[newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning
I have a situation where (1) my partition table is screwed up, and (2) I have been wanting to resize my partitions anyway... file access seems to be working, but all the partition tools complain about errors, and cfdisk gives a fatal error and won't even run. I'm pretty sure that diskdrake (in Mandrake 9.2) caused the corruption to the table, when I used it to choose a new swap partition and delete the old swap partition. All my mandrake partitions contain a total of 1.75 GB data, and I am thinking of just backing everything up, perhaps tar and gzip? to my windows partition (on a seperate harddrive), and then completely repartioning the Linux drive, and then restore the data. My Windows partition only has 1.4 GB free, so I am hoping that the Linux data will compress down to fit in that space... otherwise, I can compress some other data on the Windows partition to make room. I'm looking for guidance in how to go about this, and then get a working setup again. My only bootable Linux media I have besides the harddrive is the Mandrake install CD, and a floppy with my Lilo boot sector on it so I can boot the HD if the HD's LILO gets screwed up. I haven't figured out yet how to make a boot floppy under Mandrake, since the kernel image is large... I understand you have to use special tools to format a super capacity floppy. So what process would you recommend I take? What do I need to have prepared before I wip out the HD? What commands to backup/restore? Thanks :) Asa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning
Though the CD part may not apply to you, you may wish to start with what is offered here to make a tar ball of your full system which ought to fit within the space you have left on your windows system: http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 Backing up to CDs Made Simple: Version 1.1 total words in this text) (14888 Reads)by LinuxOrbit.com: January 15. 2002 by David LeCount Should get you stared at least. Enjoy. Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Asa Rossoff wrote: I have a situation where (1) my partition table is screwed up, and (2) I have been wanting to resize my partitions anyway... file access seems to be working, but all the partition tools complain about errors, and cfdisk gives a fatal error and won't even run. I'm pretty sure that diskdrake (in Mandrake 9.2) caused the corruption to the table, when I used it to choose a new swap partition and delete the old swap partition. All my mandrake partitions contain a total of 1.75 GB data, and I am thinking of just backing everything up, perhaps tar and gzip? to my windows partition (on a seperate harddrive), and then completely repartioning the Linux drive, and then restore the data. My Windows partition only has 1.4 GB free, so I am hoping that the Linux data will compress down to fit in that space... otherwise, I can compress some other data on the Windows partition to make room. I'm looking for guidance in how to go about this, and then get a working setup again. My only bootable Linux media I have besides the harddrive is the Mandrake install CD, and a floppy with my Lilo boot sector on it so I can boot the HD if the HD's LILO gets screwed up. I haven't figured out yet how to make a boot floppy under Mandrake, since the kernel image is large... I understand you have to use special tools to format a super capacity floppy. So what process would you recommend I take? What do I need to have prepared before I wip out the HD? What commands to backup/restore? Thanks :) Asa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Modem, PPP, ISPs, and Wvdial
Hello John, Maybe your problem is with the ISP and the login prompts. I haven't had time yet to work out my problem using Linux From Scratch 5.1, Wvdial, and my ISP; but here's what the ISP did for me to assist: - Instead of trying to login at the prompt, try just starting up ppp. I changed your membership on the ppp authentication server from pppmenu (login prompt) to ppponly so wvdial shouldn't try to interpret the login prompt. I also found this, which also might alleviate the problem: Add the following line under the correct heading in your /etc/wvdial.conf file: Stupid mode = 1 Apparently stupid mode tells wvdial to not login at the prompt and skip directly to starting pppd. - When I dial in now, the connection is made and the PPP daemon is started. But then I don't know what to do ??? So the PPP daemon dies after a while. As I said, I'll work on that later. Good Luck if you haven't got your connection working yet. Stephen. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster MP3+
Hi, I have a Sound Blaster MP3+ USB soundcard installed on my Windows laptop. It runs fine. I tried to unstall it on my linux box running 10.0 Official. Mandrake recognized it as an unknown audio device. Has any one gotten this soundcard to work under Mandrake? If so could you please tell me what you did to get it to work? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Uh-oh -- I've let the cat out of the bag. Let me, then, straightforwardly state the thesis I shall now elaborate: Making variations on a theme is really the crux of creativity. -- Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Uh-oh -- I've let the cat out of the bag. Let me, then, straightforwardly state the thesis I shall now elaborate: Making variations on a theme is really the crux of creativity. -- Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com It depends on how many rules you have and if they contradict each other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors
Greetings all, I am trying to build a rpm package from tar using checkinstall, and not succeeding. The packages I want to build are giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7.tar.gz, gift-openft-0.2.1.3.tar.gz, and gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2.tar.gz. I am getting the same errors when I attempt each, so I assume I have something amiss. The error for one is as follows: *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7]$ checkinstall checkinstall 1.6.0beta2, Copyright 2002 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL. Installing with make install... = Installation results === Copying documentation directory... cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./NEWS': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./TODO': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./README': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./AUTHORS': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./INSTALL': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./ChangeLog': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./COPYING': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/.': No such file or directory Installation failed. Aborting package creation. Cleaning up...OK Bye. [EMAIL PROTECTED] giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7]$ ** Can anyone help me understand what I am missing or doing incorrectly? I think I am using the same method as I used under Mdk9.2 which yielded good results. ./configure and make go smoothly w/o errors. TIA for any feedback on this folks. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *** ~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] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
On Sunday 25 July 2004 08:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl... Stephen, first of all, are you running the bigevil set and the blacklist set? If so, thats a killer right there. Are you running any of the SURBL sets? I'm running a total of 21 rules, not counting my local.cf, and my manual whitelist. Are you using any of the network tests? Do you have autolearn off or on in your local.cf? Since I got rid of the big rule sets, turned autolearn off, started using network tests and the surbl's my load usually runs about 60% or less for the few seconds it takes to process mail through spamd. Thats on a 1.2GHz system with only 256mb ram. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:02am up 26 days, 14:24, 3 users, load average: 0.52, 0.56, 0.45 I'd like some JUNK FOOD ... and then I want to be ALONE -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ALSA driver not running
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:09, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Try this (as root): Edit the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf (back them up first) and remove all sound-related stuff (lines containing 'sound', 'sb', 'synth', 'opl3'). Also remove all sound-related modules from the kernel with rmmod. Done. Now try to insmod the snd-ess1688. If it works it will pull in all the necessary sound core modules. Done, with modprobe. The improvement is tremendous. In XMMS and Totem I can now listen to mp3s, but they still have glitches. As in, they suddenly skip bits or jump a groove as if they were vinils. The files are all right, I can play them on Winamp from a Windblows box on my network. Still, it's infinitely better than before, mp3-wise. XMMS is specially bad, Totem seems to do better. The weirdness doesn't end, though. Not at all! Audio CDs, which Grip played beautifully when I had the mess I had before I uninstalled the OSS modules, are now giving me a hard time. Grip no longer plays them - the timer counts the seconds as if the track was playing, but there is no sound. Since I had to change the output plugin from libOSS.so to libALSA.so in ~/.xmms/config, I thought to do the same for Grip. But there doesn't seem to be an option to change the plugin in ~/.grip. And CD playing in Totem is worse than mp3s on XMMS. It seems I have to choose between playing CDs with Grip or mp3s with Totem. :( If it fails with a 'board not found' or similar error, you might need to enable the board. You do it this way: Install the isapnp package, then type # pnpdump isapnp.conf and edit the isapnp.conf file. Read the file to understand what to do, it is quite well explained (ask if unclear). In short, pnpdump scans the ISA bus and presents you with a number of possible configurations for the board, you need to manually select one by uncommenting the appropriate lines. After you are done, run # isapnp isapnp.conf you should see messages confirming the board was correctly configured and enabled. Now try again to insmod snd-ess1688. If this works, you'll need to configure the /etc/modprobe.preload to load the ess-1688 at boot, later on that. If some of the steps fail, send the error messages across. I don't guarantee it works for you, or that it's the easiest way, but that's how I manage to make the ESS (or the AZT, also an ISA board) work after every MDK install. raffaele OK, I'm going to remove the sound modules again, install isapnp and try with that, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for all the info. Germn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake10 Community
