Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinet restart' from the command line as root. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:46 AM 11/22/2001 +0800, you wrote: How do I reload xinetd under LM 8.1 ? thanks. 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] Mounting new HDD and creating new partitions.
Tomek, First, you need to create the new partition(s) on it. You can do this from the command line by doing fdisk /dev/hdx --where x depends on where it is on your ide cable (ide0 primary is hda, ide0 slave is hdb, ide1 primary is hdc, ide1 slave is hdd). After that, you need to create the filesystem by doing an mke2fs or mkreiserfs depending on whether you want to use reiserfs or ext2. Finally, you need to add a line in your /etc/fstab, and do a 'mount -a' -- make sure that your mount point in /etc/fstab exists and is not being used by another partition--you can check which partitions are mounted by doing a 'df -h' or checking /etc/mtab. At that point, once it has been mounted, you are ready to copy files to it. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:34 AM 11/21/2001 -0600, you wrote: Hi, I have installed a new hard drive on my box, but I don't know how to mount it in permanent way and then how to creat new partitions. I don't use KDE or GNOME so I need command lines to do it. Thanks for help, Tomek -- Tego nie znajdziesz w zadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] 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] Security warning?
Chris, This is part of the e-mail that cron sends on completion of the 'logcheck' entry in /etc/cron.daily . Basically these are items to let you know that something changed since the last time it ran. It is not a good idea to disable it, and in fact is a good idea to check on the items it is 'warning' about. If you have more specific questions, don't hesitate to send an e-mail to the list. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:32 PM 11/20/2001 -0500, Chris Ashmore wrote: Sorry this is so long but what does this mean? I am very very new to this. Security Warning: Change in World Writeable Files found : - Added writables files : /home/samba - Added writables files : /tmp/.ICE-unix/9451 - Added writables files : /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine : - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN 13541/smbd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN 9363/X - Opened ports : udp0 0 Linux:netbios-ns*:* 13551/nmbd - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:netbios-ns*:* 13551/nmbd - Opened ports : udp0 0 Linux:netbios-dgm *:* 13551/nmbd - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:netbios-dgm *:* 13551/nmbd - Opened ports : udp0 0 localhost.localdo:32818 *:* 13611/smbd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN 1579/smbd - Closed ports : udp0 0 Linux:netbios-ns*:* 1589/nmbd - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:netbios-ns*:* 1589/nmbd - Closed ports : udp0 0 Linux:netbios-dgm *:* 1589/nmbd - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:netbios-dgm *:* 1589/nmbd Security Warning: World Writeable files found : - /home/ftp/upload - /home/samba - /home/windows - /lib/dev-state/dri - /lib/dev-state/dri/card0 - /lib/dev-state/log - /tmp - /tmp/.ICE-unix - /tmp/.ICE-unix/9451 - /tmp/.X11-unix - /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 - /tmp/.font-unix - /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/blues - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/classical - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/country - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/data - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/folk - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/jazz - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/misc - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/newage - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/reggae - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/rock - /usr/share/apps/kscd/cddb/soundtrack - /var/apache-mm - /var/lib/texmf - /var/lib/texmf/ls-R - /var/spool/samba - /var/tmp Security Warning: these home directory should not be owned by someone else or writeable: user=squid(23): home directory is owned by nobody(99). 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 installing a .tar.gz file
Typically a .tar.gz file isn't directly installed. Instead, you usually: 1. run 'tar -xzvf whatever.tar.gz' from the command line 2. run './configure' (to configure it) 3. run 'make' (to compile) 4. run 'make install' (to install) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 08:38 PM 11/21/2001 -0800, you wrote: I'm really new to linux and I have no clue what to do with these types of files. I right-clicked and opened it with Archiver and extracted it to a directory I made but after that point I'm simply stumped. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reload Xinetd
There are not -- actually, there is one 'script' /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd which calls /usr/sbin/xinetd to either start or stop it. /usr/sbin/xinetd is the actual xinetd binary. At 12:59 PM 11/22/2001 +0800, you wrote: many thanks. that worked, but may I ask why are there 2 differing versions of xinetd ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Proper rpm procedure for cross-dependency?
A better route would be to do 'rpm -Uvh --test kernel-*.rpm iptables-*.rpm' which would deal with the 'catch-22' situation. --nodeps should be a last resort. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 11:41 AM 11/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: I've found that in situations like this the --nodeps option helps, which causes any dependencies to be ignored. - Kathy Mitchell, Edmund wrote: Hello all So I thought I'd be all Tom Brinkman-like, and get the latest kernel. :) Did an rpm -Uvh --test, and it says iptables = 1.2.4-1 conflicts with the 2.4.13 kernel. So I got the latest iptables rpm, and --test 'ed it, too, and it says it needs the 2.4.13 kernel. So I'm stuck in a catch-22, and I'm wondering what's the proper voodoo to make everyone go home happy. All this is happening on a (more or less) stock LM 8.1. Thanks for any help Edmund Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. - 2 Timothy 1:7 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] linux facts for presentation
I've implemented linux for a local group called 'Web Spinners' out at the University of West Florida, initial install was back in 1997, although we've been slowly 'tweaking' things since then. Cost was a big issue for this project, since funding was either non-existant or consisted of less than $1,100 of funding. 1997-1998 - $0 budget 1998-1999 - $330 budgeted from Activity and Service Fees 1999-2000 - $650 budgeted from Activity and Service Fees 2000-2001 - $1065 budgeted from Activity and Service Fees 2001-2002 - $50 budgeted from Activity and Service Fees, $150 alumni donation Our first linux server was a P75 w/ 32 MB ram and a 540 MB hard drive (upgraded to 48 MB ram / 3.2 GB hard drive in 1998), next was a P133 w/ 128 MB ram, and 2 hard drives (a 1.2 GB and a 2.0 GB) loaned by a member in mid 1998. This lasted until mid 1999, at which point we switched over to a 486/100 w/ 128 MB ram, and a 4.0 GB hard drive. The latest one, we purchased the parts for and built it ourselves (figure we saved around $200) for around $600 . The current configuration (a little different from what we originally built) has cost us around $800 - $900 (between the original $600 for the original equipment, and around $200 - $300 for upgrades since then). The main server is a Celeron 400, 256 MB ram, 3 hard drives (1 6.4 GB, 2 20 GB) which is serving as the groups mail server, web server, database server, samba server (which also handles domain logins--something I just finished today), and ftp server (I'm sure we're using it for more, but I can't remember everything off the top of my head) Total cost of the main server to date has been between $800 and $900 US. If we had gone with the NT/2k server option, we were looking at anywhere up to $30,000 US to start (in 1998). We've initially saved between $10,000 and $29,000 US using linux instead. Total savings since 1998 have been somewhere around the $70,000 - $80,000 US range. If you would like more info, please don't hesitate to e-mail me directly. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:32 AM 11/18/2001 -0800, you wrote: Hi, I have the opportunity to deliver a presentation (probably StarOffice presentation method) on the linux operating system. What I would like from the list is some information on linux facts ...more to point, some instances of successful implementation in industry and institutions such as small to medium community colleges. Cost benefits, installation and training issues shouldn't be missed. Now that I have my laptop fully functional I will be using Mandrake to showcase Mandrake. If anyone has done a similar presentation and has some tips, I'm all ears. Please note, I'll be delivering to a group that is referred to as a Technology Advisory Committee that has been thoroughly indoctrinated in MS. Presentation length is approximately 20 minutes. I have no problem putting together the presentation, I just need the backup facts. Thanks for this and all previous that got me this far, Bill W. ps...is it true that MS uses linux to run its msn mail server? 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] Installation and config of apache + php 4 + mod_ss
At 11:52 AM 11/19/2001 +0800, you wrote: Hi All People, I am going to build apache + php 4 + mod_ss on Mandrake 8.1 to experience their installation and configuration and expecting to receive some advice from the list. I found follwoing components in the CDs. MM_VERSION=mm-1.1.3-1.i386.RPM APACHE_VERSION=apache_1.3.20-16.i386.RPM OPENSSL_VERSION=openssl-0.9.6b-8.i386.RPM MODSSL_VERSION=mod_ssl-2.8.4-9.i386.RPM MYSQL_VERSION=mysql-3.23.41-1.i386.RPM PHP_VERSION=php-4.0.6-7.i386.RPM IMAP_VERSION=imap-2000c-15.i386.RPM MODPERL_VERSION=mod_perl-1.24_01-3.i386.RPM I suppose all of them being necessary for my application. If I am wrong please correct me, thanks. Any missing ? My questions are : 1) I selected standard installation of Mandrake. I am not quite sure whether some of them having been installed. How to check them ? do an 'rpm -q packagename' from the command line for each package you want to check on. 2) To install those components which should come first This depends on what kinds of dependencies each package has. Basically, put all the rpms you need in a single directory by themselves and do an 'rpm -ivh *.rpm' from the command line. 3) Installation starts from KDE Application -- System -- Package Manager or RPM each of them in Console Window. Which will be more convenient ? I've found doing these things from the console window (command line) is much more informative. 4) To configure those components to make the server works. Which of them should be configured first. You should not have to configure anything (unless you've got virtualhosts, aliases, etc that you want to add). I've got an 8.1 testbox, and the entire set was ready to go as soon as I booted into it the first time. 5) Are their configuration guides in the Man file or some other place. The docs can either be found from your local hard drive or from the following websites: Apache = http://www.apache.org OpenSSL = http://www.openssl.org Mod SSL = http://www.modssl.org MySQL = http://www.mysql.com PHP = http://www.php.net (not sure where the mm, modperl, and imap websites are, use google or try http://www.linuxdoc.org) 6) What are the difference between openssl-0.9.6b-8.i386.RPM and openssh-server-2.9p2-7.i386.rpm openssl: The openssl certificate management tool and the shared libraries that provide various encryption and decription algorithms and protocols, including DES, RC4, RSA and SSL. (basically, openssl provides encryption libraries for use with various other programs--in and of itself, it is not very useful). openssh-server: -- Ssh (Secure Shell) a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. OpenSSH is OpenBSD's rework of the last free version of SSH, bringing it up to date in terms of security and features, as well as removing all patented algorithms to separate libraries (OpenSSL). This package contains the secure shell daemon. The sshd is the server part of the secure shell protocol and allows ssh clients to connect to your host. -- By the way, the above descriptions came straight from doing an 'rpm -qi packagename' from the command line. If you aren't sure what a particular package does, that is the best place to start. You can, of course, also do 'man rpm' if you want more information regarding rpm's command line options. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu 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] Help
You need to burn the .iso image, not the individual files. If you do so, you will have problems. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:55 PM 11/16/2001 -0800, you wrote: I downloaded the mandrake 8.1 ISO from one of your FTP sites. I used winimage to open the ISO and extract the contents to a empty folder. I need burned all of the contents to a CD. When I try to boot from the CD it tells me searching for boot record : None found I can't seem to get this installed, HELP! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] packer program
There are gzip, bzip2, tar, and zip that come to mind... Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:42 PM 11/15/2001 -0800, you wrote: I believe you already have such a program that will compress / decompress files, called GZIP. In a terminal window, run MAN GZIP and see if that is what you seek. Otherwise, try apropos zip and see what programs come up. At 10:14 PM 11/15/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hi folks, after installing mandrake 8.1 (it runs - yeah) I need a packer program like winzip or winrar to download someware - but - not in a packed version. Someone a adress? TIA Ivo:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com o o o o o o o o [EMAIL PROTECTED] o _ o _| | .][__n_n_|DD[ _ | | (|__|_[_]_|___| _/oo O oo` ooo ooo 'o!o!o o!o!o` -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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] Set PATH and CLASSPATH?
