[newbie] How big is a block ?

[Ken Walker]

Is a Linux block 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes.

If i give a user 130,000 blocks of quota space, windows reports it as 126
Meg

So if i want a user to have 130Mb do i set 133120 blocks or 13 blocks ?

Or is windows wrong again.


Many thanks

Ken


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[newbie] Raid 5 stops LM boot but will mount through diskdrake

[Ken Walker]

I have set up on lm8.2 a five scsi software raid.

The machine crashed and hung at boot-up at the clearing kernal space.

googled everywhere and got nowhere

So i did  a fresh install keeping /home and another storage partition during
the install.

When i rebooted, i installed raid tools and mounted the original raid5 using
harddrake. It mounted no problem,added it back into fstab and
automaticallydid a raid rysync which took about an hour, all my original
files where intact, apart from a few id numbers instead of usernames and
groups, which i changed to default groups and usernames.

But when i did a reboot, i get an error saying the the /dev/md0 is not a
valid ext2 or the superblock is corrupt.

It asks if i want to correct this error with possible data lis, so i say
yes, it says error in red and then bombs into optoins for a reboot ( which
gets me back to where it gives me the option to reboot ) or into rescue mode
which does'nt include vi to edit my fstab file :o(

Anyway, if i boot with knoppix and remove /dev/md0 from the fstab file, i
can boot into linux, if i run harddrake again, i can mount the raid with no
problems and get access to my files, but if i reboot it says theres a
problem.

Can anybody advise me where to go from here.

Ken


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RE: [newbie] Quotas :o(

[Ken Walker]

So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in
expert is also in newbie, so why are there two different groups. Why not
just have one called mandrake-users

Isn't it better to ask all groups relative to the same subject the same
question, just in case one of those members, who might not be in the other
groups, knows the answer.

Or is it like going into the paper shop to find out they don't have your
paper, and not going into the paper shop opposite because it would be the
logical thing to do. But frowned upon because you've already asked
elsewhere. Even though there is a very high chance they will have your
paper.

?

Well it seems that nobody in either group knows anything about or uses
quotas.

:o(

-Original Message-
From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 March 2005 11:00pm
To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
Subject: Re: [newbie] Quotas :o(


On Thursday 03 March 2005 08:22 am, Ken Walker wrote:
> I'm trying to set up quotas on a LM8.1 server
>
> Ken
hey Ken, if you want an answer around here, then don't "mass mail" the same 
question to both newbie and expert
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[newbie] Quotas :o(

[Ken Walker]

I'm trying to set up quotas on a LM8.1 server ( yes i know it needs
upgrading, which is in progress but till then its still being used, and as
usual they want it now ) using kernel 2.4.18-8.2mdk.

I have quota-3.01-0.1mdk.ia64.rpm installed, and i have fstab set up.

I can run quotacheck, which tells me it has updated and replaced the
aquota.user and aquota.group files.

I can add users with edquota username, and i can run repquota -av which
gives me a listing of all the quota accounts i have added with their
individual settings.

my problem now is if i run quotaon /spare1, /spare1 is the partition i'm
using for quotas, i get the following

# quotaon /spare1
quotaon: quotactl() on /dev/sdb8: Invalid argument
quotaon: quotactl() on /dev/sdb8: Invalid argument

and because quotaon comes back with an error, its not turning quotas on adn
it doesn't update the userquota data when they add/ remove files.

if i run 

quotaon -avug

i go back to the command line with no verbose or errors, but again checking
user quotas, add/removing files does not change their quota used values.

I've googled all night for info on the invalid argument, but can't find
anything specific to my problem, i get lots of quotactl() man pages but
there a bit beyond telling me where to look

Had anybody any ideas they can pass to me.

Many thanks 

Ken


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RE: [newbie] MS Wants The Skin Off Our Backs!!

[Ken Walker]

>At least they haven't (yet) started trying to use our bodies to generate 
>power ;^). When they're granted a patent on that, I'll start getting
nervous.

Mmmm, perhaps MS have been looking too closely at the Matrix films !

Is the Oracle actually Bill Gates in another form !

Ken


-Original Message-
From: Ron Hunter-Duvar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 July 2004 8:04pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Wants The Skin Off Our Backs!!


On July 15, 2004 12:51, Graham Watkins wrote:
> Literally
>
> 

At least they haven't (yet) started trying to use our bodies to generate 
power ;^). When they're granted a patent on that, I'll start getting
nervous.

I wouldn't let any M$ branded electrical device attach to my body anyway. 
Gives a whole new meaning to "blue screen of death" (blue scream of death, 
maybe?).

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RE: [newbie] import ms fonts?

[Ken Walker]

I can honestly say that is how I did it not three days ago.

And it did all of them at once.

I went to the folder, went into the folder,  put a star where the selected
font name would go and just said go for it babe.  Remember * in Linux is a
wildcard meaning all, it's dos  equivalent is *.*

Ken

with MD 10

-Original Message-
From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 July 2004 3:48pm
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] import ms fonts?


On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 00:04, Ken Walker wrote:
> In Mandrake Control Center -> System -> Fonts, go to the directory where
all
> your xp fonts are, double click to enter that folder so you can see all
the
> font names in the right window and then place ' * ' in the section where
the
> font selected font goes, and just click which ever button imports them. It
> did take a long time on my lappy, but it did them all in one go.
> 
> Ken

Sorry mate - doesn't work like that with 10.0 OE...you have to do it one
at a time - no means by which to select more than one...

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RE: [newbie] import ms fonts?

[Ken Walker]

In Mandrake Control Center -> System -> Fonts, go to the directory where all
your xp fonts are, double click to enter that folder so you can see all the
font names in the right window and then place ' * ' in the section where the
font selected font goes, and just click which ever button imports them. It
did take a long time on my lappy, but it did them all in one go.

Ken


-Original Message-
From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 July 2004 2:33pm
To: Mandrake Newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] import ms fonts?


