. Cheers, Todd Do you not find L-M to be expensive down the road? I am psyched about Linux, but frustrated that I have to go without updates that could really help me just because the new Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] localizing EveryBuddy / Gaim
Hey all, I'm always annoyed when I've got ten desktops buzzing along, all my work crisply compartmentalized, and all of a sudden I get an IM on a desktop I am trying to do something else with. I have to go to the trouble of closing it, returning to my IM desktop, returning the message and waiting for a response to my response so that I can make the IM stay where I want it to. Then of course I go back about my business, checking in to the IM desktop every minute or so, until I get another message from another person and the whole mess starts all over again. Am I an imbassyl? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] localizing EveryBuddy / Gaim
this was not supposed to send KMail sucks it was saved as a draft and KMail autosent it the next time I logged in I'll re-submit once I finish it Apologies, Isaac On Thursday 15 August 2002 22:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm always annoyed when I've got ten desktops buzzing along, all my work crisply compartmentalized, and all of a sudden I get an IM on a desktop I am trying to do something else with. I have to go to the trouble of closing it, returning to my IM desktop, returning the message and waiting for a response to my response so that I can make the IM stay where I want it to. Then of course I go back about my business, checking in to the IM desktop every minute or so, until I get another message from another person and the whole mess starts all over again. Am I an imbassyl? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] User permission changed automatically?
I want to hide home dirs of users and to assign 700 permission to users home directroy in /home from 755, but changing it manually after some time this is restored. I have umask 020 for users, 022 for root. How can I stop this automatic action? MK 8.2 with SAMBA Regards... Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System Support Checklist
Dear L-M crew: I'm putting together a computer based very much around the recommendations from the Thompsan's over at www.hardwareguys.com. I've built several computer before, but have come to trust their picks a lot over the last few months and I'm generally confident that anything they suggest would be Linux-ready, but I wanted to check with you all first to see if there was anything I should be worried about before I go busting out my debit card. Here's the system (all prices include shipping): Initial System: (~September 2002) $128 Antec SX840 Workstation Tower $56 AMD Duron ~1.2 MHz processor (maybe faster if prices drop) $54 ECS K7S5A 1.x or 3.x motherboard - SiS 735 Chipset - AC '97 Audio - Onboard ethernet $127 516 MB PC2100 CL2.5 DDR-SDRAM DIMM (single stick) $65 ATI Radeon 7500 64MB video card (with DVI support for my FSB) $78 Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 7200 RPM 40.0 GB IDE hard drive $45 Toshiba SD-M1612 DVD/CD-ROM drive $10 TEAC FD-235F floppy drive $102 APC Back-UPS Office 500 $84 Logitech Cordless Keyboard Mouse (optical) $620 Hitachi CMLSXWB700+ 17 FPD Monitor Total Cost: ~$1350 (and all on newegg.com... all the best prices in one place, it was crazy... let me know if there are better deals but this is what pricewatch pricescan yielded) First Upgrade: (~January 2003) ~$140 Plextor 16/10/40A CD-RW drive ~$70 Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card (up to 5.1 compatible) ~$150 Altec Lansing ATP4 speakers (4.1 system) Upgrade Cost #1: ~$370 Second Upgrade: (~Summer 2004) $??? AMD Athlon XP ~2.2 GHz processor $??? 516 MB PC2100 CL2.5 DDR-SDRAM DIMM Upgrade Cost #2: $150 (I'll buy whatever speed XP keeps the cost in that range) Total System Cost: $1750-$2000 So that's what I'm looking at, a middle-term system that's highly upgradable and that should tide me over for about four years. Okay, my first and most obvious question is: are there any configuration nightmares / all-out compatibility conflicts here? For example, AC '97 audio was (is) an absolute MONSTER to configure on my ABIT VH6-II P3 system, and while I'm all about participating in the learning curve sometimes just for the sake of learning the hard way, I absolutely refuse to put up with that whole mess again. I'll be upgrading to a decent soundcard pretty soon so the AC '97 isn't so much of an issue to me, but that's the kind of feedback I'm looking for. Of course I'd also appreciate it if you let me in on personal experiences like if your power supply exploded and killed your pet hampster. My biggest compatibility concerns are the FPD monitor (is DVI output even supported in Linux?), the wireless input devices (my IBM wireless works fine, but it's slow waking up and it has to be pointed right directly at the base station-- not Mandrake's fault of course but I'm equally concerned about the hardware itself so feel free to share your rants. Last but certainly not least I'm a little uncomfortable with the Duron. It won't be in there for long, I figure once AMD drops the Hammer series this December Athlon prices will crash and I can upgrade this to a high-end XP and double the RAM for under $150 within 18 months. Still, how do Duron's perform? Do they hold up in Linux? It's going to be a Linux-only system so that's all that matters to me. Alright, I've wasted enough of your time for one evening. I'll give a quick synopsis of what kind of feedback I'm looking for then I'm out. Peace. 1. Are there any items that are patently incompatible with Linux, and L-M in particular? 2. Are there any items that are a hassle to negotiate with Linux, and L-M in particular? 3. Is my 17 flat panel display DVI-connector monitor supported by Linux, and L-M in particular? 4. Does the Duron run okay, particulary under Linux L-M? 5. Can I get these parts cheaper by shopping around? Literally every single component was cheaper on newegg.com than on any other site, and I scanned half a dozen personal favorites as well as priceline and pricewatch with no reliable competition. Let me know if I'm missing something. I have links to product information and specs for every single item, but I couldn't find a way to do it without either using html or just making the email look (even more) hideous and jumbled. Thanks for any help you can provide, and if you're interested in product links let me know. Thanks much, Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