What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have a dial-up connection. Many thanks for any information. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved)
- Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:50:50 -0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors Greetings all, I am trying to build a rpm package from tar using checkinstall, and not succeeding. The packages I want to build are giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7.tar.gz, gift-openft-0.2.1.3.tar.gz, and gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2.tar.gz. I am getting the same errors when I attempt each, so I assume I have something amiss. The error for one is as follows: *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7]$ checkinstall checkinstall 1.6.0beta2, Copyright 2002 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL. Installing with make install... = Installation results === Copying documentation directory... cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./NEWS': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./TODO': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./README': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./AUTHORS': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./INSTALL': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./ChangeLog': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./COPYING': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/.': No such file or directory Installation failed. Aborting package creation. Cleaning up...OK Bye. [EMAIL PROTECTED] giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7]$ ** Can anyone help me understand what I am missing or doing incorrectly? I think I am using the same method as I used under Mdk9.2 which yielded good results. ./configure and make go smoothly w/o errors. TIA for any feedback on this folks. Best regards. **8 It appears that there is a problem with the checkinstall package I was using. I installed the latest beta version, checkinstall-1.6.0-0.beta3.2mdk.i586, and then the rebuilding went fine. :-) Now if I can only get apollon to work. :-| Mandrake 10.0 is proving to be a challenge for me thus far. It isn't nearly as stable as 9.2 was on my Dell. It also seems like things aren't as easy to find, and to configure. I found 9.2 was a real rock solid version for me on my hardware. I lost my previous installation due to a failed harddrive, and after installing a new Maxtor 40GB, I thought it would be good to go with the latest and greatest version of Mandrake. It has been somewhat of a letdown so far. Regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *** ~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
[newbie] MAC Address
I have a new ECS N2U400-A which will not load either 9.2 or 10.0. I spent 18 hrs trying different combinations and gave up. So I installed win2k on that box, just to prove to myself that the board sucked more than I originally thought. Okay, the question. It has an onboard nvidia 10/100 NIC. I watched it check into the lan, copied its MAC, and assigned an address on the router. Every other box took this gracefully (win and mdk) and only uses that address. This new board just showed up on the net with another MAC and was assigned (of course) another address. The net shows black logged in with two different MAC's and, consequently, two addresses although there is only rj45 on the box. I can't ping the assigned add and can ping the new and both show as dhcp logins. Any logical explanation? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard
On July 21, 2004 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International - if I choose US, then my right alt key no longer works, and if I choose US International, I have to hit the ' and then tap the space bar - which is getting horribly annoying. I've almost gotten to the point where I don't want to chat in IRC or even do email as it's so annoying. No where I've looked can I change this behaviour - no where I've looked can I specify what KIND of keyboard I have - HELP! stephen kuhn - proprietor Somewhere in MDK land there is a RPM the does allow you to configure a multimedia keyboard. I've even downloaded the puppy but I'll be damned if I can find it at the moment. Anyway, if memory serves it's in the club somewhere so you could try there. Give that a try or maybe someone can chime in and tell us what package it is. :-) Anyway, I haven't set it up so I'm not even sure that it will solve your problem. Good luck! ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote: What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have a dial-up connection. Many thanks for any information. Cheers Keith Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote: What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have a dial-up connection. Many thanks for any information. Cheers Keith Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Thanks for the information. I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't realise that it had changed to 10.1 beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 11:04:11, Keith Powell wrote: What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have a dial-up connection. Many thanks for any information. Cheers Keith I believe Community is 10.0 + updates. I could be wrong but probably not since the tree structure seems to be a moving target for the last 8 months. 10.1 is based on Alpha1+new packages. An install from the cooker snapshot (Alpha1 ISOs) would in all likelihood require an immediate ftp upgrade to the 10.1 tree. It would still be quicker (maybe) than a full FTP install of 10.1 though. There should be another Alpha, or possibly a Beta snapshot soon anyway. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 12:03:43 up 2 days, 21:28, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.20, 0.26 Unfair animal names: - -- tsetse fly -- bullhead - -- booby -- duck-billed platypus - -- sapsucker -- Clarence -- Gary Larson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBA/dYZqvqlrLPr5YRAuhpAKCAeEYR/L2loxwmYgugF3NRr3yt2QCfUITG Mt8YI5+KEq//TXxIS2KdsGU= =Ixyo -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] rpm build/checkinstall errors
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:50:50AM -0300, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I am trying to build a rpm package from tar using checkinstall, and not succeeding. The packages I want to build are giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7.tar.gz, gift-openft-0.2.1.3.tar.gz, and gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2.tar.gz. I am getting the same errors when I attempt each, so I assume I have something amiss. The error for one is as follows: *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7]$ checkinstall checkinstall 1.6.0beta2, Copyright 2002 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL. Installing with make install... = Installation results === Copying documentation directory... cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./NEWS': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./TODO': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./README': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./AUTHORS': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./INSTALL': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./ChangeLog': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./COPYING': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/.': No such file or directory Installation failed. Aborting package creation. Cleaning up...OK Bye. [EMAIL PROTECTED] giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7]$ ** Can anyone help me understand what I am missing or doing incorrectly? I think I am using the same method as I used under Mdk9.2 which yielded good results. ./configure and make go smoothly w/o errors. TIA for any feedback on this folks. If your building from source (as using a .tar.gz would suggest), you need to configure and make first. So, ./configure ./make su checkinstall HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 11:10:11, Angus Auld wrote: whack It appears that there is a problem with the checkinstall package I was using. I installed the latest beta version, checkinstall-1.6.0-0.beta3.2mdk.i586, and then the rebuilding went fine. :-) Now if I can only get apollon to work. :-| Mandrake 10.0 is proving to be a challenge for me thus far. It isn't nearly as stable as 9.2 was on my Dell. A couple of questions Angus, since you prompted me to try to get Apollon working here when it wouldn't since the new machine was set up. What security level are you running? I ask because a customer system that I assembled yesterday running level Standard connects and shares files through Apollon. Your connection again? I'm on Shaw High Speed Xtreme and since I'm setting the application up and trying to make it work anything I suggest will have to be adapted to that difference, plus any relevant differences between Mandrake 10.0 and cooker. We can do this, it just may take a bit. It also seems like things aren't as easy to find, and to configure. I found 9.2 was a real rock solid version for me on my hardware. I lost my previous installation due to a failed harddrive, and after installing a new Maxtor 40GB, I thought it would be good to go with the latest and greatest version of Mandrake. It has been somewhat of a letdown so far. Regards. --Angus I'm not certain what the hold up is for you Angus. I've installed 10.0 on 6 machines this past week, of that number 3 were for families that have rug rats that want to share their music with their friends. In all three cases Apollon initialized and ran without trouble. On your system and on mine there are difficulties. I know what may be the trouble with mine (it's cooked) but yours should have been simple. Since it seems as though you managed to get it installed, have you gone into the ~/.giFT directory and clicked on giftd.conf? Or started apollon from a terminal with the -v (verbose) flag? If you haven't done either take a look and post the results. I have Apollon starting at the moment but I keep getting time outs on the nodes during connection. I may have the security wound a little tight though so I'll have to check and open the default port (1213?) for it. When I find something else I'll post it. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 12:28:51 up 9 min, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.21, 0.14 There are many intelligent species in the universe, and they all own cats. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBA/9tZqvqlrLPr5YRAiJlAJ0WG/7bKw+MXrOgH32qtj6tSLaMDgCgtRFX /UewAc4CNOGgetyPNycuxAw= =Mhm1 -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] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Saturday 24 July 2004 04:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
|
| I need to install filters but have forgotten how they should be set up
| and at the moment I cant find my notes. I have trained spamassassin
| with enough email (spam ham) so they should be useful but cant get it
| to function.
