Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 00:13, Lanman wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: My problem was corrected when I updated to the latest slew of updates and also replaced the secure kernel with the latest version. have not seen that problem since then. Lyvim; How ya doin' Buddy? I found another way to fix the problem. Can you say Bastille? Killed Shorewall, copied over my Bastille files, ran the command and voila! No more shorewall data on my console, and the firewall is running fine (actually runs a bit faster)! Hello, Immortal One. ;) Good to see that you are still your old indefatigable and irrepressible self. grin I may go the Bastille route. But I had an immense success story getting shorewall to run an internal Neverwinter Nights server not too long ago, and now I'm sort of loath to give it up just yet. I think my problem is just a matter of editing the right config files in shorewall, maybe the zone conf file isn't set up right, or something like that...I figure between the Shorewall mailing lists and the great documentation on Tom Estep's site, it's a matter of time before I lick it. Also, is there a Bind Guru here somewhere? I can't get rndc to behave itself. It keeps giving me an error that states - rndc: connect failed: connection refused Even though Bind seems to start up without errors, and even though port 53 is open on my firewall for DNS authentication, port scans keep stating that the port is closed. You're running shorewall on the firewall, correct? ;) I've been encountering the same problems with both qmail and bind. LX RNDC problem is still happening though. Because of that, my DNS server still appears closed in a firewall scan. I checked at Bind's website, and they say that it's usually due to silly things like the server's hostname ( mine's good ), or the fact that there's no rndc-key located in named.conf or rndc.conf ( which is there in both files on this machine), so I'm not sure what to do. The DNS port is open on the firewall, but the service is not fully starting. The funny thing is that my email server (postfix) runs like a charm, and so does everything else. So right now, it's more of an annoyance than anything, but I'd like to solve it. Still open to suggestions. Lanman Don't have any yet, but I can tell you this; when the email server problem gets resolved, the DNS problem will quickly follow, and when it does I'll send you the results. The difference between the NWN server and the firewall problem is that while the NWN server ports were being directed to another box on the internal net, the ports for DNS/Email on the firewall are not; because of it needing to be a fully qualified domain name with respect to Qmail. Qmail is picky about stuff like that. Keep it straight up buddy.. :) LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 00:27, Greg wrote: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:23, Greg wrote: Is there any way to monitor network traffic Greg Yes, run netwatch on eth0. It beats netstat for monitoring connections. Netstat's place in the overall scheme of things is to monitor ALL (and I mean all) incoming connections to your firewall. Or to your workstation, if it's directly connected. Netstat can show you the bytes in, bytes out, port address, protocol used (udp or tcp), ip address or the FQDN of the incoming connection, the type of service that uses that particular port, all selectable with the arrow keys. Netstat can also log all this information to a file for legal purposes. Anybody that taps one of your ports is recorded in the Netwatch status screen. It's a great tool for monitoring your firewall. The only thing it doesnt do is actually record or analyze incoming packets for what they are actually for; this is an entirely different job and should be done by a util such as snort. If you like netwatch and would like to see it as a part of the contribs given with Mandrake 9.2, please take the time to go to your Mandrakeclub RPM voting page and cast your vote for this great utility so that someone will package it specifically for Mandrake. Right now it's just available as a 386 rpm. The author is Gordon MacKay, this is his website: http://www.slctech.org/~mackay/netwatch.html If you like what you see, email him with some thanks. Not enough people thank the developers these days for their hard work. Firewalls generally should not be running X, therefore it is great that Netwatch uses an ncurses interface. This makes it runnable from the console. There does seem to be a Mandrake rpm available, but this link only offers it for Mandrake version 10 http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/2/simple/2 I've got a request in for a contributor to package it for 9.2 but I don't think it's been done yet. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
JoeHill wrote: It seems to be sending three copies of your mail to the list, too! Maybe that's what's slowing your system down... ;-) :-) raf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thumbnail preview now working in Mandrake 10
Hi, I'm probably missing something but I can't for the life of me figure it out. Konqueror/View/Preview/Images then I saved the changes (among other tweaks) under the Settings/Save View Profile and I just downloaded a bunch of jpg's and they are not showing, nor are a few png's that I have on board!! :-( I made my way down the long list in KControl and I can not see any other mentioning of this type to enable. Please help! Thanks!! Richard ;-)~ -- ---Wolff On The Prowl--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java
martin brandt wrote: I'm running Mandrake 9.2 and im trying to install the package j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin from the javasun website. I get an error when im running the rpm. Preparing packages for installation... j2re-1.4.2_04-fcs error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/CHANGES;40ace6 bd: cpio: mkdir failed - No such file or directory I normally install the .bin (not .rpm.bin) Java package, so I'll just try some guesses. - you are running rpm -iv as root, right? - maybe the file was corrupt dutring download, have you tried to download it again? raf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Friday 21 May 2004 04:51, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip The thing to remember is that if you are on a workstation, you shouldn't need to run xinetd for the reasons listed. And if you *do* need to dynamically activate services, don't use xinetd to do that, use Dan Bernstein's Tcpserver program, available on Vincent Danen's site, rpmhelp.net. No vulns that I'm aware of have ever been detected either in vanilla qmail or tcpserver. LX /snip Lyvim, as everything coming from your keyboard : excellent ! Right now, I've stopped xinetd for good. Regards Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 How to get sound out of CD Player
On Friday 21 May 2004 04:38, Guy Rouillier wrote: I've installed 10.0 RC1 AMD64 on my eMachines laptop. Most things are working well. However, I can't figure out how to get sound out of the CD player (gnome.) Linux is using the ALSA sound system. If I run the Totem media player, I do hear sound, and external speakers hooked up to the headphone jack work fine also. I also hear system sounds fine. But neither CD Player nor xmms (with alsa plug-in selected or output) produce any sound (and yes, the CD is playing - I can see the light flickering and the progress bars are moving in both players.) Any ideas how to get this to work? Thanks. You probably need an audio cable. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Konq's gone weird
