Re: [newbie] Spam Control (was: Living in the johns world)
Have a look at SpamAssassin. I installed it a few weeks ago and with a little tweaking it's getting nearly 100% of the spam that comes through my machine Ed ~~ At 06:45 PM Thursday, 3/21/2002, you wrote -= * shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21 Mar 02 17:10]: also they should not include any known address of john the mandrake list spammer. A practical question (I hope!) on spam control: Can procmail handle more than one address in a recipe? e.g. :0 * ^From.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] * ^From.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null or is it one instruction per recipe? Are there easier ways for users to initiate spam control from mailing lists? I checked googled and found much in German, but not much in English. Thanks! Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often
FWIW, I have one RedHat 6 server only machine that runs mostly as a pop and web server that only gets rebooted when we clean it every 6 months or so Of course I monitor the memory and disk usage on a regular basis. But the wonderful thing about the os is that it has none of those inherent memory leaks that seems to continue to plague Microsoft products.. Ed At 09:34 PM Tuesday, 1/29/2002, Jesse Angell wrote -= I run a linux server, that hosts multiple chat servers. I used to do this on Windows 2000 and required a reboot at least once a week. I am curious now that I've switched to Mandrake Linux 8.1 how often should I reboot to clear things out to avoid unwanted down times, here is my uptime information 10:30pm up 12 days, 2:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 If I know how often It needs to rebooted I could setup a script to do it and tell my customers that its down every blah blah time for a blah blah amount of time... ?? Any ideas? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . When you reach the crossroads, take it. - Yogi Berra Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Domain hosting--how to?
A static ip and registered domain name are necessary to create an address record in DNS. Your isp can handle this. See if they have that as a service. Of course they'll charge extra to set it up, etc At 09:30 PM 1/15/2002, you wrote: I've been playing with Apache and am able to access my machine by typing in the IP address in a browser. I am connected to RoadRunner by a cable modem. RR uses DHCP, so my IP could theoretically change. I named the machine NAME.columbus.rr.com, which I found from winipcfg (when I still had Windows :)). If I want to host the domain myself, 1. do I need to run DNS on my box (and BIND is what I use to do this?) 2. are the dynamic dns services reliable enough? 3. how difficult is this, really? I currently pay $9.95/month for hosting, and think it that money could be better spent on, say, red meat. Thanks, Todd 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] cron
One can also change their EDITOR env setting to pico should one be so inclined... Ed At 11:38 AM 1/10/2002, Real Name wrote: or just enter crontab -e from any prompt and make your edits in VI Dan B On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:20:27 -0500 sda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:17:02PM -0500, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wednesday 09 January 2002 06:24 am, Mark D'voo wrote: I have a bash script that I want run every hour as my regular user, how do I setup cron to do this? mark easiest put the script in the /etc/cron.hourly directory. Use Webmin and point it at the script you want to run from the crontab setup menu [in Webmin]. -- Stevecurrent Linux kernel 2.4.8 === 10:10am up 19 days, 16:47, 13 users, load average: 0.25, 0.16, 0.15 === Kath: Can he be present at the birth of his child? Ed: It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception. -- Joe Orton, Entertaining Mr. Sloane 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] Change Time
But does it work??? ;-) I forgot to mention before to look at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm for an explanation of how the time server strata works and for any special requirements when using any of the public time servers. Ed At 03:21 PM Friday, 12/28/2001, you wrote -= On Friday 28 December 2001 11:01, you wrote: If you are connected to the internet all the time you can add a cron for rdate - I'm not always connected, so I wrote this little script: #!/bin/sh # # Name: settime.sh # This script syncs the Linux time to that on a public # NTP server (Atomic Clock just sounds better!) and # then equalises software and hardware clocks. # #dependencies: rdate, Xdialog # # su to root first - rdate and hwclock need to run as root # from a menu structure, call this script like this: kdesu settime.sh # u=`whoami` r=root if [ $u != $r ] then a=You are logged on as $u a=$a. You must be root to run settime.sh echo $a | Xdialog --no-cancel --textbox - 0 0 exit 0 fi Xdialog --screen-center --left --no-buttons --infobox Preparing to sync time/date\nto atomic clock server. 0 0 5000 /usr/bin/rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu sleep 1 /sbin/hwclock --systohc Xdialog --screen-center --left --no-buttons --infobox Time/date synced to atomic clock\nThis dialog will self-destruct\nin 5 seconds .. 4 .. 3 .. 2 .. 1 0 0 6000 NB: It doesn't do any error-checking besides looking for root status. If rdate couldn't connect to the ntp server, the script will cheerfully report success. Maybe in a later version ... Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. - Elton Trueblood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System attack Recovery Question