Are you talking about filters in Kontact (Kmail), or are you talking about
rules for SA?
If filters, the uk site is an excellent step-by-step. For the *.cf rules,
just download them and copy them to /etc/mail/spamassassin. Five of my
favorites are antidrug.cf,backhair.cf, chickenpox.cf, Obfu.cf and
weedsonly.cf. Be sure to run spamassassin --lint because of a typo or
two in backhair.
I'm attaching my /home/username/.spamassassin/user_prefs as a guide to what is
working for me. Note that I am using SA 2.55, so you wouldn't want to use
the am_biz section. Also, note that I filter very aggressively at 4.0 hits,
but still, false positives are extremely rare.
# This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin.
# See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
# tweaked.
#
###
#
rewrite_subject 1
#report_header 1
#defang_mime 0
required_hits 4.0
spam_level_stars 3
subject_tag ***SPAM***
auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist
auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666
score FROM_AND_TO_SAME_1 3
score MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE 0
score IN_REP_TO -1
score EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION -1
score ORIGINAL_MESSAGE -1
local rules #
score HTML_10_202.0
score HTML_20_302.2
end local.cf
more local rules
describe MY_DOMAIN_NUMBERS_ONLYDomain names has numbers only
score MY_DOMAIN_NUMBERS_ONLY 2.0
# Domain name starts with number(s)
uri MY_DOMAIN_STARTS_NUMS
/[.\/@]+\d+[a-zA-Z\-]+[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*\.(com|net|biz|info)/i
describe MY_DOMAIN_STARTS_NUMS Domain name starts with numbers
score MY_DOMAIN_STARTS_NUMS1.0
# Domain name ends with number(s)
uri MY_DOMAIN_ENDS_NUMS
/[.\/@]+[a-zA-Z]+[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*\d+\.(com|net|biz|info)/i
describe MY_DOMAIN_ENDS_NUMS Domain name ends with numbers
score MY_DOMAIN_ENDS_NUMS 1.0
# Single letter hosts, like http://d.spammers.com - in my corpus
# 108 SPAM and 0 ham
uri MY_SINGLE_LETTER_HOST /(http:\/\/|@)\w{1}\./
describe MY_SINGLE_LETTER_HOST Host name single letter only
score MY_SINGLE_LETTER_HOST 2.0
#Note: this AM_BIZ_SITE rule has been superceded by a distribution rule,
#BIZ_TLD, as of SA version 2.60; Anyone running 2.6x or newer should avoid
#AM_BIZ_SITE unless you want to double the hits.
uri AM_BIZ_SITE /S*\.biz/i
describe AM_BIZ_SITE Body has link to a *.biz site
scoreAM_BIZ_SITE 4.0
end more local rules
use_bayes 1
score BAYES_00 0 0 -6.400 -6.400
score BAYES_01 0 0 -6.600 -6.600
score BAYES_10 0 0 -6.400 -5.801
score BAYES_20 0 0 -5.801 -3.101
score BAYES_30 0 0 -1.246 -1.604
#score BAYES_60 0 0 2.002 2.002
score BAYES_60 0 0 2.5005 2.5005
#score BAYES_70 0 0 2.637 2.637
score Bayes_70 0 0 3.003 3.003
score BAYES_80 0 0 4.1 4.1
score BAYES_90 0 0 4.2 4.2
score BAYES_99 0 0 4.300 4.3
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Re: [newbie] ALSA driver not running
On Sunday 25 July 2004 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:09, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Try this (as root): Edit the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf (back them up first) and remove all sound-related stuff (lines containing 'sound', 'sb', 'synth', 'opl3'). Also remove all sound-related modules from the kernel with rmmod. Done. Now try to insmod the snd-ess1688. If it works it will pull in all the necessary sound core modules. Done, with modprobe. The improvement is tremendous. In XMMS and Totem I can now listen to mp3s, but they still have glitches. As in, they suddenly skip bits or jump a groove as if they were vinils. The files are all right, I can play them on Winamp from a Windblows box on my network. Still, it's infinitely better than before, mp3-wise. XMMS is specially bad, Totem seems to do better. If your system is old check the CPU load with 'top'. I would also try encoding my own mp3: the mp3's you tried may have errors which Windows had a workaround for. The weirdness doesn't end, though. Not at all! Audio CDs, which Grip played beautifully when I had the mess I had before I uninstalled the OSS modules, are now giving me a hard time. Grip no longer plays them - the timer counts the seconds as if the track was playing, but there is no sound. Since I had to change the output plugin from libOSS.so to libALSA.so in ~/.xmms/config, I thought to do the same for Grip. ALSA has OSS emulation, just modprobe snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss. But there doesn't seem to be an option to change the plugin in ~/.grip. On my system grip brings up KsCD as the player. You can use alsamixer to raise the volume of the CD channel. Be sure the channel is unmuted (no 'MM' at the top, toggle with the 'm' key). And CD playing in Totem is worse than mp3s on XMMS. It seems I have to choose between playing CDs with Grip or mp3s with Totem. :( Totem plays using the drive's IDE interface which is CPU intensive. With KsCD digital to analog conversion is done in the CDROM drive and an ananalog signal is send to the soundcard. In modern systems manufacturers often don't install the needed analog cable. If it fails with a 'board not found' or similar error, you might need to enable the board. You do it this way: Note what Raffaele wrote: If it fails with a 'board not found' or similar error :-) Install the isapnp package, then type # pnpdump isapnp.conf and edit the isapnp.conf file. Read the file to understand what to do, it is quite well explained (ask if unclear). In short, pnpdump scans the ISA bus and presents you with a number of possible configurations for the board, you need to manually select one by uncommenting the appropriate lines. After you are done, run # isapnp isapnp.conf you should see messages confirming the board was correctly configured and enabled. Now try again to insmod snd-ess1688. If this works, you'll need to configure the /etc/modprobe.preload to load the ess-1688 at boot, later on that. If some of the steps fail, send the error messages across. I don't guarantee it works for you, or that it's the easiest way, but that's how I manage to make the ESS (or the AZT, also an ISA board) work after every MDK install. raffaele OK, I'm going to remove the sound modules again, install isapnp and try with that, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for all the info. Germn. 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] FIXED - ALSA driver not running
My heartfelt thanks to Frans and Raffaele. The problem is fixed, kinda. XMMS still refuses to play mp3s or oggs properly, even those ripped by myself with Grip. Totem plays both, though, so XMMS is going to be uninstalled pronto. Shame, really, I like it better than Totem, but there you are. Totem, however, is still being rubbish with CDs. Not to worry, Grip plays them beautifully even if that's not its primary function. The problem with Grip was as easily solved as turning the volume up with alsamixer. Duh! Amlia Rodrigues singing fados. Ah, mellowness! :) Thanks guys, Germn. On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 21:39, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:09, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Try this (as root): Edit the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf (back them up first) and remove all sound-related stuff (lines containing 'sound', 'sb', 'synth', 'opl3'). Also remove all sound-related modules from the kernel with rmmod. Done. Now try to insmod the snd-ess1688. If it works it will pull in all the necessary sound core modules. Done, with modprobe. The improvement is tremendous. In XMMS and Totem I can now listen to mp3s, but they still have glitches. As in, they suddenly skip bits or jump a groove as if they were vinils. The files are all right, I can play them on Winamp from a Windblows box on my network. Still, it's infinitely better than before, mp3-wise. XMMS is specially bad, Totem seems to do better. If your system is old check the CPU load with 'top'. I would also try encoding my own mp3: the mp3's you tried may have errors which Windows had a workaround for. The weirdness doesn't end, though. Not at all! Audio CDs, which Grip played beautifully when I had the mess I had before I uninstalled the OSS modules, are now giving me a hard time. Grip no longer plays them - the timer counts the seconds as if the track was playing, but there is no sound. Since I had to