I've run into a problem with a new install of Mandrake 10 Community. Everything's been working fine until now, but suddenly Konqueror is refusing to behave like a proper browser. The PC is connected to a local network which also has an ISDN router. Konq was able to access the web without trouble and also our intranet server on 192.168.0.2. But suddenly, if I feed it a URL - even if I specifically give it the http:// - it comes back with 'file or folder not found'. I have made a few config changes recently, the most significant probably being the resolv.conf file which now says: search local nameserver 192.168.0.1 (All machines on the network have the domain 'local' - and the machine itself has the hostname 'photolib.local'. That nameserver is the IP address of the router). Netscape on the same machine is having no problems at all accessing the server or the web, and mail is working fine (using the same server as a mail server) so I presume the problem is in Konq's config somewhere. Anyone have any ideas? @+ Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 01:37, Len Lawrence wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004 00:27:33 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg) wrote: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:23, Greg wrote: - snip - Is there any way to monitor network traffic Greg You could try /usr/sbin/net_monitor. However I don't think that's what Greg had in mind, since I *think* he wants something to monitor incoming possible attacks. net_monitor merely monitors throughput and doesn't offer specifics on who is connecting to your firewall. Netwatch does, tho. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Openldap kinda solved
Hey Everyone. Well I managed to solve my openldap issues, now what I am sitting with is the fact, I have a few ldif files that I need to import into openldap, but ldapadd(Like a RH) box does not seem to exsist. Does anyone have any ideas how else I could import the .ldif files ? Kind Regards -- Marc Hultquist ComputerKit Systems (Pty) Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F) +27 11 312 1408 (C) +27 82 563 2861 (W) http://www.cks.co.za Confidentiality Notice: The above message and all attachments may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copy or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and thereafter delete the material from your computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the view of the entity transmitting the message. Computerkit Retail Systems (Pty) Ltd hereby distances itself from and accepts no liability in respect of the unauthorised use of its e-mail facility or the sending of e-mail communications for other than strictly business purposes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
Just as an aside, we shouldn't be too complacent about viruses and worms. I get my fair share of them and, being an inveterate fiddler, I sometimes run the *exe variety through wine to see what happens. Why, you might ask: I have no idea! Anyway, recently I had one arrive by email, and on running it just by double clicking, it proceeded to deposit about 90 files into every directory (including hidden ones) below my home directory. They had very entertaining names as well, usually relating to Britney Spear's reproductive abilities! No harm actually done, but a real nuisance and a lot of disk space taken up. It was a real pain deleting them all. Be warned! David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 How to get sound out of CD Player
Guy Rouillier wrote: I've installed 10.0 RC1 AMD64 on my eMachines laptop. Most things are working well. However, I can't figure out how to get sound out of the CD player (gnome.) Linux is using the ALSA sound system. If I run the Totem media player, I do hear sound, and external speakers hooked up to the headphone jack work fine also. I also hear system sounds fine. But neither CD Player nor xmms (with alsa plug-in selected or output) produce any sound (and yes, the CD is playing - I can see the light flickering and the progress bars are moving in both players.) Any ideas how to get this to work? Thanks. I don't know if this is much help to you but I recently had a similar problem with my sound card(chip) and aRts ,and the mixers given me to set up the audio lines for all the system. I found kmix, the default install with kde,limited in the number of lines it can actually handle, I was tempted to install aumix as well, and did so once to no avail, then quite by chance I discovered a much more numerous lines mixer called alsamixer . Just type alsamixer into a terminal and begin fiddling with the many lines that are available. It's s keyboard app but has many more channels of audio stream. In my case I think maybe my problem was that I had extra streams of sterio audio from the 5.1 dolby sound chip capability , or it may just of been a problem with the aRts not handling the multi audio stream properly, anyway after some time fiddling with alsamixer together with kmix I managed to restore sound.I know this is not very scientific , and may not be your problem at all, but it's worth a try. I suppose you have already been down the draksound route John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
Just as an aside, we shouldn't be too complacent about viruses and worms. I get my fair share of them and, being an inveterate fiddler, I sometimes run the *exe variety through wine to see what happens. Why, you might ask: I have no idea! Anyway, recently I had one arrive by email, and on running it just by double clicking, it proceeded to deposit about 90 files into every directory (including hidden ones) below my home directory. They had very entertaining names as well, usually relating to Britney Spear's reproductive abilities! No harm actually done, but a real nuisance and a lot of disk space taken up. It was a real pain deleting them all. Be warned! David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Need help with Samba Server
Hallo everyone , I just got Mandrake 10 and want to test it as a good alternative to Windows. However , I got the download version and don't have any Manuals or documentation for it. I want to ask 2 things : - I am struggling to configure my SAMBA server. I use the wizard and when I enter the read and write user and press next it doesn't want to continue And keeps highlighting the user names. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? - And can anybody tell me where on the net can I find good complete Mandrake 10 documentation or manuals ? Thank you Wikus Van Dyk Correctional Services IT Zonderwater Email Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konq's gone weird
unless the router is also a dns server i don't see how konq is supposed to resolve addresses bascule On Friday 21 May 2004 8:48 am, Steve Mansfield wrote: I have made a few config changes recently, the most significant probably being the resolv.conf file which now says: search local nameserver 192.168.0.1 -- You're very sure of your facts, he said at last, I couldn't trust the thinking of a man who takes the Universe - if there is one - for granted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konq's gone weird
--- On Friday 21 May 2004 12:54, bascule wrote: | unless the router is also a dns server i don't see how konq is supposed to | resolve addresses The router kicks DNS requests further upstream to the DNS servers assigned dynamically by the ISP. Like I said, Netscape is having no trouble at all. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] help configuring onboard net RTL8139 (10.0 Community, MS-6577 Mobo)