Typically PATH / CLASSPATH are set in /home/username/.profile , although they can also be set in .bashrc . Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:40 PM 11/15/2001 -0500, you wrote: you can add the PATH and CLASSPATH environment variables to /etc/profile (for all users) or to /home/username/.bashrc (for username). At 21:47 01/11/15 -0500, you wrote: How do I setup the path and classpath for java? 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] password samba
At 11:35 AM 11/14/2001 -0700, you wrote: Hello: Not sure I understand completely, but let me give it a shot. As I understand it, you created an account in your linbox named user and you want the two pc's networked for printer and file sharing. If so, you have two alternatives. One, is to name your winbox user and provide a password for it, which needs to be the same as the password you are using in your user account in your linbox. Second alternative, if your winbox has a different name, you can still get it to work by associating the name of the winbox with the account in linux. You can accomplish this correlation by adding the following line to your smb.conf file under global settings: Nope--the network name of the windows box has absolutely nothing to do with accessing samba network shares. If you have a different username on your windows box than on the linux box, you must indicate the 'mapping' in /etc/smbusers, by adding: linux_username = windows_username You must then, using your text editor, add a line to your /etc/smbusers file consisting of the following information: your linbox account name = name of your winbox Again, the name of the winbox has absolutely nothing to do with samba, unless you are trying to mount a windows network share on the linux box. Again, the password for your winbox must be the same as the password for your user account. It does not need to be, but it simplifies getting access to network shares. That should read 'the password for your windows username should be the same as the password for your linux username'. I am not sure why you added or had to add the line linux user = samba user but I would at least comment the line out. Nope--you need the line, if you are using a different username on the windows machine from the one on the linux box. Otherwise, you will get an 'invalid username' type error, and will have no access to the linux box. This of course, is all explained in the samba docs available from samba.org or from your local hard drive. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy
At 02:23 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, you wrote: Michael D. Viron wrote: Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user. How do you do this? edit /etc/groups, and add the username after the last : in whatever group that user needs to be a part of. Or, edit the user via linuxconf, and add as many groups as you want in the 'Supplementary groups' field. -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] global login scripts?
Depends on which shell they are using. Bash - edit /etc/profile and / or /etc/bashrc csh - edit /etc/csh.cshrc and / or /etc/csh.login zsh - edit /etc/zshrc Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:52 AM 11/09/2001 -, you wrote: global login scripts? Hi, If I wanted all users to have the same environment vars set when they login, is there a central file I can stick this stuff into? Many thanks Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar.bz2
At 11:05 PM 11/08/2001 -0800, you wrote: Use: tar -xvjf *.tar.bz2 Barry That will work if he is using Mandrake 8.0 or later, on 7.2 the command would be 'tar -xvIf whatever.tar.bz2' . -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix mail server question.
At 08:34 AM 11/04/2001 -0800, you wrote: Hi, I have a Domain and a static IP. I also so setup my Web server runs behind a router which support NAT function. I open port 80 for WEB and I think I have to open 2 more ports which are #25 and #110 for mail server, is that right? No, you actually only need to open port 25, unless you plan to access your e-mail via pop3 from outside your local network. How can I setup Postfix to listen those 2 ports (for sending and receiving mails)? Postfix only needs port 25 (which is SMTP) -- port 110 is pop3, which is a totally separate piece of software and a different protocol. Postfix is a 'mail transport agent' (MTA), and handles transporting e-mail from the source address to the destination address. If I setup an account on Postfix, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] , do I have to add user name ME on my server computer? user name ME has to either be added as a normal user or must be an alias in /etc/postfix/aliases . To use client mail program like Outlook to send and receive mail via my mail server, what do I need to setup on Postfix and what program I need run at startup (i.e. POP3 IMAP.!!??). For postfix, you need to configure it to allow access from whatever client machine you are using so that you can send e-mail through it from your mail user agent (MUA) such as Outlook, Eudora, etc. As for receiving e-mail, you don't have to do anything. To have a fully functional mail server, you need to be running postfix (or sendmail) and either imap or pop3 or both. Do I need to tell Postfix which ports to listen to or by default it will listen on ports #25 and #110? No -- by default Postfix listens only to port 25 (SMTP) -- it doesn't listen to port 110, which is a totally different protocol (which is handled by a different piece of software. Thank you, Tuan _ 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
Re: [newbie] Installations under root
Yes, all programs, unless permissions specifically prohibit it, can be used by any user on the system. For audio with a user, make sure that the user is a part of the 'audio' group in /etc/group -- if not, then add the account to the audio group, otherwise the non-root user will not be able to use the audio device. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 03:14 AM 11/04/2001 -0800, Robert wrote: My question is when I install RPM packages is this installed through the system such as security and fixes along with lets say I install a plugin for Netscape for Flash Player all of the accounts with Netscape will have the plugin? If I add XMMs through root will this also be in my regular user account? Thanks in advance. 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] What do I nedd for compiling c++ code?
At 03:50 PM 11/03/2001 -0800, you wrote: When I try c++ or g++ I get message: command not found. :-( You most likely don't have the c++ add-in for gcc and / or the standard c++ libraries installed. You may want to verify that you have: [mviron@wsdodev mviron]$ rpm -qa | grep c++ libstdc++2.10-devel-2.96-0.62mdk libsigc++1.0-1.0.3-2mdk libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.62mdk gcc-c++-2.96-0.62mdk [mviron@wsdodev mviron]$ the above packages installed. Of course, depending on what you are trying to compile, you may need to install additional packages. The error will then tell you what additional libraries and / or headers you'll require, do a search on rpmfind.net on the name of the library or header, and it will tell you which package you'll probably be able to find it in. Try to avoid using non-Mandrake specific packages (the rpm names for mandrake packages usually end in mdk.i586.rpm, as opposed to the other rpm-based distributions). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just what does that restore session thing do anyway?
It basically means that if you've left something open (such as an xterm, mozilla window, etc) when you logout, that, the next time you log in, it will still be open. Michael At 06:49 PM 11/04/2001 -0800, you wrote: If I check the box restore session the next time you log in the only difference that I notice is that it takes longer to reboot. It seems to be one more step added to the loading of kde. I haven't checked it off lately because I haven't found an advantage in using it. Things are only useful if you know what they're useful for. Grant 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] Problems with KDevelop 1.3 installation
First, please try using larger fonts -- the below font is very difficult to read as it is 6pt or less. Make sure that you have XFree86-devel installed--if it isn't, it will not find the XFree86 header files. Michael At 06:35 PM 11/03/2001 -0800, you wrote: When I run configure I get error message: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! What this means and how can I correct the problem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with KDevelop 1.3 installation
Try installing qt-devel (if it isn't already). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 08:41 PM 11/03/2001 -0800, you wrote: I have installed XFree86-devel and that part is ok, now I get some strange error: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= 1.42 and 2.0) (headers and libraries) not found. How come it can't find qt, I have qt-1.44 installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AOL newbie sendmail problem
At 01:44 PM 11/04/2001 +0800, you wrote: I've installed sendmail in my linux box .then i want to send e-mail.What is the command to receive and get mails in sendnmail program. Sendmail automatically picks up on e-mails being sent to an account on your machine (unless you have a dynamic IP, in which case things are handled a little bit differently). All you have to do is make sure that sendmail is running, by typing '/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status' at the command line as root. You do not use sendmail to check for new e-mail. It is used to 'transport' e-mail from one location (domain) to another (much as one uses a car to get to and from work, but not to do work). how will i know if got mail and how will i read it. Typically, when you login, it will tell you that you have new e-mail. The other way of course, is to check it via an e-mail client (such as Eudora, Outlook, pine, mutt, etc) depending on where you are checking it from. You'll read it from directly within the e-mail client -- how depends on which one you use. and how will i know if it is PAP or IMAP that i installed. There is no server called PAP -- you have a choice of either POP or IMAP. To check to see if it is installed, do an 'rpm -q imap' from the command line. If it is, then pop3 and imap are available, although you may have to enable them from within the services configuration menu. Pls help me i need answers.pls.. Any help will be gladly appreciated Thanks and God Bless! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com www.aolsystems.com /autonotix -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about accessing windows mount
I would guess that linux does not yet have support for whatever NTFS is included with XP, since the last I heard, read / write support for NTFS 4 was still very experimental, and NTFS 5 support was virtually non-existant. Since NTFS is a proprietary binary-only filesystem, linux does not support it very well yet. Of course, with the DMCA, it is probably illegal to even try to reverse engineer it. You may want to see if he has the option of converting a small part of the hard-drive to fat32, which linux has much better support for. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:35 AM 11/04/2001 -0500, you wrote: I finally got my brother-in-law installed with linux. He is dual booting Linux and WindowsXP. For some reason linux didn't automatically pick up the windows NTFS partition. How do I go about setting up the mount point for his windows partition? I'll have to talk him through it on the phone so using linuxconfig or a GUI would be best. The two things I am stuck on is what partition the windows is on and what should the file system be? vfat or do I put in NTFS? 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] password in network
Are you trying to connect from a windows PC to a linux samba server? If you are, you must make sure that either your windows username is mapped to your unix username in /etc/smbusers (or possibly /etc/samba/smbusers, depending on which version of samba / Mandrake you are using on the server) or a valid unix username. The password is then the same as the one for your unix user account (which, if you want to make things easier, should be the same as your windows user password). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 11:29 AM 11/01/2001 +, belcoop wrote: After reconfiguring many times the network, suddenly the computer appears on the screen oof the windows network. To access however, he asks for passwords. Where do I find/install them? Thanks, Geert 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] logfile location?
