RE: [newbie] RAID under Mandrake
Travis: I chose the 3Ware card that supports 2 drives because the Mandrake distribution of linux is compiled with the drivers for that card ... at least they were in 9.1. It installed without a hitch and is working nicely. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Travis Crook Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RAID under Mandrake Hi All, I'm looking at getting a RAID card to put in my box. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and wondered what would be the best card. Here is what I'm looking at so far: Promise SuperTrak 100 or 66, 3WARE DiskSwitch AccelerATA 8 port UDMA100 EIDE RAID Card, or the Promise FastTrak 66 or 100. What I would like to know is: which one is best supported under Linux (i.e. in kernel, with drivers, etc.)? which one is the easiest to install? I would like to eventually do RAID level 5 but I will start with RAID 1 and go from there. I have looked on Google to find support and on the respective Web sites but would like to know if anyone has specific experience. Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Tight VNC
I'm with Frank on this one. I used the update functions in Mandrake Control Center and it fixed the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Bax Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Tight VNC I found this message in archives without any solution to help me. I had the same problem with TightVNC from MDK91 cdrom - the solution that worked for me was to upgrade the two qt3 rpms. Frank At 09:04 AM 8/30/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there! i just reinstalled mdk 9.1. after that i installed the tightvnc rpm from tightvnc.org, no problems. after that i opened the control center(not the mdk one!). there you can confugure tight vnc. but when i go to network-desktop sharing, only the following dialogue is displayed(in german): http://www.codershome.org/vnc.png anybody know what to do? i deinstalled the rpm of tightvnc.org and installed the rpm from the cd, too. but didnt work... remo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Question about Running Dos Application in Mandrake 9.0
I think he means a compiled COBOL program that runs under DOS (as opposed to Win). The modules developed under this system had some pretty serious runtime modules that had to be installed on the machine that was going to run it. I might consider a rewrite among my best choices. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:50 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Question about Running Dos Application in Mandrake 9.0 On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 03:46, Seno Adiputra wrote: My company is still using Dos application such as cobol for its administration. When we decided to use Linux, especially Mandrake 9.0, we had a trouble to run Dos application on it. Can you tell me how to run dos application on Linux Mandrake 9.0 ...? can wine do it ? Thank's __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com I may be wrong, but I don't think cobol is a 'dos application'. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Using other CDs
I purchased the PowerPack Edition from MandrakeStore for 9.1. I installed a bare bones system thinking I would add only the things I needed later. I added apache and mysql using the control center/add packages and they both are working fine. Now I want to add Webmin but it does not show up in the package list. I found it on CD2 and I know I can copy it and install it using urpmi but I being stubborn and I want to do it my way (guess that's why I'm using linux). How do I go about adding contents of other CDs to the contents of RPMDrake so the packages show up on the list of available packages? I have googled and checked out the 9.1 documentation and if it's there I've missed it. Your help is appreciated. Carter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Using other CDs
Thanks Anne ... Sorry about the screwed up thread. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Using other CDs On Saturday 02 Aug 2003 7:14 pm, Carter Harris wrote: I purchased the PowerPack Edition from MandrakeStore for 9.1. I installed a bare bones system thinking I would add only the things I needed later. I added apache and mysql using the control center/add packages and they both are working fine. Now I want to add Webmin but it does not show up in the package list. I found it on CD2 and I know I can copy it and install it using urpmi but I being stubborn and I want to do it my way (guess that's why I'm using linux). How do I go about adding contents of other CDs to the contents of RPMDrake so the packages show up on the list of available packages? I have googled and checked out the 9.1 documentation and if it's there I've missed it. urpmi.addmedia --distrib file://mnt/cdrom/ with CD1 in the drive it should do what you want. BTW - you 'hijacked' a thread, which is a real PITA for those using threaded mail readers. If you reply to a post, changing the subject line, it doesn't break the train of associations, so it is in the middle of a totally unrelated thread. Please always start a new thread for a new subject. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: Fortran compiler
