Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio
Okay, thanks so far to everyone for your suggestions. I apparently have at and sox installed, and I think I can make heads and tails of the way to use at, however, I haven't the slightest clue with sox. Anyone want to give me quick and dirty directions on how I would get it to start recording what's coming in through the input on my sound card, using sox? And then be sweet and explain what means what? Thought the explanation isn't as important, I can always figure out what stuff means using the man pages... I just really can't make sense of it without somewhere to start from. Anyhow, if anyone gets back to me on this soon enough I can set it up before I go to work tomorrow, I'll be most appreciative, but if not, I'll keep playing and asking and I can always know what I'm doing for next time. Thanks! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install problem
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 06:03 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) My Son in Law and I fiddled around with an old IBM thinkpad whose rom was broken. In the end we took it apart and managed to hook up another tempary rom drive to do the job. It worked for us, but of course the temporaty drive didn't fit the thinkpad, so we had to put the old one back after we had installed the OS. Maybe you could extend the ide line another device in much the same way ? John Thankds Guys The nw install is out but I will have to look at it as a learning experience one good thing I was able to run it in the dos emulation command line mode so it will have nix of some kind on it Okie Dokie I purchased an adaptor pin 1 isn't marked on the laptop drive its a IBM transtar I don't want to plug this puppy in backwards as two of the lines go to 12v. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] problems adding disk and moving /var data
On Friday 26 November 2004 01:00, Jan RUBBRECHT wrote: Hi, I've installed my proxy server (squid) on a mandrake 9.1 on a VMWare running on a Windows 2000 Server... just to start and learn more about Linux. I have a lot of servers installed, so my 4Gb disk is getting a little bit full. I had 3 partitions, /, /home and swapspace. I tried adding a new (virtual) disk with diskdrake, wanting /var to be mounted on the new filesystem. That folder is most likely to expand the most and the fastest. I got a couple problems with diskdrake so I mounted it on /var2 and thought I can fix that later... Anyway, I later moved all existing data from /var to /var2 after stopping all services, removed /var and wanted to mv /var2 /var didn't work :-/ I changed /etc/fstab so the new disk would mount on /var next time but no such luck. Instead a new /var folder was created and /var2 was emtpy (after rebooting and reconfiguring /etc/fstab I found my data again). Could anyone please give me a hint how I can proceed to move /var to the new disk? Tia, Jan PS. I'm using gmail, please make sure you send your reply back to the list, thanks. You are not doing much wrong. In brief to move /var to a new partition the steps are :- 1/ Make a new partition and mount it on var2 2/ Copy /var to /var2 with cp -a /var/* /var2 (/var2 should now contain the files previously on /var including symlinks) 3/ Revise /etc/fstab so /the partition currently mounted as /var2 will be mounted as /var 4/ Reboot derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmenu icon disappeared
On Friday 26 November 2004 02:37, Bob Read wrote: I'm running LM9.1 on this machine. sometime today the K/gear Icon on the left end of the taskbar disappeared. Can anyone help me to get it back and working? Much Thanks, Bob To get the Menu icon back right click on the start bar between icons and select PanelMenuAddSpecialButtonKmenu To get back any other application just drag it out of the Kmenu onto the start bar. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firefox default browser doesn't stick
Hi folks, I've modified the /home/.kde/share/applnk-mdk/Internet/Web browsers/Mozilla firefox.desktop. The line: exec= soundwrapper /usr/bin/mozzffremote %U But, after sometimes, it will change back to: exec= soundwrapper /usr/bin/mozzffremote (without the %U). Is there somekind of system restore that makes this? Thanks. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 15:37:45 up 5:51, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:24:15 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Mikkel, One more question please. You can share /home, /boot, and swap between the two, as long as /boot is large enough for all the kernel versions you are using, along with the inital RAM disk inages. (It is handy that 9.2 and 10.0 are running different versions of the kernel.) I assume that I can't share /. How do I get a root partition for the 10.0 version? For the boot setup, you have a couple of choices - you can use the same boot loader for both, as long as you keep /etc/lilo.conf in sync for both. Or you can install the boot loader for 10.0 to the / partition of 10.0, and put in an option in 9.2 to change to it. (This is done in the same way you would do it for Windows, or any other OS.) If you deside on only one copy of lilo, you may want to make /etc/lilo.conf a symlink to a file in /boot. One thing to keep in mind if you are going to share /home is that the user numbers have to match between 9.2 and 10.0. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kmail cannot forward attachment
Oh no, I've just found out that my Kmail 1.7.1 cannot forward attachment. I mean when I forward some emails, the attachment isn't included. Is there something wrong? Thanks -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 17:36:15 up 16 min, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1
Subject line says it all... Grip did work in 10.0 (and in 9.0, 9.1 etc). Now it appears to rip the audio cd, but the wavs it produces contain only null bytes. Same result using the command-line cdparanoia. I can listen to the audio cds all right with grip, and also listen to mp3 with xmms. Only ripping is not working. What changed from 10.0? Any hints as where to look for? thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kmail cannot forward attachment (SOLVED)