On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 23:09, Thereidos wrote:
> Dnia czw 15. lipca 2004 14:07, Stephen Kuhn napisał:
> > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 21:48, Thereidos wrote:
> > > Dnia czw 15. lipca 2004 12:21, Angus Auld napisał:
> > > > Hi everyone, I finally have installed Mdk10.0, and I'm in the
> > > > process of getting things set up the way I would like.
> > > > Thus far, I haven't encountered too many bumps, and I
> > > > am quite impressed.
> > > >
> > > > One thing I would like to ask the list however; is there any
> > > > way to import my ms fonts from my dual-boot xp all in one
> > > > step, like in previous versions of Mdk? Can I just copy and paste my
> > > > fonts from ms to Mdk? The automated process that Mdk had was so
easy.
> > > >
> > > > TIA for your time and any feedback on this.
> > > > Best regards.
> > >
> > > Get to the Mandrake Control Center -> System -> Fonts and there's an
> > > option to import true type fonts (these are the ones used in
Windows)...
> >
> > ONE at a time, though - we used to be able to snag all the fonts in one
> > go - which is easier than importing several hundred TTF's one at a
> > time...
> 
> What I can do about it? It ain't my fault...

It's Derek's fault, really.

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[newbie] Printing to a D-link 3 port print server with CUPS ?

[Ken Walker]

I'm trying to set CUPS to print to an Epson inkjet and a HP Laser that are
connected to a D-Link 3 port ( 2 parallel and 1 serial ) print server.

I know the server name is 

Print_Server

I can see this in a windows NWNH ( after I installed NetBEUI ), but a
smbclient to the workgroup 
Master shows up all the workgroup workstations but not the print server.

I also know the 3 ports on the print server are called

PS-D10D8B-P1
PS-D10D8B-P2
PS-D10D8B-S1

and a nmap to that print server gives

PortState   Service
21/tcp  openftp
25/tcp  opentelnet
515/tcp openprinter

What do I choose for the connection type ?

Printer on remote lpd server
Network printer tcp/socket
Printer on SMB/Windows server
Enter a Printer device url

Has anybody got one of these working with CUPS ?

Many thanks

Ken ( currently printerless :o)



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[newbie] Quotas ! - sort of long but had to explain

[Ken Walker]

I need to set up a hard disk with quotas.

So I though, first I'll try it on the /home partition, cos I really didn't
know what I was doing.

Fresh install of LM8.2, cos I know that's sound.

Did a google for quotas howto's

Got one on redhat,  I though, they must all be the same as regards
quotas

Install the quota tools

I make my quota.user and quota.group in the root of /home.

Then I go into diskdrake and enable quotas for that partition.

check /etc/fstab, yep all there, group and users, for /dev/hda6

Fine so far :o)

Then it said ( the howto I found ) you have to activate the quota.user and
quota.group files before you reboot, cos at reboot it'll complain.

so I did, it said do the following

edquota -u me

and got an error along the lines, no files system found with quotas enabled.

Mmm

So I rebooted and on the boot got summat along the lines of 

aquota.users and aquota.group on path /dev/hda6/home not found. [FAILED]

Derrr, where did the 'a' come from.

so a man on edquota mentioned quota.user as type 1 and aquota.user as type 2

Didn't mention anything on me howto about type 1 or type 2 quotas.

so i created aquota.user and aquota.group, did all the above again, but
still nothing but complaints form mr lm.

Again, console, as root, edquota -u me

still couldn't find a file system with quotas enabled.

Ok so off I went searching again.

Found some info at Ozzzy's Mandrake Place.

There is says enable quotes in fstab, done that, and then run 

quotacheck -acug

Did that, refused to do it on a mounted partition.

So unmounted and did it again, said the partition wasn't mounted.

so I did the next line on his howto

quotacheck -acmg   a little force needed -  but with a warning about,
don't do this really

That ran through and I could then use edquota -u me, which popped up vi with
the bits I needed.

So far so good.

Rebooted but, where the bits come up about enabling quotas on
/dev/hda6/home, I got quotas in use could not summat!

Mmmm, i'll ignore that for a minute.

so I set up some limits, in my test case I set soft as 500 and hard as 550,
now from what I have seen surfin, I took 500 to be 500Mb and 550 to be
550Mb.

Saved it, and went away to another machine to start copying stuff over, cos
I didn't and still don't know what would happen when I exceed my limit.

Well not much happened. So I thought, reboot, so I did, and logged on, but
got the 'this is your first use of linux and please choose a desktop',, Hu,
what, so I just clicked cancel and went strait back to the logon window,,
Hu. so I logged on as another test user and the same thing happened. Logged
in as root and got my desktop as expected, Hu!

Went to a windows machine and connected via NWNH, strait into me home
folder, tried to copy a file over, couldn't, disk full, whow, its workin
I thought, but I couldn't copy anything, not even an empty file.

So I ssh'd into the machine and did a quotacheck, I had apparently set my
limits t low, cos they apparently were considerable less than I actually
had, or were they, I'd set 500, and quotacheck said I was using 17678 ( a
new LM install and still virgin ). so, through ssh I went to root and
changed me values.

Still couldn't save anything, even though I had set the new values to 25000,
which is supposed to be 2.5Gig ( I think ), anyway.

Tried again logging into the lm machine, nope strait to login screen again.

So another remote ssh and I disable quotas, could now save files into me
home from remote, and could log in at login prompt.

Is this right, cos what's worrying me is, if a user exceeds his quota from a
remote machine, how is he going to log in on the host machine to remove any
of his work ?

Sorry for the long winded bits above

Could I also ask the quota wizards, do I have to run checkquota regularly to
keep the users quotas current, or do they all take care of themselves.

i.e. if joe blogs goes past his soft quota and starts the grace period count
down, and then goes below his soft quota, is the grace period automatically
cancelled or is it only done on running checkquota ?

And is there somewhere to put a message he is shown remotely when he does
exceed his soft limit or when he reaches his hard limit

If anybody can give me advice and past experience on quotas id be eternally
grateful.

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RE: [newbie] Installing 9.2 with the latest and greatest (stable)

[Ken Walker]

I have a proxy server here at work, and can never get a LM install to do an
automatic update, have to do it all after the install.

I've also tried it at home via broadband, it says checking for updates and
immediately goes on to the next step.