Did anyone ever work on one of the old Univac computers that punched round holes? That was my first experience. When you got ready to program it you got a handful of wires and a board. You could step through the program using a telephone dial on the side of the beast and you you could read the results in lights on the side of it. Don't consider any of this to be a longing for the past ... Except maybe the chicks ... I still had time for them then (smile). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Seedkum Aladeem Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Terry Smith Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Fortran compiler On Monday 17 February 2003 08:06 am, Terry Smith wrote: Six inches thick! musta been runnin' some paltry code :-)). Ahh.. the grand old days (late 1970s),,, I was in grad school working in an ecosystem modeling group. We ran, and re-ran and re-ran (usually a keypuch error!) a FORTRAN IV program which simulated all the interactions in a large northeast US estuarythree boxes of cards worth! took about 40 minutes to read the stack. This is in a room not much larger than a good-sized bathroom, with a tty console (talking to the main frame on another campus), three keypuch machines, and high speed printer...all going non-stop, 12 hours a day. No wonder I have a hearing loss! Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:38, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 17 February 2003 03:48 am, civileme wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:53 pm, laura wrote: I'm new in Linux. Before asking, I tried to use g77 or f77, but I don't have them on the computer. I have the gcc installed and I can compile C programs without problems, but I can't compile Fortran programs. I only wanted to know where I can find this compiler. Laura. big snip I grew up with Fortran, back in the days when there were compilers such as Fortran-IV, Fortran-G, Fortran-H, Fortran-IV with Watfor and WatFIV... It is still an interesting compiler and language, but these days I use almost exclusively Python because I am a bd habit programmer and I need something that forces me to code cleanly and clearly, even at the expense of features. If that isn't enough Ooh, fortran IV, nostalgia hits the brain, the good old days of punch cards and sorters. Never , ever drop a stack of cards 6 inches thick. Can ruin your whole day. Hehehe -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I remember those good old days. If you guys are nostalgic on the seventies, I am also nostalgic on the sixties. I remember those stacks of punched cards and machines and the punched paper tapes. I still have a bunch of rolls of punched paper tapes. I do not have a paper tape reader though. Do you know where I can get my hands on one in the San Francisco Bay area? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Program removal
Title: Message If you use the Mandrake program management software to remove a program does it delete all files and directories also?
RE: [newbie] Program removal
Thanks to Robin and Milos for the reply. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache Upgrade
Title: Message I am considering upgrading Apache on a Mandrake 8.2 install and I would like to hear some pros and cons. The current install is 1.3 and was installed by the Mandrake installer during the install of the OS. The current install is not being used yet so downtime or moving of sites is involved.
RE: [newbie] Autostart for VNC
Thanks again Derek ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:13 AM To: H. Carter Harris; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Autostart for VNC I'm replying on list as this may be of interest to others. The way Mandrake starts up services is this. In the /etc/rc.d/init.d folder are startup/shutdown scripts for each service available. These scripts are never executed, but get copied into the folders /etc/rc.d/rc0.5 , rc1.d , rc3.d, rc4.d , rc5.d , and rc6.d These folders correspond to the six different run levels. The ones that most interest us are rc.5 for normal desktop and rc.6 for shutdown. When you use the Mandrake Control Centre Services GUI, or the 'service' command from the command line. What you are doing is causing a script to be copied/deleted to /etc/rc.d/rc.5 (and rc.6) However the name of the script is changed during the copy. So taking vncserver as an example. When it is enabled the script is copied to /etc/rc.d/rc.5/S91vncserver , and the same script is copied to /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K35vncserver. The 'S' means 'start', and the 'K' means 'Kill', the number dictates the sequence relative to other services. So this means in run level 5 vncserver is started with a 'sequence number' of 91, and when you shutdown (runlevel 6) it is stopped. When you disable the vncserver service, the script is deleted from rc5.d and rc6.d and so vncserver never starts. Hope that throws some light on how services work. This is a bit different I believe from the way RedHat does it Derek On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 2:52 am, you wrote: You were right on target Derek. I went by the office this afternoon and went into control center and looked at the the processes that were checked to start on boot and you were exactly right ... vncserver was not checked. I checked it and rebooted and viola a session came up during the boot. I hope you don't mind some followup. Do the lines in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers have to be different users? I have them the same and only one server came up and it came up on the second