On Friday 26 November 2004 05:37 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Oh no, I've just found out that my Kmail 1.7.1 cannot forward attachment. I mean when I forward some emails, the attachment isn't included. Is there something wrong? Thanks It's a bug :( http://www.archivum.info/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2004-11/msg00550.html -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 18:14:56 up 54 min, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:03 pm, J or M Montgomery wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:24:15 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Mikkel, One more question please. You can share /home, /boot, and swap between the two, as long as /boot is large enough for all the kernel versions you are using, along with the inital RAM disk inages. (It is handy that 9.2 and 10.0 are running different versions of the kernel.) I assume that I can't share /. How do I get a root partition for the 10.0 version? Well for one thing I would suggest that you not share /home as it provides plenty of possibilities for seeing problems arising from incompatible contents of hidden folders. That won't prevent it running, but it may make you think some apps are flaky when they are really just responding to saved settings from the other version. Your choice of course. You will get a new / partition as a consequence of the install. Remember that /etc/fstab is specific to each version, so one will mount / on hda5 or whatever and the new one will mount root on hda9 or something. No overlap there. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firewall
How do I get the firewall to accept my changes in 10.0? Every time I change the settings they revert back to the previous settings when I check. I have tried logging out and back-in after the changes and even rebooting. Thanks Jay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmenu icon disappeared
Derek Jennings wrote: To get the Menu icon back right click on the start bar between icons and select PanelMenuAddSpecialButtonKmenu To get back any other application just drag it out of the Kmenu onto the start bar. derek Much thanks Derek. I had started down that route, but hadn't gone far enough. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD-burning
On Thursday 25 November 2004 04:44 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I have experienced something strange, after upgrading to 10.0 from 9.1 my CD/DVD-writer has stopped being reckognised as a SCSI-device, cdrecord -scanbus gives me this info: scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-mdk '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) '_NEC' 'DVD+RW ND-1100A ' '1.80' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * there are no /dev/sg after what I can see in the treesystem and no /dev/scd0 either, interestingly enough it seems that /dev/scd* is no longer used. 2.6.x kernels no longer use scsi emulation. Make sure you are using udev by running (you might need to do a 'urpmi udev' first) tom # service udev status udev is running [ OK ] if not, run 'service udev start' and try again. Then 'urpme devfs' and remove any devfs=mount statement from lilo.conf (or you can change it to devfs=nomount ) Then. X-CD-Roast seems to reckognise the burner as a burner but refuses to burn with it. Gnometoaster just give me the errormessage to do the scanbus. I suspect I am missing something somewhere, but I am not sure what...or maybe I do, it seems also that I have a append = hdc=ide-scsi in lilo.conf No, remove that from lilo.conf and run 'lilo' after all the above edits. as well, I am at a loss here /Anders Run 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' You might see it recommended to use 'dev=ATAPI' but that is deprecated already. 'dev=ATA' is the more correct form. Eg, here's mine; tom # cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 # Warning: Using ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Use dev=ATA:X,Y,Z or dev=/dev/hdX # Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-Mandrakelinux-scsi-linux-sg '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'TEAC' 'DV-516E ' '3.01' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PREMIUM ' '1.05' Removable CD-ROM 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * Notice my burner is 1,1,0 So; cdrecord -v -eject speed=24 dev=ATA:1,1,0 ... is my basic form for burning CDr's. speed= can be omitted and your burner should try an use it's fastest speed, but I'd suggest you use 1/2 of the lesser; your burner's speed or the media you use. My burner is 52x, and I use 52x media, so I burn at 24x. Notice from the Warning: that I could also use the form 'dev=/dev/hdc' (burner is primary on the 2nd IDE channel). I'd recommend usin 'dev=ATA:X,Y,Z' You might also have somethin like this in /etc/modprobe.conf # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using # generate-modprobe.conf command install scsi_hostadapter /sbin/modprobe sata_via; /bin/true You could have this if you'd done a fresh install. Since you upgraded you can try running 'generate-modprobe.conf' That will try to convert your existing modules.conf (2.4.x kernels) into a suitable modprobe.conf (2.6.x kernels). Backup your existing modprobe.conf first. Either way you might need a line like this with the appropriate driver for your burner. (Mine is 'sata_via' for an IDE/SATA combo VIA mobo). I'm not positive on this, as my SATA drive also uses SCSI emulation. IOW's, the modprobe.conf line above might not be needed on your system. So if you don't have it, try a test burn without it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0
J or M Montgomery wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:24:15 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Mikkel, One more question please. You can share /home, /boot, and swap between the two, as long as /boot is large enough for all the kernel versions you are using, along with the inital RAM disk inages. (It is handy that 9.2 and 10.0 are running different versions of the kernel.) I assume that I can't share /. How do I get a root partition for the 10.0 version? That is correct. The new installation will create its own / partition. It will then install its versions of the programs and libraries in /bin, /sbin, /lib, /usr/bin, etc. There are some other directories you could share, but it probably isn't worth the work required. You can also run into some strange problems if you try and share the wrong ones. One thing you may want to do after you have 10.0 installed is to add entries in /etc/fstab for the other / file system. What I mean is, in 9.2 add a /mnt/10.0 directory, and ether when you install 10.0, or later, add /mnt/9.2. This gives you an easy way to edit config files, or check log files on one version when running the other. Sort of like having your own built-in rescue disk. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall
On Friday 26 November 2004 14:12, Jay Warwick wrote: How do I get the firewall to accept my changes in 10.0? Every time I change the settings they revert back to the previous settings when I check. I have tried logging out and back-in after the changes and even rebooting. Thanks Jay Have you done your updates? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall
Yep, nothing related to the firewall left in updates. jay On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 22:50, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 26 November 2004 14:12, Jay Warwick wrote: How do I get the firewall to accept my changes in 10.0? Every time I change the settings they revert back to the previous settings when I check. I have tried logging out and back-in after the changes and even rebooting. Thanks Jay Have you done your updates? derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] compat-gcc
A user of my server requested that I install compat-gcc (it's the development play server) for recompiling a third party application (I don't know the name...) . I could not find any package for Mandrake and the packages for RedHad/Fedora don't work (conflicts, missing dependancies, breaking dependancies, etc.). Is there a way I still be able to install those compatibility packages to my user? My system is still running Mandrake 9.1 (planning to set up a new server with 10.1 in the next weeks)... Albert Charron System Administrator Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall
On Friday 26 November 2004 15:16, Jay Warwick wrote: Yep, nothing related to the firewall left in updates. jay On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 22:50, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 26 November 2004 14:12, Jay Warwick wrote: How do I get the firewall to accept my changes in 10.0? Every time I change the settings they revert back to the previous settings when I check. I have tried logging out and back-in after the changes and even rebooting. Thanks Jay Have you done your updates? derek So you have updated drakxtools to drakxtools-10-34.3.100mdk I thought that update fixed that bug. In any case you can administer your firewall easily using webmin. Install the webmin package and navigate to https://localhost:1 The webmin firewall GUI is better than the Mandrake one. Both the webmin GUI and the Mandrake GUI control the same firewall (shorewall) If you prefer you can edit the shorewall files directly by hand. Look in /etc/shorewall/rules and you will see detailed instructions. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] AMD64 video cards
When I did a check for certified video cards (on MandrakeLinux website), I found there are NO video cards for AMD64! Can this be right? Thanks
Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:43:44 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well for one thing I would suggest that you not share /home as it provides plenty of possibilities for seeing problems arising from incompatible contents of hidden folders. That won't prevent it running, but it may make you think some apps are flaky when they are really just responding to saved settings from the other version. Your choice of course. You will get a new / partition as a consequence of the install. Remember that /etc/fstab is specific to each version, so one will mount / on hda5 or whatever and the new one will mount root on hda9 or something. No overlap there. Thank you Brian and Mikkel. I will get this setup running this evening. Thanks again John montgomery Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Apache not starting?
I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting. When I try to browse to localhost, I just get a Google search page. Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work. The system log says: Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/commonnhttpd.conf: Invalid command 'lfModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The module in question is mod_access.c I'm pretty certain this used to work when I first installed the system, so possibly something I've done since has broken it. I haven't messed with Apache at all, but I tried to install UW IMAP, and later Courier IMAP. Any suggestions? Thanks, -pd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Help
it could result from your monitor. put in the installation cd to your cd rom and restart the computer. when the blue screen come down, put off your monitor's cable from the computer. then hit enter. after about 5 seconds put on the cable. the installation must be start. try that. ali tigGilligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a major problem installing Mandrake. I have an ASUS A8V-Deluxe WiFi MB and an ATI AIW 9800Pro video card. When the install starts it hangs as soon as I hit enter. Screen shows the moving bar and then screen goes black. If I try hitting F1 (after rebooting) and do a text install(ugh) I get the start of loading and then it gets to this: PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:10.0, from 11 to 5 and the pauses. I can remove the CD and reload it, the DVD drive lite comes on then goes off. Actually several of the line above. Any suggestions? TIA Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! What will yours do?
[newbie] dvd-ram disk
Hello! From what I've read, it is possible to write to dvd-ram disks, but unfortunately I'm not sure how I can do that. Any tips, please ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/imaginis usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 ** A arte de ser sábio é a arte de saber o que tolerar. William James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache not starting?