What a holiday! Our box that runs our mail server was hacked on Dec. 23 and we are still trying to clean up the mess... I know this may be a tad off topic so if you have an answer to this question, you can always just email me privately. I just thought someone here might know how to solve this one last issue. This particular server is running RH 6. They changed /bin/ps to something that is totally different than what we had on there before and created a hard link so that it can't be deleted or updated until we find the hard link. My question is how do I trace this link so I can delete it, and then reinstall the rpm Even forcing the rpm install returns the following: # rpm -i --force /test/procps-2.0.2-2.i386.rpm can't rename /bin/ps to /bin/ps-RPMDELETE: Operation not permitted unpacking of archive failed on file /bin/ps: cpio: unlink failed - Operation not permitted Thanks in advance... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it; when people are saying it can't be done. - Mary Francis Berry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question
At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, you wrote -= On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:47:25 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: hard link so that it can't be deleted or updated until we find the hard link. My question is how do I trace this link so I can delete it, and then reinstall the rpm Ed, have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where ps lives and tried deleting it that way? No - but we will give it a try. Thanks for the tip After thinking about this, would booting with single work as well?? - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Perfect! I added it to my list Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Linux registered user 219525 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question
We tried runlevel 1 but the file system for hda1 gets mounted as read only for some reaon How does one get around that? Ed At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, Mark Weaver wrote -= have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where ps lives and tried deleting it that way? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. --Samuel Butler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question
At 08:26 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, daRcmaTTeR wrote -= On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:34:47 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: We tried runlevel 1 but the file system for hda1 gets mounted as read only for some reaon How does one get around that? Ed At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, Mark Weaver wrote -= have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where ps lives and tried deleting it that way? Ed Ed, At this point I would boot the install CD. when the startup screen appears choose F1 and then type rescue. When everything has loaded and is running you will cd to /mnt/bin, then rm -vf ps and that should take care of the problem. Then reboot the machine and log in as root. INstall the package for ps and that is that as they say. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Luckily, having a recent backup I didn't have to resort to a re-install But I did learn something new about file attributes in fs2 though. It seems that ps was set with the immutable attribute - hence not deletable or writable or even changeable without first resetting the attribute with chattr. From the man page for chattr: A file with the `i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file and no data can be written to the file. Only the superuser can set or clear this attribute. Once we cleared all the atributes, we deleted the offending programs and re-installed procps. They had changed just about every tool one would use to monitor activity including ps, netstat, w, who and a few others... That was no fun... Thanks again for the help!!! Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. -Mark Twain Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Review - please comment] - corrected link
Layne - I went directly to killertux and found it under recent reviews. http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexreq=showcontentid=14 You had Reviewfile - SB Reviewsfile Ed At 02:59 PM Sunday, 12/23/2001, you wrote -= Ed, That should be the correct link. Since you've been so kind to reply, go to http://www.killertux.com directly - click on the link - because it looks right to me. And I was able to follow the link in the reply email from newbie. Curious. Any else see where I've made a mistake on the link? Warm Regards, Layne On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 14:47, Ed Tharp wrote: no better On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:39, you wrote: Oops, bad link ! http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewfile=index; reg=showcontentid=14 http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexreg =showcontentid=14 The original link will not work because the 's' is missing in the word Reviews. Sorry - Evolution version isn't cutting and pasting from Konqueror or Mozilla - so I typed this out ... Happy Holidays. Layne =_1009135638-11608-1239 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1009136692-11608-1247 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 Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Review - please comment
