[newbie] Unable to mount root fs
Hi All, I have just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my newly bought system. I also have Win2K installed on a partition. Everything was working fine, until few days ago when i tried to boot into Linux, it gave me a kernel panic saying "unable to mount root fs".I was surprised, since i havent changed any partition or done anything with the installation.So i again reinstalled Mandrake 8.0,it got installed properly...but yesterday when i saw the login window i saw almost 20 icons [penguins] corresponding to different users [i made only one user]and all these users seem to be the various services in linux.also there used to be a button from which i could shutdown the machinebut now its not there...i can only logout.[i can do a shutdown from command prompt]Just wanted to know why the behaviour is changing every few days without my meddling anything in the system Thanks in advance for any help Regards Ketan. Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 7:47 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I kill zombie processes? When I run TOP it shows that there are 2 zombie processes, but I don't know how to determine their PID, so I don't know how to kill them. I'm figuring that a zombie is a process which has crashed. Right? Thanks. From man ps: "Processes marked are dead processes (so-called "zombies") that remain because their parent has not destroyed them properly. These processes will be destroyed by init(8) if the parent process exits" Zombie processes are processes that have exited, but whose parent process hasn't got around to cleaning up. Therefore it is more likely that the parent process has crashed. To find the parent process use the command: ps axgl The PPID is the PID of the parent. The PID is the PID of the process. Search the list for the zombies (status Z), note their PPID, then search the list for the process with that PID. When a process dies any child processes it still has are adopted by the init process (PID 1). Init spends all it's time waiting for child processes, so zombies will be quickly tidied up. If the parent has hung you probably want to terminate it with extreme prejudice, so kill -KILL the parent process and the zombies will go away. That's (as root): kill -KILL [PID of parent] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- "If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem." - Ducharm's Axiom
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Section "Device" > >>Identifier "device1" > >>VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > >>BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" > >>Driver "nv" > >>Option "DPMS" > >> > >>That's to handle the nvidia driver modules > >>which includes something called glx I think ? > > > >That answers it. the nv driver does not support 3d, so the lib cannot > > load. If you want 3d, use the nvidia driver. > > You mean uninstall the OEM driver and go back to Xfree86 driver that > doesn't have tvout support ? > The nv driver is the XFree86 driver, which is the one you are already using. The nvidia driver from nVidia should have tvout support and also supports glx. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Invisible Kopete!
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 19:09, Marc Resnick wrote: Thanks, but I've done that! I just want to SEE it! ;-) rgs Ricardo Castanho > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 02:46 pm, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas > > wrote: > > My kopete is just invisible to me!!! > > > > There is a process running, I can hear the whistle and everything, > > but I can't see it! > > > > I used the last version available to mdk9.2 > > > > kopete-1-0.7.4-0.1.92mdk and its libraries! > > > > Any help, pls? > > > > TIA > > > > Ricardo Castanho > > Don't know why it did this, but to end it, go into a terminal, su for root, > and type 'killall kopete'. -- == Linux user # 102240 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] user => 100% M$ FREE == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:08:02 + Derek Jennings disseminated the following: > Erm the lines " I am extremely new to Linux" and > "have tried to install GLib" ring alarm bells in my head. > > The Glib library is one of the most fundamental libraries on your system. If > you mess with it you are almost certain to break your system. > (Trust me I have been there) Are you maybe getting glib and glibc mixed up? In any case, doing 'urpmi libglib-devel' will definitely error out if the wrong version of glib is installed. ...but ya, installing any package like glib from somewhere other than 'official' Mandrake channels or from the CD's is to be avoided. Adrian, what is the version of glib you have installed? In a terminal, do: rpm -qa | grep glib You should see libglib1.2-1.2.10-11mdk and libglib2.0_0-2.2.3-1mdk or thereabouts (assuming you are running 9.2). Or was it even an RPM you installed from this Linux Format mag? What is the app you are trying to build with ./configure? Like Derek suggested, there may be Mandrake packages for it, which would save you a lot of time and trouble. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 19:59:11 up 27 days, 7:42, 6 users, load average: 1.19, 1.34, 1.41 +++ Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ "It was a crazed and futile effort to somehow explain the extremely twisted nature of my relationship with God, Nixon and the National Football League.''-- Hunter S. Thompson, explaining why he screamed scripture from the 20th-floor balcony of the Houston Hyatt on the morning of Super Bowl VIII Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question
On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 23:45, JoeHill wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:20:12 - > > Adrian Earnshaw disseminated the following: > > I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib. I have > > followed the instructions in the install file but when I try to > > ./configure any programs that need GLib it tells me it's not installed > > properly or it's the wrong version. The GLib is from this months Linux > > Format magazine so it's upto date. > > Probably you need the development libraries. > > as root: > > urpmi libglib-devel Erm the lines " I am extremely new to Linux" and "have tried to install GLib" ring alarm bells in my head. The Glib library is one of the most fundamental libraries on your system. If you mess with it you are almost certain to break your system. (Trust me I have been there) If you are new to Linux it is best to stick to RPM packages built for the Mandrake release you are using. There are gazillions of them. You will not get bored. Have a read of the Twiki site in my sig and learn about using urpmi to install apps on line. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:20:12 - Adrian Earnshaw disseminated the following: > I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib. I have > followed the instructions in the install file but when I try to > ./configure any programs that need GLib it tells me it's not installed > properly or it's the wrong version. The GLib is from this months Linux > Format magazine so it's upto date. Probably you need the development libraries. as root: urpmi libglib-devel -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 18:44:05 up 27 days, 6:27, 8 users, load average: 1.76, 1.47, 1.33 +++ Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." Or ... "He has weapons of mass destruction -- the world's deadliest weapons -- which pose a direct threat to the United States, our citizens and our friends and allies." One of those lies got a president impeached. -- Michael Moore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Real Newbie question
