RE: [newbie] DNS Server

[Tech]

Thank you very much, you are all as always were kind and helpful keep on
being THE newsgroup for linux issues.


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Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 8:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] DNS Server

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 11:44 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:07:33 -0500
>
> "Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Any URL to download the package and ManPages?
>
> urpmi bind
>
> should do it.
>
> as for manpages, you would be much better served by a nice Bind howto,
> which you you could easily find by using google.com/linux. Prolly
thousands
> of them.
>
> The configuration could be done through Webmin, I would imagine. I am
not
> sure offhand if there is a Mandrake Wizard for bind, never installed
it
> m'self.

Yes there is. Install the drakwizard package and mandrake Control Centre
will 
have a new server section containing a DNS wizard.

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Re: [newbie] kernel_source

[Paul O'Rorke]

On January 5, 2004 08:41 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:

>
> I've seen this crap before but I don't remember why it happens Paul. The
> simple fix is to download the source directly from the mirror, move it to
> /var/cache/urpmi/rpms then urpmi it. Or use the GUI (rpmdrake) to install
> it. First check to be sure it hasn't downloaded and is sitting there
> already. If it is compare the size to what's on the mirror. It should be
> 40.2 MB.
>
> Holler if there are still problems.
>
> Charlie

OK,  I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm and got the following:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpms]# urpmi kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm
error: kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm: MD5 digest: BAD 
Expected(bff9f49500e6ab51f492e730640f53bc) != 
(0e3bdc812dbba76e3e0eb7416b59ad8f)
unable to register rpm file
medium "contrib" uses an invalid list file:
  mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method
Everything already installed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rpms]#

what does that mean?  I tried to uninstall the same file using the graphical 
manager and it says that it isn't there.  When I click on the rpm in a gui 
file manager it says "Everything already installed"; I'm confused.

:-(

what next?

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Re: [newbie] crazy zip command

[Todd Slater]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:09:45PM -0500, song wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I would like to make this cool command of to zip some file. Let's say I have a 
> folder containing a.txt, a.zip, b.txt, b.zip, etc...
> I would like to add the text file to the zip file with the right name, 
> exemple: a.txt in a.zip; b.txt in b.zip; c.txt in c.zip; etc...
> I've tried grep function but with no succes. Right now, I do it manually, 
> like:
> zip a a.txt
> zip b b.txt
> zip c c.txt
> etc...
> Anybody could help me?

Not tested.

for i in *.txt
do
zip `echo $i|sed s/\.txt/\.zip/` $i
done

Will work with files with spaces in the name if you quote $i's.

grep is for searching for occurences of a pattern in a file or output.


Todd

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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[Paul Harrison]

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E. Hines wrote:

| Just My Opinion, which probably isn't worth much.  I've installed 9.2
on two
| different laptops and on my experimental machine at home.  For me, the
| "updated rpm packages fix" was a necessity due to menu problems after I
| installed additional programs.
Never had the menu problem myself.

Sound worked out of the box for all 3
| machines, and video cards were detected.
Yep, same here.

The home machine won't run Flash 6, but Flash 5 works fine, and
| I'm still trying to iron that problem out.  I didn't install Flash on the
| laptops, but others on this list say Flash 6 works fine for them.
Flash 6 works fine.

~ Some are
| complaining about Realplayer, but it works for me.
This was one of my biggest annoyances about 9.1: Realplayer would not
play ball no matter what I did.
~ Kde seems to run faster
| in 9.2 on my old 233 experimental box than it did with 9.1, so perhaps
some
| optimization is in place with the newer kernel.
Yes, prob a tad quicker here too.

~  CUPS has been changed somewhat since 9.1.  For
| me, I had to do some hunting around to install my networked printer.  It
| seems to be optimized for business now, and is a bit more complicated for
| home use.  In the old days it took just choosing the "Printer on
Remote CUPS
| Server" box, then the server IP and printername, then printer drivers.
 The
| new version isn't quite as intuitive, but I'll get used to it now that
I've
| done it one time.
Printer installed easily in 9.1 & 9.2, but easier to get at options in
9.2 via CUPS, xpp, kprinter etc (this may be just me getting to know a
system better).
~ > There you have it.   I wouldn't replace a working 9.1 install with 9.2.

Looks like I'm one of the few that would, then!

It does seem to be a bit of a lottery, installing any distro of Linux.
Will your particular combination of hardware work with that distro?  If
not, can you come up with a solution, usu by the mailing lists/forums?
This is OT I know, but I am trying to get Damn Small Linux going on a
PII 300 64Mb laptop, or indeed any other live distro, and it ain't
happening. Yet I read of others who found it worked on a 486 out of the
box!!
Looks like the particular hardware combination I have worked well with
9.2.  I couldn't get RH9 going for love nor money, btw.
Paul
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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[Paul Harrison]

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Carroll Grigsby wrote:

| Paul:
| How much updating was necessary? Yeah, I'm still on dialup (at 44K), and
| downloading massive files is not a pleasant task.
| -- cmg
'Fraid I did a clean install in the end, getting Mdk 9.2 off a magazine CD.

Paul
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Re: [newbie] Webmin for Apache 2.0

[Lee B.]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:37:18 +1300, "Sharrea Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:13, Lee B. wrote:
> > I tried webmin to admin Apache 2.0 and got the following error:
> >
> > "The Apache server executable /usr/sbin/httpd does not exist. If you have
> > Apache installed, adjust the module configuration to use the correct
> > path."
> >
> > I searched for httpd, but didn't find it...(that doesn't mean it isn't
> > there
> >
> > Will Webmin work with Apache version 2? What configuration is needed?
> 
> To get webmin to work with Apache-2 I had to set the following parameters
> in 
> Webmin > Apache Server > Module Config
> File to add virtual servers to=  httpd2.conf
> Path to httpd executable=  /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
> Apache version=  apache2-2.0.47-6.3.92
> Path to the apachectl command=  /usr/sbin/apachectl
> Path to httpd.conf=  /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf

Thanks, I'll give it a try. 
Sorry for the blank subject...


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Re: [newbie] Expired user account

[Lee B.]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 08:18:11 -0500, "Bryan Phinney"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 06:40 am, Kristian Davies wrote:
> > Mandrake 9.2 Paranoid
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed Mandrake with paranoid setting(so cant login with su
> > on console), my user account has expired.
> >
> > How do i recover the user account?
>
> Insert the Mandrake CD or DVD and boot from that.  At the prompt, hit
> F1 and enter rescue on the boot command line.  When the ncurses screen
> comes up,  choose Maintenance mode and that will put you in at single
> user console. Issue the "passwd username" and it should prompt you to
> enter a new password for that user account.  You would be advised to
> change the warning period to give your user accounts a longer period of
> time to change passwords before they expire.  I would recommend 14 days
> if you are going to run in paranoid mode.

When I boot from CD, press F1, type rescue, there is no selection for
Maintenence. Not sure what "ncurses" is, but the selections include
mounting volumes, fixing bootloaders, etc. There is a "command prompt"
selection. I assume that's what I want. But the "passwd" program isn't
found. Command is not recognized.

BTW, I'm not the one with the original problem, just trying the
procedure. :)


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Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

[Sharrea Day]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:39, Sharrea Day wrote:

> file (see attached rpnphack.so ) called rpnphack.so with the following
> parameters:


Replying to my own message...  ;)
Oops forgot to attach my rpnphack.so... and rather than p*ss some people off 
I decided to just print the contents of the file here... no attachments... 
no, no...

ld -shared -o rpnphack.so \
/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so \
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/libgcc.a

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Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

[Sharrea Day]

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 08:17, JoeHill wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:55:16 -0600
>
> Shawn Protsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Here is what I have done in the past (I did not use the RealPlayer
> > RPM).  After installing Real Player (8) there is an object named
> > rpnp.so located in /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/.  Copy rpnp.so into your
> > plugins directory.  I am using Galeon 1.3.3 and Firebird 0.7 and both
> > work with the RealPlayer plugin.
>
> Which plugins dir exactly, though. I would assume I have to create it,
> since I can find nothing in /usr/share/galeon, and I already have a file
> rpnp.so in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins.

Not sure but I think the same applies to mozilla-1.4:

I installed RealPlayer-8.0-6mdk.i586.rpm, 
RealPlayer-Codecs-9.0-2mdk.i586.rpm and mozplugger-1.3.0-8mdk.i586.rpm but 
couldn't get RealPlayer working in either mozilla-1.5 or firebird-0.7 
(RealPlayer itself worked fine, just not from a browser). I had already 
created a symlink to /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so in both plugin 
directories, but alas... no go.

The problem is that these newer versions of mozilla and firebird are 
compiled with gcc-3.2 but the RealPlayer plugin is compiled with gcc-2.95. 
Thanks to Mitch at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213234 we 
have a hack to get around this problem.

After locating an old libgcc.a from gcc-2.96 on my system, I created the 
file (see attached rpnphack.so ) called rpnphack.so with the following 
parameters:

ld -shared -o rpnphack.so \
/full/path/to/RealPlayer/rpnp.so \
/some/path/to/an/old/libgcc.a

I then copied the rpnphack.so to the browser plugin directories, started 
firebird, tried RealNetworks' test samples at 
http://service.real.com/realone/test/ and VOILA!!! it works!  Realplayer 
starts buffering the demo.

NOTE:  Still can't get comedycentral.com to work though!  Says I don't have 
realplayer installed.

about:plugins shows:
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile  rpm Yes

and in /etc/mozpluggerrc I have the following lines:

audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin: rpm: RealPlayer Plugin Metafile
audio/x-pn-realaudio: ra,rm,ram: Realaudio-plugin resource locator
audio/x-realaudio: ra,rm,ram: RealAudio file
application/vnd.rn-realmedia: rm: RealMedia file
application/smil: smi: RealPlayer
audio/vnd.rn-realaudio: ra,ram: RealAudio file
audio/vnd.rn-realvideo: rv: RealVideo file
nokill exits: realplay "$file"

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[newbie] crazy zip command

[song]

Hi everybody,
I would like to make this cool command of to zip some file. Let's say I have a 
folder containing a.txt, a.zip, b.txt, b.zip, etc...
I would like to add the text file to the zip file with the right name, 
exemple: a.txt in a.zip; b.txt in b.zip; c.txt in c.zip; etc...
I've tried grep function but with no succes. Right now, I do it manually, 
like:
zip a a.txt
zip b b.txt
zip c c.txt
etc...
Anybody could help me?
TIA.