Is there any way of telling the install program to use a proxy ? 

And why would it say its checking and then do nothing ?

ken

-Original Message-
From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 February 2004 2:54:am
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing 9.2 with the latest and greatest
(stable)


On Saturday 21 February 2004 09:24 pm, Thinker wrote:
> Ok, so if I go with a 9.2 install.. how can I make sure I get the
> latest stable kernel and kde/gnome desktop installed off the bat? Is
> there a way to do this?
>
Yes, at the end of th installation process, you have an opportunity to 
immediately connect to an update server and download all the available 
updates for the packages you have installed.  

> I only ask about 9.2 because 10.0rcX isn't stable, and from what I am
> reading, it will not be possible to upgrade from the latest release
> candidate to the first public version, will it?

It will be very easy to update to final from the current release candidate.

That's what those of us that run cooker do every day.  You basically update 
your urpmi sources and then simply

urpmi --auto-select

to upgrade all your packages to the latest.  Kind of like the old Debian way

of 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or whatever it is.

> If I am wrong about this, I would be more than willing to install the
> 10.0rc1.

If you install the release candidate, just set up a cooker repository as a 
urpmi source and then update every day or so until 10.0 becomes final, and 
then change the source to the official 10.0 tree and do 'urpmi
--auto-select' 
one more time.

You should definitely update if you find some bugs, as they are being fixed 
daily.
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RE: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian

[Ken Walker]

Yep, non-member download version doesn't have the usb pen bit, and it
doesn't do any network set-up or video set-up or etc that works on my lappy.
I would have bought it for the usb bit but the set-up from CD is just
useless. And if I have to set everything up by hand, what's it going to be
like going somewhere else, running it on another desktop or lappy, and
having to set everything up again, and again, and again.

It's not a scratch on Knoppix.

Ken

many thanks for your comments :o)






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RE: [newbie] Matrix screensaver-stick to Debian

[Ken Walker]

Before you wipe off Debian, make a disk image, you may be going back to it.

I recently installed 9.2 ( last week ) onto my laptop which loved MDK8.2. I
wanted to know what this wonderful new version had to offer. So I ticked
everything. 

On reboot, it wouldn't set-up my video or network. It gave me three games,
yes 3!. And when I did a security update it said there was 179Mb to
download, then I did a software update, that said there was 110mb to
download. And after all that I went back to 8.2, installed no prob, set-up
me video and network by itself.

Anybody tried Knoppix, why can't MDK be anything like their install ? It set
up my onboard LAN with dhcp, my wireless pcmcia via dhcp, set the correct
screen resolution, all my external usb devices AND ALL THIS RUNNING FROM A
CD. with NO user intervention. Now if Knoppix did a disk install version (
yes I know it can all be copied from the cd to the HD ) it would be the biz
:o)

-Original Message-
From: Lexx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 February 2004 10:50:pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Matrix screensaver


Before I go ahead and wipe Debian off my laptop and replace it with MDK
I'd like to know if I can use the rather nice Matrix screensaver that is
in KDE, if not where can it be found? 

I seem to have a rather basic graphics card and it can't handle most of
the screensavers in kdeartwork.

I downloaded xscreensaver-4.12-1mdk.i586.rpm, but I'm not sure if (a) I
already have it or (b) it's going to contain more high-graphic content.

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Lexx

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RE: [newbie] New Users ?

[Ken Walker]

I want to set up a series of folders such as Cad1, Cad2 and Cad3 that will
be set up as shares in samba. These will be used for three classes. And
there's an average of 30 students per class. Access to the folders will be
done by mapping them onto win98/2k clients.

Can I just create Linux user accounts without creating home and personal
groups. The remote users will never know about home directories or such.

In User Manager that comes with LM. It gives the options, all set by default
to create home directory, personal group and copy skeleton.

I can't see any point in creating hundreds of home's when they will never be
used !

Ken :o)


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Sexton
Sent: 21 October 2003 7:01:pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] New Users ?


Ken could you explain more in detail what you want.

David 
> 
> From: Ken Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/10/21 Tue PM 01:45:35 EDT
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
>   "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [newbie] New Users ?
> 
> When I create new user for access to pre-defined samba shared folders,
with
> an associated password in smbpasswd. Do I have to create a home directory
> and a private group if they will never ever be near the server ?
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
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[newbie] New Users ?

[Ken Walker]

When I create new user for access to pre-defined samba shared folders, with
an associated password in smbpasswd. Do I have to create a home directory
and a private group if they will never ever be near the server ?


Ken

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RE: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

[Ken Walker]

Many thanks

Ken

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charlie M.
Sent: 23 September 2003 3:34:pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select


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September 23, 2003 06:06 am, Ken Walker wrote:


Hi Ken;

Before anything else, open a super user mode terminal, or in a root console,

type urpmi --help. You'll see the flags, syntax and what commands are 
available and what they do.

> All i get when i run
>
> urpmi --update

urpmi.update -a -f 

The flags are -a (all matches at the command line) -f (force)

> or
>
> urpmi --update --auto

urpmi --auto-select 

unless you don't want to see the list of packages before install starts. 
That's what the --auto flag does. As for the --update or --updates, it
really 
isn't necessary since the only updates will be new package versions through 
the update directory source you have set up.

> is 'everything already installed'
>
> when i know everything isn't installed :o( ( and that's from a LM8.2 and
> LM9 )

Check the software sources you have listed in urpm. The old versions of 
Mandrake Linux have all been moved to the "mandrakeold" section of the 
mirrors or some such for those that are still carrying the packages at all. 
For example, the updates for 8.2 are available at:

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS

and for 9.0:

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS

The update packages are likely still available on many of the servers but I 
know that one works since I used it yesterday to update friends' "data 
server" for their home LAN.

> ps, if it did work, would it upgrade the kernel without giving me an
option
> not to ?
>
> Ken

I don't recall if 8.2 was the last release that would actually try to update
a 
kernel, or the first that would install a kernel. Regardless, before doing 
any of the automatic updates I would *strongly* recommend that you download 
any update kernel and manually install using;

rpm -ivh kernel-version number 

from a terminal as super user after navigating to the directory you saved
the 
kernel in. That will install the new kernel alongside the existing one so 
that you can still boot the old one if you have trouble. Then in the same 
terminal (as insurance) type:

/sbin/lilo -v 

To get lilo to add the kernel to the boot list.