change the output plugin from libOSS.so to libALSA.so in ~/.xmms/config, I thought to do the same for Grip. ALSA has OSS emulation, just modprobe snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss. But there doesn't seem to be an option to change the plugin in ~/.grip. On my system grip brings up KsCD as the player. You can use alsamixer to raise the volume of the CD channel. Be sure the channel is unmuted (no 'MM' at the top, toggle with the 'm' key). And CD playing in Totem is worse than mp3s on XMMS. It seems I have to choose between playing CDs with Grip or mp3s with Totem. :( Totem plays using the drive's IDE interface which is CPU intensive. With KsCD digital to analog conversion is done in the CDROM drive and an ananalog signal is send to the soundcard. In modern systems manufacturers often don't install the needed analog cable. If it fails with a 'board not found' or similar error, you might need to enable the board. You do it this way: Note what Raffaele wrote: If it fails with a 'board not found' or similar error :-) Install the isapnp package, then type # pnpdump isapnp.conf and edit the isapnp.conf file. Read the file to understand what to do, it is quite well explained (ask if unclear). In short, pnpdump scans the ISA bus and presents you with a number of possible configurations for the board, you need to manually select one by uncommenting the appropriate lines. After you are done, run # isapnp isapnp.conf you should see messages confirming the board was correctly configured and enabled. Now try again to insmod snd-ess1688. If this works, you'll need to configure the /etc/modprobe.preload to load the ess-1688 at boot, later on that. If some of the steps fail, send the error messages across. I don't guarantee it works for you, or that it's the easiest way, but that's how I manage to make the ESS (or the AZT, also an ISA board) work after every MDK install. raffaele OK, I'm going to remove the sound modules again, install isapnp and try with that, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for all the info. Germn. HTH, -Frans __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl... Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand. I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is only a short pause, and everything is running. -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.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] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 10:57, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, If you check the size and they are around 20 to 75 kB, they are probably Windows viruses. I learned that the hard way. Ignoring them is the best option. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 24 July 2004 11:47 pm, Brian Parish wrote: I am using gtk-gnutella and have noticed that in recent times, whatever I enter as search criteria, I get back heaps of whatever-I-typed-in.exe files found. I have always ignored them, but does anyone have a clear idea what these are about? cheers Brian They vary in size up to about 1.4MB. The thing that has me interested is that there are heaps of them and they are an EXACT match for the keywords used for the search. i.e. Search for never take stephen kuhn seriously and you'll get never_take_stephen_kuhn_seriously.exe many times with file sizes ranging from just under 600K to 1.4MB - all showing as limewire files. Sounds damn fishy to me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MAC Address
On July 25, 2004 06:26 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a new ECS N2U400-A which will not load either 9.2 or 10.0. I spent 18 hrs trying different combinations and gave up. So I installed win2k on that box, just to prove to myself that the board sucked more than I originally thought. Okay, the question. It has an onboard nvidia 10/100 NIC. I watched it check into the lan, copied its MAC, and assigned an address on the router. Every other box took this gracefully (win and mdk) and only uses that address. This new board just showed up on the net with another MAC and was assigned (of course) another address. The net shows black logged in with two different MAC's and, consequently, two addresses although there is only rj45 on the box. I can't ping the assigned add and can ping the new and both show as dhcp logins. Any logical explanation? Lee Yeah..the new (real) one is present and will respond to pings and other probes because it is there. The assigned one gets confused because it doesn't know where to go. Get rid of the copied/assigned MAC on the card and reconfigure everthing to use the real MAC. The only time you can successfully spoof a MAC is when the real MAC isn't on the same network/interface as the rest of the world. In short, you can do it with a Linksys router because it's really another tiny computer/firewall and it's just sort of borrowing it. It doesn't work on the same box very well if at all. ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: snip Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Thanks for the information. I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't realise that it had changed to 10.1 beta The Community label is for public betas of Mandrake releases. We all get to be guinea pigs before the rest of the world gets a crack at the official relase. In any event the new Community will be 10.1 which is still in alpha stage. ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 15:19:03, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl... Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand. I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is only a short pause, and everything is running. I gave up on SA completely since it would slow my old system so much it was nearly unusable. Bogofilter is nicely integrated into Kontact now, takes very little teaching (I knew there was a reason I hadn't cleared that spam directory) and is almost invisible in operation. I can heartily recommend it. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 15:32:59 up 3:13, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 0.36, 0.23 If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBCfwZqvqlrLPr5YRAo2iAJ9q00nwKNbSCnvRS8GMgi8XIUjzAwCfVsd2 BhOZw0rUkmX6Nufqwvix0yI= =tpCZ -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] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 23:39, Aron Smith wrote: It depends on how many rules you have and if they contradict each other Standard set of rules that comes with SA, and the rulesets from www.rulesemporium.com; are you suggesting I do away with some of the rulesets? stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. This is the fallacy of power: ultimately it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power. Paul Muad'Dib taught this lesson to the Sardaukar on the Plains of Arrakeen. His descendants have yet to learn the lesson for themselves. -The Preacher at Arrakeen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 00:18, Chris wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 08:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl... Stephen, first of all, are you running the bigevil set and the blacklist set? If so, thats a killer right there. Are you running any of the SURBL sets? I'm running a total of 21 rules, not counting my local.cf, and my manual whitelist. Are you using any of the network tests? Do you have autolearn off or on in your local.cf? Since I got rid of the big rule sets, turned autolearn off, started using network tests and the surbl's my load usually runs about 60% or less for the few seconds it takes to process mail through spamd. Thats on a 1.2GHz system with only 256mb ram. I just turned off bigevil; reckon I'll have to go through each different set to see which is being a hog... It's just bloody amazing the amount of spam that's been coming in - it's almost becoming an obsession with me to kill it all... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. -- Minna Antrim, Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl... Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand. I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is only a short pause, and everything is running. I wish I could, but ya see, my system is setup as a global mail server (for Tina and myself) - so the configuration I'm using is system wide, hence not being able to use it from within Evolution; I try to mirror my client's setups; clamd is smaller than calling SA proper. stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. -- Mae West Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 03:32, John Wilson wrote: On July 21, 2004 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International - if I choose US, then my right alt key no longer works, and if I choose US International, I have to hit the ' and then tap the space bar - which is getting horribly annoying. I've almost gotten to the point where I don't want to chat in IRC or even do email as it's so annoying. No where I've looked can I change this behaviour - no where I've looked can I specify what KIND of keyboard I have - HELP! stephen kuhn - proprietor Somewhere in MDK land there is a RPM the does allow you to configure a multimedia keyboard. I've even downloaded the puppy but I'll be damned if I can find it at the moment. Anyway, if memory serves it's in the club somewhere so you could try there. Give that a try or maybe someone can chime in and tell us what package it is. :-) Anyway, I haven't set it up so I'm not even sure that it will solve your problem. Good luck! ttfn John lineadkconfig / klinead klineadkconfig; tried both - in several different manners; still nothing. Still stuck either without the use of the right ALT key or having to hit the spacebar after every or ' (oh, and found out I lost my tilde ~ and ` as well - same thing - have to hit the dang spacebar) stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Then there's the story of the man who avoided reality for 70 years with drugs, sex, alcohol, fantasy, TV, movies, records, a hobby, lots of sleep... And on his 80th birthday died without ever having faced any of his real problems. The man's younger brother, who had been facing reality and all his problems for 50 years with psychiatrists, nervous breakdowns, tics, tension, headaches, worry, anxiety and ulcers, was so angry at his brother for having gotten away scott free that he had a paralyzing stroke. The moral to this story is that there ain't no justice that we can stand to live with. -- R. Geis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl... Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand. I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is only a short pause, and everything is running. I wish I could, but ya see, my system is setup as a global mail server (for Tina and myself) - so the configuration I'm using is system wide, hence not being able to use it from within Evolution; I try to mirror my client's setups; clamd is smaller than calling SA proper. stephen kuhn - proprietor Have you considered using amavis-new? My mailserver is an old 233mmx with 192MB ram and its handling about 1500 mails a day. as well as performing other tasks. (some days it handles well over 2500 emails, and at least 200 of those are spam dutifully caught by spamassassin) Its using postfix with amavis-new as a content filter, spamassassin and Trophy/trend filescan/clamd and it gets a hammering but the mail is still as fast as anyone needs it to be. (its also running secure pop3 and secure imap.) because amavis-new is a perl daemon, it's loaded into memory upon startup and loads spamassassin in with it, so there is no delay for startup. its been proven that there is no benefit in speed between spamd and mail::spamassassin when the later is loaded into memory by amavis-new already. Stephen, part of your problem is your dependence on Sendmail, its resource usage and memory footprint are much higher then Postfix or Qmail, and its performance is lower. I'm about to upgrade my mail server, it's currently mdk9.0 and I'm changing to a much faster machine with Debian Woody with backported versions of the latest postfix/spamassassion/amavis-new/clamd I've already setup a test server and so far it is performing well. (I'm changing the servers all over to debian because their stable release is supported for far longer periods then any mandrake release, and I hate upgrading servers with a passion.) -- rgds Franki http://htmlfixit.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard
Hey Stephen, There will be two more shocks for you on the keyboard, as long as you stick to the US international version: ^ and ` will only come up with the spacebar as well. This is all to help people with non-english alphabets and US keyboards to write things like Gänseblümchen and diótörõ. If you go with the NON international US keyboard, you won't have the problems with ' ~ ` ^, but the problem of the lost Alt key remains. My main problem was how to get all the extra characters out of my laptop US keyboard (fat chance of replacing that), and this link gave a good start to doing that. http://vh224401.truman.edu/~dbindner/guide/x1456.html Hope it helps? cheers Andras On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 00:15, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 03:32, John Wilson wrote: On July 21, 2004 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International - if I choose US, then my right alt key no longer works, and if I choose US International, I have to hit the ' and then tap the space bar - which is getting horribly annoying. I've almost gotten to the point where I don't want to chat in IRC or even do email as it's so annoying. No where I've looked can I change this behaviour - no where I've looked can I specify what KIND of keyboard I have - HELP! stephen kuhn - proprietor Somewhere in MDK land there is a RPM the does allow you to configure a multimedia keyboard. I've even downloaded the puppy but I'll be damned if I can find it at the moment. Anyway, if memory serves it's in the club somewhere so you could try there. Give that a try or maybe someone can chime in and tell us what package it is. :-) Anyway, I haven't set it up so I'm not even sure that it will solve your problem. Good luck! ttfn John lineadkconfig / klinead klineadkconfig; tried both - in several different manners; still nothing. Still stuck either without the use of the right ALT key or having to hit the spacebar after every or ' (oh, and found out I lost my tilde ~ and ` as well - same thing - have to hit the dang spacebar) stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Then there's the story of the man who avoided reality for 70 years with drugs, sex, alcohol, fantasy, TV, movies, records, a hobby, lots of sleep... And on his 80th birthday died without ever having faced any of his real problems. The man's younger brother, who had been facing reality and all his problems for 50 years with psychiatrists, nervous breakdowns, tics, tension, headaches, worry, anxiety and ulcers, was so angry at his brother for having gotten away scott free that he had a paralyzing stroke. The moral to this story is that there ain't no justice that we can stand to live with. -- R. Geis __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 08:31, frankieh wrote: Have you considered using amavis-new? My mailserver is an old 233mmx with 192MB ram and its handling about 1500 mails a day. as well as performing other tasks. (some days it handles well over 2500 emails, and at least 200 of those are spam dutifully caught by spamassassin) Its using postfix with amavis-new as a content filter, spamassassin and Trophy/trend filescan/clamd and it gets a hammering but the mail is still as fast as anyone needs it to be. (its also running secure pop3 and secure imap.) because amavis-new is a perl daemon, it's loaded into memory upon startup and loads spamassassin in with it, so there is no delay for startup. its been proven that there is no benefit in speed between spamd and mail::spamassassin when the later is loaded into memory by amavis-new already. With the increasing amount of spam, I'm considering changing packages anyways...it's getting to be such a bleeding hassle... Stephen, part of your problem is your dependence on Sendmail, its resource usage and memory footprint are much higher then Postfix or Qmail, and its performance is lower. From top: 22607 nobody25 0 44784 40m 6028 R 29.7 4.5 16:14.00 spamd 22668 nobody25 0 44640 40m 6028 R 29.0 4.5 16:12.41 spamd 22647 nobody25 0 44912 40m 6028 R 27.7 4.6 16:12.51 spamd ...MailScanner and sendmail are far far below on the list... I'm about to upgrade my mail server, it's currently mdk9.0 and I'm changing to a much faster machine with Debian Woody with backported versions of the latest postfix/spamassassion/amavis-new/clamd I've already setup a test server and so far it is performing well. (I'm changing the servers all over to debian because their stable release is supported for far longer periods then any mandrake release, and I hate upgrading servers with a passion.) stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ltmodem