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Re: [newbie] kernel_source

[Charlie Mahan]

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Monday 05 January 2004 7:27 pm, Paul O'Rorke wrote:
> On January 5, 2004 04:37 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
>
>
> OK here goes:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# gpg --list-keys
> gpg: /root/.gnupg: directory created
> gpg: new configuration file `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
> gpg: WARNING: options in `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during
> this run
> gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# uname -r
> 2.4.22-21mdk
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# urpmi.update --wget -acf && urpmi --wget kernel-source
> reading rpm files from
> [/home/ororkep/Downloads/Mandrake_9.2/Installation_cd1/Ma
> ndrake/RPMS]
> writing list file for medium "Installation Disk1"
> reading rpm files from
> [/home/ororkep/Downloads/Mandrake_9.2/Installation_cd2/Ma
> ndrake/RPMS2]
> writing list file for medium "Installation Disk2"
> reading rpm files from
> [/home/ororkep/Downloads/Mandrake_9.2/International_cd3/Mandrake/RPMS3]
> writing list file for medium "International Disk3"
> retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "update_source"...
>
> ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/base/hdlis
>t.cz ...retrieving done
> examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.update_source.cz]
> writing list file for medium "update_source"
> retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"...
>
> ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/base
>/synthesis.hdlist.cz ...retrieving done
> examining synthesis file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.main.cz]
> performing second pass to compute dependencies
>
> reading headers from medium "Installation Disk1"
> building hdlist [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk1.cz]
> choosing compression method with "gzip -4" for archive
> /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk1.cz
> real archive size of /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk1.cz is 5408021
> built hdlist synthesis file for medium "Installation Disk1"
> reading headers from medium "Installation Disk2"
> building hdlist [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk2.cz]
> choosing compression method with "gzip -4" for archive
> /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk2.cz
> real archive size of /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk2.cz is 5975082
> built hdlist synthesis file for medium "Installation Disk2"
> reading headers from medium "International Disk3"
> building hdlist [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.International Disk3.cz]
> choosing compression method with "gzip -4" for archive
> /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.International Disk3.cz
> real archive size of /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.International Disk3.cz is
> 6339131 built hdlist synthesis file for medium "International Disk3"
> examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.update_source.cz]
> built hdlist synthesis file for medium "update_source"
> examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
> found 2707 headers in cache
> removing 0 obsolete headers in cache
> write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg]
>
>
> ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/kerne
>l-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed, some files are missing:
>
> ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/./ker
>nel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]#
>
>
> I guess I should have figured out the super user thing,  I'll get there...
>
> OK so this downloads the information about available packages?  I tried to
> follow another thread which was talking about this but have to admit that I
> got a bit lost...
>
> I notice that there seems to be an issue with the
> kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm, is that relevant?

I've seen this crap before but I don't remember why it happens Paul. The 
simple fix is to download the source directly from the mirror, move it to 
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms then urpmi it. Or use the GUI (rpmdrake) to install it. 
First check to be sure it hasn't downloaded and is sitting there already. If 
it is compare the size to what's on the mirror. It should be 40.2 MB.

Holler if there are still problems.

Charlie
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Re: [newbie]

[Sharrea Day]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:13, Lee B. wrote:
> I tried webmin to admin Apache 2.0 and got the following error:
>
> "The Apache server executable /usr/sbin/httpd does not exist. If you have
> Apache installed, adjust the module configuration to use the correct
> path."
>
> I searched for httpd, but didn't find it...(that doesn't mean it isn't
> there
>
> Will Webmin work with Apache version 2? What configuration is needed?

To get webmin to work with Apache-2 I had to set the following parameters in 
Webmin > Apache Server > Module Config
File to add virtual servers to=  httpd2.conf
Path to httpd executable=  /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
Apache version=  apache2-2.0.47-6.3.92
Path to the apachectl command=  /usr/sbin/apachectl
Path to httpd.conf=  /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf

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Re: [newbie] CyrixInstead Processor 266Mhz

[Phil Savoie]

On January 5, 2004 14:58, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 19:02, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Monday 05 January 2004 11:38 am, Phil Savoie wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I have this machine with subject specs read off the hardware
> > > Browser which is currently running RedHat 8.0.  Under "model
> > > name" it is showing that it is an M II 3.5x Core/Bus Clock.
> > > (Brand name E-Machine i366e) This system does not boot with RH
> > > 9 and it's default kernel.
> > >
> > > What I am wondering about is if M9.2 would be compatible with
> > > this and work. I am currently using this box as a web and
> > > dial-in server and am real hesitant about changing the OS in a
> > > working box.  The old adage "if it ain't broke then don't fix
> > > it" comes to mind.
> > >
> > > However, with RedHat's EOL of RedHat 8 and it's up2date program
> > > for same, I would feel more comfortable with an OS I could
> > > update easily.
> > >
> > > All help/advice would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > Phil Savoie
> >
> >   I believe it's a i586/i686 issue. RH is compiled for i386.
> > Mandrake for i586, with only a few libs where it shows some
> > benefit, compiled for i686 (look in Mandrake's /lib/i686/).
> >
> > Problem is Cyrix, even the newer VIA-C(yrix)3 processors
> > report themselves as i686, but are only marginally i586
> > compliant, and even retain some i486 legacy.
> >
> > I believe this mismatch is solved in 9.2, but check the eratta
> > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3
> >
> > IIRC, 9.0 was the last to be fooled by Cyrix cpu's.
>
> I couldn't get either 9.0 or 9.1 onto a Cyrix/IBM 266 box.  I found a
> used amd cpu to replace it, and everything was fine after that.
>
> Anne

Hello Anne and Tom,

Thank you both for your responses.  I guess if I want this box to be current 
in the form of os,  then I will have to upgrade the cpu.  Anne, I have no 
documentation for this machine and was wondering if you can remember what 
type of socket the cpu uses.  I was at the emachine site and was not able to 
find any documentation as in user guide for this etower 366c other than basic 
specs.

Warm regards,

Phil


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Re: [newbie] Where's KPPP?

[Marc]

On Monday 05 January 2004 09:21 pm, Bill wrote:
> Hello to the group,
> I must start out by saying I am very new to linux,
> However I do have some experience with Knoppix 3.2. I
> have even installed Knoppix on the harddrive. I have
> decided to try Mandrake v9.2 Download edition. I am
> having trouble connecting to the internet. In Knoppix
> I used KPPP, But in Mandrake I cannot even find KPPP
> in the Kmenu. I cannot understand why it is not there?
> Can anyone help I have no idea what to do next?
>
> Thanks & Best Regards
> Bill M.
>
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   No problem Go to mandrake control center also known as configure your 
computer in ML 9.2 then to software manager / install software, you will find 
KPPP in one of the kde networking packages. install it and you are good to 
go.  I think that in the new mandrake control center there is a place to 
configure a dialup connection with a mandrake wizzard but I have never used 
it so proceed at your own risk if you decide to try it.

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Re: [newbie] Where's KPPP?

[Aron Smith]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:21, Bill wrote:
> Hello to the group,
> I must start out by saying I am very new to linux,
> However I do have some experience with Knoppix 3.2. I
> have even installed Knoppix on the harddrive. I have
> decided to try Mandrake v9.2 Download edition. I am
> having trouble connecting to the internet. In Knoppix
> I used KPPP, But in Mandrake I cannot even find KPPP
> in the Kmenu. I cannot understand why it is not there?
> Can anyone help I have no idea what to do next?
Go to Mandrake Control Center
configure>network 
self explanitory from there
> 
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Re: [newbie] Help needed configuring SSHD and PAM

[George P. Stathis]

My sshd_config file did not have any
DenyUsers/AllowUsers line but it did have this little
sucker:

PermitRootLogin no

:-) That did the trick. Thanks for drawing my
attention to this file. 

Your observation about the dangers of allowing root to
log in is good. I'm just running Linux on a partition
on my home PC for graduate school work, this is not a
commercial system. There is nothing valuable on my
machine so there won't be any losses if there is a
break-in and the root password is not a common
dictionary word, so brute force might take a while. I
just need root access for convenience for now.

Thank you for your time!


--- Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 08:46 pm, George P.
> Stathis wrote:
> > Hello, I'm new to Linux and I'm running Mandrake
> 9.2.
> > I have just installed the sshd server that came
> with
> > the installation disks.
> >
> > My sshd service is running fine but I'm unable to
> > login to localhost with the root password. I get:
> 
> You might want to check your sshd server settings. 
> In the /etc/ssh directory 
> should be a sshd_config file that has your ssh
> server configuration settings.  
> On mine in particular are lines:
> DenyUsers root ftp .
> AllowUsers blah,blah
> 
> These specify that only particular users are allowed
> to login via ssh and 
> specific users are disallowed from logging in via
> ssh, including root.  It is 
> a VERY bad idea to allow root to login via ssh since
> that account is well 
> known by all and sundry and someone can effectively
> use that account to try 
> to dictionary attack your machine to get access. 
> 
> At least with a user login, the person must
> guess/know the username and then 
> try to brute force the password.  Just another layer
> of protection and no 
> reason to allow root direct login, you can login as
> a user and su to root to 
> issue commands.
> -- 
> Bryan Phinney
> Software Test Engineer
> 
> 
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[newbie] Where's KPPP?

[Bill]

Hello to the group,
I must start out by saying I am very new to linux,
However I do have some experience with Knoppix 3.2. I
have even installed Knoppix on the harddrive. I have
decided to try Mandrake v9.2 Download edition. I am
having trouble connecting to the internet. In Knoppix
I used KPPP, But in Mandrake I cannot even find KPPP
in the Kmenu. I cannot understand why it is not there?
Can anyone help I have no idea what to do next?

Thanks & Best Regards
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[newbie]

[Lee B.]

I tried webmin to admin Apache 2.0 and got the following error:

"The Apache server executable /usr/sbin/httpd does not exist. If you have
Apache installed, adjust the module configuration to use the correct
path."

I searched for httpd, but didn't find it...(that doesn't mean it isn't
there

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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Monday 05 January 2004 09:32 pm, julie wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 02:58 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > > Tango Echo wrote:
> > > | Hi all,
> > > |
> > > | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2?
> > >
> > > For me, 9.2 worked much more "out of the box" than 9.1.  Sound, digital
> > > camera, printer all worked more or less straight away, whereas 9.1 took
> > > a lot of fiddling.  Was worth it...for /me/ at least.  I might be
> > > unusual.
> > >
> > > Paul
> >
> > Paul:
> > How much updating was necessary? Yeah, I'm still on dialup (at 44K), and
> > downloading massive files is not a pleasant task.
> > -- cmg
>
> Cheapbytes has a CD of the Mandrake 9.2 updates that takes you through the
> bulk of them ... I think it is a little over 400MB (or there abouts).
> Anyway after updating with that and then doing a further update via the
> Internet can be a great help to those on dial-up.
>
> Julie

Julie:
Thanks for the tip. It's been ordered. $3.99 for the CD and another $5.00 to 
ship it sounds like a much better deal to me than spending over 24 hours 
downloading all that stuff.

Back to the OP's question: 400MB of updates sounds kind of high to me -- 
that's roughly 20 per cent of the base 3 CD distribution.