 After that's done you can try the urpmi --auto-select again.

Good luck Ken;
Charlie
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08:02:06 up 2 days, 21:21, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.07, 0.07
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years of careful development.
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RE: [newbie] How do I UPDATE my urpmi database ?

[Ken Walker]

urpmi.update followed by the web address of the update server as root

:o)

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RE: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?

[Ken Walker]

Xperience

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Fox
Sent: 29 March 2003 4:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; robin
Subject: Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?


On Thursday 20 March 2003 02:33 pm, robin wrote:

> By the way, what does the "XP" in "Windows XP" stand for?  Where I come
> from, it means "experience points", but that can't be it, because in any
> decent RPG, you don't get experience points for stabbing other party
> members in the back ("Paranoia" being a wonderful exception that really
> captures the atmosphere of the IT world).
>
> And please don't answer that question by saying "RTFM".  We ain' gon'
> read no steenking Weendows manuel.

XP is a piece of crap, ME is a piece of crap, W95 and W98 were pieces of
crap, 
but W2K is not a piece of crap.  When they did W2K they did something right,

and even some of my hardest-core Solaris/BSD droogies admit grudgingly that 
W2K was a break from the mold.

Re: Mandrake: I fervently hope it lives forever because I happen to really 
like it and of all the distros I've installed, I think it's the friendliest.

I know that doesn't carry much weight in this community and I don't mean it 
in the sense of "just click" and " you don't have to read any books" or even

"watch the pretty lights, kid"; I mean Mandrake makes me want to get more 
involved, while others like Debian seem to have a deliberately high barrier 
to entry for the newbie.  
-- 
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RE: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

[Ken Walker]

Another thing that might be of interest to people is that XP uses NTFS 
5.1, whilst windows2000 uses NTFS 5.0. The problem here is that if people are 
ghosting partitions, then only ghost 7.5 Corporate and upwards will properly 
ghost XP (NTFS 5.1),  Any version lower will only do NTFS 
5.0.
 
One 
way round it for us is to install XP on fat32, create the ghost image and then 
convert from fat32 to NTFS.

  -Original Message-From: Brian 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 10 March 2003 7:12 
  PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] 
  Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual BootSo if I understand 
  this correctly, then the NTFS support in Mandrake 9.0 is read-only?  I 
  did just try to write to an NTFS partition on my test computer and it did not 
  work.  In that case, is there any third party drivers or utilities that 
  will allow you to write to an NTFS partition from Linux?I would like 
  the users home directory, i.e. - "/home/userid" to be on a partition that is 
  readable from both Linux and Windows.  I saw in userdrake that you can 
  redirect the home directory.  Can it be redirected to a FAT partition 
  from userdrake or does it have to be on a linux FS?  Of course I would 
  prefer something that is a little more secure, but I can probably deal with 
  FAT32 if need be.Thanks for the help,BrianJohn Richard 
  Smith wrote: 
  
Mandrake will not write to an ntfs 
partition. you need fat32.When you talk about homedrive, do you mean 
/home partition,because windblows will not use it. All your linux 
partitionsneed to be formatted in one of the many linux file 
systems.The basic linux setup is , /swap partition, /root(base) 
partition,In addition you can have /boot partition, /home partition, 
andmany others. In linux /swap is the equivelant of windblowsvirtual 
memory,which is a file with preset limits,whereas inlinux it's a 
partition.I know nothing of your hardware situation, cannot 
comment.John
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RE: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!

[Ken Walker]

Its all to do with the x. for a file it means the owner/group can execute
that file. But for a directory, anybody in the group for that directory can
delete any file in the root of that directory, even if the group permissions
for that file say they can't. now if a member of that group created a folder
in the root of that folder, then only they could get access to that folder,
because that folder would then have the owner as the group, unless that is
you use force group = whatever in samb.conf.

Just as a side line, if you do use force group = whatever, and users create
a folder in that folder, and you have say force create = 750. then even if
they are not a Unix / Linux member of that group, they can go look in
anybody else's folder, but they can't delete anything or place anything in
that other persons folder ( using 750 ). But they can copy any  file that is
not theirs over to their folder and the copied file will have their
permissions.

ken

-Original Message-
From: Raffaele Belardi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 07 March 2003 3:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!


This is a good explanation, thanks! After your comment I checked man 
chmod, I guess the explanation below is what you are referring to:

STICKY DIRECTORIES
When  the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that directory may
be unlinked or renamed only by root or their owner.  Without the sticky
bit,  anyone able to write to the directory can delete or rename files.
The sticky bit is commonly found on directories, such as /tmp, that are
world-writable.

How many things still to learn...

raffaele

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2003 04:03 am, you wrote:
> 
>>I am running MDK9.0 with msec 3, vanilla kernel. I just noticed that, as
>>a normal user, I am able to delete root-owned files (with -rw-r--r--
>>rights). I don't know when it started, I am almost sure it was not this
>>way last time I tried.
>>
>>Does anybody have a similar issue?
> 
> 
> The permission to delete a file depends on the permissions on the
directory 
> the file lives in, not on the permissions on the file itself.  Just as you

> can link a file that you don't have read permissions to into a directory
you 
> have write permissions in you can also unlink it from that directory.
> 



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RE: [newbie] tar questions, ta

[Ken Walker]

It depends on how you define a kilobyte.

Crappy ms say 1kb = 1000 bytes.

The true world of computers says 1kb = 1024 bytes.

Because hex is to the base 2 and decimal is to the base 10

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Negus
Sent: 06 March 2003 8:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta



Greg Meyer wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:16 pm, Michael Adams wrote:
> > What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? 