Title: Message I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib. I have followed the instructions in the install file but when I try to ./configure any programs that need GLib it tells me it's not installed properly or it's the wrong version. The GLib is from this months Linux Format magazine so it's upto date. is there any sites I can visit that could help me out in getting my head round what I am doing wrong. Thanks Adrian
Re: [newbie] Zombies
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 15:47, Richard Urwin wrote: Hmm! I got it know! > Zombie processes are processes that have exited, but whose parent > process hasn't got around to cleaning up. Therefore it is more likely > that the parent process has crashed. To find the parent process use the > command: > ps axgl Just like my in-laws and my nephews and nices! ;-) Their parents let them do EVERYTHING and LATER do not take the necessary procedures! Thanks GOD I don't have to kill my nephews and nices to 'restore' the 'system'! ;-))) []s Ricardo Castanho > The PPID is the PID of the parent. The PID is the PID of the process. > Search the list for the zombies (status Z), note their PPID, then > search the list for the process with that PID. > > When a process dies any child processes it still has are adopted by the > init process (PID 1). Init spends all it's time waiting for child > processes, so zombies will be quickly tidied up. > > If the parent has hung you probably want to terminate it with extreme > prejudice, so kill -KILL the parent process and the zombies will go > away. That's (as root): > kill -KILL [PID of parent] -- == Linux user # 102240 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] user => 100% M$ FREE == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Not the way I have it, nv is the native OEM driver with tvout, > >>and nvidia is the xfree86 non tvout driver. I can assure you the nv > >>gives tvout support, which is why I have it. > > > >I don't doubt that the nv driver has tvout support, but why are you > > calling the nv driver the oem driver? > > > >If you mean the driver provided by nvidia, then why is your naming scheme > >opposite the rest of the world? > > So you are saying that "nv" is a xfree86 driver and it does have tvout. > News to me. > I thought I had installed an nvidia tar ball driver. > Which is why I called it an OEM driver. > I thought the linux xfree86 did not have tvout. > I'm wrong then ? > > Because I have "nv" > I have a working tvout > and if I were to change "nv" to "nvidia" I couldn't load Xwindows. > John John, if you have downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux driver from the Nvidia website then your XF86free-config file should have "load glx" in the section that has all of the "load scripts" and "nvidia" instead of "nv" this will give you the power of the Nvidia card. If you do not have a "load "glx" line then that may be why you get the glx error. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:33 pm, Mike Fehse wrote: > Some times it is after a nasty day of mblaster, > code_red, and so forth, that some of our users find > the little green guys in the IDS logs. Those would be the kind that you actually do want to be logged since it can be evidence of someone trying to gain access to the system by spoofing IP's. > Other times, > just adding a computer, or a new program, to theire > LAN does the same. Since we can't always determind > the problem, just adding to the knowldge base is a > help. > > Would you mind if I added your experiance to our FAQ? Not at all. In fact, my own ability to track down the cause was aided by discussions about rp_filters from firewall discussions and some of the things that caused spurious martians on those. I suspect that I could tailor a rule on the firewall of the router to drop these, or if I cared to delve a little more deeply into how CUPS does its broadcasting, I would be able to eliminate them that way. Another thought that I had was to setup a static route for the loopback to try to totally eliminate that traffic from hitting the router altogether but since the CUPS broadcast does have to go out to the local netrange, I am not sure that would eliminate the problem. I might look into some of the discussions at IPCOP to see if there are any specific steps that I might take to research it further. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
In a terminal in kde John Pablo Vitoria wrote: John, Are you doing "glxinfo" in a terminal in KDE (or Gnome, or whatever) in your Linux computer? Or are you doing it in a remote machine, perhaps through telnet or (better) ssh? OpenGL support is a property of the X server, so if you are connecting from a remote computer running an X server with no GLX support, it is normal to get those messages. I hope this helps Pablo Pablo Vitoria Garcia Dpto. Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) Aptdo. 644 48080 Bilbao (Bizkaia) Tfno. 94 6015992 Fax. 94 4648500 - Original Message - From: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NEWBIE 1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:41 PM Subject: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | | | I don't know if this is really worth troubling about, but | everytime I do something that calls an app on the Cl I get this message. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# glxinfo | name of display: :0.0 | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual | |visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav | id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat | -- | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | 0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | 0x22 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None | | my /etc/x11/XF86Config-4 | has, | Section "Module" | Load "glx" # 3D layer | | I wonder if this means some library is missing ? | In any case does it matter ? | | John | | -- | John Richard Smith | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Not the way I have it, nv is the native OEM driver with tvout, and nvidia is the xfree86 non tvout driver. I can assure you the nv gives tvout support, which is why I have it. I don't doubt that the nv driver has tvout support, but why are you calling the nv driver the oem driver? If you mean the driver provided by nvidia, then why is your naming scheme opposite the rest of the world? So you are saying that "nv" is a xfree86 driver and it does have tvout. News to me. I thought I had installed an nvidia tar ball driver. Which is why I called it an OEM driver. I thought the linux xfree86 did not have tvout. I'm wrong then ? Because I have "nv" I have a working tvout and if I were to change "nv" to "nvidia" I couldn't load Xwindows. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??