Sigh -- I guess it's time to call the cable guy.
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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[Ramin]

Overall good. I had initially a lot of freezing which i found out being 
related to APIC and ACPI. Finally i disabled APIC (while running ACPI) and
i haven had any freezing for two days. Other than this the system seems 
super fast (other than booting time) in particular Konqueror seems the fastest 
web browser or file manager to me now!
  Right now my main problem seems to be with some applications itself seem to 
be buggy. For example the movie/dvd players are far from ideal! Ogle for 
example just crashes on my machine.
  Regards, Ramin



On January 5, 2004 07:43 am, Tango Echo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2?  I
> recently purchased a new hard drive and was debating
> if I should put 9.1 (my current one) or 9.2.  I know
> lots of people had complained about 9.2 initially, but
> perhaps most of the bugs have been worked out?  Are
> there any common bugs I should know about? I just
> returned from a break so I'd be interested what all of
> you think
>
> Thanks
>
> Tango
>
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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[Ramin]

Overall good. I had initially a lot of freezing which i found out being 
related to APIC and ACPI. Finally i disabled APIC (while running ACPI) and
i haven had any freezing for two days. Other than this the system seems 
super fast (other than booting time) in particular Konqueror seems the fastest 
web browser or file manager to me now!
  Right now my main problem seems to be with some applications itself seem to 
be buggy. For example the movie/dvd players are far from ideal! Ogle for 
example just crashes on my machine.
  Regards, Ramin

On January 5, 2004 07:43 am, Tango Echo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2?  I
> recently purchased a new hard drive and was debating
> if I should put 9.1 (my current one) or 9.2.  I know
> lots of people had complained about 9.2 initially, but
> perhaps most of the bugs have been worked out?  Are
> there any common bugs I should know about? I just
> returned from a break so I'd be interested what all of
> you think
>
> Thanks
>
> Tango
>
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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[bascule]

hmm, not to be a party pooper but some folk still have problems that we didn't 
have with 9.1
i get random xmms freezes where it just stops, i cant use the mouse to change 
desktops but i can use ctrl-f1 etc. i alt-f2 and issue 'killall -9 xmms' and 
i'm back in action, the freeze was almost instantaneous with all kernels that 
i've tried but the current one i found a refernce to on the web - 
2.4.22-18mdk, even then the freeze still happens, it just takes longer
also if i have my webcam plugged in on boot up then kmix doesn't load saying 
that it can't find the mixer being specifed, i suapect that the mixer for the 
usb audio on the webcam is to blame, if i plug the webcam in after booting 
then it works and kmix still works
so not exactly a flawless install, esp. the xmms thing, the webcam did take 
some sorting in 9.1 but for xmms to be dodgy is bloody annoying!
my hardware is:
aopen ak77-600gn + athlonxp 2500
soundblaster live value (onboard sound turned off though onboard gameport 
enabled)
nvidia 5600xt
logitech 4000 pro webcam
running kde, using alsa-output with xmms
2.4.22-18mdk kernel
realtek 8139 nic

having googled and searched for 'xmms' in the archives i think i'm alone in my 
particular category of woes but this was a clean install, not to mention that 
the well publicised 'fix' for the menu problem by updating via rpmdrake 
didn't work for me either, i had to play around with menudrake selecting 
different options from the menu bar and saving and suddenly things got fixed, 
however my trust in the system is such that i daren't edit the menus in case 
it all goes south again!
oh yes, did i mention that my custom hotkeys for volume changing on this old 
keyboard using ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc no longer work either? i also 
appear to be alone in the universe in this also :)
so, if your reason for upgrading is to fix a problem that you couldn't find an 
answer to (like i did) then i suggest spending more time on the original 
problem first, before upgrading, because in my case, i've swapped one problem 
for three!

bascule

On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 2:32 am, julie wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 02:58 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > > Tango Echo wrote:
> > > | Hi all,
> > > |
> > > | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2?
> > >
> > > For me, 9.2 worked much more "out of the box" than 9.1.  Sound, digital
> > > camera, printer all worked more or less straight away, whereas 9.1 took
> > > a lot of fiddling.  Was worth it...for /me/ at least.  I might be
> > > unusual.
> > >
> > > Paul
> >
> > Paul:
> > How much updating was necessary? Yeah, I'm still on dialup (at 44K), and
> > downloading massive files is not a pleasant task.
> > -- cmg
>
> Cheapbytes has a CD of the Mandrake 9.2 updates that takes you through the
> bulk of them ... I think it is a little over 400MB (or there abouts).
> Anyway after updating with that and then doing a further update via the
> Internet can be a great help to those on dial-up.
>
> Julie


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Re: [newbie] kernel_source

[Paul O'Rorke]

On January 5, 2004 04:37 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:


OK here goes:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# gpg --list-keys
gpg: /root/.gnupg: directory created
gpg: new configuration file `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: WARNING: options in `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during 
this run
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# uname -r
2.4.22-21mdk

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# urpmi.update --wget -acf && urpmi --wget kernel-source
reading rpm files from 
[/home/ororkep/Downloads/Mandrake_9.2/Installation_cd1/Ma  
 
ndrake/RPMS]
writing list file for medium "Installation Disk1"
reading rpm files from 
[/home/ororkep/Downloads/Mandrake_9.2/Installation_cd2/Ma  
 
ndrake/RPMS2]
writing list file for medium "Installation Disk2"
reading rpm files from 
[/home/ororkep/Downloads/Mandrake_9.2/International_cd3/Mandrake/RPMS3]
writing list file for medium "International Disk3"
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "update_source"...

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/base/hdlist.cz
...retrieving done
examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.update_source.cz]
writing list file for medium "update_source"
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"...

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/base/synthesis.hdlist.cz
...retrieving done
examining synthesis file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.main.cz]
performing second pass to compute dependencies

reading headers from medium "Installation Disk1"
building hdlist [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk1.cz]
choosing compression method with "gzip -4" for archive 
/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk1.cz
real archive size of /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk1.cz is 5408021
built hdlist synthesis file for medium "Installation Disk1"
reading headers from medium "Installation Disk2"
building hdlist [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk2.cz]
choosing compression method with "gzip -4" for archive 
/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk2.cz
real archive size of /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.Installation Disk2.cz is 5975082
built hdlist synthesis file for medium "Installation Disk2"
reading headers from medium "International Disk3"
building hdlist [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.International Disk3.cz]
choosing compression method with "gzip -4" for archive 
/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.International Disk3.cz
real archive size of /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.International Disk3.cz is 6339131
built hdlist synthesis file for medium "International Disk3"
examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.update_source.cz]
built hdlist synthesis file for medium "update_source"
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
found 2707 headers in cache
removing 0 obsolete headers in cache
write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg]


ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm
Installation failed, some files are missing:

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/./kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm
You may want to update your urpmi database
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]#


I guess I should have figured out the super user thing,  I'll get there...

OK so this downloads the information about available packages?  I tried to 
follow another thread which was talking about this but have to admit that I 
got a bit lost...

I notice that there seems to be an issue with the 
kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm, is that relevant?

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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[julie]

On Monday 05 January 2004 02:58 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:

> > Tango Echo wrote:
> > | Hi all,
> > |
> > | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2?
> >
> > For me, 9.2 worked much more "out of the box" than 9.1.  Sound, digital
> > camera, printer all worked more or less straight away, whereas 9.1 took
> > a lot of fiddling.  Was worth it...for /me/ at least.  I might be
> > unusual.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Paul:
> How much updating was necessary? Yeah, I'm still on dialup (at 44K), and
> downloading massive files is not a pleasant task.
> -- cmg

Cheapbytes has a CD of the Mandrake 9.2 updates that takes you through the 
bulk of them ... I think it is a little over 400MB (or there abouts). Anyway 
after updating with that and then doing a further update via the Internet can 
be a great help to those on dial-up.

Julie


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Re: [newbie] Help needed configuring SSHD and PAM

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 05 January 2004 08:46 pm, George P. Stathis wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to Linux and I'm running Mandrake 9.2.
> I have just installed the sshd server that came with
> the installation disks.
>
> My sshd service is running fine but I'm unable to
> login to localhost with the root password. I get:

You might want to check your sshd server settings.  In the /etc/ssh directory 
should be a sshd_config file that has your ssh server configuration settings.  
On mine in particular are lines:
DenyUsers root ftp .
AllowUsers blah,blah

These specify that only particular users are allowed to login via ssh and 
specific users are disallowed from logging in via ssh, including root.  It is 
a VERY bad idea to allow root to login via ssh since that account is well 
known by all and sundry and someone can effectively use that account to try 
to dictionary attack your machine to get access. 

At least with a user login, the person must guess/know the username and then 
try to brute force the password.  Just another layer of protection and no 
reason to allow root direct login, you can login as a user and su to root to 
issue commands.
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Re: [newbie] wget / download managers

[al]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:45, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 08:14 pm, al wrote:
> > But I just had to disconnect to use my phone, and when I reconnected wget
> > did nothing.
>
> I suspect, based on my own experience with a dodgy DSL router (until I
> figured out what the problem was) that wget is pretty network aware.  If
> you disconnect and then redial the connection, you are getting a new IP
> address and wget does not make the connection between the old file request
> and the new IP address.  So, it basically just sits there waiting for the
> old connection to start back up.  If you got the exact same IP address,
> wget might resume the transfer.  I say might because it is possible that
> the server you are pulling from will time out the connection and then I
> don't think that wget can restart it without making a brand new request.
>
> > So I stopped it by using ctrl-c and started again...wget url
> >
> > and instead of resuming, it started again from the beginning.
>
> If you Ctrl-c, you may be interrupting the shell command but wget itself is
> probably happily running along in the background waiting for the transfer
> to start backup.  You should try to issue a killall wget to make sure that
> all active connections are killed before you try to restart the transfer. 
> I usually run wget from a shell script with all my command options included
> by default, so that may just be me.
>
> Then, run wget with a -c (for continue) on the command line and it will
> resume partial downloads instead of restarting them.
>
> By default, it does not overwrite files but will resume if you tell it you
> want it to.  Note, if you have a lot of sudden stops and starts, it is
> possible for things to get corrupted and for the resume to either not work
> or actually corrupt the file, only happened to me once when I was doing a
> lot of background maintenance including messing with the internet
> connection but it did happen.


many thanks...just started again at 20% VEEERRRYY helpful using dialup to
download an iso at around 700Mb
beats starting again

Thanks again Brian

Cya
Shaz

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[newbie] Help needed configuring SSHD and PAM

[George P. Stathis]

Hello, I'm new to Linux and I'm running Mandrake 9.2.
I have just installed the sshd server that came with
the installation disks.

My sshd service is running fine but I'm unable to
login to localhost with the root password. I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ssh localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Permission denied, please try again.

I've looked for the answer all over and there seems to
be other people having similar problems with other
Linux distributions. Solutions vary with tweaking the
/etc/pam.d/sshd file, but I've tried them all and I
still can't get this to work. Out of the box, my
/etc/pam.d/sshd file looks like this:

#%PAM-1.0
auth   required /lib/security/pam_stack.so
service=system-auth
auth   required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
accountrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so
service=system-auth
password   required /lib/security/pam_stack.so
service=system-auth
sessionrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so
service=system-auth

I should also mention that I can't find any
/etc/pam.config file.

If anyone has encountered this or can point me to a
location that explains how to get sshd working with
PAM, I would appreciate it. The pam man page hasn't
been too enlightening.

Thank you in advance for your time.