As far as where the logfiles are located, they are usually either directly under /var/log, or in one of the subdirectories. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:55 AM 10/31/2001 -0600, you wrote: I posted a few weeks ago RE: getting my USR Sportster ISDN 128k internal ISA modem working. No one responded. After attempting to get it to work via HardDrake by configuring it from there, I get an unable to connect error. If I punch the log button, a text screen pops containing the events leading to the error and the specific error itself. My question is, where is this logfile deposited? The window that pops has no title I'm unable to cut/paste the contents. Also, is there anyone else out there with this same modem that has gotten it to work successfully w 8.1 (or any other previous version)? What other configuration do I need to do, if any, in addition to the HardDrake stuff? I'm completely new to Linux so I'm pretty lost in trying to get this to work. I've been hammering at it for 3 weeks now and I'm about ready to throw in the towel and crawl back to MS with my tail between my legs;-(. Without Internet connectivity it's a waste of time. Again, ANY insight at all would be most appreciated. Thanks 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] No sound as user!
Try checking to make sure that your user account is part of the 'audio' group. If it isn't, you will not be able to use sound as a user (although it will work perfectly fine as 'root'). It's yet another 'security' feature. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 05:13 PM 10/31/2001 -0800, you wrote: Two possibilities. Usually if something works as root, but not a user, then it's a permissions problem. However, another thought - mixer and volume settings are set for each user (root is a user too!), so you might find that it's simply that the sound IS working, but just defaulted too low for your user. HTH, Ron. --- ZekeVarg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I just made a fresh install of Mandrake 8.1 and everything went fine exept for logging in as a user the sound doesn't work (gnome), it works logged in as root. Zeke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.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
Re: [newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.
I might be wrong -- not saying ms was right to block browsers -- but I thought that ms was concerned about css, not javascript. You're approach addresses javascript, not css. I'm sure you know this, but I'll say it just to make my point clear: For css, you have to check for browser type, not for javascript objects. While css and javascript can be combined they are two seperate things, and if you think that your page won't *display* properly due to css issues, then you should check for browser type. That's what I do. Oftentimes you need a css sheet for netscape and another css sheet for internet explorer. (I'm new to linux, so not sure if I'll need yet another for unix systems.) Actually, I have never had to have 'separate' stylesheets for the different browsers. I take the time to develop a template that will work properly in all browsers (or at the very least, Netscape 4.7x, Netscape 6.x, Mozilla .9x, and Opera on a variety of platforms). For other browsers, I make sure that my website will 'degrade gracefully' (ie, making sure that the website is actually readable in text based browsers (such as lynx, links) and earlier versions of netscape and IE). Granted, that such attention makes a prototype take longer to develop. The last one I did that was cross - browser / cross - os took me about 4-5 months to design, develop, and perfect. However, using php or jsp or for that matter cfm, I can have a single template -- meaning that all I have to do, is include the template with each page, and therefore have content / layout / style independence (ie, the styles are all in a stylesheet, layout is handled in a template file, and content is added to another file (where the 'template' is included). After that, I can add content to my hearts content, or for that matter, change out the template for a new design within a matter of minutes. By the way, for those who are wondering, I've been dealing with web design / development for over 6 years now. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to extract bz2 files
run tar xjf ... Paul 'tar xjf filename' will work on 8.0 and above, it does not work on previous releases 7.2 and below. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
Linux still have a long way to go, compared to where microsoft is... So, learn from the strength of microsoft, and combine both to win ppl over... and not argue among urselves, and accomplish nothing except to maybe plant seeds of disunity... If Linux really rise up to the occasion, I am willing to bundle linux as the OS in OEM computer... but that is Linux rise up to the occasion. That may be true, but you seem to indicate that it is not user-friendly at all yet, which is hardly the case. I'm not sure how long you've been using some version of linux, but the first one I installed was slackware 2.5 -- it was hardly 'user-friendly' at that point. Want to add a user? Well, you better learn the adduser command. Want to configure bind, apache, or a host of other servers? Better learn to edit the configuration files directly. Want to have networking available? re-compile the kernel. Want to use kde or gnome? Compile them. Slackware was certainly not user friendly -- at least, much less so than things are today. Basically anything that you wanted to do, you had to compile / configure by hand from the command line, since there were virtually no pre-compiled binaries. Today, you've got distributions like Redhat and Mandrake where you can configure virtually everything on the system from a GUI. You don't even have to compile most software anymore -- you just go to rpmdrake or any of the other rpm guis, select a package that you want to install, and it takes care of the rest of it for you. To me, that is at least as user friendly as Windows is, in some cases even more so. -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script
You could try 'whoami'. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:18 AM 10/23/2001 -0500, you wrote: I'm trying to write a bash script to install some files but it must be run as root. Is there a way that I can get my script to check to see if it has root priviledges and if not exit out? 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] Circular dependancies?
[root@pengo packages]# rpm -i libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: GConf = 1.0.4 is needed by libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk Is this my fault for trying to install from the 8.1 RPM's or should I be able to do this? Get around it by doing an 'rpm -i libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm GConf-*.rpm' I've seen this with several packages, and have found that the above is the easiest way to solve it. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations
One of the things about the Mac that caught my attention was that its new OS X is basically another Unix variant. Aside from being more stable than Windows, Im hoping that each machine would be able to easily mount the others file systems. Has anyone tried this? I would expect it to be simply a matter of starting up an NFS service. I know that you can similarly use SAMBA to serve files to a Windows client, but I understand that this would be more limiting (the linux box cant write to the Windows partitions, etc...). Yes, a linux client can write to a samba mounted share, regardless of the windows filesystem type. As a matter of fact, one backup measure I take on a weekly basis is to write a copy of .tgz'ed backups to a smb mount that uses the NTFS5 filesystem--primarily so that a copy of the backup files can be burned to CD -- they wouldn't allow me to put the CDRW in the linux server. Of course, since I'm not really sure what you mean by 'the linux box cant write to the Windows partitions, etc...', I could be missing the point. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more books please
Try http://www.linuxdoc.org, which contains all the linux documentation (Guides, Howtos, etc). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 11:17 AM 10/21/2001 -0500, you wrote: Hi... I need free books (I hope in pdf or ps) about Programing with Shell in Linux and Operating System This books are for my class at the University, and I'll be grateful a lot if you can help me thanks 4 everything -- #-# | M. Paúl Mancheno H. | ##-## | Linux User Registered #232544 | ## 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] How to make a Upgrade
It's pretty much no different than an install -- reboot, pop the CD in, go step by step through the screens, and you are all set. The last time I did an upgrade was from 7.1 to 7.2 -- it ended up taking nearly 6 hours to finish. I did a clean install of 7.2, and had the machine up and running within 3 hours. Of course, you are typically much better off to do a clean install as opposed to an upgrade. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:40 PM 10/01/2001 -0400, you wrote: Hello List. I have a simple question: How i can to upgrade Mandrake 8.0 to 8.1 Thanks sevega 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] fetchmail
At 07:35 PM 09/29/2001 -0600, Admin wrote: Hello: I understand fetchmail is an email retrieval system, which will obtain emails from a remote email server and distribute them to the local network. Currently, I have a two pc lan, where my second pc is a win98 box. Does anybody know if fetchmail will work with outlook express? Meaning, is it possible to configure fetchmail so it will go to the proper email server, d/l the emails and if necessary send the appropriate emails to my outlook express client in my win98 box? Thanks... Fetchmail by itself will not, fetchmail + pop3 or imap will. Fetchmail is a client that connects to an e-mail server -- to the best of my knowledge, it will not forward such messages to your outlook express client. The basic setup would be to create a user for e-mail. In that users crontab, you'd add a line to call fetchmail to check for new e-mail every x minutes (where x is how often you want it to check for e-mail on the remote e-mail system). The next step would be to enable the pop3 or imap server for your linux server, such that outlook express can connect, and download new messages on a regular basis. Make sure that you turn off HTML e-mail in Outlook Express (I seem to remember that it is enabled by default) and that it is not set to delete e-mail from the server. Depending on how much security you want in place for this, you can also enable ipchains (or iptables depending on kernel / distribution versions), adding a rule to only allow pop3 (or imap, depending on which one you choose) access from the IP of the Win98 box. This will prevent anyone outside your LAN from connecting (or attempting to connect) to the pop3 / imap server on your linux box. I'm sorry that I'm being so general on this post, but without knowing the specifics (ie, kernel version, distribution version, and so forth), I can't give you much detail. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xinetd
At 09:48 PM 09/25/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hi I installed a few security updates via Mandrake Update to my MDK 8.0 system over the weekend. One of them was an updated xinted. All seemed to go well. Tonight I found the need to telnet to my machine, and couldnt, no telnet service. I tracked it down to the fact that xinetd wasnt running. Further investigation found that the binary in /usr/sbin was called xinetd-version number and not just plain xinetd. Renaming it now has it starting up again from cold boot. Anyone else come across this, or is it old hat? It isn't just on Mandrake 8.0 -- I had the same problem on 7.2 . I made /usr/sbin/xinetd a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/xinetd-version_number, and it works fine now (not that I use xinetd for much, since I've turned off most of the services it provides). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ipchains? iptables? iproute2?
iproute2 is the way for kernel 2.4.x to handle IP source routing. (See docs at http://www.linuxgrill.com/iproute2-toc.html for information) ipchains and iptables are roughly equivalent to one another in that they both have the same end result -- configuring a firewall. ipchains is the firewalling utility from the 2.2.x kernels (although still supported under 2.4.x), while iptables is the kernel 2.4.x replacement for ipchains. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 08:55 PM 09/25/2001 -0400, you wrote: I setup sharing my internet connection under Mandrake Control Center on MDK 8. It installed ipchains, iptables, and iproute2? Are all these programs used for the internet sharing or does it install some of these for a just in case senerio? What are they all supposed to do? Thanks, Kevin 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] Checking on port 80 scans?