Thanks Aavo -- glad I asked. ;-) Bob Aavo Tambur wrote: Tsiteerin Bob Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? 0x7E or 126 in decimal is the ASCII code of tilde symbol. In urls a few special characters (most notably the space within a filename) get automatically converted, but you can also represent the entire url in encoded form: http://users.ids.net/%7E%62%6f%62%72%65%61%64/%63%6f%74%6d%2e%68%74%6d Aavo -- -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
John, Are you doing "glxinfo" in a terminal in KDE (or Gnome, or whatever) in your Linux computer? Or are you doing it in a remote machine, perhaps through telnet or (better) ssh? OpenGL support is a property of the X server, so if you are connecting from a remote computer running an X server with no GLX support, it is normal to get those messages. I hope this helps Pablo Pablo Vitoria Garcia Dpto. Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) Aptdo. 644 48080 Bilbao (Bizkaia) Tfno. 94 6015992 Fax. 94 4648500 - Original Message - From: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NEWBIE 1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:41 PM Subject: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | | | I don't know if this is really worth troubling about, but | everytime I do something that calls an app on the Cl I get this message. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# glxinfo | name of display: :0.0 | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual | |visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav | id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat | -- | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | 0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". | 0x22 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None | | my /etc/x11/XF86Config-4 | has, | Section "Module" | Load "glx" # 3D layer | | I wonder if this means some library is missing ? | In any case does it matter ? | | John | | -- | John Richard Smith | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:18 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > but without the > > Driver "nv" > | I was just tryin to show you to look down from the device section to the modules section > | > > I take it this is Tom's inclusion, > Or should I have it also ? You do need the load "glx" statement that I underlined. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages
Mike Fehse wrote: --- robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: A better alternative might be to include HTML that is standards-compliant but comes out strangely in IE, then add a note explaining why. Incidentally, MS seems to be supporting the move alternative browsers by putting a bug in IE 6.0 that prevents it viewing some sites (there's a patch, but then how many Windows users know this?). Sir Robin -- "Caesar non supra grammaticos." - Suetonius Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin If I remember correctly, Microsoft at one point had special web pages just for Opera broswers, and it would shift everything to the right by 600 pixels. I can't remember if they created a frame that was that wide, or just how they did it, but turnabout is fair play, isn't it? >:D = Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 Internet Exploder has several CSS bugs (if you wanna see them, just do a google for it.) Just popup an alert box sayinng "page might not appear in its true glory for IE users" and then make sure your code makes use of all the CSS bugs... :-) we had a page just last week we did that looked great in mozilla, but totally lousy in IE.. had to resort to a table in the end to get around the prob. rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Zombies
On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 7:47 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I kill zombie processes? When I run TOP it shows that there > > are 2 zombie processes, but I don't know how to determine their > > PID, so I don't know how to kill them. > > > > I'm figuring that a zombie is a process which has crashed. Right? > > > > Thanks. > From man ps: > > "Processes marked are dead processes (so-called "zombies") > that remain because their parent has not destroyed them properly. > These processes will be destroyed by init(8) if the parent process > exits" Zombie processes are processes that have exited, but whose parent process hasn't got around to cleaning up. Therefore it is more likely that the parent process has crashed. To find the parent process use the command: ps axgl The PPID is the PID of the parent. The PID is the PID of the process. Search the list for the zombies (status Z), note their PPID, then search the list for the process with that PID. When a process dies any child processes it still has are adopted by the init process (PID 1). Init spends all it's time waiting for child processes, so zombies will be quickly tidied up. If the parent has hung you probably want to terminate it with extreme prejudice, so kill -KILL the parent process and the zombies will go away. That's (as root): kill -KILL [PID of parent] -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vectorlinux?
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:31 pm, rhein wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 > MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? > Thank you > Christophe Absolutely, but on those specs a Slaclware9.1 would run acceptably (maybe even faster) too. Without the heavy weight Windowmanagers like KDE and Gnome even Mandracke9.1 will run OK providing there's not too many unnecessary services running. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 Problems with my firefox navigator
Hello, It is like this already... My problem is when I want to use the menu on the bank website( ones I'm registered) nothing works... I click and no action. Bye Christophe Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:55, rhein wrote: Hello, I have still 2 problems with my firefox navigator: - I can not use the menu on my banking accounts websites. Do I need a special java plug in? (It works with Explorer) - When I open a link from Thunderbird it opens Konqueror... I changed the file association in the configuration panel and I added the shell script provided by the list members. No change! Is there something else to change? Christophe, many on-line banks depend on pop-ups for their authentication process. Mine does, and yours may do. If you have turned off pop-ups you should temporarily switch them back on, then note the bank's url and go back to the pop-upsettings. Turn them off again, but mark the bank's url as an exception. I did this in Mozilla and it worked fine, so I would think that you can do much the same in firefox. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFARZEgkFAvMr/nNX8RAhrsAJ4qQwEF4Pn6FEIxRqqOBOg06wN79gCcDTm2 E7qZGpqqcCwmT/An5CaxMYg= =XM2h -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chmod?
Hello, I don't understand what you try to tell me? Thanks Christophe bascule wrote: christophe, to recursively change perms use: chmod -R bascule On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 12:30 pm, rhein wrote: Thanks for the trick. Since I'm the only one using the machine and soon will remove XP... I thing there is no problem to open the win_c drive. When I red the properties of the subfolder Doc Windows the write permission was not granded. Does it mean that the subfolders are not included in the permission of the main folder (win_c)? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] vectorlinux?