Warning: Failed opening 'modules/Review/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='./:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/linuxz/linuxtests-www/modules.php on line 41 Tell them to check line 41. Ed At 02:30 PM Sunday, 12/23/2001, you wrote -= Forwarded message: Hello, My daughters have been working with MandrakeLinux 8.1 and helped write this review. http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewfile=indexreg=showcontentid=14 Please take a look at it and make some comments. This list has always helped them and this is their way of giving back to the community. Unfortunately we couldn't find the email that is referenced - there was an individual who gave a good way for the networking to be setup. We'd like to make sure that person gets proper credit. BTW: They are 10 and 11 (yes, proud dad). Elizabeth did some of the installs and the document reading. Bird did the photos and most of the installs. I tried to clean up some of the grammar (and spelling). Today they are try to add links onto their website. If you have any that you think others should know about - please let them know. Happy Holidays. Layne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Web page design
FYI - 11K8410 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux Electronic Delivery $57.00 11K8409 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux Boxed software $66.00 11K8414 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux User's Guide $5.00 At 04:50 PM Thursday, 11/15/2001, Miark wrote -= IBM's Home Page Builder is Linux' only WYSIWYG web authoring software that doesn't suck. You can download a free trial, and then you can choose to buy it for about $5 (if memory serves). Miark - Original Message - From: William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] What program is the best to design web pages without knowing now to program. I have been using frontpage 2000. I'm trying to get away from windows and just use linux. next i need to change over my hp joranda 450 to use under linux and quicken then i can delete windows. thanks Bill Nash Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . You are here X Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)
Quoting liberally from Ethernet Networks by Gilbert Held: The IEEE 8023 standard for 10BASE-T using unshielded twisted pair at 10 Mbps, maximum segment length is 100 meters or 328 feet... Now if you want to get really technical, the 100 meters was originally meant to consist of 3 segments. The first segment can be up to 90 meters from a patch panel to a wall plate. Segments 2 and 3 which can be up to 10 meters in length allow for patch cables at each end of the link. You are well within the maximum length and it's a lot cheaper than a wireless solution. At 05:37 PM Saturday, 11/10/2001, Paul wrote -= Hi, everybody. I have a DSL connection coming in to the upstairs computer. I'd like to connect (withought having to get a new modem) a computer downstairs to the same connection. Can I send a cat5 cable down throught the wall from the router to the downstairs computer? (approx. 30-40 feet) Is there a limit to cat5 length in order to remain effective? Do I need a wireless solution? is that even safe? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. --Steven Wright Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GRUB
In the readme that comes with Grub, it explains how to change the default os - Yours is set to 0 right now. To make windoze the default, change the line from: default 0 - default 2 Ed At 04:07 AM Saturday, 11/10/2001, you wrote -= Can someone familiar with GRUB please tell me how to alter the MENU.LST file to make windows the default OS? I cannot use linux for internet access, so until then, I'd like to make windows the dedfault OS. Here is the file as I know it: timeout 30 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,4)/lnx4win/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd0,4)/lnx4win/boot/us.klt altconfigfile (hd0,4)/lnx4win/boot/grub/menu.once default 0 Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. --Benjamin Disraeli Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list
It has been my experience that most of the offenders don't even know the difference between html and plain text let alone know how to change a setting. I thought all I had to do was turn it on and just go... }B-) I can't tell you how frustrating it was for me to get some members of some lists that I run from my server to change their settings in AOL!!! Then I found demime which just strips it and attachments - including vcf's - before a message hits a list. Another solution might be to get the newbie list folk to use something like demime to strip the html... Ed At 10:24 PM 9/24/2001 +0100, you wrote: as a suggestion, when some one sends and html email, every body respond to them, off list, by forwarding them their message and ask them to resubmit in plain text. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?
At 12:26 PM Sunday, 9/23/2001, you wrote -= portsentry.*: UDP scan OK.. I've tried adding all the entries you've given me, but the log files are all coming the same way as before. hm I think I put a : where there should be a . Try portsentry.*. UDP scan without the quotes of course I am editing the /etc/logcheck/ignore file which I've checked the path in logcheck.sh to make sure it's pointing there.. which it is. I have all the logcheck files in the same dir. Check the docs as to the exact files that you should be seeing Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. -Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?