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). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida 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? TIA Andy Miller 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 regarding man and xmodmap
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:55:40 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap At 12:45 AM 09/22/2001 +0200, you wrote: Hi, I've been running Red Hat Linux 7.0 with 2.4 kernel for a couple of months now, very happily. Two weird things have recently happened: 1) when I try to use man I get an error that says gzip: stdout: No place left on the device Error executing formatting or display command. et.c. et.c. It would be useful to see your partition information. Run df -h, and post the output. Also, try updating to the most recent man rpm, available from ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/man-1.5i2-0.7x.5.i386.rpm Sorry...that should have been: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/i386/man-1.5i2-0.7x.5.i386.rpm (They just released the update today) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap
There are a few things you can do: 1. Repartition the drive (which pretty much means a re-install) as follows: / approx 600 - 700 MB /usr approx 3.5 GB (gives you a little more room in case you decide to load more programs down the road) leave your swap size the same give the rest to /home. 2. Take a look in /var/log, and see if there are any .[1-9] files or .gz files. If so, they can be deleted (since they are nothing more than old copies of your log files). Also check in /var/spool/mail, and do an ls -al to see how large your mail spool files are getting. The 'root' user account gets a lot of e-mail from various cron jobs that occur regularly (if the machine is on 24/7) and so therefore might be kind of large. 3. Try to figure out where it is trying to uncompress the man files (I think /var/tmp maybe? or /var/cache) and make that a symbolic link to a similarly named directory on /home (where you have plenty of room). Michael At 01:12 AM 09/22/2001 +0200, you wrote: Michael thanks for the advice. Gee, I'm really Newbie! ok, so var is full and I guess that's where the man would decompress... Is it easy to change the space allowed for var or do I need to repartition the HD? the output is FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 486M 50M 411M 11% / /dev/hda5 3.8G 14M 3.6G 1% /home /dev/hda6 2.9G 938M 1.8G 34% /usr /dev/hda8 45M 46M 0 100% /var thanks f __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it 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] Same install many PC's
During an expert installation of MandrakeLinux 8, it should ask if you want to create a replication floppy--at least it does with 7.2 not sure about 8.0 or 8.1. I'm not sure how exactly it works, but it should be pretty close to what you want. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:46 PM 09/19/2001 -0400, you wrote: Hi, I recently installed MandrakeLinux 8 for a school and set up Squid as a proxy server for their Win98 PC's They are now interested in having Linux for a number of their Desktop PC's. I would be happy to install it but, as many of them are identical, I wondered if it would be possible to install on one then create a cd with a copy of it and have some means of automatically reinstalling the identical configuration on the others. I realise that it would need things like host names to be different on each one but I think it should be possible to write some small script to allow that sort of question to be asked. Does anyone have any idea how I could go about this? Thanks. Norman 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] apache question .htaccess file and httpd.conf settings relating to it.
At 05:03 PM 09/16/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: also, do you have the paths to the document root set correctly in httpd.conf? if you are trying to serve pages from the servers root directory, it will give that result... if its not set to serve root... take a look in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf look in the directory listings... ie Directory inside them (particularly your html directory), you should have a line like this: AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit Options That will allow your web server to accept htaccess files... in your .htaccess file, (which goes in the web diectory you want to protect) you should have something like this: Options All AuthType Basic AuthName Protected Access AuthUserFile /var/www/html/somedirectory/somefile.access Limit GET require valid_user /Limit Actually, the user file should be somewhere above the html root directory--otherwise a direct request could be made for it if someone knows what the filename is, and therefore would then be able to get a list of valid users. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File access- Me?,Machine?, Manual?
What you said makes sense. Except for one item, Root directory - key word is directory not root. The one item is if I am SU, does this automatically open the root file or the directory? Assuming I have it set for all access. If you 'su' without the dash, you become the root user (ie, user 'root'--basically the account which has all privileges) but it does not change to root's home directory (/root). (as stated in the man page for su: Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.) for example: mviron@wsdo ~ $ pwd /home/members/mviron mviron@wsdo ~ $ su Password: [root@wsdo mviron]# pwd /home/members/mviron [root@wsdo mviron]# whoami root [root@wsdo mviron]# whereas with su - (or -l or --login) mviron@wsdo ~ $ pwd /home/members/mviron mviron@wsdo ~ $ su - Password: [root@wsdo /root]# pwd /root [root@wsdo /root]# If you use -, -l, or --login username su acts as if you had just logged into the machine directly as username. There are three different 'root's on a unix platform which mean 3 totally different things: 1. The root directory (/) under which all other directories connect. 2. The root user, also known as the Super-User, which has permission to do whatever you want to do (including removing all files on the hard drive), and is typically used for system administration (adding users, editing configurations and so forth). 3. The home directory for the root user (/root/) under which root's shell initialization and configuration settings are stored. The question then becomes which root are you talking about? As far as I am aware, there is no root file (unless you are considering the /root/ directory as a file). HTH, Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0
At 01:11 PM 09/10/2001 -0500, you wrote: on 9/10/01 12:41 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my main question - if I install on F: and the disk is reformatted by Linux, how will I get Windows to eventually claim it back? Will it be easy, or am I committed? Will Win still recognise the HD as F:? When you install mandrake, it will replace window's MBR with lilo. Lilo will allow you to choose whether you want to run windows or linux at boot. When removing mandrake, one thing you'd need to do is restore your windows mbr. The mbr is the master boot record, which is what the system looks to in order to load an OS when the system is booting. To restore your windows mbr, type in a DOS window: fdisk /MBR Now, to kill of mandrake, just run fdisk from a DOS prompt, and reclaim the partition as fat32 (or fat16, whichever you're using). When rebooting Windows should recognize the partition, when you try to access the drive Windows will say it needs to be reformatted. Just reformat it as Windows directs and the drive will be back to what it originally was (sans any files it had on it). Matt Matt and original poster, In a single word--no. Actually, you won't be able to remove the ext2 partitions with windows fdisk--what you've done if you clear the mbr first is provide yourself no way to get into linux (other than via a boot disk) to remove the ext2 partition information. What needs to happen is boot using something similar to tom's root / boot disk (link should be off the distribution page of linux.org) or into your linux install, run linux fdisk as root, remove all ext2 partitions. Boot into windows, run 'fdisk /mbr' (note, this is windows fdisk), reboot using the floppy, and repartition the drive using windows fdisk, setting up partitions for a FAT16 or FAT32 partition - if it is a large drive, choose FAT32 (FAT16 has a limit of 2 GB per partition), then format. This is, of course, the same set of instructions that have been sent to the list countless times either by civilme or myself or others for that matter. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0
Michael, sorry for you having to post it again - is there an archive of this list anywhere? Adam The list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ for newbie and http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/ for the expert list. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?
There is no uninstall method, except to fdisk format the drive. 'fdisk /mbr' (from a DOS prompt -- boot from a Win98 boot diskette) will get rid of LILO, and 'fdisk' will allow you to delete your non-DOS partition(s) and create one or more DOS partitions. You then need to format each partition (again in DOS, using a Win98 boot diskette) to make them usable. If your boot diskette's version of 'format' will not support fat32, then you can always convert to fat32 after Windows is installed. Dave Dave, Michael S, and original poster, Actually, you won't be able to remove the ext2 partitions with windows fdisk--what you've done if you clear the mbr first is no way to get into linux (other than via a boot disk) to remove the ext2 partition information. What needs to happen is boot using something similar to tom's root / boot disk (link should be off the distribution page of linux.org) or into your linux install, run linux fdisk as root, remove all ext2 partitions. Boot into windows, run 'fdisk /mbr' (note, this is windows fdisk), reboot using the floppy, and repartition the drive using windows fdiskm, setting up partitions for a FAT16 or FAT32 partition - if it is a large drive, choose FAT32 (FAT16 has a limit of 2 GB per partition), then format. This is, of course, the same set of instructions that civilme sent to the list. In the next few days, I'll have finished a FAQ relating to questions (using my answers) that have been posted to this list and the expert list--if nothing else, civilme, myself, and the other experts on the list can post the url for the person to look at instead of sending the same instructions to the list every time -- I've seen at least 3 or 4 posts concerning uninstalls, for example. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PARTIONING HARDRIVE
At 03:24 PM 09/10/2001 +1200, Ivor Westwood wrote: Hi All I have a 17Gb hardrive partitioned into three. C. 2.5Gb, D. 6.55Gb E. 6.55Gb. I had this partitioning done when I was going to install BiOs, but the computer shop installed Windows in all three partitions. I really wanted Windows only in the 1st partition. Now my question is this. Can I delete D and E and format them with Linux leaving C with Windows 98 intact.? This would save me a great deal of installation of Windows programs I have to use, if I deleted the whole drive. You'd be ok, provided no Windows files were installed to D / E. Also, make sure that your swap file, application files (the stuff under Program Files), and any data files are on C. Then it is a simple matter of going into windows fdisk, and removing the windows partitions for D and E. Once you've removed those, then run the Linux install and partition as you want. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Re[2]: [expert] httpd as root
Mulus, If you really want to open up that can of worms, yes, you'll have to re-compile apache from source. If this is a box with an internet connection, that isn't behind a firewall, I would strongly suggest continuing to run apache as the apache user. If it's behind a firewall which blocks outside access to the box, then go ahead. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:39 PM 09/10/2001 +0700, you wrote: Hello Michael, Monday, September 10, 2001, 11:18:27 AM, you wrote: MDV It would help to know what version of apache, what your error log says i installed it from Mandrake 8.0 rpm package. MDV (/var/log/httpd/error_log), and what line(s) in the apache configuration [root@starwars conf]# service httpd start Starting httpd-perl: Error: Apache has not been designed to serve pages while running as root. There are known race conditions that will allow any local user to read any file on the system. If you still desire to serve pages as root then add -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE to the EXTRA_CFLAGS line in your src/Configuration file and rebuild the server. It is strongly suggested that you instead modify the User directive in your httpd.conf file to list a non-root user. [FAILED] Starting httpd: Error: Apache has not been designed to serve pages while running as root. There are known race conditions that will allow any local user to read any file on the system. If you still desire to serve pages as root then add -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE to the EXTRA_CFLAGS line in your src/Configuration file and rebuild the server. It is strongly suggested that you instead modify the User directive in your httpd.conf file to list a non-root user. [FAILED] MDV file you are trying to change. in /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf : ### Common server configuration # User apache Group apache ... do i have to download tgz package, and compile a new apache..? :( -- Best regards, Mulusmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] FAQ was re: Uninstall Linux ?