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Re: [newbie] wget / download managers

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 05 January 2004 08:14 pm, al wrote:

> But I just had to disconnect to use my phone, and when I reconnected wget
> did nothing.

I suspect, based on my own experience with a dodgy DSL router (until I figured 
out what the problem was) that wget is pretty network aware.  If you 
disconnect and then redial the connection, you are getting a new IP address 
and wget does not make the connection between the old file request and the 
new IP address.  So, it basically just sits there waiting for the old 
connection to start back up.  If you got the exact same IP address, wget 
might resume the transfer.  I say might because it is possible that the 
server you are pulling from will time out the connection and then I don't 
think that wget can restart it without making a brand new request.

> So I stopped it by using ctrl-c and started again...wget url
>
> and instead of resuming, it started again from the beginning.

If you Ctrl-c, you may be interrupting the shell command but wget itself is 
probably happily running along in the background waiting for the transfer to 
start backup.  You should try to issue a killall wget to make sure that all 
active connections are killed before you try to restart the transfer.  I 
usually run wget from a shell script with all my command options included by 
default, so that may just be me.

Then, run wget with a -c (for continue) on the command line and it will resume 
partial downloads instead of restarting them.

By default, it does not overwrite files but will resume if you tell it you 
want it to.  Note, if you have a lot of sudden stops and starts, it is 
possible for things to get corrupted and for the resume to either not work or 
actually corrupt the file, only happened to me once when I was doing a lot of 
background maintenance including messing with the internet connection but it 
did happen.

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Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

[Patrick Dempster]

Tom Brinkman said:
>Before starting the torrent, I edit
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent/download.py
>   (your python version might be different, mines current cooker)
>
>   ... and limit upload bandwidth by editing
>
> defaults = [
> ('max_uploads', 2,
> "the maximum number of uploads to allow at once."),
>
>   ...  and
>
>('max_upload_rate', 4,
> 'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),

Thanks tom this was just the information I was looking for.

Talk to you soon,
Take care,

Paddy

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If it happens twice, it's a feature.
If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy.

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[newbie] wget / download managers

[al]

Hi all

Can anybody recommend a good download manager?

or can anybody tell me what i'm doing wrong with wget?

I've been using wget, but on dialup it doesnt seem to work to well.

It's fine as long as I stay connected, if there are any errors at the other 
end or it loses itself, it resumes great.

But I just had to disconnect to use my phone, and when I reconnected wget did 
nothing.

So I stopped it by using ctrl-c and started again...wget url

and instead of resuming, it started again from the beginning.

TIA

Shaz

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Re: [newbie] DNS Server

[JoeHill]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 01:06:18 +
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yes there is. Install the drakwizard package and mandrake Control Centre will 
> have a new server section containing a DNS wizard.

Well there ya go, I knew someone would fill in the gaps...

Thanks for the heads up D. :-)

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Re: [newbie] DNS Server

[Derek Jennings]

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 11:44 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:07:33 -0500
>
> "Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Any URL to download the package and ManPages?
>
> urpmi bind
>
> should do it.
>
> as for manpages, you would be much better served by a nice Bind howto,
> which you you could easily find by using google.com/linux. Prolly thousands
> of them.
>
> The configuration could be done through Webmin, I would imagine. I am not
> sure offhand if there is a Mandrake Wizard for bind, never installed it
> m'self.

Yes there is. Install the drakwizard package and mandrake Control Centre will 
have a new server section containing a DNS wizard.

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Re: [newbie] kernel_source

[Charlie Mahan]

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Monday 05 January 2004 5:32 pm, Paul O'Rorke wrote:

>
> main:
> ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
> and update-source:
> ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS
>
> > At any rate; in a terminal what's the output of running the command:
> >
> > gpg --list-keys
>
> no result - just returns to my prompt.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]$
>
> > and:
> >
> > uname -r
>
> 2.4.22-21mdk

Good. That's the update kernel.

> > Run the command:
> >
> > urpmi.update --wget -acf && urpmi --wget kernel-source
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]$ urpmi.update --wget -acf && urpmi --wget
> kernel-source bash: urpmi.update: command not found
>
> Odd, I thought we were using that command earlier?
>
We were I believe, I just want to get us both (me especially) up to speed. Run 
the commands that did nothing as super user my son, as super user! (-;

Sorry, I should have told you that I suppose.

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Re: [newbie] kernel_source

[Paul O'Rorke]

On January 5, 2004 03:28 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
> Monday 05 January 2004 3:00 pm, Paul O'Rorke wrote:
> > On December 10, 2003 01:24 am, Charlie Mahan wrote:
> > 
> > Back after Christmas and still can't get the kernel-source 2.4.22-21 to
> > install.  I'm still getting the "bad signature" message.  I was
> > successfull with the 2.4.22-10 source - so I'm unsure why one would
> > install and not the other.
> >
> > :-(
>
> You're going to have to refresh my memory here Paul. Are you using the
> ibiblio.org mirror for updates or a different one? Sorry, I can't recall
> where we left this.
OK:

main: 
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS 
and update-source: 
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS

>
> At any rate; in a terminal what's the output of running the command:
>
> gpg --list-keys

no result - just returns to my prompt.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]$


>
> and:
>
> uname -r

2.4.22-21mdk

>
> Run the command:
>
> urpmi.update --wget -acf && urpmi --wget kernel-source

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]$ urpmi.update --wget -acf && urpmi --wget kernel-source
bash: urpmi.update: command not found

Odd, I thought we were using that command earlier?
>
> Post any warnings or errors, and let the list (especially me) know how far
> behind you we are; OK? 
>
> Happy New Year and welcome back!

Thanks - same to you.  :-)
>
> Charlie

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Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

[Tom Brinkman]

On Monday 05 January 2004 01:34 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
> Somebody is certainly having success with the torrent. I
> started it after I rsynced the cooker tree last Thursday
> morning to get the ISOs. The pull has been steady at around 55
> KBytes/sec. The only time it isn't running is during brief
> periods when glitches at my ISP drop my connection; usually a
> few seconds at a time and never more than a minute.
>
> That upload rate is about a third of my maximum theoretical
> upload bandwidth. I haven't restricted it at all. "Maximum
> Rates" on this service (cable) are, theoretically; 10 mbit/sec
> down, 1.5 mbits/sec up.

   Wow!!! that is a super fast connection. OTOH, an average upload 
rate of 55KB/s tells me you're only givin about 1/3 of your 
upstream capacity to torrent. No need to limit.

>
> I think I'll be clicking "Finish" in the next day or two so
> that I can actually try the installer. It's hard to test when
> you're busy feeding the hungry maw of the torrent. (-;

No need to wait till you quit torrent. I burned my iso's to 
Cd's while the torrent was still runin. Later after a 2.2.24 
kernel try. I also then tried an 'update' (to current cooker 
anyhow) with the New Years' beta 1 iso's. Both failed to do much. 
Restarted my 10.0. beta 1 torrent on rebooting. It's still goin. 
I reckon I've uploaded both iso's twice in return so far.
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Re: [newbie] DNS Server

[JoeHill]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:07:33 -0500
"Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Any URL to download the package and ManPages?

urpmi bind

should do it.

as for manpages, you would be much better served by a nice Bind howto, which you
you could easily find by using google.com/linux. Prolly thousands of them.

The configuration could be done through Webmin, I would imagine. I am not sure
offhand if there is a Mandrake Wizard for bind, never installed it m'self.

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RE: [newbie] DNS Server

[Lanman]

On 1/5/2004 at 6:07 PM Tech wrote:

>Any URL to download the package and ManPages?

*** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***

It's on your download CD's

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Re: [newbie] kernel_source

[Charlie Mahan]

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Monday 05 January 2004 3:00 pm, Paul O'Rorke wrote:
> On December 10, 2003 01:24 am, Charlie Mahan wrote:
> 
> Back after Christmas and still can't get the kernel-source 2.4.22-21 to
> install.  I'm still getting the "bad signature" message.  I was successfull
> with the 2.4.22-10 source - so I'm unsure why one would install and not the
> other.
>
> :-(

You're going to have to refresh my memory here Paul. Are you using the 
ibiblio.org mirror for updates or a different one? Sorry, I can't recall 
where we left this.

At any rate; in a terminal what's the output of running the command:

gpg --list-keys

and:

uname -r

Run the command:

urpmi.update --wget -acf && urpmi --wget kernel-source

Post any warnings or errors, and let the list (especially me) know how far 
behind you we are; OK? 

Happy New Year and welcome back!

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RE: [newbie] DNS Server

[Tech]

Any URL to download the package and ManPages?

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Subject: Re: [newbie] DNS Server

On Monday 05 January 2004 05:35 pm, Tech wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does anyone have any idea of a DNS server package to install on linux?

Bind.

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Re: [newbie] kernel_source

[Paul O'Rorke]

On December 10, 2003 01:24 am, Charlie Mahan wrote:

Back after Christmas and still can't get the kernel-source 2.4.22-21 to 
install.  I'm still getting the "bad signature" message.  I was successfull 
with the 2.4.22-10 source - so I'm unsure why one would install and not the 
other.

:-(

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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Monday 05 January 2004 12:12 pm, Paul Harrison wrote:
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> Tango Echo wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |
> | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2?
>
> For me, 9.2 worked much more "out of the box" than 9.1.  Sound, digital
> camera, printer all worked more or less straight away, whereas 9.1 took
> a lot of fiddling.  Was worth it...for /me/ at least.  I might be unusual.
>
> Paul

Paul:
How much updating was necessary? Yeah, I'm still on dialup (at 44K), and 
downloading massive files is not a pleasant task.
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Re: [newbie] DNS Server

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 05 January 2004 05:35 pm, Tech wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does anyone have any idea of a DNS server package to install on linux?

Bind.

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Re: [newbie] DNS Server

[JoeHill]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:35:38 -0500
"Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Does anyone have any idea of a DNS server package to install on linux?
> Thank you

Yea Gods, people are hijacking their *own* threads now! Ack! Where will it all
end?! The children! Won't someone think of the children?!

Aah...

Anyhow, I think yer lookin' fer 'Bind'.

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[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 packaging of gCvs

[Guy Rouillier]

I'm having difficulty with the Mandrake 9.2 version of gcvs.  I 
installed both it and the version of cvs that come on the distribution. 
  When I try to set preferences, gcvs complains something like 
"alternate cvs does not support gui redirection".  I remembered from the 
last time I used this reading that gcvs needs a special version of cvs 
that recognizes the --cvsgui option, so that it can capture the output 
from cvs; the package description actually says this.  I looked in the 
detailed description for the Mandrake version of gcvs and saw no cvs 
included there  So I went onto the wincvs site and downloaded the 
version of gcvs I found there (the i386 RPM package).  Sure enough, it 
contains its own cvs, which it installs in /usr/local/bin.  After 
installing this version, it works fine.