Hello, I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages
--- robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > > A better alternative might be to include HTML that > is standards-compliant but comes out strangely in IE, > then add a note explaining why. > > Incidentally, MS seems to be supporting the move > alternative browsers by putting a bug in IE 6.0 that > prevents it viewing some sites (there's a patch, but > then how many Windows users know this?). > > Sir Robin > > -- > "Caesar non supra grammaticos." - Suetonius > > Robin Turner > IDMYO > Bilkent Univeritesi > Ankara 06533 > Turkey > > www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin If I remember correctly, Microsoft at one point had special web pages just for Opera broswers, and it would shift everything to the right by 600 pixels. I can't remember if they created a frame that was that wide, or just how they did it, but turnabout is fair play, isn't it? >:D = Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
--- Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:37 am, Mike Fehse > wrote: > > > Are you refering to log entries in your Intrudsion > > Detection System (IDS) from your internet/intranet > > connection? > > No, kernel logging of martian source packets which > are packets that are expected to come from a > particular route but are somehow seen or directed to > an alternate one. In my case, packets bound for > loopback device that somehow get directed to eth0 and > are thus seen as foreign or "martian." > > > If so, then a better place to post this > > information may be the firewall mailing list. > > None the less, I would be interested, as I am a > > member on the IPCops.net forums for the IPCop > > firewall, and any insights or help is much > > apreaciated. > > Are you seeing martian source headers being logged > in syslog on your system? > -- > Bryan Phinney > Software Test Engineer Hi Bryan, I use a firewall called IPCop, that was originaly based on Smoothwall. Both are Linux-based products, using iptables, squid, and snot, with some custom coding thrown in for good messure. IPCop's development team has theire web site at www.ipcop.org, while the un-official user support forum, which I belong to, is located at www.ipcops.net We have about six topics that deal with martians, and it pops up regularly, hence, my interest. Some times it is after a nasty day of mblaster, code_red, and so forth, that some of our users find the little green guys in the IDS logs. Other times, just adding a computer, or a new program, to theire LAN does the same. Since we can't always determind the problem, just adding to the knowldge base is a help. Would you mind if I added your experiance to our FAQ? = Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] login manager doesn't work after upgrade
Hi! Running 10RC1 and today I updated to latest rpms from cooker and after the update I cant login using "normal login" (ie, init5 and login manager). Starting in textmode and calling startx works fine but whenever i the the mdkkdm/kdm/xdm ,enter username/password and press the login button it returns to the login page?? I've checked the log files I know of (/var/log) but can't find anything that helps me anyone?? Regards Jonas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Not the way I have it, nv is the native OEM driver with tvout, > and nvidia is the xfree86 non tvout driver. I can assure you the nv > gives tvout support, which is why I have it. I don't doubt that the nv driver has tvout support, but why are you calling the nv driver the oem driver? If you mean the driver provided by nvidia, then why is your naming scheme opposite the rest of the world? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 06:43 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" Driver "nv" Option "DPMS" That's to handle the nvidia driver modules which includes something called glx I think ? That answers it. the nv driver does not support 3d, so the lib cannot load. If you want 3d, use the nvidia driver. This is somewhat misleading, and defintely incorrect. The 'nv' driver does indeed support GLX and has for quite a while (over a year). Run 'xdpyinfo' and two of the supported extensions are GLX and SGI-GLX. SGI contributed increased GLX support to XFree86 when they broke away from nVidia and became open source supporters and advocates. XFree config usin the 'nv' driver should look something like this: Driver "nv" | | Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer ~ 3D apps will run with the 'nv' driver, albeit some are very slow (eg, Tuxracer) as the XFree driver does _not_ support direct rendering, DRI. nVidia refuses to release the hardware specs for this to XFree86 due to licensing agreements, mainly with M$, that forbid doin so. The only hope left is that when Mac's OS X (really just mostly freeBSD) is ported to x86, freeBSD might get nVidia's drivers . and the chance Linux/XFree86 will get them goes way up ;) My GeF4 usin 'nv' gets about 30% of the 3d/acel 'glxgears' performance it gets when I boot the PCLOS Live CD which uses the 'nvidia' driver. IMO, anyone is much better off not tainting their kernel and system with nVidia's crap unless they absolutely can't do without 3d games that need DRI. If the 'nvidia' driver is used, that should be admitted anytime bug reports or problems are filed, as with any proprietary binary only drivers or apps. lkml won't even accept such reports, and IMO, Mandrake shouldn't either. I have this which is the same, Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection but without the Driver "nv" | | I take it this is Tom's inclusion, Or should I have it also ? Oh, and if I could do without the nvidia driver I certainly would, but how else can I get tvout ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" Driver "nv" Option "DPMS" That's to handle the nvidia driver modules which includes something called glx I think ? That answers it. the nv driver does not support 3d, so the lib cannot load. If you want 3d, use the nvidia driver. You mean uninstall the OEM driver and go back to Xfree86 driver that doesn't have tvout support ? The nv driver is the XFree86 driver, which is the one you are already using. The nvidia driver from nVidia should have tvout support and also supports glx. Not the way I have it, nv is the native OEM driver with tvout, and nvidia is the xfree86 non tvout driver. I can assure you the nv gives tvout support, which is why I have it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 06:43 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "device1" > > VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > > BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" > > Driver "nv" > > Option "DPMS" > > > > That's to handle the nvidia driver modules > > which includes something called glx I think ? > > That answers it. the nv driver does not support 3d, so the lib > cannot load. If you want 3d, use the nvidia driver. This is somewhat misleading, and defintely incorrect. The 'nv' driver does indeed support GLX and has for quite a while (over a year). Run 'xdpyinfo' and two of the supported extensions are GLX and SGI-GLX. SGI contributed increased GLX support to XFree86 when they broke away from nVidia and became open source supporters and advocates. XFree config usin the 'nv' driver should look something like this: Driver "nv" | | Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer ~ 3D apps will run with the 'nv' driver, albeit some are very slow (eg, Tuxracer) as the XFree driver does _not_ support direct rendering, DRI. nVidia refuses to release the hardware specs for this to XFree86 due to licensing agreements, mainly with M$, that forbid doin so. The only hope left is that when Mac's OS X (really just mostly freeBSD) is ported to x86, freeBSD might get nVidia's drivers . and the chance Linux/XFree86 will get them goes way up ;) My GeF4 usin 'nv' gets about 30% of the 3d/acel 'glxgears' performance it gets when I boot the PCLOS Live CD which uses the 'nvidia' driver. IMO, anyone is much better off not tainting their kernel and system with nVidia's crap unless they absolutely can't do without 3d games that need DRI. If the 'nvidia' driver is used, that should be admitted anytime bug reports or problems are filed, as with any proprietary binary only drivers or apps. lkml won't even accept such reports, and IMO, Mandrake shouldn't either. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chmod?