An empty dos-formatted floppy has 1,457,664 bytes free - 
which if my calculator doesn't deceive me yields: 

divided by 1024 gives 1423.5 (1k blocks) 

divided by 1024 again gives 1.39 (Mb)  

John


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RE: [newbie] Transferring users from LM8.1 to LM9

[Ken Walker]

Many thanks Anthony :o)

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Abby
Sent: 23 December 2002 7:09 PM
To: Mandrake-Newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] Transferring users from LM8.1 to LM9


> 
> Copy of all homes directories

yes

> Copy of smb.conf

yes

> Copy of smbpasswd

yes
> Copy of passwd
yes

> 
> Is there anything else.
> 

yes

/etc/crontab (if you added anything to it)
/etc/group
/etc/gshadow
/etc/hosts
/etc/hosts.allow (if you used it)
/etc/shadow

Also, things like /etc/postfix/, /etc/shorewall/, etc... 


> what file are the groups held in ?

/etc/group

 
> As regards the home directories, i was going to tar them and then untar on
> the other machine with the -P option, keep permissions. But do i first
have
> to set-up the users and groups first.

nope... tar will work just fine.


> 
> Will i have to append the group, passwd and smbpasswd entries to the new
> passwd, smbpasswd and group files or just replace them ?

over-write them will work just fine.


Anthony




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[newbie] Transferring users from LM8.1 to LM9

[Ken Walker]

I've set up another LM machine to use as a replacement file server.

Could anybody let me know what files to transfer across.

do i need

Copy of all homes directories
Copy of smb.conf
Copy of smbpasswd
Copy of passwd

Is there anything else.

what file are the groups held in ?

As regards the home directories, i was going to tar them and then untar on
the other machine with the -P option, keep permissions. But do i first have
to set-up the users and groups first.

Will i have to append the group, passwd and smbpasswd entries to the new
passwd, smbpasswd and group files or just replace them ?

many thanks

Ken

ps. To all those who helped me with my missing kernel...many thanks, i now
have kernel-2.4.18.8.2mdk up and running on me LM8.1

I'm still having a problem on boot where i get

mount: can't find /proc in /etc/fstab /etc/mtab

And i still can't authenticate with a win2000, the win machine says i'm
sending a miss typed or corrupt password.

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[newbie] how do i make hardrake changes permanent for the next boot

[Ken Walker]

I did a LM8.1 install, quite a while ago and the system had a scsi card
installed at the time. I have since changed the scsi card for a different
make and now ever time i reboot it still thinks the original scsi card is
there, so it fails to mount my scsi drives.

I have to go into hardrake on every reboot and manually change the selected
scsi module, then re-mount all my scsi drives.

In modules.conf, do i replace the scsi card module with the one i change to
in hardrake.

And does anybody know how to make hardrake changes permanent ?

many thanks


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RE: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details

[Ken Walker]

Many thanks, but the problem with that is i work at a university, and the
only connection we have is a little ( or in my case lots ) of little box's
on the wall. 

We haven't access to the main switches and routers :( there big guys access
only.

The reason I'm asking is that last night i dumped 8Gig over the net from a
samba with an Intel 10/100 running at 100, to a nt with an Intel nic running
at 100, and it went out at 2Mb/second.

Now on my other samba, which has a 10Mb 3Com, it only sends at 1Mb/s on a
very good day.

Now the history of the 3com machine is, originally we were on 10base2 ( coax
). And this machine was connected through a 10Mb hub and then went down the
coax, and then when we had 100Mb lines put in, it went strait to the wall.

On the hub going down the coax the nic's had to be at half duplex.

I don't think, when we switched over to 100M i changed the duplex settings.
Which i believe would explain the difference in transfer speed.

If i can get 2M/s out of a 100M nic then i should get the same out of the
10M nic.

many thanks

-Original Message-
From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 11 December 2002 11:43 AM
To: Mandrake List
Subject: Re: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details


Ken; Most NIC's, hubs switches, etc. will display the speed of your
connections by using 2-color LEDS. The general rule-of-thumb is that a
10Mb connection will show an amber or yellow LED color on the NIC, hub,
etc., and a 100 Mb connection will show a green LED. The owners manual
for your NIC, hub, etc., will also tell you whether or not they support
this standard.

So, tests are not required, just a little bit of "light" reading. Hope
this helps(?).

Lanman

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 06:19, Ken Walker wrote:
> Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex
mode
> without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program.
> 
> Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10
or
> 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine.
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> Mr Smiley
> 
> 
> __
> 
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[newbie] NIC Card set-up details

[Ken Walker]

Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode
without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program.

Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or
100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine.

Many Thanks

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RE: [newbie] UserDrake problem

[Ken Walker]

You could write a very simple script and call it summat like MyUserDrake
that deletes the said mentioned files and then runs UserDrake.

But does anybody know why it does this

Mr Smiley

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman
Sent: 10 December 2002 12:20 PM
To: Mandrake List
Subject: Re: [newbie] UserDrake problem


Easiest way to solve this is to delete /etc/gtmp AND /etc/ptmp, then
re-open Userdrake.

Lanman


On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 06:46, John wrote:
> Whne accessing "Users" in the Mandrake Control Centr, I get a message: 
> "Cannot lock usr lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist", and then 
> cannot access any of the functionality.
> 
> The file /etc/gtmp exists; if I rename it, I still have the problem.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> John
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[newbie] LM9 keeps changing permissions on its own !

[Ken Walker]

I have a folder called Cad12. 

I originally created it su root.

so i log on as me, say kenny

then i su to root

i change the group ownership of that folder to Cad

then i go to a LM8.1 machine and  smbmount to Cad12.

no prob.

do a couple of cp's to cad12, check out everythings doing what i wanted.

no prob.

say 10 minutes goes by.

now i'm ready to cp the whole contents of a folder.

It says permission denied.

so i think ok, i'll smbumount the mounted folder and start again.

I get permission denied again, can't smbumount.

look on the LM9 machine, and bugger me the group has gone back to root.

So change it back to Cad

to back to LM8.1 and can now smbumount.

This has been going on for a few days on this LM9 machine.

Every time i change permissions, groups, owners it reverts back to the
original settings within say 10 minutes

Can anybody explain this.

It even does it in the middle of a directory copy to the smbmounted machine
and kills the copy.

I really don't understand why it changes everything back on its own. I DON'T
WANT IT TO.