Hi all I have Mandrake 10.0 Community, and am installing to my hp pavilion 713a. It has a Microstar MS-6577 ver.1 motherboard, with onboard LAN. This is a Realtek 8139, and it works fine under the preloaded winXP. It will not work at all under Mandrake 10.0. I have disabled it in BIOS, and installed a Realtek 8029 card, and I can get a semblance of operability from this. The 8029 card says [FAILED] on bootup, but the Internet services started at boot say [OK]. Running the Configuration tool (KDE desktop) allows me to configure the Internet using the Realtek 8029 (to ADSL Hub), but NOT to configure the LAN connection - what is the difference, and does it matter? I seem to be able to mount Windows shares on other machines on my net using Samba, so something must be working. Running the Configuration tool with the 8139 enabled results in a long-time hang in the system (both during configuration and at bootup), and no functionality at all. I'd rather use the 8139 if I can - the 8029 uses a PCI slot. Is there an option I can pass to the driver to get this working? or is this just another hp standard that is non-standard? (I've encountered countless of these, right back since the mid-'80's :-) I've got similar problems with the sound (Avance AC97), but that's another story... Hopefully... Dex --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.656 / Virus Database: 421 - Release Date: 9/04/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Need help with Samba Server
On Friday 21 May 2004 11:16, van Dyk, Wikus wrote: Hallo everyone , I just got Mandrake 10 and want to test it as a good alternative to Windows. However , I got the download version and don't have any Manuals or documentation for it. I want to ask 2 things : - I am struggling to configure my SAMBA server. I use the wizard and when I enter the read and write user and press next it doesn't want to continue And keeps highlighting the user names. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? - And can anybody tell me where on the net can I find good complete Mandrake 10 documentation or manuals ? Thank you Wikus Van Dyk Welcome Manuals are available online at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 You will also find manuals for heaps of applications at /usr/share/doc on your computer. You will also fine the 'man' command incredibly useful. Open a terminal and type 'man command_name' and you get detailed instructions on the usage of that command. As for Samba the Wizard has a bug in it. If you tick the box for 'Enable public file sharing area' then the wizard will not progress past the name selection. (There is a bug report open for it) If you do not select the public area tick box, it will work OK. You might like to install the ksambaplugin package using your Software Install GUI, the KDE Control Centre (MenuSystemConfigurationConfiguredesktop) will contain a new page in NetworkSambaConfiguration This allows finer control than the Mandrake Wizard. You should also at least read the text configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf In Linux all configuration is by text files, there is no registry (Hooray!) when you use a Wizard or a GUI it will edit this text file. The Samba default text configuration file is full of explanations and sample configurations which will be very useful to you. After making any change to samba configuration restart samba with service smb restart in a root terminal, or use the GUI in Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices to restart Samba. When using Samba you should bear in mind that if you have enabled the firewall, then Samba traffic is blocked by default, both to the interface to the Internet, and the interface to your local network. You will either have to open ports 137,138,139 to the local network, or disable the firewall. And of course no way should you allow Windows networking to get out onto the Internet. (Unless you want people looking at your files) HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Need help with Samba Server
On Friday 21 May 2004 12:10, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 11:16, van Dyk, Wikus wrote: Hallo everyone , I just got Mandrake 10 and want to test it as a good alternative to Windows. However , I got the download version and don't have any Manuals or documentation for it. I want to ask 2 things : - I am struggling to configure my SAMBA server. I use the wizard and when I enter the read and write user and press next it doesn't want to continue And keeps highlighting the user names. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? - And can anybody tell me where on the net can I find good complete Mandrake 10 documentation or manuals ? Thank you Wikus Van Dyk snip You might like to install the ksambaplugin package using your Software Install GUI, the KDE Control Centre (MenuSystemConfigurationConfiguredesktop) will contain a new page in NetworkSambaConfiguration This allows finer control than the Mandrake Wizard. snip The package I mentioned in my last post 'ksambaplugin' is not on your CDs. It can be found in an online software repository called 'contrib' Mandrake has the ability to install software from a variety of sources such as CDs and online sources. It uses a system called 'urpmi' to work out where applications should be installed from, and which packages depend on other packages. (Read the section on urpmi on the Twiki - follow my signature) To set up your computer to use 'contrib' as a software source go here, http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php Follow the instructions and take the command it gives you and copy it into a root terminal. (Copy/paste in Linux is highlight/press mouse wheel) (While you are there add a source for 'plf' and 'updates' too, then you can use your Software GUI to install updated packages and plf packages which are packages which are not legal in certain countries with bizarre laws.) There is another GUI to set up Samba called SWAT which is on your CDs, but I do not like recommending it because it deletes all the useful text in the smb.conf configuration file. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
David Robertson wrote: Just as an aside, we shouldn't be too complacent about viruses and worms. I get my fair share of them and, being an inveterate fiddler, I sometimes run the *exe variety through wine to see what happens. Why, you might ask: I have no idea! Anyway, recently I had one arrive by email, and on running it just by double clicking, it proceeded to deposit about 90 files into every directory (including hidden ones) below my home directory. They had very entertaining names as well, usually relating to Britney Spear's reproductive abilities! No harm actually done, but a real nuisance and a lot of disk space taken up. It was a real pain deleting them all. It's a good idea to have a special sandbox user for times that you feel like flirting with the Dark Side. Sir Robin of the Mixed Metaphors -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] fan speed...
Hi, I'm runing Mandrake 10 on Lifebook C1110D laptop and my fan is working very slow. Question: How can I increase the fan speed? thanks Gabriel TM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Floppy
Hi, my laptop don't have an floppy but mandrake is stil looking for it. How can I disable this search for floppy? results from dmesg: lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-4mdk floppy0: no floppy controllers found inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-4mdk floppy0: no floppy controllers found inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-4mdk floppy0: no floppy controllers found NET: Registered protocol family 4 thanks Gabriel TM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI on Mdk 10.0
On Thursday 20 May 2004 09:36 pm, Ramon PS wrote:
Hi there.