On 03/03/2004 11:51 PM, rhein wrote: Hello, All my computer is in FAT32... was not able to use NTFS file system to create a partition for linux. Here what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# ls -ld /mnt/win_c drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 8192 déc 31 1969 /mnt/win_c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# Is it ok or not? This looks okay for the user to write to the root directory of /mnt/win_c If you want everyone to be able to write everywhere, you should better add ',user' to the mount-line in /etc/fstab. (At least that is what I think is needed.) I found this on http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/135532: you need to make sure that the mount point is correctly defined in your fstab. Should be something similar to: /dev/hdax /mnt/somewhere vfat auto,user,umask= 0 0 the umask is the key part. Paul -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.5 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:37 am, Mike Fehse wrote: > Are you refering to log entries in your Intrudsion > Detection System (IDS) from your internet/intranet > connection? No, kernel logging of martian source packets which are packets that are expected to come from a particular route but are somehow seen or directed to an alternate one. In my case, packets bound for loopback device that somehow get directed to eth0 and are thus seen as foreign or "martian." > If so, then a better place to post this > information may be the firewall mailing list. None > the less, I would be interested, as I am a member on > the IPCops.net forums for the IPCop firewall, and any > insights or help is much apreaciated. Are you seeing martian source headers being logged in syslog on your system? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:04 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Let's see... > > $ cat /etc/security/msec/level.local > from mseclib import * > enable_log_strange_packets(0) > > Is this how you disabled the martian log? It made me crazy for some time > after installing shorewall in MDK9.1 I setup a cron job to turn the martian source logging itself off in the proc system, and now I just run it every hour along with msec which turns the logging on. I did grep for martian source but didn't find anything in msec, if strange_packets is it, then I might be able to do it that way but changing the proc system works and I don't need to worry about anything changing it back. > I'd be insterested in what you found. Well, ymmv, but I was more interested in tracking and finding the actual source of the martian packets. On my system, I was getting packets logged every 30 seconds, all from the local machine IP. Sniffing the stream helped me figure out that cupsd was set to broadcast the printer connected to it to @LOCAL which goes out to both local net ranges on eth0 as well as loopback on lo. Somehow, the eth0 device is seeing packets bound for the loopback device and thus being logged as martian source. If you disable print server browse broadcasting, the martian packets go away. I want browsing to be available on my network, so I just removed the logging. Also, if you run the rwhod process, you might see martian packets each time it sends ARP packets to find out who and what machines are on the LAN. I saw those too, just not as frequent as the CUPS packets which default to broadcast every 30 seconds. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??
Tsiteerin Bob Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in > the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? 0x7E or 126 in decimal is the ASCII code of tilde symbol. In urls a few special characters (most notably the space within a filename) get automatically converted, but you can also represent the entire url in encoded form: http://users.ids.net/%7E%62%6f%62%72%65%61%64/%63%6f%74%6d%2e%68%74%6d Aavo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Section "Device" > >>Identifier "device1" > >>VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > >>BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" > >>Driver "nv" > >>Option "DPMS" > >> > >>That's to handle the nvidia driver modules > >>which includes something called glx I think ? > > > >That answers it. the nv driver does not support 3d, so the lib cannot > > load. If you want 3d, use the nvidia driver. > > You mean uninstall the OEM driver and go back to Xfree86 driver that > doesn't have tvout support ? > The nv driver is the XFree86 driver, which is the one you are already using. The nvidia driver from nVidia should have tvout support and also supports glx. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages
anton wrote: If, on the other hand, the ultimate intent is to reduce traffic to your site -- and preventing IE users from accessing would /certainly/ do that in spades -- why not simply take the site down? ;-) Just so no one gets the wrong impression - this is a personal website that will largely have stuff about my wife and I and is for friends and family. I want to get them to use non-M$ products, and thought this would be a sneaky and effective way to do it. I can just keep sending them emails asking them if they have seen the site yet until they have, and then I know they have at least seen that other things work... A better alternative might be to include HTML that is standards-compliant but comes out strangely in IE, then add a note explaining why. Incidentally, MS seems to be supporting the move alternative browsers by putting a bug in IE 6.0 that prevents it viewing some sites (there's a patch, but then how many Windows users know this?). Sir Robin -- "Caesar non supra grammaticos." - Suetonius Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages
--- anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am about to block IE users from my website (using > php) and wanted to get the maximum bang for buck. > Please have a look at the following > messages and give me your opinion on what is likely > to have the most positive (deliberately leaving > that for interpretation as you will) effect! > > > -- > Browser Not Supported. > > Unfortunately, due to issues the Microsoft Internet > Explorer World Wide Web browser you will be unable to > browse this site. > This is an MS Internet Explorer specific problem and > you will be able to navigate to this site with an > alternative browser. If you do not have an snip > browsers below are available for Microsoft operating > systems so you will have no problems once one is > installed. > > ...links... > > > Browser Not Supported > > Unfortunately, due to security concerns with > Microsoft products you will be unable to browse this >web site using any version of Microsoft Internet > Explorer. At this stage you are able to view the site > with any of the award-winning non-Microsoft browsers > you can download from the links below, even if you > are using a Microsoft operating system. The > Webmaster is constantly monitoring this and the > situation may change in the future if security > concerns with Microsoft products persist. The > Team suggests you investigate one of the many secure > alternative options for operating systems and has > provided some links to free or low cost alternatives > below. > > ...browser links... > > ...linux, bsd and ??? links... > > Yours sincerely, > The Webmaster > > > > If you have any other suggestions or messages that > would also be appropriate then by all means fire > away! > Cheers > Anton Just an idea, on how I may word it: --- WARNING: Browser Not Supported Due to the continuing security propblems with Microsfot products in general, and Internet Explorer in perticualr, this web site does not support your broswer. Please refer to Microsoft's own security and