Le July 24, 2004 06:15 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: Le July 24, 2004 11:31 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: Hi I have a Lucent Tech winmodem. I used ltmodem rpm in the past, and it has to be combined with a kernel rpm. I have not found a kernel rpm for 2.6.3-9 which is the latest. Somebody has one? If it is like the 2.4.x kernels, you can copy the ltmodem directory from the modules directory for an earlier version of the 2.6.x kernel. The module is compiled to be kernel version independent, at least within the same major kernel version. It is worth a try anyway. Mikkel Ok I installed the module for 2.6.3-7: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -ql ltmodem_kernel-2.6.3.7mdk /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/char/ltmodem/lt_modem.ko.gz /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/char/ltmodem/lt_serial.ko.gz and i copied it to the kernel dir: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.3-9mdk #1 Fri Apr 23 16:41:09 EDT 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cp -a /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/char/ltmodem /lib/modules/2.6.3-9mdk/kernel/drivers/char/ Now I try to modprobe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# modprobe lt_serial FATAL: Module lt_serial not found. Why can't modprobe find the module? Try running depmod -a and see if that helps. (This is run when you reboot...) Mikkel It worked! Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# depmod -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# modprobe lt_serial [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lsmod Module Size Used by lt_serial 7108 0 lt_modem 533584 1 lt_serial Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:36 pm, John Wilson wrote: On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: snip Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Thanks for the information. I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't realise that it had changed to 10.1 beta The Community label is for public betas of Mandrake releases. We all get to be guinea pigs before the rest of the world gets a crack at the official relase. In any event the new Community will be 10.1 which is still in alpha stage. ttfn John Of course, there is always the possibility that the OP has some older CD's that are labelled Mandrake 10 Community). -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] The Linux virus myth
At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and have been unable to find it again. Can anyone here point me to it? Thanks Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 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] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files
On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:30 pm, Brian Parish wrote: snip They vary in size up to about 1.4MB. The thing that has me interested is that there are heaps of them and they are an EXACT match for the keywords used for the search. i.e. Search for never take stephen kuhn seriously and you'll get never_take_stephen_kuhn_seriously.exe many times with file sizes ranging from just under 600K to 1.4MB - all showing as limewire files. Sounds damn fishy to me! Joe? Joe Hill? This has to be the easiest setup that you've ever had. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] hd.img
Hello, Can somebody help me to find hd.img image for Mandrake 10.1? I need to install 10.1 from iso file on my disk and i can't do this with hd_grub.img. On ftp archives i can find ONLY hd_grub.img. Thank You Catcher Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FIXED - ALSA driver not running
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My heartfelt thanks to Frans and Raffaele. The problem is fixed, kinda. XMMS still refuses to play mp3s or oggs properly, even those ripped by myself with Grip. Totem plays both, though, so XMMS is going to be uninstalled pronto. Shame, really, I like it better than Totem, but there you are. Totem, however, is still being rubbish with CDs. Not to worry, Grip plays them beautifully even if that's not its primary function. The problem with Grip was as easily solved as turning the volume up with alsamixer. Duh! Amlia Rodrigues singing fados. Ah, mellowness! :) Thanks guys, Germn. On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 21:39, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:09, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Try this (as root): Edit the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf (back them up first) and remove all sound-related stuff (lines containing 'sound', 'sb', 'synth', 'opl3'). Also remove all sound-related modules from the kernel with rmmod. Done. Now try to insmod the snd-ess1688. If it works it will pull in all the necessary sound core modules. Done, with modprobe. The improvement is tremendous. In XMMS and Totem I can now listen to mp3s, but they still have glitches. As in, they suddenly skip bits or "jump a groove" as if they were vinils. The files are all right, I can play them on Winamp from a Windblows box on my network. Still, it's infinitely better than before, mp3-wise. XMMS is specially bad, Totem seems to do better. If your system is old check the CPU load with 'top'. I would also try encoding my own mp3: the mp3's you tried may have errors which Windows had a workaround for. The weirdness doesn't end, though. Not at all! Audio CDs, which Grip played beautifully when I had the mess I had before I uninstalled the OSS modules, are now giving me a hard time. Grip no longer plays them - the timer counts the seconds as if the track was playing, but there is no sound. Since I had to change the output plugin from libOSS.so to libALSA.so in ~/.xmms/config, I thought to do the same for Grip. ALSA has OSS emulation, just modprobe snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss. But there doesn't seem to be an option to change the plugin in ~/.grip. On my system grip brings up KsCD as the player. You can use alsamixer to raise the volume of the CD channel. Be sure the channel is unmuted (no 'MM' at the top, toggle with the 'm' key). And CD playing in Totem is worse than mp3s on XMMS. It seems I have to choose between playing CDs with Grip or mp3s with Totem. :( Totem plays using the drive's IDE interface which is CPU intensive. With KsCD digital to analog conversion is done in the CDROM drive and an ananalog signal is send to the soundcard. In modern systems manufacturers often don't install the needed analog cable. If it fails with a 'board not found' or similar error, you might need to enable the board. You do it this way: Note what Raffaele wrote: "If it fails with a 'board not found' or similar error" :-) Install the isapnp package, then type # pnpdump isapnp.conf and edit the isapnp.conf file. Read the file to understand what to do, it is quite well explained (ask if unclear). In short, pnpdump scans the ISA bus and presents you with a number of possible configurations for the board, you need to manually select one by uncommenting the appropriate lines. After you are done, run # isapnp isapnp.conf you should see messages confirming the board was correctly configured and enabled. Now try again to insmod snd-ess1688. If this works, you'll need to configure the /etc/modprobe.preload to load the ess-1688 at boot, later on that. If some of the steps fail, send the error messages across. I don't guarantee it works for you, or that it's the easiest way, but that's how I manage to make the ESS (or the AZT, also an ISA board) work after every MDK install. raffaele OK, I'm going to remove the sound modules again, install isapnp and try with that, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for all the info. Germn. HTH, -Frans __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote: At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and have been unable to find it again. Can anyone here point me to it? Thanks Marc A quick session on Google revealed the following: http://www.claymania.com/unix-viruses.html http://zdnet.com.com/5208-1105-0.html?forumID=1threadID=3583messageID=74251start=60 http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5785842995.html http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/200209/linux_malware.xml Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved)