display. When I execute the processes from the command line I use the same user to bring up several sessions and I assumed that it would work the same during boot. I know Mandrake has its own way of doing things and I'm trying to think like the duck. So far most things work very well if you can find them. I assume that when I checked that box that a text file somewhere got updated. Which one was it? My guess would be that it is one of the init or rc files. Thanks again Derek ... your information has been a great help. -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 6:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Autostart for VNC On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 3:38 pm, Carter Harris wrote: I downloaded and installed the TightVNC rpm for VNC. It's up and running but there are a few things I want to fix. I wanted TightVNC to start when the system reboots. So I added lines to /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, following the example given in that file and the great information I got here. Those lines read: VNCSERVERS=1:vncusername VNCSERVERS=2:vncusername Where vncusername is the name of the person who is starting the sessions. I rebooted but nothing was started. I checked my syntax, made sure I got it in the file and got it saved ... all the stupid errors; but I couldn't see anything. It does start fine from the command line. I can start and stop the processes at will. Where might I look next? Is the vncserver Service set to run at boot? Mandrake ControlCentreSystemServices derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Autostart for VNC
I downloaded and installed the TightVNC rpm for VNC. It's up and running but there are a few things I want to fix. I wanted TightVNC to start when the system reboots. So I added lines to /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, following the example given in that file and the great information I got here. Those lines read: VNCSERVERS=1:vncusername VNCSERVERS=2:vncusername Where vncusername is the name of the person who is starting the sessions. I rebooted but nothing was started. I checked my syntax, made sure I got it in the file and got it saved ... all the stupid errors; but I couldn't see anything. It does start fine from the command line. I can start and stop the processes at will. Where might I look next? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Autostart for VNC
Not cooking yet but at least a slow poaching. I looked in the /etc/rc.d/rc5.d directory and found a pointer file (K35vncserver@) pointing to ../init.d/vncservers. I assume that the rc5 refers to a boot-level 5 maybe? This looked sorta promising so I checked out ../init.d/vncservers and inside that bash script are a couple of lines that look promising: VNCSERVERS= [ -f /etc/sysconfig/vncservers] . /etc/sysconfig/vncservers I checked my bash reference but I couldn't find anything that could tell me exactly what those two lines ought to do. /etc/sysconfig/vncservers is where I put my two commands that I hoped would automatically start the vncservers. What do those two lines do ... and talk slow, I live in the South. Kidding aside, thanks for your help Steven. -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Autostart for VNC On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 02:38, Carter Harris wrote: I downloaded and installed the TightVNC rpm for VNC. It's up and running but there are a few things I want to fix. I wanted TightVNC to start when the system reboots. So I added lines to /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, following the example given in that file and the great information I got here. Those lines read: VNCSERVERS=1:vncusername VNCSERVERS=2:vncusername Where vncusername is the name of the person who is starting the sessions. I rebooted but nothing was started. I checked my syntax, made sure I got it in the file and got it saved ... all the stupid errors; but I couldn't see anything. It does start fine from the command line. I can start and stop the processes at will. Where might I look next? VNCserver should be started via init script in either your /etc/rc.d/rc3.d or your /etc/rc.d/rc5.d directory - that's what allows it to startup on boot - as well, did you already set the passwords for each of the servers/users? Other than that, you should be cooking. -- Wed Nov 20 06:15:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these primitive African tribes that exist by chasing the wildebeest on foot, and they have to go around largely naked, because, as the old tribal saying goes: N'wam k'honi soit qui mali, which means, If you think you can catch a wildebeest in this climate and wear clothes at the same time, then I have some beach front property in the desert region of Northern Mali that you may be interested in. So it's not considered pornographic when National Geographic publishes color photographs of these people hunting the wildebeest naked, or pounding one rock onto another rock for some primitive reason naked, or whatever. But if National Geographic were to publish an article entitled The Girls of the California Junior College System Hunt the Wildebeest Naked, some people would call it pornography. But others would not. And still others, such as the Spectacularly Rev. Jerry Falwell, would get upset about seeing the wildebeest naked. -- Dave Barry, Pornography Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Permissions Problems?