If you don't want to see certain activity in the reports, look at logcheck.ignore. Anything specified in that file will be ignored by logcheck. For example, ipop3d.*Moved will ignore entries like this from maillog: Sep 22 21:28:06 yoda ipop3d[2967]: Moved 7395 bytes of new mail to /home/ed/mbox from /var/spool/mail/ed host= eds.wrenkasky.com [10.10.10.11] If you have trouble, send me one of the messages from the log file. Ed At 11:01 PM Saturday, 9/22/2001, Paul Rodríguez wrote -= After reading this, I installed Logcheck (after a couple of hours of playing around with sendmail and postfix, and after an hour realizing I wasn't getting the emails because I had disabled postfix on boot up since I wasn't using it yet.. DOH!) Anywase.. how do I filter out the port 68 DHCP scans from the program? It thinks they are attacks and fill my log pretty good.. :( On Saturday 22 September 2001 15:13, you wrote: FWIW - I use a handy little tool called Logcheck from Psionic that monitors logs and reports via email. It's very configurable and runs via cron so you can run it as often as you like. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it. -Yogi Berra, giving directions Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?
FWIW - I use a handy little tool called Logcheck from Psionic that monitors logs and reports via email. It's very configurable and runs via cron so you can run it as often as you like. Ed At 11:13 AM Saturday, 9/22/2001, you wrote -= It'll be in your error_log and access_log files in /var/log/httpd/ . (unless each site has its own set of log files). At 08:28 AM 09/22/2001 -0700, you wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8 and Apache to host a couple of small web sites. I'd like to find out the amount of port 80 scanning that's going on as a result of the Nimda virus. Anyone know what tool to use or where this might be logged? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Linux registered user 219525 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find StarOffice in KDE menu
I even reported this little bug to Star and never heard anything back... I just manually created the links. Ed At 07:07 PM 9/13/2001 -0400, you wrote: I installed StarOffice.. and it tells me it is installed into the KDE menu. I restarted my KDE. But it's still not in the KDE menu. How can I make it appear? 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] Open source hits back?
From the end of the article: For those who didn't immediately see the irony in my editorial, I feel it necessary to mention that this was only written as a joke in response to the frustrating times we're all experiencing in our ever-continuing battle with Microsoft. Written At 05:18 PM Sunday, 9/9/2001 -= i just read this article and i am incredible disturbed by what i read. Either this guy (the one who wrote this article) is unbelievable stupid or he's a paid MS crony. Basically, what he's suggesting is to bark back at the dog that barks at you. Figure that one out!! What exactly is what the open source is trying to accomplish? Compete with M$ or be a better, more reliable option for people who use computers? mandrake 8, gnone, ximian, gnucash, staroffice are excellent examples of the way open source can outperform microshit products. Adopting, like the author suggests, microshit strategies will further alianate the few windows users interested in knowing more about linux. At best this is a bad idea with good intentions, and at worst, an attempted of ms cronies to divide the open source community skinky wrote: Got this link on another mailing list - thought someone might find it interesting. Not such a bad idea. http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/9787.html Cheers skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Newbie :) WU-FTPD
Try Webmin. www.webmin.com At 10:32 AM Saturday, 8/18/2001, you wrote -= Is there a GUI interface for proftpd or wu-ftpd? I am used to having a visual interface like in serv-u and G6 Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. -William Somerset Maugham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win2k
Be sure you have your lilo boot floppy before you do anything. Then install Win2k. You can then use your lilo boot floppy to boot to linux and then run lilo again which will install the loader. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ There is victory in surrender. On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Robert MacLean wrote: Hello I have win98 of HDA and linux on HDB. I want to format my Fat32 partition and install Win2k on it. Will lilo still work or will WIn2k kill it and if so, how can I restore Lilo? Robert
Re: [newbie] Local network browsing not working
I thought that it would read the information already broadcast. In previous installations I never had to run Lisa in order to be able to see shared drives. I was under the impression that if a drive is shared either from windoze or from samba, you could see it using konqueror and then authenticate once you tried to attach. My wondoze machines cna see and attach to the md box's shared folders but not visa versa Ed ~~ On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:05 am, etharp wrote: I could be barking up the wrong tree,,, but have you mounted those networked shares ? On Saturday 07 July 2001 17:38, Ed Kasky wrote: Trying to browse network using Konqueror returns the following error: Could not connect to host localhost I am running MD 8 and Samba 2.0.10. Other windows machines can see and connect to this one but it can't see the other machines on the network through Konqueror. I don't suspect a hardware problem as this machine can also access the internet no problem. I looked at /etc/hosts and it has one entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I can also query other hosts on the network using smbclient from the command line Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks in advance. Ed -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ If A+ B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
[newbie] Local network browsing not working
Trying to browse network using Konqueror returns the following error: Could not connect to host localhost I am running MD 8 and Samba 2.0.10. Other windows machines can see and connect to this one but it can't see the other machines on the network through Konqueror. I don't suspect a hardware problem as this machine can also access the internet no problem. I looked at /etc/hosts and it has one entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I can also query other hosts on the network using smbclient from the command line Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks in advance. Ed -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein
Re: [newbie] *.GZ
I have had no problems using Winzip 8 on .tar's and .gz's Ed At 09:01 AM 7/5/2001 -0500, Boliver Allmon wrote: Can anyone tell me of a program that will allow me to un-archive a gz file on a windose computer? I have some How-Tos I would like to read here at work. I have WinZip, but it does not seem to know what to do with them.
Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem
FWIW - I tried accessing an ntfs partition via my Mandrake 8 install and some thing wound up corrupting the partition so that I was able to read it from linux but win2k no longer recognized it's own partition... I decided htat if I wanted access to my files on the win partition that It would have to be fat32. Since I re-installed with a fat32 partition I have had noproblems writing files as well... Ed On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05 pm, tazmun wrote: Thanks Frans, I suspected as much since NTFS makes many things more difficult. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it since win 2K can run fat32 as well. But it seems more stable in the NTFS on mine Tazmun - Original Message - From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem tazmun wrote: Hi Romanator, I did download the new version of drakfont,however,i could not install any windows fonts (i have win2k on NTFS).How can i mount an NTFS partion ?. Yes how do we mount an NTFS partition since I had the same problem. I tried to mount it on install but it kept saying there was some sort of error and the only solution it provided was to erase the entire drive! Needless to say, I was not amused. Tazmun AFAIK, it's _very_ dangerous to mount NTFS partitions (file system corruption!) -Frans -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ A drug is neither moral nor immoral-it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole. -- Frank Zappa
Re: [newbie] Volume Control in KDE?
Thanks - this worked. Kmix is now a panel icon as well when I start KDE... Ed At 02:49 AM Friday, 6/22/2001, bascule wrote -= there is a kconfigkdesoundmixer dialog with a 'load volumes on login' setting but i don't know if this launches the panel icon as well, also a long winded way is to manually launch and dock kmix, logout with 'save setting' and from then on as long you don't accidentally exit kmix before logging out it will always be launched, at least this is how i deduced i got it to work for me bascule On Thursday 21 June 2001 10:29 pm, you wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze But... Edwith konqueror, navigate to your ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory and right-click on konqueror's background, Choose 'Create new' then choose 'Link to Application'. In the execute tab under 'Command' put this: kmix -caption %c %i %m when finished click on the new icon and a cyan colored speaker will appear in the area to the left of the KDE clock display. Close konqueror. In the future that icon will show up there all the time. Click it when you need to adjust the volume. :) Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
[newbie] Volume Control in KDE?
Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze But... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Improve the computing world. Toss a Mac off a cliff.
Re: [newbie] Removing Linux, how do I re-install next OS?
The system bios wil see a drive as long as it's the correct type and configured correctly via jumpers, connected properly to the board with pin1 to pin1 As for removing the previous os, you will need a bootable floppy with fdisk and format on it. You first remove any old partitions, create your new partitions and then format the drive for the new os. But, you must get the system bios to see the drive first. Be sure you have it set as master if it's a single drive. Verify the cable and power connections.. On the wide data cable, the marked side should be on pin 1 to both the drive and the board. Do you hear the drive spin up when you power on? Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Just another day in paradise... }B-) On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Michael A Duffy wrote: Hi List, I had LM 8.0 loaded onto a smaller sized HD than the one I am using now. I now want to remove Linux, and re-install Win98 onto my kids machine, but even the bios can't find the HD! Fdisk couldn't find a fixed disk either! Hmmm...My question is how do you remove the Linux, and have the HD available for another OS?? Michael
Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:
Thomas Adam wrote: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 [Thomas]: What are your major/minor numbers, for the /dev/fd0 file?? This can be found, by typing in the following: ls -l /dev/fd0 brw-rw 1 ed floppy 2, 0 0 Apr 14 04:06 /dev/fd0 mount -a Does that work??? Changing the numbers to 2 0 and running mount -a worked for the vfat file system. Excellent - thanks. One more question: How do I mount a floppy to be able to read more than one type of filesystem? (I want to be able to edit boot floppies for lilo and grub.) Thanks for the pointers... Ed -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ Not one shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Re: [newbie] Can't access floppy )-:
At 08:24 AM 6/8/2001 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I can't figure out why I can't access floppy drive in LM8 install. In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. # cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error the floppy is probably not mounted If the floppy were not mounted, would the light go on when I attempt to access it? Does your floppy in fact have the vfat filesystem, otherwise supermount will not mount i, and then the cd will fail. Especially if yo use ext2 on your floppy... It doesn't matter what file system is in the flopyy, I get the same result. I have tried accessing the boot disk made during install of LM8 and a Win98 boot disk... Is there a way to mount it so one can access it no matter the file system or do you need to mount additional devices? Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?