I couldn't enable ACPI on my recently installed
Mandrake Linux Community 10.0. In Grub I have tried
some options, namely:
acpi=on
apm=off acpi=on
acpi=force
The first one, acpi=on, is an invalid parameter.
The second, if you infact did use them together has the affect
of acpi=off
The third is to be used cautiously.
Simply having no acpi statement in kernel parameters should
enable acpi as it's the kernel default.
However, the kernel hangs and issues the follwoing
message:
ACPI: subsystem revision 20040211
spurious 8295A interrupt: IRQ7
looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found!
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger
The only option accepted at boot time is acpi=ht,
but neither acpi nor acpid are running, and the cpu's
fan noise bothers a lot!
acpi=ht turns off acpi, but allows for hyperthreading
(Pentium 4's).
If you have kernel-source installed read
tom $ locate kernel-parameters.txt
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.tmb.1mdk/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
~
for listing and explaination of valid kernel parameters. IE
acpi= [HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Format: { force | off | ht | strict }
force -- enables ACPI for systems with default off
off -- disabled ACPI for systems with default on
ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
strictly ACPI specification compliant.
See also Documentation/pm.txt.
My machine is an HP Pavillion ZE4430US, CPU is an
AMD Mobile 4 2400+ (1,8GHz).
Any tips would very much appreciated.
Regards, -rps
I know nothin of laptops other than not all laptops support
acpi as used in Linux kernels. So your search should be whether
your Pavillion does or not.... or just try it. Remove any
acpi reference in grub, and check /var/log/dmesg after boot (if
you can).
tom # cat /var/log/dmesg | grep -i acpi
BIOS-e820: 1fffc000 - 1000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 1000 - 2000 (ACPI NVS)
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS) @ 0x000f62a
|
(snip)
|
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
apm: overridden by ACPI.
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
--
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Re: [newbie] Funny for the Day
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:41, JoeHill wrote: Kenneth Brown, president of the 'Alexis de Tocqueville Institution', has written a great big book in which he: ...conducted a comprehensive study on the source of open-source code, tracing the free-software movement over three decades, including interviews with some two-dozen principal developers of Linux... Really? Then how, after all that, did he find a way to make this error: Among the conclusions is that there is a high probability that Linux is a derivative work, based on previous operating systems -- including, but not limited to, Unix and Minux, 'Minux'? Dontcha mean MINIX, prof? LOL! Well, shows ya what them book-learnin' people know... Link: http://tinyurl.com/ywrx7 Groklaw takes him apart messily here: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040518204701382 Try: http://tinyurl.com/ywrx7 and the register yesterday at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/20/tanenbaum_on_adti_brown/ Where Tenebaum (writer of Minix) decribes the author of the article as 'not the sharpest knife in the box'. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Funny for the Day
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 09:41, JoeHill wrote: Look at what Andres S. Tanenbaum says about Mr. Brown: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/20/1427257 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VPN with Windows 2000?
Hi all, I'm hoping to setup an MNF 8.2 box to support remote Windows boxes (connecting thru the Internet) for connecting via VPN. I took a quick peak at the HOW-TOS suggested by the MNF install - looks extremely lengthy and possibly out of date... Do we have a simplified or more current version of the VPN w/Win2K/XP around? Or should I just spend the next week reading what is recommended by the MNF Help? Thanks in advance! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp try changing this to =static I will give it a try, but ultimately I will need to use DHCP. What is weird is that the network actually works. The trouble I have is that I don't know what log file to look to narrow down what thinks there is an error (is it hardware configuration, TCP/UDP net access, server trouble, DNS negotiations, DHCP negotiations, etc.) Is there a place to look to find out what is causing the FAILED message? Thanks...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Opera
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --- Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ 13:20:01 up 1 day, 12 min, 0 users, load average: 1.27, 0.95, 0.83 - --- Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFArjuTDpzwx2t8E5gRApJnAJ9/iM/o0mExTVJYyBtMgoIHKJS2KwCfbTov ZvaICSEnLE+XjM8GTbD/pbY= =93aw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:55, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 17:16, David A. Ferguson wrote: snip Why does my eth0 show failed? When Mdk10oe boots it hangs on the 'bring up eth0' message for a long time and then says [FAILED]. Where can I go to look and see more detailed information on why it failed? /snip Don't know if this will help : I had this message all of a sudden, without changing anything. After some looking around, I simply noticed that an extra diode-light had shown up on my DSL-modem. The light in question was marked lock. After restarting the modem, everything was in order. I haven't the faintest idea, why it locked. ...A short power-off, maybe ? HTH Kaj Haulrich. Wirrrd, Kaj. ?? LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
On Friday 21 May 2004 19:25, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? Can't speak for mail, but the Opera browser beats everything I've seen. Version 7.50 especially. Way back, around version 6, I threw a little dough their way, got rid of the advertising, and I'm more and more happy with it. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ntfs write support fully supported.....kind of
I was experimenting with Knoppix 3.4 yesterday and found something of interest - Captive NTFS. I clicked on it to see what it was, and found something that many people may be looking for. It is a program type thing that downloads certain ntfs driver files directly from Microsoft, and uses the code to give linux full read-write support for ntfs partitions. I know that alot of you are completely against using any closed source stuff at all, but it works like a charm. I now have it on my computer, and have copied a bunch of music from my home directory to My Documents on the ntfs partition. http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ It took me awhile to get it working correctly, so if anyone wants some step-by-step instructions on how to get it working, just let me know. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?