On Saturday 27 November 2004 03:06 am, Peter Davis wrote: I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting. When I try to browse to localhost, I just get a Google search page. Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work. The system log says: Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/commonnhttpd.conf: Invalid command 'lfModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The module in question is mod_access.c I'm pretty certain this used to work when I first installed the system, so possibly something I've done since has broken it. I haven't messed with Apache at all, but I tried to install UW IMAP, and later Courier IMAP. Hi Peter, I think the easiest way is to uninstall apache and re-install it again. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 04:36:43 up 8:16, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide
I suddenly have this show up when I check running processes. I've done some googling, but haven't seen a clear answer on what causes it other than too many running processes and what to do about it. Any ideas anyone or is a reboot called for here to clear the system out? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 2:42pm up 22 days, 19:10, 3 users, load average: 0.69, 0.81, 0.62 Don't get mad, get interest. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cron job question
On Friday 26 November 2004 20:41, Chris wrote: A little background first. I have a couple of cronjobs setup, one which shutsdown and restarts spamd ever 4hrs. When this happens I get an email telling me it was done. Yesterday I was fooling around with fetchmail to see if I could speed up the process of having mail processed by spamassassin without the lagtime seen when Kmail picks up the mail. When my email from cron came in ref spamd it was marked as spam, not only that but it seems my ip is listed at sorbs.net now for some reason. * 2.0 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address. I have several cronjobs setup besides this one that mail the output to me. The log output of rkhunter, and my daily run of sa-stats. Question: How can I send these outputs to /var/spool/mail/chris instead of through my isp? In /etc/crontab use MAILTO=chris instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cron job question
A little background first. I have a couple of cronjobs setup, one which shutsdown and restarts spamd ever 4hrs. When this happens I get an email telling me it was done. Yesterday I was fooling around with fetchmail to see if I could speed up the process of having mail processed by spamassassin without the lagtime seen when Kmail picks up the mail. When my email from cron came in ref spamd it was marked as spam, not only that but it seems my ip is listed at sorbs.net now for some reason. * 2.0 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address. I have several cronjobs setup besides this one that mail the output to me. The log output of rkhunter, and my daily run of sa-stats. Question: How can I send these outputs to /var/spool/mail/chris instead of through my isp? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 1:54pm up 22 days, 18:23, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.28, 0.34 ... bleakness ... desolation ... plastic forks ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cron job question
On Friday 26 November 2004 03:51 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Question: How can I send these outputs to /var/spool/mail/chris instead of through my isp? In /etc/crontab use MAILTO=chris instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] derek Thanks Derek, after I sent the msg I did some more googling and found thats how it should be, now to see if it will work. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 4:00pm up 22 days, 20:28, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.08, 0.21 We are what we are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kmail cannot forward attachment (SOLVED)
On Friday 26 November 2004 06:15 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 26 November 2004 05:37 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Oh no, I've just found out that my Kmail 1.7.1 cannot forward attachment. I mean when I forward some emails, the attachment isn't included. Is there something wrong? Thanks It's a bug :( http://www.archivum.info/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2004-11/msg00550.html Hit the f key and you can forward the entire message as an attachment. That's the way I do it. Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help
Realizing this is OT, I'm confused and have some questions. If someone can help please mail me off list as I don't want to get the current list Nazi after me :) -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 4:19pm up 22 days, 20:47, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.12, 0.15 We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache not starting?
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 27 November 2004 03:06 am, Peter Davis wrote: I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting. When I try to browse to "localhost", I just get a Google search page. Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work. The system log says: Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/commonnhttpd.conf: Invalid command 'lfModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The module in question is mod_access.c I'm pretty certain this used to work when I first installed the system, so possibly something I've done since has broken it. I haven't messed with Apache at all, but I tried to install UW IMAP, and later Courier IMAP. Hi Peter, I think the easiest way is to uninstall apache and re-install it again. Yes, I could try that. I didn't install it in the first place. It was pre-installed on the system. But it's worth a try. How to you un-install something? -pd -- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html
[newbie] Buying a 10.1 set?
I want all the Powerpack CDs, with all the associated software, etc. Where can I buy this? The only place I've seen it is on linux-mandrake.com, and the price is only listed in Euros. Is there someplace in the U.S. to get this? Thanks, -pd -- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.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] Buying a 10.1 set?
On Friday 26 November 2004 04:50 pm, Peter Davis wrote: I want all the Powerpack CDs, with all the associated software, etc. Where can I buy this? The only place I've seen it is on linux-mandrake.com, and the price is only listed in Euros. Is there someplace in the U.S. to get this? Thanks, -pd You can buy it on line and it will convert to dollars, shipping is from a distributor in the US I think. Follow the purchase dialogue and you will see that it comes up with what country you are in and so on. Good luck. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What kernel do I have?