This is exactly the issue. Anyone figure out why yet? Ed At 11:59 AM 6/5/2001 -0700, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Yes, but you shouldn't have to. That's the point. StarOffice claims that it installed the icon to the panel during install, and it doesn't work. The question from the original poster was more wondering if it was just him/her, or if everyone was having the same problem. I think the answer is obvious: Yes, everyone is having that problem.
[newbie] fd0 input/output error
# cd /mnt/floppy results in the following: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: input/output error In Konqueror the floppy icon has a lock on it even when logged in as root. permissions are drwxrwxrwx 1 root root from fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=dev/fd0 0 0 Any ideas? -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ Not one shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
[newbie] How to Compile Kernel
I have been trying unsuccessfully to recompile a kernel under LM8 to enable r/w for ntfs. I have been following the instructions by the grand creator of Linux that can be found in /usr/src/linux but the new compressed kernel will not boot. It returns the following error: Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format. Here are the steps I took: 1. From the src/linux dir - make xconfig to choose the features and then save. 2. make dep to set up all the dependencies 3. make bzImage to create a compressed kernel image The README says that you can find the new kernel in .../linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage but there's no folder with that name. I found a bvmlimux of kernel size in a folder named ../arch/i386/boot/compressed and tried to use that but that's when I get the error. Any ideas or url's for some howto's or docs are appreciated Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Just another day in paradise... }B-)
Re: [newbie] How to Compile Kernel
Tim - I downloaded the recent src but the explanation in the README was a little cryptic at the end. I read the chapter in the Reference Manual for LM and it is a lot more specific for someone with my level of experience with kernel configuration. I'll let you know how it goes... Thanks - Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Just another day in paradise... }B-) On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Tim Holmes wrote: locate database at like 4 AM every day. I'm assuming it's been a day or so later, so try doing a locate bzImage. From there it will find where that file is, provided it's actually on your machine. I also went to /usr/src/ and checked out the README file. IT says in there to download the newest kernel and not use the one that's in there. And goes through some more specific directions. At least more specific then what you mentioned below. I've never built a kernel in Linux. Meanwhile we've toyed with the idea of doing some recently, but then turned out we didn't need to. Maybe something we will do just for testing purposes. I've built a new kernel in FreeBSD, which I guess some would say it's Linux, but it's more UNIX then Linux. That was very simple and has turned into something I've been keeping up on to add things to the kernel in the future. What you do is take a flat file, add the options and information you want to kernel to include, then run the commands and takes the options and includes them. Takes about 15 minutes to build the kernel once you've configured it. Maybe I'll try and download the new kernel, add some options to it and install it, then let you know. Hell it's something we may need to know anyway. I'll let you know what I find out. tdh T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | I have been trying unsuccessfully to recompile a kernel under LM8 to | enable r/w for ntfs. I have been following the instructions by the grand | creator of Linux that can be found in /usr/src/linux but the new | compressed kernel will not boot. It returns the following error: | | Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format. | | Here are the steps I took: | | 1. From the src/linux dir - make xconfig to choose the features and | then save. | 2. make dep to set up all the dependencies | 3. make bzImage to create a compressed kernel image | | The README says that you can find the new kernel in | .../linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage but there's no folder with that name. I | found a bvmlimux of kernel size in a folder named | ../arch/i386/boot/compressed and tried to use that but that's when I get | the error. | | Any ideas or url's for some howto's or docs are appreciated | | Ed | | | Ed Kasky | Los Angeles, CA | Just another day in paradise... }B-) | | --
Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?