I'm having a couple of problems that I believe are permissions related. During my ML 8.2 install, Apache was also installed with all the defaults. I want to operate the server on a private IP address so I modified the NAT in my router to send all traffic on port 80 to the private IP. When I connect to the public IP on port 80, bingo I see the default web page for the Apache server on my domain. Hey, I'm on a roll! So now I want to setup a test web page to get virtual domains working. I have an extra domain lying around so I change my DNS servers to point that domain to the linux box. On the linux box I setup a dummy page to say something stupid like Hello World. In the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file I added the following lines: NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.103 VirtualHost 192.168.1.103 ServerName domainname.com DocumentRoot /var/www/domainname.com ServerAlias linuxserver /VirtualHost domainname.com is the actual domain name in the real file and linuxserver is the name of the linux box. After that file was changed, I stopped Apache and restarted it using webmin. I would like to tell you that I'm smart and I figured those lines out all by myself but I didn't; I copied them from one of the tutorials I have been reading (smile). Under the /var/www/domainname.com directory In /var/www/domainname.com/conf I created a file named httpd.conf where I put the following lines: User apache Group apache ServerName domainname.com DocumentRoot /var/www/domainname.com/htdocs When I try to go to this webpage I get the following error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.23 Server at www.domainname.com Port 80 Now if I was a gambling man (and I may now be since my state passed a lottery yesterday), I would guess that the OS doesn't want to give Apache access to the root folder. Have I done this correctly? And what should I do to get Apache to server up this page? The second problem I'm having is with editors. When I wanted to edit the httpd.conf file I had to execute shell, su, copy the file to my home directory, open Kate, edit the file and save it, go back to shell, and copy the file back to the correct place. I have read the warnings about not logging on as root and I am trying to abide by those warnings but I get the feeling that I'm not doing something right. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance ... Carter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Newbie Orientation
Thanks Tony! ... It is working now ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Newbie Orientation Carter, If you have got webmin running all you have to do is http://www.yourdomain.com:1/ and it should be fine. Tony. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Newbie Orientation
Derek: Thanks again for your reply and your encouragement! I'm now using Webmin under the VPN and it seems to work fine. I'm going to try to get some things going there this afternoon. I will be in the office again tomorrow and I'll load up the CD and install the rpms you recommend. Sounds like they will be a huge help. I am also looking at your website ... wonderful source of information ... thanks again for your great response. Carter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] VNC Questions ...
Thanks to Derek for giving such a good response to my questions. VNC is now working as expected. I appreciate the help! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VNC Questions ...
I have been trying to get VNC functionality on a new, textbook install of ML 8.2. I posted here before and with the wisdom of the group, I was successful with TightVNC. However, to earn the title newbie I did make some mistakes during the install. First, I installed it while while in the shell with root privledges. I would like to change that so it is under another account. Secondly, I would like to have this install in the software manager. Questions: Are there .cf files I can edit to change the user for VNC? Where are they or how can I find them? Should I setup a user account just for VNC logins? These questions naturally bring up more. When I login as root, I get a red screen with a calendar-type icon and another icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen and nothing else. If I right click on the screen I get a popup menu similar to the K button in the KDE Panel. There is no panel in the red screen. I think root is starting with an x-window that is not KDE. So far I have seen 3 different x-window environments on this system: kde, the red one, and one that has a Linux button when the system is not shut down properly. I would like to hear a little explaination on this if anyone has time. To everyone who pointed me in the right direction: Thanks. And thanks to anyone who takes the time for this little epistle too! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