How do I find out what linux kernel I have? Regards Vegard 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] fetchmail procmail spamc help
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:22:11 -0600
Chris disseminated the following:
Realizing this is OT, I'm confused and have some questions. If someone can
help please mail me off list as I don't want to get the current list Nazi
after me :)
I don't see this as OT at all, though it's been covered quite a bit in past
threads and there are innumerable how-to's on the web. However, I'm kinda
thinkin' of switchin' from some very complicated Procmail filters to something
simpler, so I wouldn't mind seeing this thread expand.
Fetchmail is pretty simple. Install it, run 'fetchmailconf', yer done. If you
have Postfix installed ('urpmi postfix' if you don't), then you've already
arrived at the point where you can start the anti-spam thang. Fetchmail will
automagically hand off to Postfix, which will call Procmail, which would then
call whatever recipes/processes you want to implement to deal with spam, and
then deliver the mail accordingly.
And now, I will save Derek the trouble of posting a link to his page:
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html
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Re: [newbie] Apache not starting?
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:43:58 -0500 Peter Davis disseminated the following: How to you un-install something? urpme packagename -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:24:44 up 5 days, 9:34, 10 users, load average: 0.22, 0.17, 0.08 +++ Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. -- Bakunin 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] fetchmail procmail spamc help
On Friday 26 November 2004 23:23, JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:22:11 -0600
Chris disseminated the following:
Realizing this is OT, I'm confused and have some questions. If someone
can help please mail me off list as I don't want to get the current list
Nazi after me :)
I don't see this as OT at all, though it's been covered quite a bit in past
threads and there are innumerable how-to's on the web. However, I'm kinda
thinkin' of switchin' from some very complicated Procmail filters to
something simpler, so I wouldn't mind seeing this thread expand.
Fetchmail is pretty simple. Install it, run 'fetchmailconf', yer done. If
you have Postfix installed ('urpmi postfix' if you don't), then you've
already arrived at the point where you can start the anti-spam thang.
Fetchmail will automagically hand off to Postfix, which will call Procmail,
which would then call whatever recipes/processes you want to implement to
deal with spam, and then deliver the mail accordingly.
And now, I will save Derek the trouble of posting a link to his page:
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html
The only thing I would add is if you install fetchmail-daemon fetchmail will
automatically run every 3 minutes using the configuration
in /etc/fetchmailrc.
If you install just fetchmail it will not run automatically. You would need to
set up a cron job or something.
Also the test in fetchmailconf will not work while the daemon is running. You
have to stop the daemon first.
derek
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Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help
On Friday 26 November 2004 05:23 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:22:11 -0600
Fetchmail is pretty simple. Install it, run 'fetchmailconf', yer done. If
you have Postfix installed ('urpmi postfix' if you don't), then you've
already arrived at the point where you can start the anti-spam thang.
Fetchmail will automagically hand off to Postfix, which will call
Procmail, which would then call whatever recipes/processes you want to
implement to deal with spam, and then deliver the mail accordingly.
And now, I will save Derek the trouble of posting a link to his page:
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html
Thanks Joe. I'm not running a mail server, just trying to cut down on some
of the overhead when Kmail calls spamc by using fetchmail procmail. I've
done some more reading while waiting for replies and find that if I run
fetchmail -m procmail this will call procmail, which I've been able to see
happen while watching running processes.
But, now I see another problem. fetchmail picks up, apparently procmail
runs spamc, because looking in /var/spool/mail[chris] at the msg I can see
the spam check. I can see and read the msg in /var/spool/mail[chris] but
now mail isn't comeing into my inbox when I run my local mailcheck with
Kmail :( Here are the headers of a msg:
Status: U
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from pop.earthlink.net [207.217.121.210]
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.1.0)
for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:50:34 -0600
(CST)
Received: from smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.67])
by mx-a065b05.pas.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP
id
1cxPQc2iN3NZFpL2
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:49:28 -0800 (PST)
Received: from [69.68.226.5] (helo=cpollock)
by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128)
(Exim 4.34)
id 1CXpqC-0005Yi-D3
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:49:28 -0500
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii
Now whats wrongback to having kmail check until I get this straight.
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[newbie] Manuals?