I had to put the links in manually.. Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Just another day in paradise... }B-) On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Has any one been successful in having StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel after installation in LM8? I can't get it to work. Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot
I have a dual boot system with win2k but use a second hd on which I installed Mandrake. I didn't like the way it handled the windows partition. Once you get it installed you'll need to recompile the kernel using xconfig to enable ntfs support so you can see the partition... Ed At 09:15 AM 5/29/2001 -0400, Terry wrote: Haroon, I had this same problem the first time I tried to install LM 7.2 on my win 2000 machine here at work. It totally wiped out my Windows partition. The only way I was able to get it to work properly was to use Partition Magic to resize my windows partition so that it didn't take up the entire drive in order for Linux to have some room to work. Terry On Saturday 26 May 2001 09:59, you wrote: hello, i just purchased mandrake 7.2 and wanted to configure my system to dual boot between windows 2000 and linux. when i installed linux, i lost my windows (i wasn't able to boot to it) and ended up rebuilding my system. i now have windows 2000 (advanced server) on my system and would like to get it to dual boot with linux. the drive is ntfs formatted. any advice would be great. thanks in advance, haroon _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Default Viewing Font - Kwrite/Konquerer
How does one change the default font for viewing files in Konquerer and Kwrite? Mine is right now set to a very small courier and nearly impossible to read unless I open the file in another editor. I would like to be able to view files using Konquerer but can't seem to change the default font for view a file's contents... In settings/configure konqueror/appearance there is a tab for appearance which lists fonts for various things but none make any changes to the font in the viewer or in Kwrite. Ed -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.
Re: [newbie] Default Viewing Font - Kwrite/Konquerer
That worked! Thanks... I tried the anti-aliasing but it caused some strange behavior in a terminal window so I shut it off for the time being. I need to do some reading on what anti-aliasing is and why it would cause the font in my term window to be underlined... Ed At 08:18 PM Sunday, 5/20/2001, poogle wrote -= On Sunday 20 May 2001 14:28, you wrote: How does one change the default font for viewing files in Konquerer and Kwrite? Mine is right now set to a very small courier and nearly impossible to read unless I open the file in another editor. I would like to be able to view files using Konquerer but can't seem to change the default font for view a file's contents... In settings/configure konqueror/appearance there is a tab for appearance which lists fonts for various things but none make any changes to the font in the viewer or in Kwrite. Ed Try going to control centre-look and feel-style and check anti-aliasing, then choose your fonts from the font tab Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~~American Indian Proverb
Re: [newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows
I got it mounted using fstab which is what I wanted. However using the following: /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,exec,umask=0 0 0 it is browsable but read only... Am I missing something to make it writeable?? Ed ~~ At 09:26 PM Friday, 5/18/2001, Dave Sherman wrote -= Yep. Dave On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, thus spake Ed Kasky: If it's an ntfs formatted partition do I use ntfs in place of vfat? Ed At 01:20 PM Friday, 5/18/2001, Dave Sherman wrote -= Try this: /dev/hde1/mnt/windows vfatuser,exec,umask=0 0 0 It should give you full read/write access. Dave -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
[newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows
What would be the proper entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount my windoze partition from hde? I would like to at least have read access to be able to access files. Is this correct? /dev/hde1/mnt/windows ext2defaults 1 2 Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Re: [newbie] fstab and /mnt/windows
If it's an ntfs formatted partition do I use ntfs in place of vfat? Ed At 01:20 PM Friday, 5/18/2001, Dave Sherman wrote -= Try this: /dev/hde1/mnt/windows vfatuser,exec,umask=0 0 0 It should give you full read/write access. Dave On Friday 18 May 2001 10:33, thus spake Ed Kasky: What would be the proper entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount my windoze partition from hde? I would like to at least have read access to be able to access files. Is this correct? /dev/hde1/mnt/windows ext2defaults 1 2 Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA .. . . . . . . . In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen. - Peter Brock
Re: [newbie] install problem?