On Friday 21 May 2004 19:26, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:55, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 17:16, David A. Ferguson wrote: snip Why does my eth0 show failed? When Mdk10oe boots it hangs on the 'bring up eth0' message for a long time and then says [FAILED]. Where can I go to look and see more detailed information on why it failed? /snip Don't know if this will help : I had this message all of a sudden, without changing anything. After some looking around, I simply noticed that an extra diode-light had shown up on my DSL-modem. The light in question was marked lock. After restarting the modem, everything was in order. I haven't the faintest idea, why it locked. ...A short power-off, maybe ? HTH Kaj Haulrich. Wirrrd, Kaj. ?? LX Very much so. But sometimes we have short power outages here, way out from everything, including power stations. I tried to mimick an outage by shortly switching the power off/on, and you know what ? - The lock light came on, and my eth0 FAILED. But that's only me, I suppose. Nice to have you onboard again, Lyvim. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 'nother newbie network question.
Hi again, and thanks to everyone who helped me with my last network question. I suppose this one might be actually more of a Windows question than a Linux question, but here goes. I have a home network of 2 PCs. One is running mandrake 10, the other Win XP. Linux, bless it, has no problems finding all the shared files on the XP machine. Windows, curse it, doesn't seem able to see the Linux machine at all. On the Linux machine, I've installed samba and set some files as able to be shared on the network, but I just can't get windows to see them. I'd be really grateful if anyone can help me to sort this out. - Oh, and a second networky question. Via Linbourhood, my Linux machine correctly detects the windows machine's HP 690C printer. But when I try to print anything to it, or to configure it via CUPS, I just get the messate that no printer is detected. Any advice on how to get a printer on another machine working would be much appreciated. I'm sure more questions will follow... I love this operating system, but it's HARD!! Thanks in advance, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] help configuring onboard net RTL8139 (10.0 Community, MS-6577 Mobo)
On May 21, 2004 04:01 am, Dexter N Muir wrote: Hi all I have Mandrake 10.0 Community, and am installing to my hp pavilion 713a. It has a Microstar MS-6577 ver.1 motherboard, with onboard LAN. This is a Realtek 8139, and it works fine under the preloaded winXP. It will not work at all under Mandrake 10.0. I have disabled it in BIOS, and installed a Realtek 8029 card, and I can get a semblance of operability from this. The 8029 card says [FAILED] on bootup, but the Internet services started at boot say [OK]. Running the Configuration tool (KDE desktop) allows me to configure the Internet using the Realtek 8029 (to ADSL Hub), but NOT to configure the LAN connection - what is the difference, and does it matter? I seem to be able to mount Windows shares on other machines on my net using Samba, so something must be working. Running the Configuration tool with the 8139 enabled results in a long-time hang in the system (both during configuration and at bootup), and no functionality at all. I'd rather use the 8139 if I can - the 8029 uses a PCI slot. Is there an option I can pass to the driver to get this working? or is this just another hp standard that is non-standard? (I've encountered countless of these, right back since the mid-'80's :-) I've got similar problems with the sound (Avance AC97), but that's another story... Hopefully... Dex A couple of things come to mind here. The first one is, with two NIC cards my card configured for DHCP, the one pointed to my ADSL, always comes up just fine. The one pointing to my network, the only fixed IP on my home network, fails. Probably because it's loading before the network. In any event, everything works when the system comes up so I'm not overly concerned about it. Sometimes it's all in the load order. The other thing that may be doing it is that the NIC is coming up before the Internet which may cause the same error to occur. Anyway, some more information is required. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
On Friday 21 May 2004 01:25 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? Love it (I don't use m2 though). Worth every penny. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 17:17, Mike Adolf wrote: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 5.8G 2.4G 3.2G 43% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7 49G 756M 48G 2% /home total bytes = (1510072 * 4096)/1024/1024/1024 = 5.7G free blocks =( 902426 * 4096)/1024/1024/1024 = 3.44G WHICH LOOK LIKE THE VALUES FOR LINUX ROOT (target1/part5) instead of part7, I can't see anything obvious that you've done wrong. The values do look suspiciously close to those for your '/'! At a guess you've maybe found a bug which was ironed out by the official release? Can you try upgrading to the official edition of 10.0? If it is something specific in your set-up that is triggering a bug (that hasn't yet been fixed) it would be worth reporting it to the developers. I suspect though that they'll want you to upgrade to the latest version before they'll be interested in investigating. Let us know if you make any progress! A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 'nother newbie network question.