I am having more toruble than I thought with MDK10 and I was thinking that getting the box set with the manuals might be a big help. Does anyone have the box manuals? Are they very helpful or like most manuals these days refer you to the how-tos or mandrakeclub? Maybe the best thing is to get a Mandrake Club membership? Thanks in advance Scotty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Ethernet ADSL modem
Hello again; I am in Australia and thinking of just buying an ethernet adsl modem to save the USB set-up hassels. So in an effort to determine what exact models were supported I ran the wizard in KDE. Now here's the thing... it asks you for your provider and Australia is not even listed! :( So what does that mean? I have to go about it from the command line? Secondly, are there any modems that you can recommend using for MDK 10.1? Thanks Scotty 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] fetchmail procmail spamc help
On Friday 26 November 2004 06:10 pm, Chris wrote: Status: U Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now whats wrongback to having kmail check until I get this straight. I'll reply to my own msg here since I did notice one thing amiss, normal messages have a 'Status: R, this one I see has a Status: U, meaning undelivered? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 6:20pm up 22 days, 22:48, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.09 Happiness is a hard disk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ethernet ADSL modem
Scott Manning wrote: Hello again; I am in Australia and thinking of just buying an ethernet adsl modem to save the USB set-up hassels. So in an effort to determine what exact models were supported I ran the wizard in KDE. Now here's the thing... it asks you for your provider and Australia is not even listed! :( So what does that mean? I have to go about it from the command line? Secondly, are there any modems that you can recommend using for MDK 10.1? Thanks Scotty You can confirm this with Stephen on the list, but any external ADSL modem that includes one RJ45 connector and supports PPPOE and PPPOA should work, but make sure that the modem has a web-based interface. I've used Linksys, Dlink and GVC. They all work fine, but the GVC has been bullet-proof for me. I highly recommend the GVC BB0060 modem since I've been using it for the last year and a half without a problem, and so have many of my clients. Have a look at http://www.gentek.com -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 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] fetchmail procmail spamc help
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:22:09 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: Now whats wrongback to having kmail check until I get this straight. I'll reply to my own msg here since I did notice one thing amiss, normal messages have a 'Status: R, this one I see has a Status: U, meaning undelivered? Sorry, I'm not familiar with how this would work with skipping the Postfix step in the process. Perhaps KMail isn't seeing the mail in /var/spool/mail/chris as new mail, and so is not delivering it to your inbox? Also, check in the KMail config to make sure that the path to your mail spool is correct, I can see something like KMail defaulting to /var/mail or something. Postfix does not add much 'overhead' to the process, in fact the anti-spam processing is going to take up a lot more. Why not save yourself the headaches and go with a process that works off the bat? Postfix also gives you the opportunity to expand this whole setup in the future, as you can see if you read Derek Jennings' howto. Anyway, my 2 cents. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:48:23 up 5 days, 10:57, 10 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00 +++ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. -- Jesus Christ 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] fetchmail procmail spamc help
On Friday 26 November 2004 06:56 pm, JoeHill wrote: Sorry, I'm not familiar with how this would work with skipping the Postfix step in the process. Perhaps KMail isn't seeing the mail in /var/spool/mail/chris as new mail, and so is not delivering it to your inbox? Also, check in the KMail config to make sure that the path to your mail spool is correct, I can see something like KMail defaulting to /var/mail or something. Postfix does not add much 'overhead' to the process, in fact the anti-spam processing is going to take up a lot more. Why not save yourself the headaches and go with a process that works off the bat? Postfix also gives you the opportunity to expand this whole setup in the future, as you can see if you read Derek Jennings' howto. Anyway, my 2 cents. Thanks Joe, I'm reading Derek's setup now and configuring as I go. I'll lick this yetnow got any ideas on the other msg I posted regarding kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 6:58pm up 22 days, 23:27, 3 users, load average: 0.48, 0.32, 0.31 Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent. -- Walt Kelly 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] fetchmail procmail spamc help
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:01:39 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide? I wouldn't touch anything that begins with a 'K' if you paid me ;-) I *am* encouraged by kdeinit committing suicide, it's finally realized it has no reason to live. Go here: http://www.eslrahc.com/ ...add the appropriate repository, and: urpmi xfce No more kdeinit errors :-D However, this is your best friend when it comes to error messages: google.com/linux -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:10:08 up 5 days, 11:19, 10 users, load average: 0.11, 0.03, 0.01 +++ Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. -- John Maynard Keynes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake Boxed Set
I can get the Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official Boxed Set - PowerPack Edition for $70 even tho I use 10.1. I really just want the manuals.. is this a good idea? Thanks again Scotty 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] fetchmail procmail spamc help
On Friday 26 November 2004 06:56 pm, JoeHill wrote: Postfix does not add much 'overhead' to the process, in fact the anti-spam processing is going to take up a lot more. Why not save yourself the headaches and go with a process that works off the bat? Postfix also gives you the opportunity to expand this whole setup in the future, as you can see if you read Derek Jennings' howto. Anyway, my 2 cents. Joe, let me ask you at least one more question, I've got postfix working in this manner: Nov 26 19:00:02 cpollock postfix/nqmgr[2195]: 3D2E3584005: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=5272, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 26 19:00:04 cpollock postfix/smtp[21836]: 5268B584002: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=mx2.earthlink.net[207.217.125.17], delay=3, status=sent (250 1cxQ0rMl3NZFpB0 Message accepted for delivery) Nov 26 19:00:05 cpollock postfix/smtp[21841]: 3D2E3584005: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=mxa.earthlink.net[207.217.125.25], delay=3, status=sent (250 1cxQ0tvg3NZFpO0 Message accepted for delivery) which is forwarding all my spam that I receive at my EL address to EL's junkmail address. I guess its possible that I don't have much else to do with it except possibly add in the procmail call? And I apologize for the seemingly dumb questions. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:15pm up 22 days, 23:43, 2 users, load average: 1.45, 0.77, 0.48 He who hates vices hates mankind. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What kernel do I have?
Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: How do I find out what linux kernel I have? Regards Vegard type uname -a without quotes in terminal window. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ethernet ADSL modem
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:21 am, Scott Manning wrote: Hello again; I am in Australia and thinking of just buying an ethernet adsl modem to save the USB set-up hassels. So in an effort to determine what exact models were supported I ran the wizard in KDE. Now here's the thing... it asks you for your provider and Australia is not even listed! :( So what does that mean? I have to go about it from the command line? Secondly, are there any modems that you can recommend using for MDK 10.1? Thanks Scotty I'm also at your end of the world - Melbourne to be a little more specific. As Lanman said, anything with an ethernet connection will cause you no grief, but perhaps it's a good move to first check what you want to do with it. i.e. If this is just a desktop using the internet, then it would make sense to use a modem/router, so you have a degree of firewall protection built right in and can plug in additional machine directly with a minimum of hassle. If your main purpose is to have the attached machine run as a server, then a straight modem running it's own firewall might be more appropriate. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Boxed Set
Scott Manning wrote: I can get the Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official Boxed Set - PowerPack Edition for $70 even tho I use 10.1. I really just want the manuals.. is this a good idea? Thanks again Scotty I can not tell you from first hand experience, but I know someone got the manual and they were not impressed with it. It may be what your looking for but, you could also try the online documents that come with Mandrake like Howto's,manpages,info pages, Mandrakelinux documentation, Rute Users,... and Google of course for quick answers. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Manuals?
On Friday 26 November 2004 06:10 pm, Scott Manning wrote: I am having more toruble than I thought with MDK10 and I was thinking that getting the box set with the manuals might be a big help. Does anyone have the box manuals? Are they very helpful or like most manuals these days refer you to the how-tos or mandrakeclub? Maybe the best thing is to get a Mandrake Club membership? Thanks in advance Scotty Scotty, the boxed sets are just now shipping out. May be a few days before anyone has manuals -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Buying a 10.1 set?
On Friday 26 November 2004 05:50 pm, Peter Davis wrote: I want all the Powerpack CDs, with all the associated software, etc. Where can I buy this? The only place I've seen it is on linux-mandrake.com, and the price is only listed in Euros. Is there someplace in the U.S. to get this? You can change currency to US Dollar in the lower right corner of the mandrakestore page. Also one US distributor is Mandrakeworks. Try http://www.mandrakeworks.com/ -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Buying a 10.1 set?
On Friday 26 November 2004 09:44 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 26 November 2004 05:50 pm, Peter Davis wrote: I want all the Powerpack CDs, with all the associated software, etc. Where can I buy this? The only place I've seen it is on linux-mandrake.com, and the price is only listed in Euros. Is there someplace in the U.S. to get this? You can change currency to US Dollar in the lower right corner of the mandrakestore page. Also one US distributor is Mandrakeworks. Try http://www.mandrakeworks.com/ I found this link at the LinuxToday website (http://linuxtoday.com/): http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/?prod_code=L000-298id=C1CVxyL3GGdCB They have the PowerPack 6 CD set for $14.95 US. That does _not_ include the manuals, box or support. In contrast, MandrakeWorks wants $89.90 US and the MandrakeStore gets 79.90 Euros for the _full_ PowerPack -- manuals, nifty box, and support -- plus some free time at the MandrakeClub. One way to reduce your cost is to join the Club, and then use the Club discount to sign up for the PowerPack subscription deal. Initially you'll receive the full PowerPack edition, then you'll get just the CDs for the next two Mandrake versions. The manuals don't change very much between versions, and you'll have made a decision as to whether the expert support is a good deal for you (likewise the Club). Of course, you won't get the nifty box. Note: I've never had any dealings with LinuxCentral -- I'm more of a Cheapbytes guy. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] what to do with non-contiguous files?