I finally had the time to play with this - it seems that lilo does not automatically get configured for the correct root partition. Using the Promise Ultra 100 controller, I checked what the install had automatically set the / partition to be for lilo. It was set to hde1 even though I partitioned hdf during install to / which should have made it hdf1. Once I made the change during the boot manager configuration stage, everything worked. If I had let it go again, it'd still be looking for / on hde I didn't need the rescue diskette that you referred me to but I will save it for emergencies... Ed At 12:00 PM Wednesday, 5/9/2001, Alan Carpenter wrote -= During the mandrake 8 install, I create my partitions on a second HD a maxtor. It creates the partitions as hdf5 through hdf8. When linux boots it see's the drive as Hdb and I get a kernel panic error and linux fails to load. So there's a confliction between the label of the HD. Could this be a problem with my promise controller? Could this be a bug in the install? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. - T.S. Eliot
Re: [newbie] 3 programs i'd love to get
I have found Netscape Messenger to work just fine for NG's... Ed ~~ At 09:11 PM 5/10/2001 +0200, Paul wrote: It was Thu, 10 May 2001 14:24:40 -0400 when Rog wrote: One program I'd love to see is Agent/Free Agent, since I don't like the newsreaders I've found in Linux. Agent works very well under Wine, but I'd stll like one ported for Linux. Fortunately, I sent Forte an email about it, and they said they were considering a linux port for Agent 2.0. Try Pan. It is not Free Agent yet, but very much getting there. pan.rebelbase.com if I am correct Paul -- In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it. -Ivan Bloch http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
[newbie] Re: Homepage [ALERT] Virus alert...
I use a script called Demime to strip specific things out of emails for my mailing lists. One of the things it never misses is any attachment with a vbs extension. If anyone is interested, and I hope those responsible for this list are ;-), you can get it at: http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html Ed At 09:41 AM Wednesday, 5/9/2001, Devon Null wrote -= At 07:59 05/09/2001 -0400, Dorian_750 wrote: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O) Attachment Converted: C:\applications\EudoraPro\Attach\homepage.HTML3.vbs === Re: [newbie] Homepage [ALERT] Virus alert... VBSWG.X (also known as VBS.VBSWG.X and VBS.Homepage) http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/vbsvbswgx.htm VBSWG.X is a worm spreading via the Internet e-mail system and is yet another variant generated by the VBS Worm Generator Kit. The worm arrives as a message with the Subject line: Homepage and the message body: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O) The attached file, which contains the worm code is named: HOMEPAGE.HTML.VBS When the attached code is executed, VBSWG.X saves a copy of its code to the Temp directory and then mails itself out to all recipients listed in all address books. Once the mailing procedure is completed the worm modifies the registry entry (sets it to 1): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\An\mailed Next, the worm browses through the Inbox and Deleted Outlook folders and deletes all messages with the same Subject line as the worm's one (Homepage). Finally, VBSWG.X uses a default Web browser to open one of the following pages: http://hardcore.pornbillboard.net/shannon/1.htm; http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/prinzje/1.htm; http://www2.sexcropolis.com/amateur/sheila/1.htm; http://sheila.issexy.tv/1.htm; |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--30--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . The grass is always greener when you leave the sprinkler on.
[newbie] Still Unable to mount root fs
I am in the process of upgrading one machine and installed a Promise Ultra 100 controller. I have Win2000 installed on the first ata100 hd using NTFS. During the partitioning I noticed that install recognizes the 2 drives as hde and hdf since this is an add on card. I am assuming it would use hda-hdd if I had any connected directly to the motherboard. Here's the newest error: VFS: Cannot open root device hdf1 on 21:41 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel Panic: unable to mount root fs on 21:41 Where do I put the boot option so that it can mount the root partition from hdf1? Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
[newbie] Unable to mount root fs
I am in the process of upgrading one machine and installed a Promise Ultra 100 controller. I have Win2000 installed on the first ata100 hd using NTFS. I installed Mandrake 8 using lnx4win on a second ata100 hd. The install went fine. However when I try to boot to linux, Grub comes up and I can select the os I want but I get the following: loop loaded (max 8 devices) mount failed: no such device set_loop; opening file in rw: No such file or directory EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock Kernel Panic: unable to mount root fs on 07:07 Does this mean it can't read the root partition on the second drive? Watching the boot process it appears to recognize both drives. Any ideas or suggestions as to what to look at next? Thanks in advance Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Bad day: Spouse is reading a new book : Celibacy. The Secret Weapon.