All, Although the FAQ hasn't been completely finished, it can be viewed at http://webspinners.uwf.org/~mviron/faqs/linux.php . Keep in mind, that this is still very much under development, so all of the 200+ postings that I've made probably aren't covered by the FAQ yet. If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions, don't hesitate to let me know. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 03:25 PM 09/09/2001 +0200, you wrote: Please post a link to the faq on 'completion'? 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] apache htdocs and error
At 06:17 PM 09/08/2001 -0400, you wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_87580-7607-2231 You don't have permission to access / on this server. what do i need to chmod on this chmod 600? 755? what I worked till i think my boss chmod 600 thanks Brandon Caudle -- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC Brandon, Directories must be at least 755 (read/write/execute by user, read and execute for everything else). Individual files (such as .gif, .png, .jpg, .php, and .htm*, excluding perl and/or cgi scripts) can be 644 (read / write by user, read-only by everyone else). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network Cards
I do want to start using Mandrake, and I'm willing to pick up a new network card if that's what I have to do. If I do, I was wondering if there was a list somewhere that I could bring into a shop so I would choose a card that Mandrake would recognize. If you can't get the dlink card to work (and I remember having problems with dlinks and the ne cards), you should pick up a 3com card. I've never had any problems with everything from the early 3c509's to the newer 3c905's. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need some some file/directory system structure.
At 02:40 PM 09/07/2001 -0700, you wrote: I'm overwelmed with the combination of newness and choice in this Linux world, although it's generally what I hoped for and I assume that it will just take time. But one thing that I think is getting in my way is the file system structure. First, I can't identify what kind of file something is by its extension. Linux files actually don't have extensions (or at least not the 3 character extensions that dos is famous for), unless they are shell scripts (typically .sh), web files (usually .php, .html, or .css), image files (.gif, .jpg, .png), audio files (.mp3 or possibly .ogg), or archives (.tar.gz, .tgz, .bz2, or .zip) Second, I don't know what kinds of files belong in etc say, or bin, or whichever. If it's an executable, should be be in home/bin, user bin, home/peter, ...? /etc is typically used for system initialization scripts (/etc/rc.d/*), configuration files (.*rc and *.conf, and sometimes conf.*), and home directory skeletons for the useradd command (/etc/skel/*). Executables are placed into many directories, which include /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /opt, and sometimes under /usr/X11/bin and /home/$user/bin. /usr/local is the suggested place for software that you've compiled yourself from source .tar.gz or .tgz files, although some people also place this under /home/$user/bin . /usr/X11 is usually used only for GUI based Xwindows programs (not always true, but usually), while the other bin directories (/bin,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin, and /sbin) usually contain command line oriented programs. Then you have /var which contains log files for various servers (/var/log) and spools stuff for various servers (such as incoming and outgoing e-mail and so forth -- /var/spool), and which sometimes contains the web server root directory (/var/www/) /tmp is a global temporary directory, /dev is a directory with a lot of device files (stuff you don't want to delete), /root is the super-user's home directory. And what is Lib? I thought at first that this was a library section for documents, but see that it seems to be for certain kinds of executables (files that other files need?) /usr/lib and any other lib directories contain library (.so) files which allow you to run other programs. They are roughly equivalent to window .dll files. Docs are available for most everything -- they can be found under /usr/doc, or /usr/share/doc or you can visit the linuxdoc.org website which has all the HOWTo's, guides, and FAQs you could really ever want to read. If you want reading beyond that, I'm sure there are a lot of people on list that can suggest a number of books to read. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need some some file/directory system structure.
At 05:29 PM 09/07/2001 -0700, you wrote: Thanks for all the information and pointers, and my apologies to all for all the verbal handwringing. I have just one specific question. Since these directories *are* standardized (although moved around a bit from one distr to the next, I think) does that mean that when I install a software package that all of the files will automatically go to their correct directories, and that I don't need to worry about this? I was under the impression that that was true (and a big advantage) of RPM packages, which would imply that it isn't true for others. Do I need to worry about this? Yes, when you install an rpm package, it will automatically place your files appropriately. If, on the other hand, you compile from source, you'll have to run: ./configure --with-prefix=/usr/local make make install before the files will be in the correct places. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up for autorun
At 06:33 AM 09/06/2001 GMT, you wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_999758021-7607-1676 Hello, been lurking a bit and had a question that the gurus can help me with. I recently installed MySQL from source code and thusly, didn't get everything entered automagically into my etc/rc.d/init.d folder for execution at bootup. I copied the mysql.server file into init.d and ran the command in start and stop to verify it worked, which it did. My problem is...how do I get it to autostart on reboot? I tried rebooting to test it and no go. I'm sure it has to do with the other rc.1, etc. folders, but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. Depends on whether you boot runlevel 3 or 5. You need a symlink in /etc/init.d/rc3.d or /etc/init.d/rc5.d for it to run automatically. (Names of dirs may be off, not at my linux box at the moment) Paul More specifically, you'll need a symlink in /etc/rc.d/rc[3-5].d/ . The usual link for mysql in Mandrake is S90mysql which should be a link to /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql -- so you'll do 'ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql S90mysql' from inside /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, /etc/rc.d/rc4.d, and /etc/rc.d/rc5.d without the quotes. Finally, you'll need to add two kill links (so that when it reboots or goes into runlevel 1, it'll correctly stop mysql), so you'll do 'ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql K90mysql' from inside /etc/rc.d/rc1.d and /etc/rc.d/rc6.d without the quotes. Needless to say, you'll have to be root to do so. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unattached inode 418928 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY
Which drive / partition is it complaining about? The command would be e2fsck /dev/hd[a,b,c,d][1-9] For example, if it says unexpected inconsistency on /dev/hdb1, the command would be 'e2fsck /dev/hdb1' (without the quotes). After doing this, type exit. This will put the machine into an automatic reboot, after which you should be able to start the machine as normal. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:02 PM 09/05/2001 -0700, you wrote: I have Linux installed in my second hard drive and the kernal seems to be hdc1. Should I use hdc or hdc1 (I think the swap is hdc5, don't know of any other partitions) Thanks. --- Chris Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you run fsck /dev/hda/ /dev/hda being your hard drive.[it may be /dev/hdb] read the docs.. check the man fsck or info fsck for the options available don't be afraid.. On 5 Sep 2001, at 10:55, Peter Rymshaw wrote: To do some work from boot, I logged out of my regular KDE session and then loged in as root. When KDE finished reloading, it left the screen entirely frozen--keyboard did not respond at all. The only thing I could do was restart the computer. It now makes it only part of the way through the setup and it finds that there is a error in the system. Messages include: Unattached inode 418928 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY I'm told to RUN fsck That doesn't do any good. But I AM able to access Linux by entering the root password. But then I don't know what to do. HELP! I'm completely out of business, but don't think I should reinstall (and lose all previous gains/work. 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] file sharing Linux to Linux
Paul, Try nfs. Or use the mount command with the -t smbfs option. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:22 AM 09/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: I am running samba on a Linux server, file serving to my windows clients across the LAN. This was easy to set-up in Mandrake with the gui's provided. The problem that I have is that I now want to convert my main client to Linux too but how can I connect to the Linux server containing my data? Any advise would be great. Paul Upton 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] SSL, Webmin and Apache frustrations, help!
By default, it will deny all connections except those user / password combinations that are either in the group groupname (from any domain), or are listed in the require user line -- user1, user2, and user3 from any domain. This .htaccess example does work, as I am using one almost identical to the one below right now on an apache virtual host to protect a work in progress from being accessed by the public at large. The closest analogy would be the difference between a mostly open and a mostly closed firewall. In a mostly open firewall, you basically allow connections on any protocol unless you specifically deny it. In contrast, a mostly closed firewall denies connections unless you specifically allow it. This .htaccess would be roughly equivalent to a mostly closed firewall. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:52 PM 08/29/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday, Aug 28, 2001, Michael D. Viron wrote: Here's a working .htaccess file deny from all AuthName YourNameHere AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /path/to/userfile.txt AuthGroupFile /path/to/groupfile.txt require group groupname require user user1 user2 user3 satisfy any Kind of new to .htaccess too, but wouldn't that 'deny from all' deny connections from anywhere? There is no 'allow from mydomain' lines or anything... or 'order deny,allow' or anything similar either. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 8 days 20 hours 34 minutes. 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] tar.bz2 -- thanks!