Many thanks

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[newbie] Cups..works on LM8.1, LM8.2 but not LM9

[Ken Walker]

I've been trying every combination possible to get CUPS on LM9 to print to a
shared printer on a windows machine.

On setting up the printer in printerdrake, On LM8.1 it worked first time. On
LM8.2 with the same settings it worked first time. On LM9 it just sits there
and laughs at me, with the same settings as LM8.1 and LM8.2.

And how do i remove a default printer it thinks it has but isn't there ?

The printer on the remote windoz machine i'm trying to print to is a HP1100.
The default printer it thinks it has is also a HP1100, but has it down as
its own ip address, and not the ip address of the machine that actually has
the printer.

Last night i tried setting up an Epson 1160, also connected to a windows
machine.

LM8.1 set it up, and out pops a test page.

LM8.2 set it up, and out pops a test page.

On LM9nothing, again just sits there, says the printer is
printing, says its ready. but prints bugger all.


LM9.. Aaarh nothing.

Anybody had this problem

many thanks


ps is it possible to set up a LM box so that students print from a
windows machine  to the samba box, and then the samba box sends it to
another windows machine to actually be printed. I need only selected
students to use the printer ( otherwise the little buggers sneak in and
empty all the cartridges, then sneak out again )

Many thanks

Mr Smiley


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RE: [linux] [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4

[Ken Walker]

well for max file sizes, i found out for win95/win98 its 4Gb-1Kb, and for
ntfs its 4Gb-1byte, on ntfs5.1 its t big to cause anyone any problems,
in the trillion bytes range. So the 2Gb limit i'm having is not the target
max file size limits.

NTFS r/w problems only occur when the drive is in the Linux machine, not
remotely connected across networks.

Am i right in thinking it doesn't effect tape devices because there not
block devices ?

-Original Message-
From: Joseph Braddock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 03 December 2002 5:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [linux] [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on
NT4


I'm just picking up on the tail end of this thread, so someone might
have already answered this.  I'm assuming your NT partition is setup
with FAT.  If so, FAT (Win9x, WinNT) has a 2GB limit.  That's why when
drives larger than 2GB first appeared, they were set up with multiple
2GB partitions.  I believe that FAT32 and NTFS gets around this. 
Problem is that NTFS is currently read-only in Linux (AFAIK). 

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RE: [linux] [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4

[Ken Walker]

Well, 

m i thought.

So i set-up a quick LM9.

did a tar of about 4Gig ( a 9G i borrowed :o) but he wants it back :o( )and
tried to copy it to the NT machine using

cp Cad.tar ///xxx  Cad.tar

Stopped at 2G

did a copy to a win98 machine

cp Cad.tar //x/xxx Cad.tar

Stopped at 2G

But the LM9 machine let me create a 4G tar file.

Both client machines were mounted with smbmount.

So it must be

I'm gonna try something else.

I'm going to tar from my problematic machine ( dimishing disk space ) to
this LM9 i just set up.

It doesn't matter if it runs out of space, its just to play with. 

So its off, and i'm off home.

Will let you know tomorrow.

:o)


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RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

[Ken Walker]

tools/options/language settings/writing aides/available language modules
/highlight oo myspell spellchecker and hit the edit button on the right,
when in there tick what you want to be active.

Mr Smiley
:o)

-Original Message-
From: Michel Clasquin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 November 2002 6:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.


On Friday 22 November 2002 22:05, Malcolm Candlish wrote:
> I think we have cracked it! On the Mandrake 9.0 installation disk
> are some 'myspell' files which when installed enable the Spell
> Checker.
>
> 1.Go to Mandrake Control Centre and click on Add Software.
> 2.Click Workstation and then openoffice. You will see myspell for
>   different languages, I chose myspell-en_GB.
> 3.Click install Software and close Mandrake Control Centre.
> 4.Open openoffice writer. Click Tools> options> Language Setting>
>   Writing Aids> Select Language Edit> tick myspell spelling, then
>   ok.

I have myspell and several languages loaded, but no amount of 
tinkering with the options will get the spellcheck to work - it just 
flashes through the document and gives me a dialog box saying that 
all is OK. Oh well, one more reason to boot back into windows :-(




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[newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4

[Ken Walker]

I'm trying to tar 8.4Gb to a NT4 machine. But tar stops at 2,097,153.
Stating 'File size limit exceeded'.

I know that the system partition for NT4 can't be bigger than 2G.

I'm Tar'ing to a 36G Raid drive.

I'm logging in as a superuser.

I know i have the option of taring to specific file sizes, but one big file
would be better for me.

Anybody come across this before. I know its a NT problem because I've tar'd
4.6G to another LM9 machine.

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RE: [newbie] userdrake ps

[Ken Walker]

When i say renamed. I mean to anything but the original names...ie
kenny.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Walker
Sent: 25 November 2002 12:50 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] userdrake


I found this problem when i started using Linux as a server.

If i renamed the files it was complaining about (i remember there being two
files ), it worked, but, when i went to use it again, after closing and then
opening it again, it again complained. So i renamed them again and it worked
again. 

It looks like it creates these files but doesn't delete them when its
finished.

I also now use Kuser.

Mr Smiley

-Original Message-
From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25 November 2002 12:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] userdrake


On Monday 25 Nov 2002 11:38 am, Peter Watson wrote:
> On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 23:14, Pilagá wrote:
> > Hola a todos. I'm trying to add a new user with userdrake (su), but
I
> > can't go beyond this: "warning: userdrake: the file password is busy
> > (/etc/ptmp present). Can't lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp
> > exist."
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Gracias
>
> I had this problem and Stephen kindly helped me by suggesting KUSER.
> However I subsequently discovered that userdrake only played up if I
> started it through Mandrake Control center, if I launched it from a root
> terminal it worked perfectly.

FWIW under KDE I use it via the Kmenu > configuration>other>userdrake and
have 
had no problems.   Have you tried it?

Anne




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RE: [newbie] userdrake

[Ken Walker]

I found this problem when i started using Linux as a server.

