Re: [newbie] Telnet session
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:05 pm, N E N I S T E R wrote: Hi everybody, Im wondering to know, how can I accept Telnet conections into my linux server, I already have installed the telnet-server, stop the ipchains service and nothing happened, I did this before and never has this kind of problem . Do I miss something Look in /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux DVD player [my .02 and addt'l Q]
On Monday 12 August 2002 06:16 am, Sabin, Matthew wrote: I've installed mplayer and ogle, and have broken the ML original install of xine. All of which are supposed to be excellent DVD players. I can play .avi and .mpeg file happily with either ogle or mplayer, but they stutter when they play DVD's and ogle quickly gets out of sync -- with the sound often off be as much as 8 seconds before I quit. Anybody got any good tips for tuning a 1GB 1GHz Celeron ML 8.2 system to play DVD's without stutter or sync problems? I use ogle 0.8.2 and it plays DVDs fine on a Celeron 633. The machine also has a TNT2 video card. If I don't install the Nvidia drivers, then DVDs don't play well at all. What kind of video card do you have? And do you have accelerated drivers installed? Also, what version of ogle? The 0.8.2 release was supposed to fix the out-of-sync audio problems. -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Xmms thinks it's speedy gonzalez
Isaac Curtis writes: Apparently some of the software takes this too seriously, because when I tried using Xmms to play some mp3's, it got a little carried away. It's playing all my songs about 10-20% faster than normal, and I know it's not the files because I can play the exact same ones in Windows without a hitch. Any idea how to reign in my hyperactive software? Are you reading your mp3's from an NFS-mounted filesystem? I have no idea why, but I once had something similar happen and when I copied the files locally, it went away. I never did resolve it. Fortunately, I only play mp3's from one machine so now they're all local. -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1
On Sunday 04 August 2002 03:10 am, Sean Goh wrote: eri'm a real newbiewhat does it mean to mount? A filesystem (usually on a disk partition, floppy disk, or cdrom) can only be accessed after it's been mounted. Mounting sets a flag on the filesystem so that if there is a sudden crash or power failure, on reboot, the system knows that the partition may not be in a consistent state. During a proper shutdown, all filesystems are unmounted once their buffers have been properly written to disk. Of course, read-only filesystems like cdroms don't have any flags set. Mounting also assigns where the filesystem will appear in the directory tree. Unlike the DOS world where disks get assigned (somewhat arbitrary) drive letters, in Linux, the entire directory structure is a single tree under /. You select where your disks will appear. For example, you might mount your old windows partition under /mnt/windows while mounting your floppy disk under /mnt/floppy. Of course, they don't have to be under /mnt. They could appear anywhere in the filesystem. Often, the home directory is on a separate partition so that a system re-install doesn't affect user data. Therefore, /home is a mounted partition. Type mount at a command prompt to see what is currently mounted on your system. The output will be filesystem on mointpoint type filesystemtype options filesystem type could be ext2 or ext3 for native Linux, ntfs or dos for old Windows partitions, or something else. Options could include r for read only, rw for read/write, etc. See man mount for more details. -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ctrl+alt+del
On Saturday 03 August 2002 09:54 am, Joan Tur wrote: I'd like to forbide the use of ctrl+alt+del in a linux box. It's already blocked in X but I'd like to be able to forbide it's use in the text terminals also. Look in /etc/inittab for the line: ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now change /sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now to whatever you want ctrl+alt+del to do. I changed mine to: ca::ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo ctrl+alt+del disabled -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Manually editing a file
Howard Stredwick writes: There are loads of Linux editors; Gurus will be using VI or EMACS, newbies like you and me will be using Pico. From the shell: I used pico for a while. I now use vi. My suggestion: bite the bullet and learn vi. It will hurt at first but it's well worth the effort. Remember: That which does not kill you, strengthens you! ;-) -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network usage script
On Thursday 01 August 2002 08:28 am, you wrote: Does anyone have a shell script example or a better idea on how to monitor network usage? I don't think I need anything as big as MRTG. I have a small network behind a Linux router (2 LAN cards) Can I pull this info with a shell script with ifconfig? and have it emailed daily? or monthly iptables has packet/byte counters built into it. If you do iptables -vL it will show you the counts for each chains and rule within the chain. If you do iptables -vL -Z it will zero the counters after displaying them. I have the following set up as a cron job (make it weekly, daily, whatever): iptables -vnL -Z | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Bandwidth Usage -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front
On Thursday 01 August 2002 08:43 pm, shane wrote: Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. I had a script during the code red days that ran on my apache server. If a remote server tried to run cmd.exe or whatever it was on my webserver, it would fire up lynx and connect back to the infected remote server. It would then make use of the vulnerability to run arbitrary code - which just happened to be the M$ patch. Cleaned up my entire subnet in a couple of hours. A friend of mine, who was afraid of the ramifications of altering and rebooting a remote server (apparently this is still illegal even though you're fixing the server) changed the script to do a net send to the server's subnet. Those guys must have had lots of messages ;-) -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front
On Thursday 01 August 2002 09:03 pm, Mad Scientist wrote: ...changed the script to do a net send to the server's subnet. The server's domain, not subnet, I meant... meaning the Windows domain of course, not the *real* domain in the sense that those of us who make us of the Internet think.. :-) -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1