Am I doing something incorrectly, or is this a packaging issue I should 
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[newbie] DNS Server

[Tech]

Hi all,
Does anyone have any idea of a DNS server package to install on linux?
Thank you




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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[racerpup2]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 07:43, Tango Echo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2?  I
> recently purchased a new hard drive and was debating
> if I should put 9.1 (my current one) or 9.2.  I know
> lots of people had complained about 9.2 initially, but
> perhaps most of the bugs have been worked out?  Are
> there any common bugs I should know about? I just
> returned from a break so I'd be interested what all of
> you think 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tango 
 I like 9.2, haven't had any major problems.

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Re: [newbie] Core dump

[Richard Urwin]

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 9:11 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Richard Urwin wrote:
> >On Monday 05 Jan 2004 10:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >>High quality encoding selected (non real time)!
> >>get_buffer() failed (0 -115967 0 0x40d5df30)
> >
> >Oh look at that.
> >Can you run it again, but before starting the application (run -v ...) set
> > a breakpoint on the line:
> > av_log(s->avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "get_buffer() failed (%d %d %d %p)\n",
> > r, pic->age, pic->type, pic->data[0]);
> >in libavcodec/mpegvideo.c

Sorry I was a little unclear. See below.

>
> You can see it's broken up a bit in transit, please confirm the line
> begins and ends
>
> av_log  to  mpegvideo.call one line.
>
> >My source code says that's line 285, but yours may well be different. (I'm
> > looking at 1.0pre3) The gdb command is "break mpegvideo.c:285" Remember
> > to check and change the line number.
>
> How ?
>
> >Start it like before with run -v ... and when it stops at the breakpoint
> > get a backtrace. Don't bother with the registers or disassembly.
>
> OK, so if I unsestand this correctly, from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] MPlayer-20030901]# gdb ./mencoder
> GNU gdb 5.3-22mdk (Mandrake Linux)
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
> are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"...
> (gdb)
>
> set the breakpoint like this,
>
> av_log(s->avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "get_buffer() failed (%d %d %d %p)\n",
> r,pic->age, pic->type, pic->data[0]);in libavcodec/mpegvideo.c
>
> note : all one line,

No.
Search the source code file libavcodec/mpegvideo.c for the line:

av_log(s->avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "get_buffer() failed (%d %d %d %p)\n", r, 
pic->age, pic->type, pic->data[0]);

Make a note of it's line number.

(kwrite displays line numbers in the bottom left of the status bar.)

Give gdb the command:
break mpegvideo.c:285
Replacing 285 with whatever the line number was that you found.

>
> then run,
> run -v dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1024 -oac
> mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -alang en -idx -o toystory1.avi
>
> and when it gets to the breakpoint,
>
> type,
> backtrace
>
> is that it ?

Apart from my modifications, yes.

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Re: [newbie] Core dump

[John Richard Smith]

Richard Urwin wrote:

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 10:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

High quality encoding selected (non real time)!
get_buffer() failed (0 -115967 0 0x40d5df30)
   

Oh look at that.
Can you run it again, but before starting the application (run -v ...) set a 
breakpoint on the line:
	av_log(s->avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "get_buffer() failed (%d %d %d %p)\n", r, 
pic->age, pic->type, pic->data[0]);
in libavcodec/mpegvideo.c

You can see it's broken up a bit in transit, please confirm the line 
begins and ends

av_log  to  mpegvideo.call one line.

My source code says that's line 285, but yours may well be different. (I'm looking at 1.0pre3) The gdb command is "break mpegvideo.c:285" Remember to check and change the line number.

How ?

Start it like before with run -v ... and when it stops at the breakpoint get a 
backtrace. Don't bother with the registers or disassembly.

 

OK, so if I unsestand this correctly, from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] MPlayer-20030901]# gdb ./mencoder
GNU gdb 5.3-22mdk (Mandrake Linux)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"...
(gdb)

set the breakpoint like this,

av_log(s->avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "get_buffer() failed (%d %d %d %p)\n", r,pic->age, pic->type, pic->data[0]);in libavcodec/mpegvideo.c

note : all one line,

then run,
run -v dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1024 -oac mp3lame 
-lameopts br=96:cbr -alang en -idx -o toystory1.avi
and when it gets to the breakpoint,

type, 
backtrace

is that it ?

John

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Re: [newbie] mozilla and gaelon hangs

[Guy Rouillier]

babar haq wrote:
Hi
I have mandrake 9.2 installed.
Both my fav browsers hangs after start up. How to find out that wat going wrong???
konqueror is working fine.
Try starting galeon from a command prompt instead of clicking on the 
icon.  Just open a terminal and type "galeon&" (without the double 
quotes.)  You might see a message that gives a clue why they are 
hanging.  I use them both in 9.2.

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RE: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Tech]

Hi there,
Seems like your machines are not on the same network if I got it right
your windows is on the 169.X.X.X network
And your Linux is on the 204.X.X.X network
If you don't have a ROUTER between them it won't work,
Make sure both of the machines are on the same network.
In addition your windows IP is assigned automatically to your machine
after failing to retrieve one from your DHCP server, if you don't have
one you better assign a static IP.
Best,
Itamar

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Subject: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

Hi all,

well I've been trying to get these two boxes [my Mandrake 9.0 desktop
and my Thinkpad with WIN2KPRO] talking, and haven't been able to get
Samba to do much of anything.
I had an idea to try the basics, and surprise surprise, it's no wonder
Samba is having trouble - the two boxes aren't even recognizing each
other!

I ran ipconfig on the windoze box and it said:
autoconfiguration IP address: 169.254.5.217

so from a terminal window on the Mandrake box I typed:
ping 169.254.5.217

and got:
PING 169.254.5.217 (169.254.5.217) from 203.146.175.77 : 56(84) bytes of
data.

but then it just sat there and did nothing.

So then I pinged 203.146.175.77 from the windoze box and it returned 4
lines of "Destination host unreachable".

Needless to say, these two boxes talk to each other just fine over the
same bit of cable using the same internal LAN cards they both came with
when they're both running windoze...

What do I have to do in Linux to make the network work? [btw it connects
to the internet just fine via the modem]

TIA for any help [again]
:)

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Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

[LtCdData]

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 H:12, Paul Harrison wrote:
9.2 is a bit too much AOL-user-ish with way too much control removed
so far its messed up some of my hardware settings eg at this time 9.2 cant 
seem to tell the diff. between a (usb)scanner.. (pci)tvcard.. and (usb)webcam 
?!?!?!
otherwise its been fine
> Tango Echo wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |
> | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2?
>
> For me, 9.2 worked much more "out of the box" than 9.1.  Sound, digital
> camera, printer all worked more or less straight away, whereas 9.1 took
> a lot of fiddling.  Was worth it...for /me/ at least.  I might be unusual.
>
> Paul

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Re: [newbie] CyrixInstead Processor 266Mhz

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 January 2004 19:02, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 11:38 am, Phil Savoie wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have this machine with subject specs read off the hardware
> > Browser which is currently running RedHat 8.0.  Under "model
> > name" it is showing that it is an M II 3.5x Core/Bus Clock.
> > (Brand name E-Machine i366e) This system does not boot with RH
> > 9 and it's default kernel.
> >
> > What I am wondering about is if M9.2 would be compatible with
> > this and work. I am currently using this box as a web and
> > dial-in server and am real hesitant about changing the OS in a
> > working box.  The old adage "if it ain't broke then don't fix
> > it" comes to mind.
> >
> > However, with RedHat's EOL of RedHat 8 and it's up2date program
> > for same, I would feel more comfortable with an OS I could
> > update easily.
> >
> > All help/advice would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Phil Savoie
>
>   I believe it's a i586/i686 issue. RH is compiled for i386.
> Mandrake for i586, with only a few libs where it shows some
> benefit, compiled for i686 (look in Mandrake's /lib/i686/).
>
> Problem is Cyrix, even the newer VIA-C(yrix)3 processors
> report themselves as i686, but are only marginally i586
> compliant, and even retain some i486 legacy.
>
> I believe this mismatch is solved in 9.2, but check the eratta
> http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3
>
> IIRC, 9.0 was the last to be fooled by Cyrix cpu's.

I couldn't get either 9.0 or 9.1 onto a Cyrix/IBM 266 box.  I found a 
used amd cpu to replace it, and everything was fine after that.

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Re: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 January 2004 18:27, Jason Crowder wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 11:16, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Monday 05 January 2004 09:29 am, Jason Crowder wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Monday 05 January 2004 15:11, Jason Crowder wrote:
> > > > > Whatever.   Its a whole lot easier than adding the address
> > > > > to my address book.
> > > >
> > > > Right-click - add to addressbook
> > > > or
> > > > Right-click - copy to clipboard
> > > >
> > > > Anne
> > >
> > > Or.
> > >
> > > Reply.
> >
> >  Ya know, a lot of this attitude is what we used to call the
> > September (.edu addresses) and then the Christmas flush (just got
> > a new computer).  A bunch of new, clueless, inconsiderate, and/or
> > arrogant people joining in and insisting or their 'right' to be
> > so.  Bottom line is
>
> Fortunately, none of these apply to me.

Wrong -
> inconsiderate, and/or arrogant people

certainly does.  Lazy, too.

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Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

[Charlie Mahan]

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Monday 05 January 2004 12:07 pm, Sharrea Day wrote:


> I also tried to download the Cooker ISOs via bittorrent the other day but
> gave up after it continued downloading at 1.5Kb for more than 3 hours!
> Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of sharing the load using bittorrent
> (its an awesome idea and worked well for me when downloading 9.2 a few
> months back).
>
> However, I ended up downloading the Cooker ISOs via ftp from:
> ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-iso/i586/
>
> Also just FYI, those two ISOs are just the basic installation and I found
> that I had a _lot_ more downloading to do after installation to get all my
> favourite apps... YVMM...
>
> Anyway, good luck!
>
> Sharrea

The "a _lot_ more downloading to do after installation" doesn't enter into 
this for me since I have duplicates of the cooker and 9.2 trees on one of my 
drives. 

Somebody is certainly having success with the torrent. I started it after I 
rsynced the cooker tree last Thursday morning to get the ISOs. The pull has 
been steady at around 55 KBytes/sec. The only time it isn't running is during 
brief periods when glitches at my ISP drop my connection; usually a few 
seconds at a time and never more than a minute. 

That upload rate is about a third of my maximum theoretical upload bandwidth. 
I haven't restricted it at all. "Maximum Rates" on this service (cable) are, 
theoretically; 10 mbit/sec down, 1.5 mbits/sec up.