If i renamed the files it was complaining about (i remember there being two
files ), it worked, but, when i went to use it again, after closing and then
opening it again, it again complained. So i renamed them again and it worked
again. 

It looks like it creates these files but doesn't delete them when its
finished.

I also now use Kuser.

Mr Smiley

-Original Message-
From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25 November 2002 12:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] userdrake


On Monday 25 Nov 2002 11:38 am, Peter Watson wrote:
> On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 23:14, Pilagá wrote:
> > Hola a todos. I'm trying to add a new user with userdrake (su), but
I
> > can't go beyond this: "warning: userdrake: the file password is busy
> > (/etc/ptmp present). Can't lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp
> > exist."
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Gracias
>
> I had this problem and Stephen kindly helped me by suggesting KUSER.
> However I subsequently discovered that userdrake only played up if I
> started it through Mandrake Control center, if I launched it from a root
> terminal it worked perfectly.

FWIW under KDE I use it via the Kmenu > configuration>other>userdrake and
have 
had no problems.   Have you tried it?

Anne



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RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

[Ken Walker]

Yep i have had lots of head scratching getting it working. 

I installed Myspell, and it still didn't work, but the clue is in the
message below. 

You have to go into Tools > Options > Language Settings >Writing Aids and
then check the first box in the top section (turning on MySpell spell
checker).

BUT you then have to go into the edit option on the right of this box and
enable it for oo.

Now it all works :o)

Mr Smiley



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-Original Message-
From: L.V.Gandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 November 2002 2:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.


On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 3:44 am, Spencer wrote:
> On November 19, 2002 01:47 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote
> Before anyone makes wild assumptions about what Mandrake did or did not
do,
> please ensure that you have the appropriate OO help rpm installed, such
as;
>
> file:/Cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm
>
> All spellchecking is enabled with installation of this rpm. 

No. I was having this rpm. But still spell check was not working. However as

per post as given below relevant rpms for languages are installed.
"with MySpell dictionary and hyphenation dictionary installed (en_US)
[mdk 9.0 CD 3], in OO.o, open: Tools > Options > Language Settings >
Writing Aids and then check the first box in the top section (turning on
MySpell spell checker).  In other sections of that window, you can set
the options, including automatic spell checking (incorrectly spelled
words will be underlined in red).  It works fine for me."
It started working.

> >
> > I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they
> > do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a
> > genuine mistake.  If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try
> > and push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack
> > statement) or possibly even the Mandrake Club.  If true, it smells of a
> > Microsoft tactic.  Disable an important feature in a cheaper program,
and
> > push the solution as the more expensive option.
> >
> > It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect.  In my experiences
> > with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely
> > dropping windows.  This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I
> > am sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice
would
> > have been working correctly.

This may be an oversight by mandrake in setting dependencies like drakefont 
working dependencies. Attributing motives by a few to mandrake guys is not
in 
good taste. I think it may not be fact.


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[newbie] warning on tcpdump and libcap

[Ken Walker]

warning on tcpdump and libcap

I've just recieved the following, don't know if its true !

>Hi,
>
>Apparently libpcap and tcpdump have been trojaned, in a similar way to
>openssh earlier this year.  Information about how long this has been the
>case is sketchy.  Trojaned versions appear to have made it out to a
>number of mirrors.
>
>Further details can be found at http://hlug.fscker.com (mirror
>http://www2.def-con.org/mirror/hlug.fscker.com/ appears to work).
>
>The tarballs available at www.tcpdump.org appear to still be trojaned.
>
>Good sources:
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/libpcap-0.7
>.1.tar.gz
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/tcpdump-3.6
>.2.tar.gz
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/tcpdump-3.7
>.1.tar.gz
>
>MD5 Sum 0597c23e3496a5c108097b2a0f1bd0c7  libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
>MD5 Sum 6bc8da35f9eed4e675bfdf04ce312248  tcpdump-3.6.2.tar.gz
>MD5 Sum 03e5eac68c65b7e6ce8da03b0b0b225e  tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz
>
>Trojaned sources:
>http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
>http://www.tcpdump.org/release/tcpdump-3.6.2.tar.gz
>http://www.tcpdump.org/release/tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz
>
>MD5 Sum 73ba7af963aff7c9e23fa1308a793dca  libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
>MD5 Sum 3a1c2dd3471486f9c7df87029bf2f1e9  tcpdump-3.6.2.tar.gz
>MD5 Sum 3c410d8434e63fb3931fe77328e4dd88  tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz
>
>The program connects to 212.146.0.34 (mars.raketti.net) on port 1963
>when the configure script is run.  Sites with logs of network traffic
>may wish to check for connections to this IP over recent days.
>
>We would be interested in hearing about any machines found to be
>compromised using this route.
>
>Regards


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[newbie] keeping ownership/groups and permissions using tar and smbmount

[Ken Walker]

If i share a folder using samba on a LM8.1 machine. and then smbmount from a
LM9 machine. The files on the LM8.1 machine as seen by the LM9 machine are
owned by root and group root. But on the LM8.1 machine the owner and groups
are the original owners of the files.

The LM8.1 is about to be replaced with a LM9 + Dat drive. But for now I need
to backup all the files on the LM8.1 machine using the Dat drive on the LM9
machine using tar, but i kneed to keep all owners and groups the same as the
originals.

I can't do this if the LM9 machine sees them as all owned as root.

I smbmount using a normal user account, and do the tar ing as su.

Anybody have any ideas.

many thanks 

Mr Smiley :o)


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RE: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

[Ken Walker]

Spot on Richard.


Yep there was a single directory named janet.d, and the files sat in the
root were .tiff's.

Many thanks oh bright one :o)


here's a this week story. 

Student scanning. I saw her on the scanner for 3 hours. Mmmm i thought, lets
see what she's been scanning.
So on me samba server i had a nosy. Well me spare space of 3.5G had shrunk
down to 750mb... U i thought.

So what had she done. well she was scanning a ring, not to complicated
really. But for the fact that she scanned it at 800dpi at 24bit colour AND
scanned the whole scanning area. well 184Mb for a ring, what made it worse
was the fact that she did it 16 time, with the ring in a different place on
the scanner each time.