On Friday 21 May 2004 19:14, John wrote: Hi again, and thanks to everyone who helped me with my last network question. I suppose this one might be actually more of a Windows question than a Linux question, but here goes. I have a home network of 2 PCs. One is running mandrake 10, the other Win XP. Linux, bless it, has no problems finding all the shared files on the XP machine. Windows, curse it, doesn't seem able to see the Linux machine at all. On the Linux machine, I've installed samba and set some files as able to be shared on the network, but I just can't get windows to see them. I'd be really grateful if anyone can help me to sort this out. Open your firewall on the linux box to ports 137,138,139 on your local network. By default the shorewall firewall blocks all traffic from both the Internet, and the local network into the Linux box Also if you have configures samba to allow users to access their home directories on Linux, then you will need to run as root smbpasswd -a user_name where user_name is the name of a user that exits in both Windows and Linux. the password you give is the **Windows** password for that user. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Funny for the Day
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:21, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 09:41, JoeHill wrote: Look at what Andres S. Tanenbaum says about Mr. Brown: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/20/1427257 The author has another article at the adti site, going back 2 years to when MS was judged to have actied criminally, where he reports for that internationally admired publication, the 'Conway Springs Star': Rather than focusing on breaking apart products, and companies that work, the government should fine Microsoft Corporation fog its alleged anti-trust violations and use the funds to sponsor grants for competing operating system development. The approaches was suggested by Gregory Fossedal, chairman of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a public-interest research foundation. The fund, he said, could be operated by the court itself or by a commission composed of leading members of Congress, industry, and the executive. http://www.adti.net/conwaysprings_kbrown062200.html I wonder if the sponsors have read it? Strangely, when you click on the 'accomplishments' heading on the adti page you get a 'Not found' response. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MD 10 success story
I replaced Windows with MD 10 on an older box used by a COMPLETE novice who has trouble with even simpler tasks. After only a few days, she likes it better than Win. I did put on some nice wallpaper to make it look nice, though. :-) She got an irate email from someone who was sure they got a virus sent to them by her. We talked about virus problems, and she sent a reply re viruses and Linux, and that this could not have happened. I think this helped her to like it even more. Based on this, MD seems ready for just about anyone to use. -- Best regards, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MP3 Burning
Hello All, I have just got a CD/MP3 Disc player for the car.What I would like to know is if I burn a MP3 CD,using 3KB or some other burning tool,would it play on the car player? The player i have supports ISO9660 level 1 or level 2 format,or Joliet or Romeo in the expansion format(whatever this means). I believe that Linux burning programs will use ISO9660 when I burn the disc,am I right. DREW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MD 10 success story
--- ririkonaririkonaonic.net wrote: I replaced Windows with MD 10 on an older box used by a COMPLETE novice who has trouble with even simpler tasks. After only a few days, she likes it better than Win. I did put on some nice wallpaper to make it look nice, though. :-) She got an irate email from someone who was sure they got a virus sent to them by her. We talked about virus problems, and she sent a reply re viruses and Linux, and that this could not have happened. I think this helped her to like it even more. Based on this, MD seems ready for just about anyone to use. -- Best regards, ririkona mamailtoirikonaonic.net Hey ririkona That great! I have had similar luck. I think MDMDK0 is fantastic as well and only maintain a window$ partition in case I get caught out in the world and need it. Someone's network??? a particular download that only works with explorer I don't know. In any case lilinuxnd mdmdk0 rock. It is important to remember though that as linux users, while not as susceptible to the virus, we can still pass a virus laden email on to someone else. Virus scans are still a good idea, if for only this reason. Our friends will appreciate us for the effort. tstsw __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:08:20PM +0100, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, I have just got a CD/MP3 Disc player for the car.What I would like to know is if I burn a MP3 CD,using 3KB or some other burning tool,would it play on the car player? Yup. Todd -- Name that tune #1: Is there gas in the car? Yes there's gas in the car! I think the people down the hall know who you are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] spyware, cookies, etc
Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks Paul. I do monitor cookies before accepting them. Nevertheless I often wonder if a cookie can double as a spy. Michael Op Fri, 21 May 2004 02:02:08 -0700 schreef Michael Tienhaara: I've been following the recent thread about virus and Linux. Under Windows I constantly had to search and destroy unwanted spyware apps. What are the risks of spyware and cookies on a Linux system? I have never heard of spyware that runs on linux. Cookies are a part of most browsers. Switch off cookie-support if you are afraid of them, or use a cookie-manager to check what is in there, I'd say. NOt to any significant extent. A site can only store the kind of information it can get anyway (IP number, browser type etc.) and information you give it (forms etc.). In an insecure system, your cookies could be accessed by someone else (people in my office have left some fairly incriminating cookies on Windows) but there's no real danger of that on a properly set up Linux box. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] test
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Re: [newbie] 10.0 How to get sound out of CD Player
On Fri, 21 May 2004 08:26:47 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably need an audio cable. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html Derek, thanks for the reply, but I doubt that is it. If you reread my original message, I do here the CD if I use the Totem media player. Only when I try CD Player (gnome) or xmms do I not hear anything. The fact that it works with Totem means the hardware is okay. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 How to get sound out of CD Player
Guy Rouillier wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004 08:26:47 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably need an audio cable. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html Derek, thanks for the reply, but I doubt that is it. If you reread my original message, I do here the CD if I use the Totem media player. Only when I try CD Player (gnome) or xmms do I not hear anything. The fact that it works with Totem means the hardware is okay. Do these apps point to the right device? Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] spyware, cookies, etc
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 19:02, Michael Tienhaara wrote: I've been following the recent thread about virus and Linux. Under Windows I constantly had to search and destroy unwanted spyware apps. What are the risks of spyware and cookies on a Linux system? Michael Very few, if any. There are emails, though - that are coded in HTML that report back to the sender when you preview them - UNLESS you turn off the ability for your mail reader to NOT display images from untrusted sources. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. -- Gerald Brenan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] test
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Re: [newbie] 10.0 How to get sound out of CD Player
