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
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