If only these lecturers could teach :o)

I got here to do it again, but just the once. Still at 800dpi ( mega
overkill for what she wanted but i wanted to show her the difference using
selective scanning ) and the final result was under 15Mb and one file.
Phe. 

She said, it took a long time to save em...

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Richard Urwin
Sent: 06 November 2002 2:23 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused


You're showing your roots.
*.* is a MS pattern. The corrosponding Unix pattern is *

I guess that tar backed-up everything with a dot in it?

--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."




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[mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Ken Walker
Sent: 06 November 2002 13:55
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused


I tried to Tar to dat from a smbmount and use the following,

tar cvf /dev/nst0 *.*

It stopped after about 400mb

Tried it again and it did the same, so i tar'd to the hd such as

tar cvf /usr/Cad12/tartest *.*

and it did the same thing, stopped at about 400mb.

It tar'd one folder and the loose files in the root of where tar was run
from.


So then i did 

tar cvf /dev/nst0 .

and that did the trick

The question is, *.* implies everything, and '.' implies the current
directory. Anybody know why it only did one folder and its contents and
loose files in the root.

The total was about 26 folders and 4.4Gb.

Kenny baby :o)



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[newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

[Ken Walker]

I tried to Tar to dat from a smbmount and use the following,

tar cvf /dev/nst0 *.*

It stopped after about 400mb

Tried it again and it did the same, so i tar'd to the hd such as

tar cvf /usr/Cad12/tartest *.*

and it did the same thing, stopped at about 400mb.

It tar'd one folder and the loose files in the root of where tar was run
from.


So then i did 

tar cvf /dev/nst0 .

and that did the trick

The question is, *.* implies everything, and '.' implies the current
directory. Anybody know why it only did one folder and its contents and
loose files in the root.

The total was about 26 folders and 4.4Gb.

Kenny baby :o)


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RE: [newbie] A Different shutdown problem

[Ken Walker]

Well, there are several security level settings that can be changed in
Mandrake Control Panel. 

At the highest setting of ( wait for it 'High') the system becomes a
super secure server. Such that, it turns off all net protocols and other
services in the background and you have to enable all by hand in the conf
files.

In playing with this, cos playing is the only way to find out what it does.
If you set it to 'High'. It disables what it thinks are unsecured server
functions. If you then set it back to 'Normal', all those functions are
still disabled and you have to either go back into Mandrake control panel
and enable them again and set them for 'on boot'. Or do it all manually in
the conf files.

At the 'High' setting, only root can shutdown or reboot.

So, as i understand it, to shut down or reboot with a security setting of
High, only root has that privilege, unless you assign a user to the
appropriate group.

Me still learning, so please correct me if i'm wrong.  :o)

Mr Smiley

-Original Message-
From: Richard Urwin [mailto:RUrwin@;SRHSYSTEMS.com]
Sent: 29 October 2002 11:20 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] A Different shutdown problem


> The only thing i could connect it with was who has rights to shut down
/
> reboot the machine. But that's as far as i got :(

How do you mean?

Thinking back, the time it worked I was logged into X11/KDE as root. I
never have been since.

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[newbie] Tar'ing to tape :o) who has rights and when ?

[Ken Walker]

When doing a backup to a tape driver using Tar, only root has those
privileges.

So to do the backup, one must be logged in as root.

BUT 

Everybody in the know, says that you must never be logged in as root longer
than is necessary.

So how does one do a Crontab to do a regular tape backup, but not be logged
in as root ?

As an example, if you want to do a backup at say 3 in the morning. you have
to leave your machine logged in as root overnight.

Many thanks everybody

Mr Smiley
:o)


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RE: [newbie] A Different shutdown problem

[Ken Walker]

I have the same problem on a dual p2 lx motherboard. Didn't do it on MD8.2. 

I did a full install of MD9 over 8.2

I looked around and also found nothing relating to this problem. 

The only thing i could connect it with was who has rights to shut down /
reboot the machine. But that's as far as i got :(

Every time something's improved, all the nice bits are taken away. 

Like where have they put LinNeibourhood, cos its no longer in the software
manager 
:(

Mr Smiley 

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Sent: 29 October 2002 10:01 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [newbie] A Different shutdown problem


It's an Athlon 500MHz (Slot A) in an MSI 6167 ATX motherboard with
AMD750 chipset and ATX chassis...

Just after I installed Mandrake 9.0 I shut down the machine and it
switched off as expected.

Since then whenever I shut down it goes all the way through the process
and displays "Powering Down"* There is a click as from a relay or maybe
the harddrives stopping that has always in the past accompanied a
power-down, but the screen is still displaying and the power LED is
still on.

The BIOS appears to be configured correctly.

The Indispensible PC Hardware Book does not mention power control.

The ATX 2.01 spec says:
"PS-ON is an active low signal that turns on all of the main power rails
... Power should be delivered to the rails only if the PS-ON signal is
held at ground potential."

There doesn't seem to be much room for error there, but I suppose all
this goes through the chipset drivers anyway. The AMD site is not
forthcoming with a spec for the 750.


What should I check next? Are there any configurable parameters?


* Or something similar, for personal reasons I only have a few hours a
week infront of this machine, and I haven't configured email yet, sorry.

-- 
Richard Urwin, Software Design Engineer
Schenck Test Automation
Braemar Court, 1311b Melton Road, Syston, UK.
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RE: [newbie] OO Writer

[Ken Walker]

I've just had a look and OO does a save as word/xp ect



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RE: [newbie] hardware requirements

[Ken Walker]

As far as I am aware Mandrake 8.1 upwards will only run on Pentium 1's and
upwards..no support for 286/386/486. Same applies to RH

Please correct me if I'm wrong

FreeBSD will still run from 386 upwards.

:o)

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Sent: 17 May 2002 12:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] hardware requirements


Hello,

I couldn't find at Mandrake's website what are mininum hardware 
requirements for 8.2 version install. Does anyone know that?

I have an 486DX-4 100 MHz with 32 Mb RAM that I want to get back to life. 
Besides that OS, I'll install on it StarOffice 5.2 only.

Thanks,

Alex 





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