At 12:38 PM 08/29/2001 +0200, you wrote: what does the -k on man do? normally i use just man topic Robert MacLean Doing a man man, shows the unelightening: -k equivalent to apropos Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Init process
At 01:08 PM 08/28/2001 -0300, you wrote: Hi, After installing InterBase for Linux in Mandrake 8.0, I would like to make it a service that runs as start up. It's not clear to me where should I put the initialization command (as if it were an autoexec.bat, excuseme for the old DOS slang). Should I put it in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file ? Should I put a link in the /etc/rc.d/rcX.d to start stop the service? (where X stands for the run level i.e. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6) Thanks in advance Aldo Aldo, The convention is usually to put the script (with start / stop / restart) in /etc/rc.d/init.d, then put links to it with capital S (for start, I think) or a capital K (if you want to stop it) in the different run-levels. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not prompted for other cd's during installation
Anguo and Isaac, Usually this is because it is part of a single CD install distributed with a magazine (not always, but usually). If this is the case, and you have a fast enough connection plus a cd burner, download the iso's off the ftp site and burn them to CD. If not, buy them from one of the online e-tailers for cheap ( usually $5 or $6 US). I've installed Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 on everything from a P75 up to a PII, and it has always asked after the second CD, so it's not because of the hardware. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:14 PM 08/28/2001 +0800, you wrote: I had the same problem as you. On a pentium 120mhz 32mb ram, the install didn't ask for the second cd. I did run mandrake but many applications were missing and software manager wouldn't run on such low resources. On a duron 750mhz 256mb ram, I had no such problem. I guess there's no way around it. Just install manually what you need on your old box. Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - I'm reinstalling 7.2 on a pretty old box (Eve - 266 MHz PII, 32MB Ram, junker - Everex Monitor, etc) and I am not getting asked whether or not I have the other - cds (I have the boxed version with 7 cds). I started an install on the - computer right beside it (Speedy Gonzalez - 866MHz PIII, 256 MB Ram, etc) and - I got prompted about the other cds right off without any trouble. So my - problem is I can't install all the packages and software I want and need - because it doesn't ask me for the other cds that are ready and waiting to be - used. Two points of note: - - 1. It did the same thing the first time I installed it (on Eve, Speedy was - and has always been fine), I just want to take advantage of this reinstall to - get it right. (original install was a week or so ago, for what it's worth) - - and 2. I get warned about being low on system resources at the beginning of - the install, but I completed it with the graphical installation when I - originally installed the system, even tested X a few times without ever - hanging. I can go through a text install but I don't get prompted for it there - either. - - Any ideas? - - Regards, - Isaac - - - - We are convinced that freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, - and that socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality. - - - Mikhail Bakunin (www.infoshop.org/faq) - - Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SSL, Webmin and Apache frustrations, help!
Jon, Here's a working .htaccess file deny from all AuthName YourNameHere AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /path/to/userfile.txt AuthGroupFile /path/to/groupfile.txt require group groupname require user user1 user2 user3 satisfy any This also pre-supposes that your apache httpd.conf file has allowoverride enabled for .htaccess files enabled for the directory you are trying to protect. My guess is that the problem lies with not having the require user / require group lines and the deny from all in your .htaccess file, and / or with not having allowoverride set properly in your httpd.conf file. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:08 PM 08/28/2001 -0400, you wrote: Ok, I am trying to setup my webserver with webmin, ssl enabled. I have my .htgroup and .htpasswd setup, htgroup has all the users names, .htpasswd has the user name and password, in /var/www/ Then I have .htaccess in /var/www/media/stuff/ so inorder to go beyond stuff users should have to put in a password. Well they don't, it just lets them through. Here is the .htaccess file, have it got it wrong? Obviously..lol AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd SSLRequireSSL AuthGroupFile /var/www/htgroup SSLVerifyClient none Any help would be apriciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- Thanks II
Benjamin, This depends on which version of Mandrake you are using. If you run Mandrake 7.2, the command would be 'tar -xvIf filename.tar.bz2' (without the quotes). If you run earlier versions of Mandrake, they may not support doing it as one step, so the commands would be 'bunzip2 filename.tar.bz2; tar -xvf filename.tar' (without the quotes). With some earlier versions of Mandrake, you could run 'tar -xyvf filename.tar.bz2' and it would work in one step. Finally in 8.x, you'd use 'tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2' (without the quotes). So, as far as uncompressing it, it all depends on which version of Mandrake you are trying to do it on. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 05:39 AM 08/28/2001 -0500, you wrote: Dear friends: Here is a third command sent by another list member for uncompressing tar.bz2 files. I will try all three later and see which one works. tar -xvvIf filename.tar.bz2 Thanks again, everyone. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- thanks!
tar xvif filename.tar.bz2 As an fyi, the 'i' (lowercase) option to tar (at least in ver 7.2 of Mandrake): '-i, --ignore-zeros ignore blocks of zeros in archive (normally mean EOF)' This comes from the man page. This is different from 'I' which says: '-I, --bzip2 filter archive through bzip2, use to decompress .bz2 files' in the man pages. So there is a difference. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- thanks!
while the 'j' switch will: -j, --bzip filter the archive through bzip2 which is what I reckon you want to do Benjamin This of course, will only work in Mandrake 8.0 or later, not in the 7.x series. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Deleting Netscape .snm files?
At 09:51 PM 08/26/2001 -0700, you wrote: There are too many folders and sub folders for me to delete each *.snm file via the GNOME file manager so I thought I'd resort to the Linux Use find to locate the files, and then do an rm on what files it finds. find . =name *.snm | xargs rm A shorter way: rm `find . -name *.shm` That should probably be rm -f, since without the f (unless rm is aliased that way), you'll be asked whether or not you want to delete every file it finds. If it's 3 or 4, it isn't such a big deal--but if it is 50 or so, it gets time consuming. Just a thought, Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File set up
At 12:13 PM 08/27/2001 -0400, Scott Parks wrote: Just a simple question, how are most of you setting up your file systems for install? /boot / /swap /usr /var /home or are you doing one big / Coming from BSD we did the first with all the different partitions. -Scott With a big enough hard drive (or if it is multi-drives), I usually set up a /, /usr, /var, /home, /backup, and /tmp if it's going to be a server. For a workstation, you'd be okay with just a /, /home (for all your user files), /usr/local (for custom compiles), and possibly a /archive (for backup copies). The last install I did was Mandrake 7.2 on a testbox that has 2 hard drives, both with less than 2 GB of space, so I did a / on the small 820MB, and a /usr on the larger 1.2 GB drive -- and managed to fit everything, with space left over (/ was only 12% full, /usr was around 50% or 60% full). Of course, I'll have to re-do it again anyways, since the 2 4 GB drives in our server will get swapped out for 2 20 GB drives soon. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing permissions on mount umount commands
Is there a simple way to change permissions on mount and umount ? I would prefer to have the ability to use device icons for my zip, cdrom, and floppy drive, from the desktop, and logged on as a normal user. Will chmod do it, or do I have to complicate matters? Is sudo another option for this? Lanman For the cdrom and floppy, you have to add the user to the following groups--'floppy' and 'cdrom' in /etc/group -- not sure about the zip. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x
In this case, I just disable the firewall temporarily while I share the file or printer, then restart the firewall. That's ok if you are right there at the machine (or within a few minutes of its location). However, if you are trying to remotely administer a machine, that becomes less acceptable. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Multiple sites with one IP address
OOzy, simply add the second name to dns, then add it to apache's virtual host configuration file. Michael At 09:59 PM 08/23/2001 -0700, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello guys How can I run two site with one IP address. I am running apache. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ETerm RPM
Oliver, First, stop sending HTML e-mails--if you send in plain text, you are more likely to get an answer. As for installing eterm, provided you have v8.x (or one of the freqs), you can do 'rpm -ivh packagename.rpm' to install. If you are on 7.x, it isn't likely (at least not at this point), that the Eterm provided in 8.x is backward compatible (since it was built for rpm 4.x, while Mdk 7.x comes with various versions of rpm 3.x). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 03:44 PM 08/23/2001 +0100, Olly Marshall wrote: Does anyone know the instructions for install the eterm rpm that (might off) come with Mandrake v8 ?? Olly Marshall IT Manager size=2 Absolute Internet www.absoluteinternet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] size=2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!
Start the NFS service after restarting Linuxconf's service handler... Then service nfs restart. In order to run NFS, you must also run portmap. Before you try service nfs restart, check on the status of portmap '/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap status'. You can, of course, also find the NFS howto on http://www.linuxdoc.org . Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] synchronize user account
Jhun, Configure nis / nis+ -- you'd need both a master and a slave, if you're wanting to have a similar scenario to PDC / BDC. The HOWTO is off of http://www.linuxdoc.org Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:50 PM 08/21/2001 +0800, Jhun Bacala wrote: Hi! I windows you can have a Primary Domain Controller and a Backup Domain Controller, were user accounts in PDC will synchronize to BDC. And when PDC crushes you can promote PDC. How do I do that in Linux Mandrake scenario were in I have two Linux box and I want to sync their user account. Jhun. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] staring samba at boot time.
In the lower version of Mandrake I manage to start samba at boot time.
But
now in version 8.0
I'm confused, I can't seem to find the inetd.conf which is needed to
start samba at boot time.
If you are talking about samba, then you'd start it by it's own startup
script (as it has been since at least 7.0) by typing '/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb
start' -- you can configure this to start automatically at boot-time via
linuxconf (if you want GUI) or you can add via chkconfig (do man chkconfig
for info).
If you are talking about swat (samba's web admin tool), then you'd have to
have a file named swat in /etc/xinetd.d/ -- since as of version 7.2,
Mandrake switched from inetd, to xinetd.
The swat file would need to contain:
service swat
{
port= 901
socket_type = stream
wait= no
only_from = localhost
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}
Michael
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Re: [newbie] rpm problem??