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:39:46 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be interested in the replys you get on this since I have one part with 21 % non-contiguous files. My understanding was that it 21% is extremely high, but not out of band with some earlier installs I did a long time ago on a seriously (by today's standard) limited drive. There used to be a 'frag' utility that would tell you what percentage of fragmentation overall you had on a particular partition. I saw fragmentation percentages of 40%-50%. Now I took that with a grain of salt, and I might just do that with your 21% percentage. At issue, I gather, with 'frag', was that it counted tertiary indexed files (any sufficiently large file would suffice) and miscounted them as fragmented when they weren't, or weren't as badly fragmented. On an ext2 filesystem, the biggest file you can have without going to a secondary index of pointers to blocks is about 13-14K per the kernel source. This is because there are that many pointers to disk blocks in the inode for a file. If your file is larger than that, you need a block to store pointers to blocks. And if it really is big, more than maybe 256K+14K (a 1k block could store at most 256*4 (sizeof an integer) pointers to disk blocks for a file) you need to go to tertiary indexed blocks, where you have pointers to pointers to blocks. Ordinarly, ext2 filesystems resist fragmentation, and even if a file is X% fragmented, it really doesn't have the same negative meaning as a fragmented file in FAT(32). Besides that, much of the overhead in a DOS system is involved in finding the first block of a file in a filesystem (much more time-consuming than on ext2fs) not in the head moving from point A to point B on the disk to get to other sections of the file. Obviously, ext2 does some things right, to minimize disk access, for the most part, logically related items are grouped together; for instance, various files in the same directory are grouped closer together than those in some other place on the filesystem. In FAT(32) there is little if any guarantee of this. Over time, there is the likelihood that a file FOO in UTILS may be right next to a file BAR in DOCS, and the next logical file in UTILS may be at the other end of the disk. And so ext2 doesn't guarantee that the filesystem will be utterly devoid of fragmentation; for that, you probably want to switch to an even better filesystem, such as reiserfs. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ethernet ADSL modem
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:53, Brian Parish wrote: I'm also at your end of the world - Melbourne to be a little more specific. As Lanman said, anything with an ethernet connection will cause you no grief, but perhaps it's a good move to first check what you want to do with it. i.e. If this is just a desktop using the internet, then it would make sense to use a modem/router, so you have a degree of firewall protection built right in and can plug in additional machine directly with a minimum of hassle. If your main purpose is to have the attached machine run as a server, then a straight modem running it's own firewall might be more appropriate. HTH Brian Hi guys, Another Melbourne user here, sweating away in the 35 degrees heat (That's celsius, for you USians currently recovering from over-indulgence on turkey and cranberry sauce :-) Just to reinforce what everyone is saying, an ethernet modem is basically a network server in it's own right. It has it's own DHCP server to dish out an IP adress to any machine that connets to it via ethernet regardless of OS, and takes care of all the ADSL/PPP-OE/whatever on the other side without your machine needing to know about it. You do all the configuration for your provider on the modem and not your machine. On your machine, you just set up a network connection to a LAN on eth0 in the MCC and it just works :-) Just make sure that whatever modem you pick is able to configured via a web browser and not via a windows program, and uses javascript, not ActiveX, usually if the label says config via Netscape and not just IE you should be fine. Virtually anything built in the last year should be OK, seeing how most of them now run some version of BSD or Linux and so are very cross-platform oriented and FOSS friendly. I'm currently connected to Ozemail with the very basic Dlink DSL-302G dual ethernet/usb modem, the second cheapest modem on the market, and it's worked perfectly for the last year or so. Originally connected direct to my laptop, it's now wired to a wireless router to give me more freedom (like right now sitting on the balcony trying to catch a breeze to cool down :-) You can buy the 302G most places for about A$130, but if you buy the Ozemail starter-kit for A$100, it has one in the box as well as a line filter, and no compulsion to join Ozemail. You can also find them online for as little as $90. Another option I know works is the Linksys WAG54G combined modem and wireless router which I set-up for my parents. It's about $220 to $250 and a very nice piece of kit. If you can afford it, I would highly recommend getting an ADSL router with built-in SPI firewall for that extra security, and save you having to mess with shorewall on you own box. It also gives you future options for adding more machines to your local net. Wired-only ADSL routers weigh in at about $150 to $200, so reallly are a bargin for what you get. Oh, and just a plug for Ozemail as provider: no minimum contract! Cheers! John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] snort and 10.0 causes cron error
Good morning, after installing the latest snort-package I get the following message from cron: Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily error: error accessing /var/log/snort/*: No such file or directory error: snort:4 glob failed for /var/log/snort/*/*log run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 Eg. there is a log file in /var/log/snort/ called _alert_ so wy is cron complaining about that? And: Is there way to change (I think it's called spoof?) a hardware's ethernet address in MDK 8.2?? Many thank's four your responses and help in advance ;-) -- (° Best regards //\Harald T ZIPKO V_/_ No html - Mails! -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