- Original Message - From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:43:57 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 11:10:11, Angus Auld wrote: whack It appears that there is a problem with the checkinstall package I was using. I installed the latest beta version, checkinstall-1.6.0-0.beta3.2mdk.i586, and then the rebuilding went fine. :-) Now if I can only get apollon to work. :-| Mandrake 10.0 is proving to be a challenge for me thus far. It isn't nearly as stable as 9.2 was on my Dell. A couple of questions Angus, since you prompted me to try to get Apollon working here when it wouldn't since the new machine was set up. What security level are you running? I ask because a customer system that I assembled yesterday running level Standard connects and shares files through Apollon. Your connection again? I'm on Shaw High Speed Xtreme and since I'm setting the application up and trying to make it work anything I suggest will have to be adapted to that difference, plus any relevant differences between Mandrake 10.0 and cooker. We can do this, it just may take a bit. It also seems like things aren't as easy to find, and to configure. I found 9.2 was a real rock solid version for me on my hardware. I lost my previous installation due to a failed harddrive, and after installing a new Maxtor 40GB, I thought it would be good to go with the latest and greatest version of Mandrake. It has been somewhat of a letdown so far. Regards. --Angus I'm not certain what the hold up is for you Angus. I've installed 10.0 on 6 machines this past week, of that number 3 were for families that have rug rats that want to share their music with their friends. In all three cases Apollon initialized and ran without trouble. On your system and on mine there are difficulties. I know what may be the trouble with mine (it's cooked) but yours should have been simple. Since it seems as though you managed to get it installed, have you gone into the ~/.giFT directory and clicked on giftd.conf? Or started apollon from a terminal with the -v (verbose) flag? If you haven't done either take a look and post the results. I have Apollon starting at the moment but I keep getting time outs on the nodes during connection. I may have the security wound a little tight though so I'll have to check and open the default port (1213?) for it. When I find something else I'll post it. Charlie *** Thanks for the feedback Charlie. I have managed to get apollon working on my system. The sticker for me was the Gnutella plugin. I compiled it w/o trouble, but after I had installed it and set up giFT/apollon to use it, giFTd would not start when I opened apollon. I even tried to start giFTd manually in a terminal.no go. I got errors having to do with the Gnutella plugin. I disabled Gnutella, voila! OpenFT and FastTrack work fine. What's going on with Gnutella? Have you been able to get it to work for you? I'm on a dialup here Charlie. :-( My provider is Aliant. It was in the plans for us to have a DSL system called Vibe, which should have been available this spring/summer. Unfortunately Aliant is experiencing a workers strike that has been dragging on for months now. Hopefully the DSL will be soon to come. I have my security level at the default setting. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *** ~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] FIXED - ALSA driver not running
On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:08 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head meta content=text/html;charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type title/title /head body bgcolor=#ff text=#00 a class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]/a wrote: blockquote cite=[EMAIL PROTECTED] type=cite pre wrap=My heartfelt thanks to Frans and Raffaele. The problem is fixed, kinda. XMMS still refuses to play mp3s or oggs properly, even those ripped by myself with Grip. Totem plays both, though, so XMMS is going to be uninstalled pronto. Shame, really, I like it better than Totem, but there you are. Totem, however, is still being rubbish with CDs. Not to worry, Grip plays them beautifully even if that's not its primary function. The problem with Grip was as easily solved as turning the volume up with alsamixer. Duh! Amlia Rodrigues singing fados. Ah, mellowness! :) Thanks guys, Germn. On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 21:39, Frans Ketelaars wrote: /pre blockquote type=cite pre wrap=On Sunday 25 July 2004 16:57, a class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]/a wrote: /pre blockquote type=cite pre wrap=On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:09, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: /pre blockquote type=cite pre wrap=Try this (as root): Edit the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf (back them up first) and remove all sound-related stuff (lines containing 'sound', 'sb', 'synth', 'opl3'). Also remove all sound-related modules from the kernel with rmmod. /pre /blockquote pre wrap=Done. /pre blockquote type=cite pre wrap=Now try to insmod the snd-ess1688. If it works it will pull in all the necessary sound core modules. /pre /blockquote pre wrap=Done, with modprobe. The improvement is tremendous. In XMMS and Totem I can now listen to mp3s, but they still have glitches. As in, they suddenly skip bits or jump a groove as if they were vinils. The files are all right, I can play them on Winamp from a Windblows box on my network. Still, it's infinitely better than before, mp3-wise. XMMS is specially bad, Totem seems to do better. /pre /blockquote pre wrap=If your system is old check the CPU load with 'top'. I would also try encoding my own mp3: the mp3's you tried may have errors which Windows had a workaround for. /pre blockquote type=cite pre wrap=The weirdness doesn't end, though. Not at all! Audio CDs, which Grip played beautifully when I had the mess I had before I uninstalled the OSS modules, are now giving me a hard time. Grip no longer plays them - the timer counts the seconds as if the track was playing, but there is no sound. Since I had to change the output plugin from libOSS.so to libALSA.so in ~/.xmms/config, I thought to do the same for Grip. /pre /blockquote pre wrap=ALSA has OSS emulation, just modprobe snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss. /pre blockquote type=cite pre wrap=But there doesn't seem to be an option to change the plugin in ~/.grip. /pre /blockquote pre wrap=On my system grip brings up KsCD as the player. You can use alsamixer to raise the volume of the CD channel. Be sure the channel is unmuted (no 'MM' at the top, toggle with the 'm' key). /pre blockquote type=cite pre wrap=And CD playing in Totem is worse than mp3s on XMMS. It seems I have to choose between playing CDs with Grip or mp3s with Totem. :( /pre /blockquote pre wrap=Totem plays using the drive's IDE interface which is CPU intensive. With KsCD digital to analog conversion is done in the CDROM drive and an ananalog signal is send to the soundcard. In modern systems manufacturers often don't install the needed analog cable. /pre blockquote type=cite blockquote type=cite pre wrap= If it fails with a 'board not found' or similar error, you might need to enable the board. You do it this way: /pre /blockquote /blockquote pre wrap=Note what Raffaele wrote: If it fails with a 'board not found' or /pre blockquote type=cite blockquote type=cite pre wrap=similar error :-) /pre /blockquote /blockquote blockquote type=cite blockquote type=cite pre wrap=Install the isapnp package, then type # pnpdump gt; isapnp.conf and edit the isapnp.conf file. Read the file to understand what to do, it is quite well explained (ask if unclear). In short, pnpdump scans the ISA bus and presents you with a number of possible configurations for the board, you need to manually select one by uncommenting the appropriate lines. After you are done, run # isapnp isapnp.conf you should see messages confirming the board was correctly configured and enabled. Now try again to insmod snd-ess1688.
Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth
On July 25, 2004 06:24 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote: At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and have been unable to find it again. Can anyone here point me to it? Thanks Marc A quick session on Google revealed the following: http://www.claymania.com/unix-viruses.html http://zdnet.com.com/5208-1105-0.html?forumID=1threadID=3583messageID=74 251start=60 http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5785842995.html http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/200209/linux_malware.xml Cheers Elwyn Of course you could be missing the point that Microsoft keeps making that Linux itself is a virus. :-) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:26 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Well. I've installed Spam Assassin via the instructions, however since setting it up my inbound spam has dropped considerably :( Drat. No, really, I wanted to sort out the rules... Anyway, it's monday tomorrow and everything is busy in the week. Spamming me is a 9-5 Job? Unlikely but... I filter all my mail with SA through KMail. Which I guess is what you do too, as Kontact just brings up KMail. As you have probably done, pipe all your mail through SA with a filter setup like for all mail less than 250,000 bytes pipe through spamc. Then filter all mail that has X-Spam-Status=yes to your spam box, mine is SpamPile Now, I have a little script that runs spam-learn on my inbox, SpamPile and a few others daily. Mine runs from KAlarm. Now, get and setup my_rules_du_Jour and rules_du_jour. You can get it from the Exit0 SA Wiki Page at http://www.exit0.us/index.php/MyRulesDuJour. Follow the directions there to use up my_rules_du_jour and rules_du_jour. Then all I do is Friday after I get home from work I run a little script manually that updates my_rules_du_jour, and my machine by urpmi. The rules_du_jour part takes about 2 minutes to run. So it takes about 8 minutes a month to control spam with SA. Rob a very happy SA user. -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.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] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:54 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Now, I have a little script that runs spam-learn on my inbox, SpamPile and a few others daily. Mine runs from KAlarm. Now, get and setup my_rules_du_Jour and rules_du_jour. You can get it from the Exit0 SA Wiki Page at http://www.exit0.us/index.php/MyRulesDuJour. Follow the directions there to use up my_rules_du_jour and rules_du_jour. Then all I do is Friday after I get home from work I run a little script manually that updates my_rules_du_jour, and my machine by urpmi. The rules_du_jour part takes about 2 minutes to run. Rob, do you check your inbox and spam folder for FN's and FP's before running your script? I take it you have auto-learn 0 in your local.cf? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 10:01pm up 27 days, 3:24, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.32, 0.37 No evil can happen to a good man. -- Plato Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 20:24:08, Angus Auld wrote: whack Thanks for the feedback Charlie. I have managed to get apollon working on my system. I told you could do it! Good on ya Angus. The sticker for me was the Gnutella plugin. I compiled it w/o trouble, but after I had installed it and set up giFT/apollon to use it, giFTd would not start when I opened apollon. I even tried to start giFTd manually in a terminal.no go. I got errors having to do with the Gnutella plugin. I disabled Gnutella, voila! OpenFT and FastTrack work fine. That was the last thing I had a chance to do this afternoon before being called away to doctor a sick Windows box. Since I just got home and don't feel much like messing with a major debug (cooker, remember?) I'll tackle mine tomorrow. I think I'll be doing a back-up and fresh install of cooker tomorrow. For a new box there's a _lot_ of detritus hanging around from previous versions. What's going on with Gnutella? Have you been able to get it to work for you? Gnutella still works on the old system, or did last time I paid attention, but that's running a fully updated PCLinuxOS installed to hard disk. Tex put all kinds of funny gizmo's in that distribution but it's still Mandrake 9.2 with an attitude. I'm on a dialup here Charlie. :-( My provider is Aliant. It was in the plans for us to have a DSL system called Vibe, which should have been available this spring/summer. Unfortunately Aliant is experiencing a workers strike that has been dragging on for months now. Hopefully the DSL will be soon to come. That's why I asked. I recalled (OK I cheat, I make notes for *everything* 'cause if I didn't write it down it didn't happen) that you may be switching to ADSL. Too bad it's held up. I hope they settle soon so they don't hold you up too long. I have my security level at the default setting. You don't wanna know what Custom security settings I'm running at the moment. If I think about it I'll go nuts myself. g Best regards. --Angus I bid you Peace. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 21:43:02 up 9:24, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.07 The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBIBBZqvqlrLPr5YRAm2AAJ9714AX4sRRKf/qYSa8yyM8eK/6pwCfaIfW P3ZRyBdXpavMDCtk2DtVOyE= =E/w1 -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] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Sunday 25 July 2004 8:05 pm, Chris wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:54 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Now, I have a little script that runs spam-learn on my inbox, SpamPile and a few others daily. Mine runs from KAlarm. Now, get and setup my_rules_du_Jour and rules_du_jour. You can get it from the Exit0 SA Wiki Page at http://www.exit0.us/index.php/MyRulesDuJour. Follow the directions there to use up my_rules_du_jour and rules_du_jour. Then all I do is Friday after I get home from work I run a little script manually that updates my_rules_du_jour, and my machine by urpmi. The rules_du_jour part takes about 2 minutes to run. Rob, do you check your inbox and spam folder for FN's and FP's before running your script? I take it you have auto-learn 0 in your local.cf? FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf? I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can figure out what you are asking. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???
Gentlemen, I have installed Apache 2 + PHP + mysql with Mandrake linux 10.00. In Apache installation there is a folder called htdocs where we put all data i.e. HTML files, PHP code and other stuff. However I did not see this htdocs folder nor Apache2 installation folder. I tried searching every thing under /. So also if I give http://localhost; on wed browser , the index page of apache is displayed. I am just not understanding where this damn thing has been installed. Can anybody please let me know where I can find this htdocs folder ? Thanks, ~Sujit.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:28:12 -0400 Sujit Apte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I have installed Apache 2 + PHP + mysql with Mandrake linux 10.00. In Apache installation there is a folder called htdocs where we put all data i.e. HTML files, PHP code and other stuff. However I did not see this htdocs folder nor Apache2 installation folder. I tried searching every thing under /. So also if I give http://localhost; on wed browser , the index page of apache is displayed. I am just not understanding where this damn thing has been installed. Can anybody please let me know where I can find this htdocs folder ? Thanks, ~Sujit.. /var/www/html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:28:12 -0400 Sujit Apte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I have installed Apache 2 + PHP + mysql with Mandrake linux 10.00. In Apache installation there is a folder called htdocs where we put all data i.e. HTML files, PHP code and other stuff. However I did not see this htdocs folder nor Apache2 installation folder. I tried searching every thing under /. So also if I give http://localhost; on wed browser , the index page of apache is displayed. I am just not understanding where this damn thing has been installed. Can anybody please let me know where I can find this htdocs folder ? Thanks, ~Sujit.. the webroot on Mandrake is /var/www/html/. The apache conf files are in /etc/httpd/conf/. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] high pitched whine coming from new Maxtor!
I seem to be getting a very annoying, and scary, high pitched whining sound occasionally from my 3 week old Maxtor 40 GB 7200rpm drive. Should I back everything up now?! :-/ My drive mounts in a vertical position. Could that cause a problem? I could find no warnings against vertical mounting in the docs that came with it. The noise comes and goes, and just started doing so the past day or so. It has been working very well otherwise. I just found my purchase receipt.I may well need it. Anyone able to give me a prognosis? ;-) Regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *** ~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] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???
/var/www/html In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache you do as follows ./configure --prefix=/apache/ your apache will be installed in obviously /apache/ and your htdocs will be in /apache/htdocs/ ! Obviously this can be changed, you just need to edit your httpd.conf file and set the Document_Root= to where you want to put your files, but as is pointed out above, most people put it in /var/www . -- Marc Hultquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computerkit Systems (Pty) Ltd http://www.cks.co.za (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F) +27 11 312 1408 (C) +27 82 563 2861 Quote: Its a bad idea for geeks to be on low-carb diets. Low-carb means no sugar, no sugar means cravings, cravings mean a loss of concentration, losing concentration makes geeks irritable and geeks run the computers that run the world's banks and militaries !!! . . . . . . . . YE GODS !!! Give me a frosted chocolate cake before we plunge into anarchy !!! - (c) J.D. Illad Frazer(Userfriendly.org) 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