I think I'll be clicking "Finish" in the next day or two so that I can 
actually try the installer. It's hard to test when you're busy feeding the 
hungry maw of the torrent. (-;

Regards;
Charlie
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Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems

[Tom Brinkman]

On Sunday 04 January 2004 06:35 pm, Mark wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Patrick Dempster wrote:
> > Richard Urwin said:
> > > On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote:
> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate
> > >> 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent
> > >>
> > >> I get the following error:
> > >>
> > >> ERROR (10:28) -
> > >> error: Too many args - 0 max.
> > >> run with no args for parameter explanations.
> > >>
> > >> Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Is there an rc
> > >> file somewhere that I should set this in?
> > >
> > > Off the top of my head, try using hyphens"-" rather than
> > > underlines.
> >
> > Nope, doesn't seem to like that that either
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max-upload-rate 100
> > MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent
> > These errors occurred during execution:
> > [23:47:11] error: option --max-upload-rate not recognized
> > run with no args for parameter explanations
> >
> > After a bit more experimenting it does appear that
> > --max_upload_rate is what it is looking for because it does
> > appear to be parsing it and it is expecting a number. I'm
> > really stumped now.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100k
> > MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent
> > These errors occurred during execution:
> > [23:47:43] error: wrong format of --max_upload_rate - invalid
> > literal for long(): 100k
> > run with no args for parameter explanations
> >
> > Talk to you soon,
> > Take care,
> >
> > Paddy
>
> Paddy,
>
> as I recall Tom Brinkman has a pretty fair understanding about
> how this all works. check for his addy in the list archives and
> shoot him a message. Or post to his attention either here or on
> the Mandrake OT list. I'm sure you'll get a response.
>
> The Mandrake Off Topic list is here:
> http://mdw1982.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/mandrakeot

 I use the GUI.
bittorrent-gui-3.3-3mdk
bittorrent-3.3-3mdk

 I download the torrent file to /home/tom/torrent/   Then just 
clicking on the torrent file in Konqueror File Manager starts the 
little GUI screen showing d/l rate and estimated time, and the 
upload rate.  BUT

   Before starting the torrent, I edit
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent/download.py
  (your python version might be different, mines current cooker)

  ... and limit upload bandwidth by editing

defaults = [
('max_uploads', 2,
"the maximum number of uploads to allow at once."),

  ...  and

   ('max_upload_rate', 4,
'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),


The last one is the important one. I also have DSL, 1.5mbit 
down, but only 128kbit up. That translates to a max of about 
13KBytes up.  Since the d/l stream also needs bits for acks and 
no acks, leaving the upload unlimited, all but kills the d/l. In 
my example above, I've limited upload to 4KB. In practice, this 
keeps torrent from using more than 4.... KB.  Which leaves 
enough for the torrent d/l stream, plus using my connection for 
other things, including background stuff like ntpd, DNS requests, 
etc. (run 'ethereal' to see all the background stuff)

   I got the iso's at an average of 155KB/s down in just a few 
hours early 1/1/04 while reading my morning email. I've left it 
uploading since. With the d/l complete, my connection is as 
usable as even without the torrent uploading.  FWIW, I use the 
GUI 'cause I never could get my head around the CL options ;)  

   I think the OP might be confusing 128 kilobits, with KiloBytes 
too.  Generally you can divide by 10 (8 bits to a byte +  a 
couple more for acks and background proccesses). So a 128kb 
upstream is really a 13KB/s up. My 1.5million bits down stream 
does well to get 155KByte/s down.  The download.py settings are 
in bytes, not bits.  
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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 January 2004 13:37, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 08:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Right - well the first thing is to see what your windows boxes
> > are using.  Check *all* the network config tabs and write down
> > the results.  It's very likely that they are using dhcp - i.e.
> > letting the isp set your ip.  That's fine on many counts, though
> > there are some advantages in using static I, my preferred option.
>
> Actually, he originally posted:
> I ran ipconfig on the windoze box and it said:
> autoconfiguration IP address: 169.254.5.217
>
> This seems to indicate that he is NOT using DHCP or anything else,
> but Windows is trying to do that zeroconf stuff and is auto
> assigning an IP address to the network card.  That means that he
> may have an IP but it is pretty worthless for any type of interface
> unless he manually adds the address to hosts on all machines and
> even then, we should assume that it may change at each boot point. 
> Windows gets around this by broadcasting (with NetBUI IIRC or RPC)
> on the local net, something that he would need Samba configured to
> do and a bad idea anyway since that broadcast could "leak" to the
> Internet and make your machine visible to sundry and all.
>
Hmm - I haven't used XP, or W2K in quite a long time, but IIRC netbui 
can be dropped, and the lan configured to run on TCP/IP only.

> Your suggestion to switch to a static IP address is a VERY good
> one.  He would be well advised to follow it.

I think it would save him a lot of pain, and cause no problems 
whatsoever in Windows.  It's even easy to set up on both boxes.

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Re: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 January 2004 15:29, Jason Crowder wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 05 January 2004 15:11, Jason Crowder wrote:
> > > Whatever.   Its a whole lot easier than adding the address to
> > > my address book.
> >
> > Right-click - add to addressbook
> > or
> > Right-click - copy to clipboard
> >
> > Anne
>
> Or.
>
> Reply.

OK - if you prefer that several people will not read your message 
because they are ignoring that thread.

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Re: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Jason Crowder]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 15:11, Jason Crowder wrote:
> > Whatever.   Its a whole lot easier than adding the address to my
> > address book.
> 
> Right-click - add to addressbook
> or
> Right-click - copy to clipboard
> 
> Anne

Or.

Reply.


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Re: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 January 2004 15:11, Jason Crowder wrote:
> Whatever.   Its a whole lot easier than adding the address to my
> address book.

Right-click - add to addressbook
or
Right-click - copy to clipboard

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[newbie] DVD Jon wins!

[Ronald J. Hall]

Finally, a court of law with some commons sense:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=702236

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RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Jason Crowder]

No, I'm not getting any emails from cron at all.  I've never seen this
problem on any of my other linux boxes, nor of any of them that I
support at the University.  Cron appears to be running.  I even
installed anacron as a comparison, and anacron isn't finding any cron
scripts that are not being touched.  It looks like cron is touching the
scripts, and is running, but isn't running anything.

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 08:09, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> Are you getting emails from the other cron scripts? Is cron running in
> MCC?
> If you can run the scripts from the command line then the permissions
> are okay.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Jason G. Crowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2
> 
> 
> The scripts can be executed by root and run fine with root.  Do they
> need to be permissible by anything else?  I am not at home at the moment
> but I can post the exact permissions on those scripts later. 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:10 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2
> 
> Have your scripts got the correct permissions?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Jason Crowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2
> 
> 
> OK.  I found another problem with Mandrake 9.2 that I can solve.
> 
> My crontab doesn't run.  Below is what my /etc/crontab file looks like. 
> I have backup routines that are supposed to kick off and create tar
> balls of my files.  But nothing happens.  I don't get any emails from
> Cron saying that ran.  Any ideas why Cron isn't running?
> 
> /etc/crontab:
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/
> 
> # run-parts
> 01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 00 3 * * *
> /root/vscan 00 5 * * * /home/laptop/laptop.backup 00 6 * * 0
> /home/laptop/sunday.backups 00 2 * * * /root/updates 00 1 * * *
> /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl
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Re: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Jason Crowder]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 07:41, Derek Jennings wrote:
> Type 'mail' in a root terminal and you should see the emails cron has been 
> sending you every time it fails.
> Put a full email address in the MAILTO= field and you will get the mails in 
> your regular mail account (So long as you have a mail server installed or an 
> smtp transport application like ssmtp)
> 

root is aliased to my regular email account.

> Also if you install webmin from your CDs and type
> https://localhost:1 in a browser you can view your cron jobs and run them 
> from within webmin. (Note:  https NOT http )

Yes, I know.  They are listed under webmin--which is how I originally
set them up.

> And finally Please do not hijack threads by changing the title of an existing 
> post. It does not worry me, but some people get seriously pissed off by it.
> 

Whatever.   Its a whole lot easier than adding the address to my address
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RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Tony S. Sykes]

Are you getting emails from the other cron scripts? Is cron running in
MCC?
If you can run the scripts from the command line then the permissions
are okay.

-Original Message-
From: Jason G. Crowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2


The scripts can be executed by root and run fine with root.  Do they
need to be permissible by anything else?  I am not at home at the moment
but I can post the exact permissions on those scripts later. 

-Original Message-
From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

Have your scripts got the correct permissions?

-Original Message-
From: Jason Crowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2


OK.  I found another problem with Mandrake 9.2 that I can solve.

My crontab doesn't run.  Below is what my /etc/crontab file looks like. 
I have backup routines that are supposed to kick off and create tar
balls of my files.  But nothing happens.  I don't get any emails from
Cron saying that ran.  Any ideas why Cron isn't running?

/etc/crontab:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 00 3 * * *
/root/vscan 00 5 * * * /home/laptop/laptop.backup 00 6 * * 0
/home/laptop/sunday.backups 00 2 * * * /root/updates 00 1 * * *
/usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl
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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Derek Jennings]

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 12:56 pm, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:32, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > Well it tells me that you only have a dial up connection. Your Eth0
> > interface is not there.
> > Have you tried going through the wizard in drakconnect?
>
> heh - no, but here goes:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# drakconnect
> modprobe: Can't locate module serial
> modprobe: Can't locate module serial
> Please wait while probing serial ports...
> Shutting down interface ppp0:   [  OK  ]
> Shutting down loopback interface:   [  OK  ]
> Setting network parameters: [  OK  ]
> Bringing up loopback interface: [  OK  ]
> Bringing up interface eth0:  Determining IP information for eth0...
> failed.
> [FAILED]
SNIP

Erm... When I said had you run the drakconnect wizard I meant had you gone 
into Mandrake ControlCentre>Networking>Drakconnect  and pressed the 'Wizard' 
button.  It will auto detect your network interfaces and walk you through 
their configuration.
The wizard will write the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 that 
Adolfo has asked you about.

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Re: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Derek Jennings]

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 1:48 pm, Jason Crowder wrote:
> OK.  I found another problem with Mandrake 9.2 that I can solve.
>
> My crontab doesn't run.  Below is what my /etc/crontab file looks like.
> I have backup routines that are supposed to kick off and create tar
> balls of my files.  But nothing happens.  I don't get any emails from
> Cron saying that ran.  Any ideas why Cron isn't running?
>
> /etc/crontab:
>
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/
>
> # run-parts
> 01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> 00 3 * * * /root/vscan
> 00 5 * * * /home/laptop/laptop.backup
> 00 6 * * 0 /home/laptop/sunday.backups
> 00 2 * * * /root/updates
> 00 1 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl
> 00 7 1 * * /home/laptop/monthly.backups

Type 'mail' in a root terminal and you should see the emails cron has been 
sending you every time it fails.
Put a full email address in the MAILTO= field and you will get the mails in 
your regular mail account (So long as you have a mail server installed or an 
smtp transport application like ssmtp)

Also if you install webmin from your CDs and type
https://localhost:1 in a browser you can view your cron jobs and run them 
from within webmin. (Note:  https NOT http )

And finally Please do not hijack threads by changing the title of an existing 
post. It does not worry me, but some people get seriously pissed off by it.

HTH

derek

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Re: [newbie] Securing my box

[Aron Smith]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 04:09, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Sunday 04 January 2004 09:55 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
> 
> > So you are saying that my tinfoil hat is on crooked;-)
> 
> Actually, I was thinking that you probably forgot that you need to keep the 
> shiny side on the outside to reflect the mind control rays.  ;-}
Thanks I'll do that (now if I can just  get rid of that pop-up message
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RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Jason G. Crowder]

The scripts can be executed by root and run fine with root.  Do they
need to be permissible by anything else?  I am not at home at the moment
but I can post the exact permissions on those scripts later. 