On Friday 21 May 2004 22:53, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004 08:26:47 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably need an audio cable. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html Derek, thanks for the reply, but I doubt that is it. If you reread my original message, I do here the CD if I use the Totem media player. Only when I try CD Player (gnome) or xmms do I not hear anything. The fact that it works with Totem means the hardware is okay. derek Uhm, if you read http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html you will see you can get audio using the analog audio cable or the IDE cable; in the later case the digital/analog conversion is done on the soundcard. Derek's site mentions Totem as an application that uses the IDE interface so that works without the audio cable. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] spyware, cookies, etc
On Friday 21 May 2004 05:02 am, Michael Tienhaara wrote: I've been following the recent thread about virus and Linux. Under Windows I constantly had to search and destroy unwanted spyware apps. What are the risks of spyware and cookies on a Linux system? Cookies should be fairly innocuous on most machines and if they trouble you, a lot of browsers including Opera and I think Mozilla, allow you to specify that cookies should be removed at the end of every session. As for spyware, Linux is probably currently too small of a platform to get much attention from the spyware people. However, as a general rule, you should verify and check all sources of software before installation. If you are installing an existing package that has been around for more than a month or so, is open source and has an active following, you will probably hear if software should be avoided before you install. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 13:25, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, my feeling is that you are right. ;) LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] defraging
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:35, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 22:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:07, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:12, PM wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set times? Michael It's a completely different file system to MS dos ( in its various forms), and doesn't fragment files (not so you'd notice, anyway) so there's no need to defrag. ...which is not entirely true, though. In filesystems like ext2, ext3, ReiserFS and XFS there is no need whatsoever to defrag, but in IBM's JFS is is recommended to do so now and then. Kaj haulrich. That's IBM for ya. Well Stephen, I must admit that IBM gets more and more of my respect these days, what with them supporting Linux, standing up against SCO and all that. That aside, their JFS (Journalling File System) is a legacy system inherited from OS/2 Warp. The defragging issue is a bargain pay for the incredible speed and stability og that filesystem. Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, you are dead on right. I just got thru testing JFS on some new systems for some customers of mine, and I was astounded at the responsiveness of the boxes after I got it installed. The reason is the super low CPU utilization of JFS; it does it's job on a par with XFS speedwise, but yet consumes far less CPU cycles. This gives a 2000mhz machine a very snappy feel. Snappier even than my 2k. The next time I format, which will be soon, I'm going to see how JFS performs on top of my RAID array. I love XFS, but JFS just has too much going for it. By way of confirmation, please witness these latest benchmarks in Linux Gazette which bear out what you are saying: http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] defraging
On Saturday 22 May 2004 00:13, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:35, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 22:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:07, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:12, PM wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set times? Michael It's a completely different file system to MS dos ( in its various forms), and doesn't fragment files (not so you'd notice, anyway) so there's no need to defrag. ...which is not entirely true, though. In filesystems like ext2, ext3, ReiserFS and XFS there is no need whatsoever to defrag, but in IBM's JFS is is recommended to do so now and then. Kaj haulrich. That's IBM for ya. Well Stephen, I must admit that IBM gets more and more of my respect these days, what with them supporting Linux, standing up against SCO and all that. That aside, their JFS (Journalling File System) is a legacy system inherited from OS/2 Warp. The defragging issue is a bargain pay for the incredible speed and stability og that filesystem. Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, you are dead on right. I just got thru testing JFS on some new systems for some customers of mine, and I was astounded at the responsiveness of the boxes after I got it installed. The reason is the super low CPU utilization of JFS; it does it's job on a par with XFS speedwise, but yet consumes far less CPU cycles. This gives a 2000mhz machine a very snappy feel. Snappier even than my 2k. The next time I format, which will be soon, I'm going to see how JFS performs on top of my RAID array. I love XFS, but JFS just has too much going for it. By way of confirmation, please witness these latest benchmarks in Linux Gazette which bear out what you are saying: http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html LX Interesting. And I think the defragging can be set up as a cron job. My experience with JFS stems from my OS/2 days, and I don't remember I ever had to defrag it. In OS/2 there was a nifty feature, a graphical representation of the filesystem. One could actually see how it worked, distributing files in a very clever manner. Fragmentation never amounted to more then 2 %. Next time I do a clean install, I'll try it on linux, although I have no complaints whatsoever with my ReiserFS. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] defraging
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 18:32, Kaj Haulrich wrote: By way of confirmation, please witness these latest benchmarks in Linux Gazette which bear out what you are saying: http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html LX Interesting. And I think the defragging can be set up as a cron job. My experience with JFS stems from my OS/2 days, and I don't remember I ever had to defrag it. In OS/2 there was a nifty feature, a graphical representation of the filesystem. One could actually see how it worked, distributing files in a very clever manner. Fragmentation never amounted to more then 2 %. Next time I do a clean install, I'll try it on linux, although I have no complaints whatsoever with my ReiserFS. Kaj Haulrich. grin You might if you look at the benchmarks. Reiser consumes a horde of cpu cycles in order to deliver performance that is not really superior either to xfs or jfs *overall*. I tip the hat to Reiser design, it's quite sophisticated, however if the design is not living up to it's promise, then I'm unsure of it's true value. Look at image034.jpg (Split 10mb File) of the linux gazette article page. Reiser's advanced design should be letting it kick ass here...yet, it is just barely comparable to JFS's curve, which is phenonmenal. In image029.jpg (Megabytes Per Second On Copy From Current To Other Disk), Reiser has the poorest showing in the group, with JFS beating it out. Which brings me to the topic of image021.jpg -- Total CPU Utilization For Each Filesystem. This test was an aggregate accumulation of all cpu usage across all tests. JFS shows an unbelievable kick ass advantage over the other journaling filesystems, and then in addition shows an advantage over ext2, which isn't even a journaling filesystem, for pete's sake!!! That's an absolute first; it's never been done before. I do not know why it has not gotten more press. Logic would lead you to believe that such a feat as that would not be possible. Journaling filesystems have to do more stuff than nonjournaling filesystems. But yet, there it is; a journaling filesystem is outperforming a non journaling filesystem in CPU utilization benchmarks. Reiser, on the other hand, has the absolute worst showing of any of the other filesystems here in image021.jpg. Of the entire group, Reiser is the biggest CPU hog; while at the same time delivering no overall speed advantages to it's CPU usage. The *aggregate* tests reveal this. Given the other aggregate benchmarks (like image020.jpg, Total Time For Each Filesystem), the final qualifier, for me anyway, becomes the advantage of total system speed. JFS has the undisputed advantage here; it leaves the CPU available for things other than testing sophisticated filesystem theory. ;) LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 18:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2004 20:05, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a complaint. How can I get my share of virus laden emails? It isn't right that everyone get's a bunch and I'm only averaging one a week. Who's getting mine? fess up. Lee OK... I'll confess : I've hijacked yours. I get about 10 per week, but until now I haven't been able to get one running on my box. And I double-click the attachments, I single-click them and I try to run them in various applications, but to no avail. What kind of operating system is this Linux ? ... Can't even run a virus ? Kaj Haulrich. That's right, XP is much more advanced in that respect. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 19:29, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 01:16, Derek Jennings wrote: snip If a site does not work with Mozilla tough.. /snip ...then this site is run by fools, who shouldn't have acces to the internet in the first place. Kaj Haulrich. You go guy. grin LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] defraging
On Saturday 22 May 2004 01:09, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Reiser, on the other hand, has the absolute worst showing of any of the other filesystems here in image021.jpg. Of the entire group, Reiser is the biggest CPU hog; while at the same time delivering no overall speed advantages to it's CPU usage. The *aggregate* tests reveal this. Given the other aggregate benchmarks (like image020.jpg, Total Time For Each Filesystem), the final qualifier, for me anyway, becomes the advantage of total system speed. JFS has the undisputed advantage here; it leaves the CPU available for things other than testing sophisticated filesystem theory. ;) LX /snip Lyvim, I absolutely agree. Nevertheless, my - very subjective - feeling is that ReiserFS outperforms ext3. Never tried XFS. It feels very snappy, especially on kernel 2.6. More important to me then speed however, is stability. I have 5 users here on my main box, not all of them very polite about shutting down the canonic way, closing applications and tidying up generally. Furthermore, we have numerous power outages out here by the ocean and everytime ReiserFS is up and running in a few seconds, regardless of what. So, until 10.1 I'll stick with ReiserFS. But then, I'll at least make a few partitions with JFS. Probably /boot and /home. And, speaking of filesystems : I guess JFS somehow is derived from OS/2 's HPFS (High Performance File System). With that file system fragmentation was very moderate too. Funny thing is, that when IBM and Microsoft divorced over OS/2 - around 1992 - the latter stole (as usual) the filesystem, modified it in a way that made it incompatible with the rest of the world and called it NTFS. And nowadays, when I'm called upon to fix my daughters WinXP - and that's about weekly - I notice heavy fragmentation, even after few hours of work. So much for MicroSCOft improving things. We penguinistas have the best of all worlds : freedom. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning
On Friday 21 May 2004 01:10 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:08:20PM +0100, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, I have just got a CD/MP3 Disc player for the car.What I would like to know is if I burn a MP3 CD,using 3KB or some other burning tool,would it play on the car player? Yup. Todd And well worth it. aron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Friday 21 May 2004 04:44 pm, John wrote: testtt Too many t's --- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Friday 21 May 2004 05:33 pm, John wrote: teesttt less t's, but more e's -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SAMBA and NetBIOS names
Hi I used to have Mandrake 9.2 machines on the (windows) network and it was fine to ping the windows machines by their netbios names, something that I came to enjoy! I do not know how the network is set up. I assume DNS is used to keep track of machines' names... The only thing I know is that Linux was able to use their names in ping, ssh and others (like the cups wizard!). I moved to Mandrake10Official, and I came to realize that the name resolution is not working anymore. I dont know what has been changed, and after looking closely to smb.conf, resolv.conf, nsswitch.conf, winbind and trying to enable the machine as domain master, wins server, etc.. nothing seem to solve my problem. What I can do: use nmblookup machine name resolves the IP correctly What I cannot do: ssh machine_name, ping machine, etc... does not work anymore. Can somebody point me to some readings or, even better, a solution? Thanks., marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI on Mdk 10.0
Le May 20, 2004 10:36 pm, Ramon PS a écrit : Hi there. I couldn't enable ACPI on my recently installed Mandrake Linux Community 10.0. In Grub I have tried some options, namely: acpi=on apm=off acpi=on acpi=force However, the kernel hangs and issues the follwoing message: ACPI: subsystem revision 20040211 spurious 8295A interrupt: IRQ7 looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found! It seems looking for something in initrd. You could try to make a new initrd with mkinitrd (do a man mkinitrd to read what it is dealing with) or the Mandrake boot wizard(?). ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger The only option accepted at boot time is acpi=ht, but neither acpi nor acpid are running, and the cpu's fan noise bothers a lot! My machine is an HP Pavillion ZE4430US, CPU is an AMD Mobile 4 2400+ (1,8GHz). Any tips would very much appreciated. Regards, -rps __ Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. AntiPop-up UOL - É grátis! http://antipopup.uol.com.br/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
- Original Message - From: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:55:46 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Opera On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 13:25, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, my feeling is that you are right. ;) LX I have been using Opera for some time, and it has improved greatly through the past several versions. I've beta tested as the new versions come out, and find the Opera folks to be responsive to feedback and quick to reply. It's my browser of choice, for lin and wingreat performance. :-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 01:25 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? Love it (I don't use m2 though). Worth every penny. Is there a specific reason you're not using it for mail? I'm not shilling for Opera or anything. I'm just curious. The first downside I see with the mail client is that there are no encryption options that I could find. If i'm wrong on this I would seriously consider using Opera for all web and email use. - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --- Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ 00:30:00 up 1 day, 11:22, 0 users, load average: 1.41, 1.70, 1.48 - --- Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFArtloDpzwx2t8E5gRAk8FAJ9gd8WDoz4eDHqQ1BIXtkoJzeKtUgCdGlMK MYYWWgK3yJF7tgp99dFNuvc= =Ny0l -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opera
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? I'm using Thunderbird right now and I'm pretty disappointed with the high memory use and very sluggish performance. Surprisingly version 0.5 on Mandrake 10CE is much slower than the full blown Mozilla on the same box. - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --- Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ 00:40:01 up 1 day, 11:32, 0 users, load average: 1.12, 0.95, 1.15 - --- Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFArtpyDpzwx2t8E5gRAmVYAKCMryTkbYJbn08aPwUtyEByOkOJygCeLcIc 8NC2LQr8IDNJi8127sbsTlY= =qerX -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