updates page for more information - CLICK HERE . Also, see the links at the bottom of this page for more reports and information regaurding the security issues surronding Microsoft. With the security of this site being an upmost concern, and the responsiblility to protect both ourselves and our visitors, we would like for you to use another broswer. Links to some fine award-winning broswers are provided below. Also, for your added safety, ease, and protection, we have provided links to some more secure operation systems that may be of interest to you. Links to security sites, concerning Microsoft products, and Internet Exloper: Microsoft Security Home Page: http://www.microsoft.com/security/> Click Here TechTV Security Alerts: http://www.techtv..com/securityalert/>Click Here CNet|News: http://news.search.com/search?q=computer+security&search.x=0&search.y=0> Click Here Other soruces of security news. Links to award-winning broswers: Opera: Click Here Mozilla: Click Here Other broswers as well Links to other operating systems Linux-based: Mandrake: Click Here Debian: Click Here Knoppix: Click Here Other Linux-based distros go here Add other distros based on other systems here - have a look at http://www.chuug.org/resources.html for some ideas If you still wish to enter this site, using an unsecure porduct such as Internet Explorer, then we ask the following: Do not stay long, do not fill out the guest book, turn off ActiveX, be respectful of our concerns for the security of both this site, and other visitor. Click here to enter if you understand that you may be responsible for any damage done to this site, or the visitor, caused by your use of MS IE. - Next, I would set a cookie, and then based on the cookie I would change the headers and footers of each web page viewed to provide a security warning. Since you are using php this should not be too difficult to have it rewrite the page. Maybe something to the effect of: Header -- By continuing to use MS IE you risk the security of not only this site, but the security of other visitors to this site, and your onw security, and that of your computer. And for the footer of each page: Footer --- You may Click Here to see a list of award-winning broswers - Do NOT use the word alternative, as that makes it an option, and given a choise, people don't like to change. Just keep hammering away at the key words fine, award-winning, top-rated, and so on. I like, I likes alot I have gone to sites that state I have to use Navigator or IE 4.0 or greater, and they failed to reconize Mozilla .96 or greater :( __ Do you Ya
Re: [newbie] chmod?
Hello, All my computer is in FAT32... was not able to use NTFS file system to create a partition for linux. Here what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# ls -ld /mnt/win_c drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 8192 déc 31 1969 /mnt/win_c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# Is it ok or not? Bye Christophe anton wrote: You can use Konq to go to /mnt/win_c/, right-click on it, pick properties, permissions to see if it did what you want. It should have. $ls -ld /mnt/win_c will tell you the permissions on a folder. The reason you don't have write access is almost certainly because the win_c partition is NTFS, which does not have native linux support. You can get support for writing to NTFS, and some claim it is safe, but I would not trust them! FAT32 is ok for writing to in 'nix but not NTFS. HTH Cheers Anton -=-=- ... Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be prosecuted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??
Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? If I click on the bottom line in my sig file below, Mozilla shows the page I've reached as: http://users.ids.net/%7Ebobread/cotm.htm Also, if I type %7E in the URL box, it functions the same as if I had used the ~ sign. "~" and "%7E" seem to be interchaneable here. Puzzled, Bob -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" Driver "nv" Option "DPMS" That's to handle the nvidia driver modules which includes something called glx I think ? That answers it. the nv driver does not support 3d, so the lib cannot load. If you want 3d, use the nvidia driver. You mean uninstall the OEM driver and go back to Xfree86 driver that doesn't have tvout support ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
--- Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on > the list recently started > noticing a lot of martian source packets being > logged from the kernel? If > so, I can probably help you to track down what is > causing the entries and > also help you remove them. > > I just spent the better half of a day doing just > that and since I haven't seen > anyone else talk about it, didn't know if it was > just me so I thought I would > mention it. > -- > Bryan Phinney > Software Test Engineer Are you refering to log entries in your Intrudsion Detection System (IDS) from your internet/intranet connection? If so, then a better place to post this information may be the firewall mailing list. None the less, I would be interested, as I am a member on the IPCops.net forums for the IPCop firewall, and any insights or help is much apreaciated. = Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
Let's see... $ cat /etc/security/msec/level.local from mseclib import * enable_log_strange_packets(0) Is this how you disabled the martian log? It made me crazy for some time after installing shorewall in MDK9.1 I'd be insterested in what you found. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being logged from the kernel? If so, I can probably help you to track down what is causing the entries and also help you remove them. I just spent the better half of a day doing just that and since I haven't seen anyone else talk about it, didn't know if it was just me so I thought I would mention it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 Problems with my firefox navigator
On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 13:25, Todd Slater wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:39:44AM -0500, Anand S Bisen wrote: > > IT has something to do with security too , two of my banking sites > > explicitly says that they dont support netscape/Mozilla and they only > > support IE as a matter of fact. I have installed IE using crossover just > > for my banking needs. > > > > Anand > > Isn't this the height of idiocy? "We're concerned about security; you > must use IE to access your online banking features." > > LOL! > > Todd It is often possible to fool these IE only sites into letting you in, either by accessing the site through a web page that comes *after* they do their browser check, or by spoofing your Browser ID to look like you are using IE. Opera allows you to to easily switch browser IDs just by hitting F12 Konqueror Settings>Browser Identification allows you to change ID per web site Mozilla-Firefox ( and I assume Mozilla) has the "User Agent Switcher" extension you can install http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/ Unfortunately sometimes it is still not possible to persuade a site to let you use it. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 Problems with my firefox navigator
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:39:44AM -0500, Anand S Bisen wrote: > IT has something to do with security too , two of my banking sites > explicitly says that they dont support netscape/Mozilla and they only > support IE as a matter of fact. I have installed IE using crossover just > for my banking needs. > > Anand Isn't this the height of idiocy? "We're concerned about security; you must use IE to access your online banking features." LOL! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] procmail recipe!