-Original Message-
From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

Have your scripts got the correct permissions?

-Original Message-
From: Jason Crowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2


OK.  I found another problem with Mandrake 9.2 that I can solve.

My crontab doesn't run.  Below is what my /etc/crontab file looks like. 
I have backup routines that are supposed to kick off and create tar
balls of my files.  But nothing happens.  I don't get any emails from
Cron saying that ran.  Any ideas why Cron isn't running?

/etc/crontab:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 00 3 * * *
/root/vscan 00 5 * * * /home/laptop/laptop.backup 00 6 * * 0
/home/laptop/sunday.backups 00 2 * * * /root/updates 00 1 * * *
/usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl
00 7 1 * * /home/laptop/monthly.backups
  

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RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

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Have your scripts got the correct permissions?

-Original Message-
From: Jason Crowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2


OK.  I found another problem with Mandrake 9.2 that I can solve.

My crontab doesn't run.  Below is what my /etc/crontab file looks like. 
I have backup routines that are supposed to kick off and create tar
balls of my files.  But nothing happens.  I don't get any emails from
Cron saying that ran.  Any ideas why Cron isn't running?

/etc/crontab:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
00 3 * * * /root/vscan
00 5 * * * /home/laptop/laptop.backup
00 6 * * 0 /home/laptop/sunday.backups
00 2 * * * /root/updates
00 1 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl
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[newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2

[Jason Crowder]

OK.  I found another problem with Mandrake 9.2 that I can solve.

My crontab doesn't run.  Below is what my /etc/crontab file looks like. 
I have backup routines that are supposed to kick off and create tar
balls of my files.  But nothing happens.  I don't get any emails from
Cron saying that ran.  Any ideas why Cron isn't running?

/etc/crontab:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
00 3 * * * /root/vscan
00 5 * * * /home/laptop/laptop.backup
00 6 * * 0 /home/laptop/sunday.backups
00 2 * * * /root/updates
00 1 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl
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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Adolfo Bello]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 09:17, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:57, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > [...snip]
> > 8139 suggests a Realtek, which are usually OK.  Do you use dhcp or 
> > static IP?
> > 
> 
> I've got no idea. 
> When both machines are running windoze it *just works*. I've never
> entered a specific IP address to connect to the net [via modem] so I'm
> assuming the ISP assigns one to me. I didn't think I needed an IP
> address to get my local network running - I thought that was only to
> connect to outside web pages etc?
> 
> How would I find out what Linux *thinks* it's using?
> 
> TIA

Hi Merlin:

First of all, let's find out whether Mandrake is loading your NIC
driver. For this, enter the command:
lsmod | grep 8139too

Next, let's see what your NIC setup is. Enter the command:
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Please, post in a message the outputs of these two commands, no matter
what they are.

Anne, Since in Windows the IP are 169.254.something I assume it is using
ZEROCONF to setup the lan connection.

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 05 January 2004 08:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote:

> Right - well the first thing is to see what your windows boxes are
> using.  Check *all* the network config tabs and write down the
> results.  It's very likely that they are using dhcp - i.e. letting
> the isp set your ip.  That's fine on many counts, though there are
> some advantages in using static I, my preferred option.

Actually, he originally posted:
I ran ipconfig on the windoze box and it said:
autoconfiguration IP address: 169.254.5.217

This seems to indicate that he is NOT using DHCP or anything else, but Windows 
is trying to do that zeroconf stuff and is auto assigning an IP address to 
the network card.  That means that he may have an IP but it is pretty 
worthless for any type of interface unless he manually adds the address to 
hosts on all machines and even then, we should assume that it may change at 
each boot point.  Windows gets around this by broadcasting (with NetBUI IIRC 
or RPC) on the local net, something that he would need Samba configured to do 
and a bad idea anyway since that broadcast could "leak" to the Internet and 
make your machine visible to sundry and all.

If zeroconf was working on Mandrake and he had Samba installed and configured, 
he would theoretically be able to see the windows machine and connect to it 
using Samba.  Static IP would allow all of the normal Linux connectivity to 
work as well, like FTP, SSH, VNC, etc.

Your suggestion to switch to a static IP address is a VERY good one.  He would 
be well advised to follow it.

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 05 January 2004 08:17 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:57, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > [...snip]
> > 8139 suggests a Realtek, which are usually OK.  Do you use dhcp or
> > static IP?
>
> I've got no idea.
> When both machines are running windoze it *just works*. I've never
> entered a specific IP address to connect to the net [via modem] so I'm
> assuming the ISP assigns one to me. I didn't think I needed an IP
> address to get my local network running - I thought that was only to
> connect to outside web pages etc?

Via modem, you are right.  However, you are not trying to hit the Window 
machine via modem, you are trying to go direct Lan to it.  Newer Windows has 
something akin to zeroconf that tries to autoassign IP addresses to network 
interfaces.  This simulates DHCP in that your ethernet card will get an IP 
address, although it is not really valid for routing since there is no DNS 
setup that knows that address is active.  Mandrake should be trying to do the 
same thing with zeroconf, but it is not assigning an IP (based on what you 
posted) so either it is failing, not installed, or not configured correctly.

Your internet stuff is going through dial-up, so it is completely separate 
from your ethernet.

You should run the wizard DrakConnect again and make sure that you choose 
static IP address and give your ethernet card an IP address yourself.  You 
can try to let the zeroconf stuff do it, but a static IP is a better idea 
since you will at least always know what IP you should be using and can add 
it to the host file of both machines to make sure that they know what the 
other machine is.  Actually, that is a good idea on Windows as well.

> How would I find out what Linux *thinks* it's using?

You already did.  Linux is using nothing currently, that is why you can't get 
to the other machine.  When you try to ping the windows machine, Linux is 
using your dial up connection and can't get to the machine because your ISP 
does not have any DNS on that machine.

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 January 2004 13:17, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:57, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > [...snip]
> > 8139 suggests a Realtek, which are usually OK.  Do you use dhcp
> > or static IP?
>
> I've got no idea.
> When both machines are running windoze it *just works*. I've never
> entered a specific IP address to connect to the net [via modem] so
> I'm assuming the ISP assigns one to me. I didn't think I needed an
> IP address to get my local network running - I thought that was
> only to connect to outside web pages etc?
>
> How would I find out what Linux *thinks* it's using?
>
Right - well the first thing is to see what your windows boxes are 
using.  Check *all* the network config tabs and write down the 
results.  It's very likely that they are using dhcp - i.e. letting 
the isp set your ip.  That's fine on many counts, though there are 
some advantages in using static I, my preferred option.

Once we know what the rest of your lan is doing we can advise you how 
to make your Mandrake box join in 

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Re: [newbie] Expired user account

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 05 January 2004 06:40 am, Kristian Davies wrote:
> Mandrake 9.2 Paranoid
>
> Hi,
>
> I have installed Mandrake with paranoid setting(so cant login with su on
> console), my user account has expired.
>
> How do i recover the user account?

Insert the Mandrake CD or DVD and boot from that.  At the prompt, hit F1 and 
enter rescue on the boot command line.  When the ncurses screen comes up, 
choose Maintenance mode and that will put you in at single user console.  
Issue the "passwd username" and it should prompt you to enter a new password 
for that user account.  You would be advised to change the warning period to 
give your user accounts a longer period of time to change passwords before 
they expire.  I would recommend 14 days if you are going to run in paranoid 
mode.

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Merlin Zener]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:57, Anne Wilson wrote:
> [...snip]
> 8139 suggests a Realtek, which are usually OK.  Do you use dhcp or 
> static IP?
> 

I've got no idea. 
When both machines are running windoze it *just works*. I've never
entered a specific IP address to connect to the net [via modem] so I'm
assuming the ISP assigns one to me. I didn't think I needed an IP
address to get my local network running - I thought that was only to
connect to outside web pages etc?

How would I find out what Linux *thinks* it's using?

TIA

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Re: [newbie] kPackage error messages

[Derek Jennings]

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 12:39 pm, Merlin Zener wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw VNC mentioned on another mailing list and so I thought I'd try it;
> so I downloaded it and then clicked on the downloaded file. kPackage
> opened up and offered to install it, so I said yes and told it my root
> password. But then:
>
>  file /usr/share/vnc/classes/DesCipher.class from install of vnc-3.3.7-1
> conflicts with file from package tightvnc-1.2.5-2mdk
> file /usr/share/vnc/classes/index.vnc from install of vnc-3.3.7-1
> conflicts with file from package tightvnc-1.2.5-2mdk
> file /usr/share/vnc/classes/shared.vnc from install of vnc-3.3.7-1
> conflicts with file from package tightvnc-1.2.5-2mdk
> RESULT=1
>
> Nothing else.
> I've done a search on "tightvnc" and "tight" - neither seems to exist on
> my system.
>
> Any ideas?
> TIA
>
> --
> Merlin Zener

kpackage does not resolve dependencies for you.
If you install packages you have downloaded with gurpmi then all dependencies 
will get resolved.  (gurpmi is usually the default application which will 
open if you click on an RPM package.)

However there is not much point downloading VNC because it is already on your 
CDs in the form of tightVNC which is an improved variant of VNC which has the 
additional benefits of data compression and ssh encryption.

Just install the tightvnc-server and tightvnc RPMs using your Software 
Installer.
http://www.tightvnc.org/

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 January 2004 12:56, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:32, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > Well it tells me that you only have a dial up connection. Your
> > Eth0 interface is not there.
> > Have you tried going through the wizard in drakconnect?
>
> heh - no, but here goes:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# drakconnect
> modprobe: Can't locate module serial
> modprobe: Can't locate module serial
> Please wait while probing serial ports...
> Shutting down interface ppp0:   [ 
> OK  ] Shutting down loopback interface:
>   [  OK  ] Setting network parameters: 
>[  OK  ] Bringing up loopback interface:
> [  OK  ] Bringing up interface eth0:  Determining IP
> information for eth0... failed.
>
> [FAILED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]#
>
> > Is the correct driver being loaded? Is there a line starting
> > "alias eth0" in the /etc/modules.conf file?
>
> here's the contents of that file:
>
> probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233
> probeall usb-interface usb-uhci
> alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
> above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss
>
> > What make of ethernet interface is this?
>
> I've got no idea. Probably something cheap and Chinese...
> If I *have* to, I suppose I could open up the case and look...
>
8139 suggests a Realtek, which are usually OK.  Do you use dhcp or 
static IP?

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Merlin Zener]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:32, Derek Jennings wrote:
> 
> Well it tells me that you only have a dial up connection. Your Eth0 interface 
> is not there.
> Have you tried going through the wizard in drakconnect?

heh - no, but here goes:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# drakconnect
modprobe: Can't locate module serial
modprobe: Can't locate module serial
Please wait while probing serial ports...
Shutting down interface ppp0:   [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:   [  OK  ]
Setting network parameters: [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:  Determining IP information for eth0...
failed.
[FAILED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]#

> Is the correct driver being loaded? Is there a line starting
> "alias eth0" in the /etc/modules.conf file?

here's the contents of that file:

probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233
probeall usb-interface usb-uhci
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss


> What make of ethernet interface is this?
> 

I've got no idea. Probably something cheap and Chinese...
If I *have* to, I suppose I could open up the case and look...