At 09:18 PM 08/21/2001 -0400, Kevin Fonner wrote: I decided since I wanted to learn more about what was going on undernieth the system that it would be fun to upgrade just the packets I want to on corporate server. Any ways I keep getting a wierd error message from rpm command. only packages with major numbers =3 are supported by this version of rpm what exactly does this mean and any ideas how to fix it? Kevin, This means that corporate server is using rpm 3.x and that you've chosen a package that was built for rpm 4.x (or later). The only way to get around it (maybe) is to rebuild from srpm, which may involve fiddling with the .spec file or upgrade to rpm 4.x, which will cause more problems than it is worth. You'd be better off using the update packages under 1.0.1 (in the updates directory), or using packages built for 7.x. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ftp still
Do an 'rpm -qa | grep ncftp' (without the quotes) to see if you have ncftp installed. If not, you can find it on your CDs. Michael At 01:22 PM 08/18/2001 +0800, chris swain wrote: This is what occurs type 'ncftp sunsite.uio.no' ncftp: no such command type 'cd (anything)' must be connected to do that So I still need to connect somehow but? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ftp
Try ncftp. Connect, change to the directory above the one you are interested in, and then run get -R -T dirname (where dirname is the name of the directory). This will get all available update packages at one time. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:41 AM 08/18/2001 +0800, chris swain wrote: I have never used ftp before and I am having trouble downloading some upgrade packages which seem to be in ftp format. All I get is a list of files ( in this case .rpm s) which I can down load one at a time. Is there an easier way to do this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] php and apache
Mark, Install mod_php-*, and you should no longer have the problem. By the way, 4.0.3pl1 has some problems--you may want to think about getting the 4.0.4pl1 rpms from any of mandrake's update sites. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 05:24 PM 08/14/2001 -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: Ok, i installed php ( rpm -ivh php-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm ) and created an index.php and when I try to hit it, the web browser prompts me as if I was tryint to download a file. In my httpd.conf I have: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm index.shtml index.cgi Default.htm default.htm index.php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml .php LoadModule php4_modulemodules/libphp4.so AddModule mod_php4.c is this wrong, or is there some other setting that i need to try? I can run php from the command line just fine... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fw: Cron root@tbird run-parts /etc/cron.daily
Paul,
Yep...that's the problem. Remove the second syslog entry, and you should
stop getting the message.
Michael
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At 07:45 PM 08/14/2001 -0400, Paul wrote:
It was Mon, 13 Aug 2001 06:41:24 -0400 when Paul wrote:
error: syslog:181 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog
I checked some more and found this in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog:
/var/log/syslog {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
And a bit further down:
/var/log/syslog {
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
So this one is there double. Could this be the problem? (Still wonder how it
got there if it is!)
Paul
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Re: [newbie] Fw: Cron root@tbird run-parts /etc/cron.daily
Paul, This can be 2 things: Either you have multiple syslog logrotate config files under /etc/logrotate.d/, in which case you delete one. Or you have more than one sylog logrotate config in the same syslog file under /etc/logrotate.d/, in which case you edit the syslog file such that it contains only one. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 06:41 AM 08/13/2001 -0400, Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Since a few days I get this message from Cron: Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 04:02:52 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@tbird run-parts /etc/cron.daily error: syslog:181 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog I've looked in the syslog file, and at times I encounter a line like this: Aug 5 08:43:44 tbird last message repeated 10 times Is this what the cron daemon is complaining about? Anyone know where this comes from? And how to fix it? I don't feel it is system threatening, but it is a bit annoying. Paul -- The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. -George Bernard Shaw http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix VS. Sendmail
I installed Webmin but I don't know how to use Webmin to configure Sendmail. Tuan, First, make sure webmin is in fact running by typing '/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin status' (without the quotes, as root). If it is, it should show something like 'miniserv.pl (pid x) is running...' -- if not, it will show 'miniserv.pl is stopped'. If webmin isn't running, type '/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin start' You should see a line stating 'Starting Webmin[ OK ]' You do not need to run webmin start if webmin is already running. Next, connect to https://localhost:1/ if you are on your machine. If not, it will be https://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:1/ (where aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is your IP). A login box will popup on the screen. Type in 'root' as the user name and your root password in the password box. Click on ok. Next, click on the 'Servers' tab. Select 'Sendmail configuration'. This will bring up all the different sections of sendmail configuration. These are 1. Sendmail options - mail delivery and reception options (mail forwarding, local delivery, sending e-mail, and so forth) 2. Mail Aliases - edits the file /etc/aliases, allows you to configure which pseudo accounts get re-directed to which real accounts (for example, you can redirect webmaster to user). 3. Local Domains - useful if you have purchased the rights to a domain and are hosting it on your machine. Basically these are the domains for which this box will accept e-mail. 4. Domain Masquerading - This allows you to set the domain from which an e-mail sent from this server appears to come from (instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED], you can have [EMAIL PROTECTED]). 5. Trusted Users - If a local user tries to send email, sendmail will only allow the user to provide a different From: address if the user is on the Trusted user list. The restriction exists to prevent users from forging email with faked From: addresses originating from your system. 6. Address Mapping - Unless you have a domain (such as yourdomain.com), you will not need to configure this. This allows you to set things up such that either any e-mail going to the domain yourdomain.com is redirect to your actual e-mail account, or allows you to redirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] independently of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. Spam Control - This controls which machines can send e-mail through your system. You can also add entries to discard e-mail from addresses which are sending you unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam). 8. Relay Domains - You can configure which domains you will allow e-mail to go to on your mail server. Again, unless you purchase multiple domains (yourdomain.com, and yourdomain.org), you will not need to configure this. 9. Mail Queue - Tells you whether or not any e-mail is queued and awaiting delivery. This isn't particularly useful, except perhaps to troubleshoot problems. 10. User Mailboxes - Tells you which users have e-mail. Again, not terribly useful information. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] ./ ?????
also, I'm not seeing anything in this discussion about path. You need to cd to the directory the binary is in to use './binary', or you need to execute '/path/to/the/binary'. eg,/usr/bin/tuxracer or /usr/local/bin/lame or /home/tom/src/mprime -m In these examples the './' isn't used With some of the binary paths (which include /usr/bin, /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, and possibly /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin), you would not need to use the full path to the binary. The PATH variable in Mandrake (for the non-root user) includes: /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin/X11, /usr/X11R6/bin, /usr/games, and /home/username/bin As root, by default, you have: /sbin, /usr/sbin, /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/X11R6/bin Anyways, you do not need to use the full path to a binary unless it is in some unusual place (such as /opt, or installs to some directory not already included by default). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] portmap services
James, Before you remove the scripts, change portmap from auto starting on bootup, to manual start. This will make sure you aren't running portmap, and hence won't have any problems when shutting down (since if it isn't running, linux will not try to stop it.) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:00 AM 08/07/2001 +0500, James S Bear wrote: One of my machines, an AMD 1.2 ghz processor box with 256 mb of ram, a SCSI drive, two NICs, and an optical logitech mouse(It's just fun to give specs, okay?)Has problems shutting down. It always hangs on Shutting Down Portmap Services. I've got a hunch it has to do with two NICs. Regardless, I don't use portmap services and have no need to shut it down. Where can I find the shutdown scripts? jim Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0
At 11:23 AM 08/07/2001 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote: Hi...In my college we are going to install in about 20 PC's one Linux distribution. I believe that LM 8.0 is the best one i ever seen so far for the purposes we had... Another persons think that SuSE 7.1 is the best, another ones think that RH 7.2 is better, and so on RH 7.2 is in beta right now, and hasn't been officially released. 7.1 is the latest stable Redhat release. Michael
Re: [newbie] Mail question
At 07:37 PM 08/05/2001 -0500, Matt Greer wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2001 19:32, Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Can any tell me the difference between Sendmail and Fetchmail? Sendmail is for sending mail, typically to send your outgoing mail over to your isp so they can then send it to the recipient from there. Actually sendmail (especially on static-IP mail servers) is bidirectional, in that it is used not only to send but also to receive e-mail. This is different than the protocol used to check e-mail (be it pop3, imap, etc). mail programs like pine, elm and mutt don't actually connect to your isp's mail server to get mail, they just look in the local mail folder. So you need to use fetchmail in order to use these types of mail programs. Pine, at least, can be configured to check for e-mail via pop3 (not sure about imap). So yes, it can connect to an isp's mail server. -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
RE: [newbie] copying files from one to another
snip You export the mount points of the devices you want to share, start NFS and on the other machine mount the remote machine... snip In order to run NFS, you must start portmap first, otherwise remote mounting of the nfs share will not work. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] Cannot su
Hugh, This sounds as if you have user or disk quotas enabled, and have exceeded one of the hard limits. As root, open linuxconf, config--File Systems -- Disk Quotas. Either relax them (ie, increase the default values) or disable disk quotas. Also check to make sure that your drive(s) aren't full. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:50 AM 08/06/2001 +, Hugh Cecil wrote: Hi I've been using Mandrake 8.0 for a few months and enjoy it very much. However, today I find I cannot su to root anymore from a user account. In a terminal I su, type in root password, and get this: [user@localhost user]$ su Password: File Size Limit exceeded [user@localhost user]$ Similarly, when I try KDE su in File Manager (Super User Mode) I get an alert box which says: Conversation with su failed My security level has always been set at 3. I did recently have a play with InteractiveBastille, but I'm not sure whether that caused it. Any enlightenment appreciated.