I need a recipe to remove an attach from a "plain" HTML message I receive and forward it to a specif folder. I need this attach's for my PDA. They have a specific extension! I've googled around, searched for many sites on procmail and nothing good so far. any help? I need to keep the attach's only for later syncing. TIA Ricardo Castanho -- == Linux user # 102240 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] user => 100% M$ FREE == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Martian source in Syslog
Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being logged from the kernel? If so, I can probably help you to track down what is causing the entries and also help you remove them. I just spent the better half of a day doing just that and since I haven't seen anyone else talk about it, didn't know if it was just me so I thought I would mention it. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:38 am, anton wrote: > Hi, > I am about to block IE users from my website (using php) and wanted to > get the maximum bang for buck. Please have a look at the following > messages and give me your opinion on what is likely to have the most > positive (deliberately leaving that for interpretation as you will) effect! > What is the ultimate goal of this? Are you interested in advertising other browsers to inform people about the extremely poor security record of IE on windows machines? Or are you simply on a crusade to freeze out IE because MS has tried to do the same thing to other browsers? And if the latter, if you feel that the tactics of MS in doing so are poor, what makes you think that you are any better by adopting the exact same tactics? Personally, I think that the second is the most positive, but would prefer to see an interim redirect for IE users that informs them of some of the potential security issues involved with using IE but then allows them to proceed anyway. In fact, you could add some verbiage listing recent issues, failed patches, links pointing to articles and finally, a blurb saying, if you wish to proceed knowing the security risks, click here. Personally, I think that option is much more professional and demonstrates more clearly the open source philosophy. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Section "Device" > Identifier "device1" > VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" > Driver "nv" > Option "DPMS" > > That's to handle the nvidia driver modules > which includes something called glx I think ? That answers it. the nv driver does not support 3d, so the lib cannot load. If you want 3d, use the nvidia driver. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda
BTW, Chapter 2 of the KPilot help file might help you a bit on this. On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:59, Glenn wrote: > On Tuesday 02 March 2004 20:24, g wrote: > > HotSync Log > > > > 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses > > DevFS. > > 22:17:02 Trying to open device... > > 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) > > 22:17:08 Device link ready. > > 22:17:08 Checking last PC... > > 22:17:09 KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting... > > My Palm is not a USB device, but I had the option of either changing the > "dev/" statement in the KPilot setup, or creating a link to "/dev/ttyS0" > (the serial port my Palm cradle is attached to.) The easiest for you might > be to change the dev statement in the setup to point to your USB device > (/dev/USB/...). -- 05:02:49 up 8:55, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586, kernel 2.6.2-3mdk Registered Linux user #324360 I've looked at the listing, and it's right! -- Joel Halpern Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 20:24, g wrote: > HotSync Log > > 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses > DevFS. > 22:17:02 Trying to open device... > 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) > 22:17:08 Device link ready. > 22:17:08 Checking last PC... > 22:17:09 KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting... > My Palm is not a USB device, but I had the option of either changing the "dev/" statement in the KPilot setup, or creating a link to "/dev/ttyS0" (the serial port my Palm cradle is attached to.) The easiest for you might be to change the dev statement in the setup to point to your USB device (/dev/USB/...). -- 04:55:17 up 8:48, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586, kernel 2.6.2-3mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Two peanuts were walking through the New York. One was assaulted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda
hmm, you may need to see what usb device files get created when you connect the pda, in the past the device file would not get created until one actually started a hotsync, of course since the hotsync requires knowledge of the device file the hotsysnc would fail! however, the line: > 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses > DevFS. > 22:17:02 Trying to open device... > 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) > 22:17:08 Device link ready. > 22:17:08 Checking last PC.. makes me think that kpilot is a lot cleverer than that now, in fact the log states that: > 22:17:09 KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting... > > 22:17:09 [Conduit abbrowser_conduit] > 22:17:09 Running with flags: > 22:17:10 No Files to install > 22:17:10 End of HotSync > > 22:17:10 HotSync Completed. so you did do a hotsync! if the results weren't what you expected then perhaps you need to check the settings for the abbrowser conduit (thats the one for syncing the pda addressbook with the kde one), it appears that no other conduits are configured since they aren't referenced in the log as for why you get the error message after the hotsysnc: > 22:17:10 HotSync Completed. > 22:17:12 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses > DevFS. > 22:17:13 Trying to open device... > 22:17:13 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) i'm not sure, that might not indicate an error, just the logic of the part of the sync daemon that keeps the connection open? i'm not sure that you do need to create a /dev/pilot link given what the log says, but if you wish to do so then i'd start a hotsync while seeing what files get created in /dev/usb, if you see a file called /dev/usb/tts/1 or /dev/usb/tts0 then try creating /dev/pilot as a link to one of those: ln -s /dev/usb/tts/1 /dev/pilot, or try linking to any other files that seem to be created when you press the hotsync button bascule On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 3:24 am, g wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm a newbie and admit that I have little idea what I am doing. > I am trying to get my Sony USB based palm pilot (model PEG-SJ22) to synch > with built in programs