Thanks again,

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[newbie] 9.2 good now?

[Tango Echo]

Hi all,

What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2?  I
recently purchased a new hard drive and was debating
if I should put 9.1 (my current one) or 9.2.  I know
lots of people had complained about 9.2 initially, but
perhaps most of the bugs have been worked out?  Are
there any common bugs I should know about? I just
returned from a break so I'd be interested what all of
you think 

Thanks

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[newbie] kPackage error messages

[Merlin Zener]

Hi,

I saw VNC mentioned on another mailing list and so I thought I'd try it;
so I downloaded it and then clicked on the downloaded file. kPackage
opened up and offered to install it, so I said yes and told it my root
password. But then:

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Re: [newbie] Creating new init scripts

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 05 January 2004 03:44 am, Darryl Adams wrote:
> I have a non standard Wireless Network Card which used to start
> automatically in Mandrake 9.1 but not in 9.2. I have also use Capture to
> mount my 3 ntfs partitions , again which I have mount manually.
>
> Is there any way of doing a really simple script during bootup to mount
> my drives and to set up the ra0 routing? My scripting skills are rusty
> verging on non excistant, however, I can create the script to do the 4
> actions required. I just need to know where to put it so that the bootup
> script can pick it up.

Darryl, the easiest way to do this is to pick up an already existent script in 
the /etc/init.d directory and copy it, modify it for your needs and then use 
either webmin or run sysconfig against the script to add it into the levels.

Pay special attention to the chkconfig line, it specifies the init levels for 
the script, run order and nice level, respectively.  Thus, this script runs 
on init 2, 3,4,5  and it runs at order # 65 from 0-99 (thus later after 
network and other daemons have started) and has a nice level of 35.  The 
functions line allows you access to special functions like killproc to kill 
the process, rather than having to killall or track the pid.

A quick example:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ddclient  This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
#   ddclient.
#
# chkconfig: 2345 65 35  
# description: ddclient provides support for updating dynamic DNS services.

[ -f /etc/ddclient.conf ] || exit 0

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
# Start daemons.
echo -n "Starting ddclient: "
touch /var/lock/subsys/ddclient
daemon ddclient -daemon 300
echo
;;
  stop)
# Stop daemons.
echo -n "Shutting down ddclient: "
killproc ddclient
echo
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/ddclient
;;
  restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
  status)
status ddclient
;;
  *)
echo "Usage: ddclient {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0


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Re: [newbie] How to secure file with seperate password

[Bryan Phinney]

On Sunday 04 January 2004 10:50 pm, Bashan wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:48, Mark wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bashan wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:24, Mark wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bashan wrote:
> > > > > If I have a file I would like to secure with an extra password, how
> > > > > do I do it?
> > > >
> > > > what app are you using to create the file? you could just encrypt the
> > > > file with gpg.
> > >
> > > Konqueror, all I really want to do is ad another password to the file,
> > > just like logging in to my desktop.
> >
> > maybe I'm missing something, but i never heard of doing such a thing with
> > Konq.
>
> Thanks for the help.

Bashan, you might do better to tell us what you are trying to accomplish.  If 
you are worried about security on the file, Linux file permissions can keep 
the file from being viewed by anyone other than you or root, depending on who 
created it.  Aside from that, pgp encryption would restrict even further, 
preventing root from viewing the file.  You could also zip the file and add a 
password and that would also encrypt it, although I suspect that pgp 
encryption would be more secure.

If you are trying to duplicate file system encryption vis a vis Windows, you 
should understand that there is little need to do so although you can encrypt 
file systems with Linux also.  I just have never heard of anyone needing to 
do so, other than NSA types, since the security model makes most of that 
superfluous in Linux.

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Re: [newbie] Securing my box

[Bryan Phinney]

On Sunday 04 January 2004 09:55 pm, Aron Smith wrote:

> So you are saying that my tinfoil hat is on crooked;-)

Actually, I was thinking that you probably forgot that you need to keep the 
shiny side on the outside to reflect the mind control rays.  ;-}

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[newbie] Expired user account

[Kristian Davies]

Mandrake 9.2 Paranoid

Hi,

I have installed Mandrake with paranoid setting(so cant login with su on
console), my user account has expired.

How do i recover the user account?

Thanks...
Kristian


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Re: [newbie] Securing my box

[et]

On Monday 05 January 2004 04:16 am, Mark wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Aron Smith wrote:
> > So you are saying that my tinfoil hat is on crooked;-)
> > I just picked up a book on linux security
>
> nahmaybe its just a little off-center. ;)
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Re: [newbie] Core dump

[John Richard Smith]

Richard Urwin wrote:

On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 5:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

First off this is the instruction as per source code debug readme:-
B.4.6.1 How to conserve information about a reproducible crash
Recompile MPlayer with debugging code enabled:
./configure --enable-debug=3
make
and then run MPlayer within gdb using:
gdb ./mplayer
You are now within gdb. Type:
run -v [options-to-mplayer] filename
and reproduce your crash. As soon as you did it, gdb will return
you to the command line prompt where you have to enter
bt
disass $pc-32 $pc+32
info all-registers
...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] MPlayer-20030901]#make 2> /root/Desktop/el2
meplayer/mencoder make scripts are just too long to reproduce here.
then,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] MPlayer-20030901]# gdb ./mplayer
(gdb)
I'm now a bit lost what do I do next ?
   

All fine so far.
You probably want to be running mencoder, rather than mplayer, but apart from 
that you're doing OK.

So.

$ gdb ./mencoder
(gdb) run -v [options to mencoder]
and reproduce the crash.

Then give the following commands:
backtrace
disass $pc-32 $pc+32
info all-registers
info threads
 

OK Richard , looks like we have a result, here is the whole thing,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /root/Desktop/MPlayer-20030901

[EMAIL PROTECTED] MPlayer-20030901]# gdb ./mencoder
GNU gdb 5.3-22mdk (Mandrake Linux)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, 
and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for 
details.
This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"...
(gdb)

(gdb) run -v dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1024
-oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -alang en -idx -o toystory1.avi
and reproduce the crash.


Pos:  22.4s540f ( 0%)  10fps Trem: 229min 644mb  A-V:0.028 
[857:95]
A/Vms 14
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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Derek Jennings]

On Monday 05 Jan 2004 8:07 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 06:45, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > [...snip]
> >
> > The line "PING 169.254.5.217 (169.254.5.217) from 203.146.175.77 "
> > means your Mandrake desktop is trying to reach your Windows box via a
> > different subnet. Either because the Ethernet on the Mandrake box is not
> > configured correctly, or because your route table is incorrect.
> >
> > What do you see if you do
> > 'ifconfig'   and 'route'
>
> Thanks [yet again] for your answer, Derek.
>
> Here's the results: I must confess it means *nothing* to me...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# ifconfig
> loLink encap:Local Loopback
>   inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>   UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>   RX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>   RX bytes:11908 (11.6 Kb)  TX bytes:11908 (11.6 Kb)
>
> ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>   inet addr:203.146.33.130  P-t-P:203.146.173.199
> Mask:255.255.255.255
>   UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1514  Metric:1
>   RX packets:297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
>   RX bytes:207945 (203.0 Kb)  TX bytes:19008 (18.5 Kb)
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
> Iface
> nas-cbilf2.loxi *   255.255.255.255 UH0  00
> ppp0
> 127.0.0.0   *   255.0.0.0   U 0  00
> lo
> default nas-cbilf2.loxi 0.0.0.0 UG0  00
> ppp0
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]#
>
>
> --
> Merlin Zener
> Piano, Synthesizer
> Thailand.
>
> registered Linux user number 328618

Well it tells me that you only have a dial up connection. Your Eth0 interface 
is not there.
Have you tried going through the wizard in drakconnect?
Is the correct driver being loaded? Is there a line starting
"alias eth0" in the /etc/modules.conf file?
What make of ethernet interface is this?


derek


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[newbie] Creating new init scripts

[Darryl Adams]

I have a non standard Wireless Network Card which used to start
automatically in Mandrake 9.1 but not in 9.2. I have also use Capture to
mount my 3 ntfs partitions , again which I have mount manually.

Is there any way of doing a really simple script during bootup to mount
my drives and to set up the ra0 routing? My scripting skills are rusty
verging on non excistant, however, I can create the script to do the 4
actions required. I just need to know where to put it so that the bootup
script can pick it up.

Thanks and regards

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Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

[Merlin Zener]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 06:45, Derek Jennings wrote:
> [...snip]
> 
> The line "PING 169.254.5.217 (169.254.5.217) from 203.146.175.77 "
> means your Mandrake desktop is trying to reach your Windows box via a 
> different subnet. Either because the Ethernet on the Mandrake box is not 
> configured correctly, or because your route table is incorrect.
> 
> What do you see if you do
> 'ifconfig'   and 'route'
> 

Thanks [yet again] for your answer, Derek.

Here's the results: I must confess it means *nothing* to me...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# ifconfig
loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:11908 (11.6 Kb)  TX bytes:11908 (11.6 Kb)

ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
  inet addr:203.146.33.130  P-t-P:203.146.173.199 
Mask:255.255.255.255
  UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1514  Metric:1
  RX packets:297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
  RX bytes:207945 (203.0 Kb)  TX bytes:19008 (18.5 Kb)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
Iface
nas-cbilf2.loxi *   255.255.255.255 UH0  00
ppp0
127.0.0.0   *   255.0.0.0   U 0  00
lo
default nas-cbilf2.loxi 0.0.0.0 UG0  00
ppp0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]#


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[newbie] the 2nd, 3rd vhost troubled

[Fajar Priyanto]

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Dear all,
I have this apache which runs on LAN:
Server Version: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.44 (Mandrake
  Linux/11mdk) mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.44
  OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.1

I've also a running DNS on the LAN, and updated the records for my vhosts.

I tried to setup a NameVirtualHost like this:
NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.233:80

ServerName psb.sistek.kom
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/psb



ServerName phpmyadmin.sistek.kom
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/phpmyadmin



ServerName webmail.sistek.kom
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/webmail


The problem is:
psb.sistek.kom runs well
but, phpmyadmin.sistek.kom and webmail.sistek.kom open up their first page OK,
but got the page cannot be displayed for any page inside it.

On /var/log/httpd/error_log I got this:
[Mon Jan 05 11:11:51 2004] [error] [client 192.168.0.233] File does not exist:
/var/www/html/psb/phpmyadmin

Why on earth apache looks for phpmyadmin.sistek.kom INSIDE of psb.sistek.kom?
I thought I have set the DocumentRoot for each vhost?

What am I doing wrong here? If I move phpmyadmin's html inside of psb, it runs
smoothly.

Many thanks in advance for helping me, guys.
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