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Linux-Mandrake 8.0
At 05:03 PM 08/03/2001 -0600, Miark wrote: Dave, Actually, steps 3 and 4 must come before 1. In order to remove ext2 partitions you must boot into some version of linux such as Tom's Root Boot and use linux fdisk, not the windows fdisk. Then boot using the win98 startup floppy, run fdisk /mbr, etc. 1. Boot to your Win98 startup floppy disk. 2. Then type: fdisk /mbr This will cause Win98 to boot as it used to. 3. Then run the fdisk program with: fdisk 4. Delete the partitions. 5. Create FAT partitions in their place. 6. Reboot to your Win98 startup disk again. 7. This time do a: format x: where x represents the re-created FAT partition drive letter. This will make the partitions available to Win98. Miark Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0
doesn't matter the flavor of Win the proceedure is the same. Use a windows boot disk to boot into dos and fdisk and delete the partition reformat to a fat32 and all the rest and linux is gone, although that is the backwards way of doing it, you need to delete windows IMHO. : -) Actually, the correct (and somewhat safer) procedure is: 1. Boot into linux (toms rootboot, or other single floppy distro) 2. Login as root, if required 3. Run linux fdisk, delete all ext2 partitions (windows fdisk usually does not correctly recognize ext2 partitions, and hence doesn't delete the partitions) 4. Reboot to a windows boot disk. 5. Run fdisk /mbr. 6. Reboot to a windows boot disk, run fdisk, create fat32 partition(s) as you want. 7. Reboot to windows, format the partition(s) you just created. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] 2 questions about web server
At 10:45 PM 07/31/2001 -0400, Jon Doe wrote: 1. How do I get password protected site going? I know I need htaccess and htpasswd files? How do I make them and where do I put them? You need three files... These are .htaccess (in the directory you wish to protect, which also protects all subdirectories off of that directory), htpasswd and htgroup (which should be in /var/www). They should look like: .htaccess deny from all AuthName WhateverYouWant AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /var/www/htpasswd AuthGroupFile /var/www/htgroup require group groupname require user username1, username2, etc satisfy any htgroup groupname: username1, username2, etc The htpasswd file is generated by /usr/bin/htpasswd. To create it, do 'htpasswd -c htpasswd username1' (from /var/www, and without the quotes). This will create the file, and add username1 to it. 2. I would like people to be able to upload files to my computer. How do I go about that? This depends on whether you want an ftp upload, or a web upload. If you want an ftp upload, you can setup an anonymous ftp server with an incoming directory. For a web upload, you'll have to do a search somewhere like freshmeat.net to see if any web upload software is available (either perl or php). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.
Try editing /etc/resolv.conf directly. Michael At 08:16 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.0 using incorrect DNS server dot quad IP addresses. I used the Linuxconf KDE gui to reconfigure it. It worked fine until I rebooted the system. On rebooting, the DNS setting reverted back to the old incorrect setting I gave on initial install. How do I make the system do permanent changes to DNS configuration? Thanx, Seedkum
Re: [newbie] microsoft gone
Is there educational software out there for children? Sorry, can't help you there. Try looking at http://www.seul.org/edu, the Education subgroup of Simple End User Linux (http://www.seul.org). They list quite a few pieces of software. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Sr Systems Administration Consultant, Web Spinners, University of West Florida Sr Member, Simple End User Linux
Re: [newbie] portmap services \Kmail
Jennifer, I would have to say that Kmail has nothing to do with it, since portmap is not needed for pop3 / imap / sendmail / postfix. In fact, you do not need to run portmap if you are not running nfs / nis AFAIK (nfs is roughly the unix equivalent to samba, nis is the equivalent to a primary domain controller for NT--central server for managing user accounts across multiple machines). You should be able to turn off portmap entirely without any ill effects. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:51 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, jennifer wrote: Hi: I am frequently reinstalling Lm8 for various reasons, but I have noticed that on 2 occasions my system hangs while halting the portmap services on every shutdown. On both of these occasions I chose to use Kmail as opposed to Netscape mail. In short, my question is this...could someone give me a base understanding of portmap services and whether it is reasonable for me to blame kmail for these portmap shutdown errors? Is there a portmap or shutdown log somewhere that might also assit me in fixing/avoiding this problem? Thanks in advance. = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] cups.h and language.h missing?
Peter, Verify that you have cups-devel, which is what provides cups.h -- not sure what provides language.h . Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida cups.h comes from cups-devel At 02:02 PM 07/31/2001 -0400, Marchetti, Peter wrote: I downloaded Samba, got it to make, and it reported not being able to find the last 2 files...cups.h and language.h. I checked, and sure enough, they aren't there. Where can I find just these two files? Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Apache help
Jon, There's a few things wrong here: #1. In order to give access to /var/www/media (which isn't under the default document root of /var/www/html), you need to either alias it in the httpd.conf Alias /media /var/www/media/ (without the quotes), or move it under /var/www/html. #2. The link that you are using is incorrect. Since apache is using /var/www/html as the document root, all documents (excluding aliased directories) are fetched relative to /var/www/html. This means the link http://ip_number/var/www/media/file.zip, is in fact attempting to find the file /var/www/html/var/www/media/file.zip (which isn't there). The correct link (once you've either aliased or moved the directory as in #1), would be http://ip_number/media/file.zip The answer to the question Is this because of directory permissions? would be no, at this point. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:34 PM 07/31/2001 -0400, Jon Doe wrote: Ok, I have got apache running, put in my own index.html and it works! But how do I link to files I want to make availible? I made a directory /var/www/media but if I link a file that is there, I just get an error message when i click on the link, my link is: http://ip number/var/www/media/file.zip is this because of directory permissions?
Re: [newbie] urpmi error message
Don, It would help to know which version of Mandrake you are using. If it's 8.0, you should be fine. If it is 7.2, you can't install the cooker rpms since they are built for 8.0 not 7.2. There are now several ongoing threads on the expert list to try to get cooker rpms / srpms that work with 7.2--we're currently in the b's. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:40 PM 07/29/2001 -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to update my gcc package to resolve a dependency problem when I do a a urpmi XFree86-4.1.0. from ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS.cooker/ This is what I get: [root@localhost /root]# urpmi gcc-2.96-0.58mdk unknown data associated with db3 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/urpm.pm line 1048, F line 39. I have also tried urpmi gcc. I have also tried to use the Software Manager, to update different programs i.e. xchat and the Software Manager is also hosed up. Does this mean that my urpmi is crapped up and if so how do I fix it. Thanks DOn __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Shared /home directory
At 09:26 AM 07/28/2001 -0400, alex wrote: When using a shared /home directory in Mandrake and Libranet, will a new user name that is created in one system be available in the other system? No, the user names will not be available cross-distro, because you will not have the same /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow, since I wouldn't suggest using the same / partition for both distros. And, if a new application is added to the /home directory in one system, will it be available in the other system? If you are talking about software, not necessarily. It depends on whether or not the libraries are the same between the two distros. Further, during the installation of the two systems with a shared /home directory, what happens when their individual /home directories are installed into that shared directory? Isn't the first /home partition wiped out by formatting during the installation of the second system? Unless you choose to format /home, no. Before you install the second distro, boot into Libranet (which I would suggest installing first, since I'm not sure how it behaves during installation), and write down what partition (/dev/hd[a-d][1-10]) the /home partition is on. This should be in the /etc/fstab file. When you install Mandrake, select that partition as the /home, and make sure it is de-selected when it asks which partitions you want to format. -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] make command not found - where is it?
This means that you haven't installed the make-*.i586.rpm, which should be included on your CD(s). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:42 PM 07/28/2001 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete on my PC, it works so far. I now wanted to install a new application I got from the internet as tar file. After untaring it I followed the installation instruction. The first step was to type 'make'. And what happened? I got the error message: 'bash: make: command not found' I issued a find to look for the make command, but there is no make command. I tried the same on a RedHat installation I have and it worked there and by the way the make command there is under /usr/bin. But under Mandrake there is nothing. I think I must be doing somethin wrong, I don't believe, that it is not possible to install applications using make under Mandrake Linux complete. Can somebody help? -- GMXler aufgepasst - jetzt viele 11 New WebHosting Pakete ohne Setupfee + 1 Monat Grundgebuehrbefreiung! http://puretec.de/index.html?ac=OM.PU.PU003K00717T0492a
Re: [newbie] Upgrading RPMs with source
At 01:33 AM 07/29/2001 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say you'd be much better off if you found the 2.1 SRPMS and did a rpm --rebuild, then installed the resulting rpms. True, but what if only had the pure .tar.gz source code? In that case, you can try running rpm -t filename.tar.gz --it doesn't always work, but would be much better in the long run. I would not suggest compiling from source unless there is a way to point it to /usr/local (such that it wouldn't overwrite any existing information you have). But isn't the whole purpose of upgrading to overwrite the current installation? I always point my upgrades to /usr in a deliberate attempt to overwrite/ugprade (i.e. ./configure --prefix=/usr). If you are going to upgrade like that, then you should make sure that you have a backup of the entire /usr before you compile kde from scratch. This way, if something goes wrong, it is much easier to restore the system to whatever condition it was in prior to the compile. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] Upgrading RPMs with source
I would say you'd be much better off if you found the 2.1 SRPMS and did a rpm --rebuild, then installed the resulting rpms. I would not suggest compiling from source unless there is a way to point it to /usr/local (such that it wouldn't overwrite any existing information you have). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:27 AM 07/29/2001 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If, for instance, I have the KDE 2.0 packages (RPM, of course) installed...and I download the KDE 2.1 source code (instead of the RPMs), what should I do? Should I uninstall (rpm -e) the KDE 2.0 packages *before* compiling installing the 2.1 source code (but then wouldn't any new app's RPMs designed for *only* KDE 2.1 and above, refuse to install because KDE 2.1 doesn't look like it's been installed, to the RPM program?)? Or can I just compile install the 2.1 source over the RPMs (but wouldn't RPM get confused or annoyed?)?. I am asking these questions because some of my recent upgrades (including X 4.0.3, xmms, KDE 2.2, sawfish etc.) have been exhibiting unusual behaviour, to say the least. These were installed by just overwriting the current installation and not telling RPM. Thanks, George
Re: [newbie] THat stuck message from Kmail - again.
John, Install fetchmail-* from the CDs--that should clear up #1. I'm not sure about kcron, since I've never used it. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:38 PM 07/27/2001 +1000, John Rigby wrote: Hi there and thanks for info, however: 1. fetchmail in all variants is command not found 2. kcron does start - comes up with multiple errors then KMail locks up ( loses all text, cannot be killed and requires reboot) I think now my Distro is seriously flawed. -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