under mandrake 9.2 > I am currently using the Gnome desktop, and have tried synching with both > jpilot as well as kpilot. > > When I try to synch, this is what kpilot has to say about it: > > == > > Version: KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) > Version: pilot-link 0.11.8 > Version: KDE 3.1.3 > Version: Qt 3.1.2 > > HotSync Log > > 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses > DevFS. > 22:17:02 Trying to open device... > 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) > 22:17:08 Device link ready. > 22:17:08 Checking last PC... > 22:17:09 KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting... > > 22:17:09 [Conduit abbrowser_conduit] > 22:17:09 Running with flags: > 22:17:10 No Files to install > 22:17:10 End of HotSync > > 22:17:10 HotSync Completed. > 22:17:12 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses > DevFS. > 22:17:13 Trying to open device... > 22:17:13 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) > == > > There does seem to be some communication taking place between the computer > and PDA as the PDA hotsynch log registers: > "KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSynch" and shows the proper date and time that I > tried to initiate the synch. > > I have tried various settings both on the pilot as well as in kpilot. > What does "/dev/pilot" mean? I looked in the /dev directory and found no > entry for "pilot". Do I need to create this? If so how? > > Any help would be much appreciated ! > Thanks a bunch. > Gideon Turner -- "`The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...'" -- The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:38:32 +1300 anton disseminated the following: > I am about to block IE users from my website (using php) and wanted to > get the maximum bang for buck. Please have a look at the following > messages and give me your opinion on what is likely to have the most > positive (deliberately leaving that for interpretation as you will) effect! I think you are on the right track, but then I'm somewhat of a 'zealot' I guess. When I asked on this list about the same subject there was a similar debate, and that's the approach I ended up taking, out of all the suggestions that were offered. Explaining to visitors that Internet Exploder is a security nightmare, and that there are alternatives like Mozilla and such, is definitely, I think, the way to go. I made a point on my ie_reject page of explaining that I was not snubbing IE *users*, more trying to make a point (political, philosophical, whatever) that visitors might want to inform themselves about various issues related to IE, MS, etc. I can send you some of the links to info I used if you wish. I think it was Ghandi (not to equate my pitiful website with the achievements of the Mahatma) who said that what you must do is probably insignificant, nevertheless you must do it. Every little bit helps, like BP's enforcement of RBL's, etc. The more people make an effort, no matter how small, to get the truth out there, to make a stand for standards, security, and openness, the better. Every time I see ie_reject come up in my access_log, I think: 'there's one more person who just*might* start down the road I did a few years ago', and I get a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside:-D -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 06:48:49 up 26 days, 18:32, 6 users, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.00 +++ Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ "It was a crazed and futile effort to somehow explain the extremely twisted nature of my relationship with God, Nixon and the National Football League.''-- Hunter S. Thompson, explaining why he screamed scripture from the 20th-floor balcony of the Houston Hyatt on the morning of Super Bowl VIII Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chmod?
christophe, to recursively change perms use: chmod -R bascule On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 12:30 pm, rhein wrote: > Thanks for the trick. > > Since I'm the only one using the machine and soon will remove XP... I > thing there is no problem to open the win_c drive. > When I red the properties of the subfolder Doc Windows the write > permission was not granded. > Does it mean that the subfolders are not included in the permission of > the main folder (win_c)? > Thank you > Christophe -- "He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of Sherpas with you. " Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 02 March 2004 05:41 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know if this is really worth troubling about, but everytime I do something that calls an app on the Cl I get this message. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat -- Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". 0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". 0x22 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None my /etc/x11/XF86Config-4 has, Section "Module" Load "glx" # 3D layer I wonder if this means some library is missing ? In any case does it matter ? John What does the device section of your /etc/x11/XF86Config-4 have in it. Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" Driver "nv" Option "DPMS" That's to handle the nvidia driver modules which includes something called glx I think ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] connexant modems - cheeky request...
hiya, Mi da' has one of these monstrosities (on a cheapie dell) and I am trying to get the thing to run from a few hundred miles away... I gave him a copy of the beta files mentioned on this list a while back but the rpms don't work. I guess they have to be compiled special for his kernel (duh, more brain juice for Anton please...). The problem is that he needs to have the kernel sources installed I guess, and though he doesn't mind me giving him instructions over the phone, I am not very good at this! So if there is any very kind soul out there with the kernel source installed running the standard distro kernel for 9.1 (I no longer have the disks ;-(, or a machine running it...) who would be gracious enough to build a copy of it... it would save me a lot of hair and is far more likely to get dad positive about linux (he is a bit paranoid so I have made great strides ;-)) if I can get this running quick - so he has no reason to boot to doze at all. I think the files are still available at the original download link posted to this list: http://dominia.org/djao/hsflinmodem/ if not then there is a copy here: http://antonovich/free.fr/hcfpcimodem-0.99mbsibeta02123100-1.src.i386.rpm and http://antonovich/free.fr/hsflinmodem-5.03.27mbsibeta02122600-1.src.rpm Thanks heaps!!! Anton -=-=- ... We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. -- Nick Faldo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