On Thursday 01 August 2002 11:00 pm, you wrote: i was wondering how to mount hda1 so i can access my win xp files even though i hate win xp. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk Replace /mnt/disk with your mountpoint. -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Lost 1G of data
Klemm writes: I have some lost files I do not find anywhere, but I know I just copied them there 3 days ago. The dir is empty. I use konqueror as my filemanager and when I have a look at the properties of /home the following makes me wonder: Size 738,1 M Free space 494,1 /2.3 Gb (78%) used I see a mismach here in numbers. if there is 738M used then I should have one and a half gigs free. How that can happen and how can I recover or find the files I don't have any more ? I don't know how konqueror does file system free space checks, but I would verify with the standard command line tools. Try 'du --max-depth 1 -h' at a prompt when your current directory is /home to see the actual usage in that directory. If /home is a mount point, then 'df -h' will show you the actual size and available space for that partition. If you know the name of the lost file, you can search the entire filesystem for it - maybe it got moved to another directory/mount point?. To do this, try 'find / -name yourfilename', or if you have slocate installed, then just 'locate filename' will do it more quickly. -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed
On Monday 29 July 2002 01:55 am, civileme wrote: Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't seen that one before but it works very nicely. I can reproduce by intentionally malforming a menu entry in /usr/lib/menu Shoot. looks like we need a syntax checker for thoser entries with an interactive (this is bad, delete it?)... Any ideas what might be a good thing to grep for that might find these errors? I tried the other suggestion (rm ~/.menu-* ; rm -rf ~/.menu and then update-menus -v as root) and that didn't fix it so I'm assuming this is the real problem. The software I installed just before it broke has been de-installed and I don't see it's menu items anywhere. I just spent a half hour searching for bad-looking menu items but I have no clue. Well, at least it looks like we're moving in the right direction :-) Thanks, -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed
On Monday 29 July 2002 01:12 pm, civileme wrote: Right now what I see is that the easy way to analyze this is likely going to be using a script The following is a very simple-minded one which should do some magic [snip] Thanks for the script. Is there a latency from when it removes the item and says check menus and when it's safe to actually check? I stepped through all 200-odd menu items one at a time, checking for each one and then 'k'eeping it. No luck. I still have no menus. :-( I'm about ready to give up and re-install. Here I thought only Windoze users suffered from the semi-annual re-install to fix odd quirks. I guess it's universal to owning a PC. -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed
On Sunday 28 July 2002 08:24 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in menudrake, but they do not appear in the start menus. I've tried editing menudrake and rebooting, but no change in the start menus. What should I do to make my menus reflect what menudrake shows? I have a very similar (perhaps the same) problem. It first started after I installed WINE from source. If I choose menu style All applications in MenuDrake, I get nothing in the K menu even though all menus are present in MenuDrake. If I choose What to do? menu style, then those ones are there. But checking on Add link to All applications menu doesn't add any such link. It seems the applications menu is somehow messed up. Finally, if I choose Original menu, then I *do* get the original menus. Unfortunately, these are unrelated to which apps I have installed. Hopefully this additional info causes a light to go on for somebody :-) -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed
On Sunday 28 July 2002 02:21 pm, you wrote: If you look at /usr/lib/menu you will see all sorts of files that have to do with menu. In those files is a needs clause. If it needs kde then it disappears when kde is removed. Those files are written directly into the mdk rpm spec files and are cleaned when things are removed. If you remove KDE surely you did not expect anything depending on KDE to stick around. Konqueror does have an embedded version, true, but that version is not included with the distro. Now menu files can be in the system menu or in the user menu (which are specific to each user) and they can appear for a specific desktop 'Needs kde' 'needs gnome' 'needs blackbox' are sometimes clauses There is considerable room for expansion in the menu structure. The what to do? is an example. It is also easily possible to add another clause to each menu item which defines a level so that a user could rate his own level and if for example choosing newbie, see only the simplest of apps. This is easily done. What you will notice about our menus is that, to the extent possible, they stay the same across desktops. KDE and GNOME-specific items that just need the widget set for each of those do propagate across desktops, and are on some of them submenued as KDE apps or GNOME Apps. In other words the system did what it was told which wasn't what you expected. This is all very helpful information and I'm starting to get a better understanding of how these menus work. But I still can't solve this one. Although the original poster indicated he had removed KDE, I'm not sure if that's the problem. At least in my case, I never removed KDE. Also, it's not just the KDE-related menus that are gone. All menus are gone. And they are gone from all window managers. I basically have from Run Command and down still there but everything above is gone. The original poster stated Everything has been lost from my menus except the freshly installed Gnome apps. which sounds to me to be the same problem. When I go Original menu style, I do get all those menus, but they do not relate to the apps I have installed. I can get the What to do ? menus to show, but not the All applications. And they are the ones that really fit best with what I actually have installed. They *do* appear in menudrake. According to menudrake, everything looks perfect. They just don't show in the real menus. Still confused, -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows - Chris Bielek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
