RE: [newbie] who does a guy have to screw...
well tell us who you did and then will all know... :o) and while at it, ask your buddy to post in Text not HTML. (sorry... just in my smart-assed phase today) In politeness, you shouldn't have to screw anyone, if someone told you, that you do have to, I would bet that someone really likes you. -Trebor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregg Carrier Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] who does a guy have to screw... ...to get a message posted to this thing?
RE: [newbie] icq installation troubles...
Problem was solved... the user hadn't run ./configure make make install The questionable phrase was "...any commands I try do not work..." so I asked in private, and sure enough that was the issue. R.'Trebor' Groves Network Technician, HarvardNet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] icq installation troubles... On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote: hello, I know this has been discussed here recently, but I am having trouble with this install... I have unzipped and un tared the file, and have it in it's directory, but I am unable to get it to install... where do I go from here... any commands I try do not work... Thanks in advance! If you're using the VERY latest LICQ, my understanding is that the RPM works better as it's statically compiled, rather than relying on you having the particular libraries it's looking for on your system. John
RE: [newbie] Workstation installation
Recommend you do the custom install again pick ONE resolution to try, say 800x600 16 bit, OR select one and SKIP the test. You can then RE-RUN "Xconfigurator" after the installation has completed so that you can just keep trying different refresh rates, monitors, and window sizes. R.'Trebor' Groves Network Technician, HarvardNet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Leseman Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 12:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Workstation installation I can't seem to get past the installation-type in setup. When I try to use 'Workstation' installation, it says not enough disk space. But I have an empty 1 GB partition. I had previously installed it using 'Custom' but I didn't get the right video mode set, and there seemed to be no way to switch video modes afterwards, as in MS Windows. I also couldn't get it to use my sound card, and was struggling to get it configured to use the internet. So I thought maybe if I could get the Workstation installation method to work - which is supposed to be automatic. I 1st tried installing over the original install, then I tried it after removing all the subpartitions. It still says that there's not enough disk space. Any suggestions? Thanks!
RE: Re[2]: [newbie]
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/index.html LinuxNewbie.org has what they call NHF Newbieized Help Files the link above will take you to their INTEL versions... one in the top of the list is "Compiling" and under that menu you'll find Kernel Compiling. It is by far the best I've read. R.'Trebor' Groves Network Technician, HarvardNet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of The Cyberian Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 11:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: [newbie] What exactly is the problem with trying to compile the kernel? I am about to attempt it as my kernel has sound enabled and OSS doesn't seem to run properly with my Aureal Vortex card that way. Somebody adviced me to recompile the kernel without sound. So would be grateful for any insight on any possible problems in compiling the kernel. Thanks. san As long as they don't attempt to compile the kernel, they'll probably be san okay. san And a replacement package for the kernel problem is coming soon, right san MandrakeSoft?? :)
RE: [newbie]
Axalon Are you a Mandrake person? (As in employed by them?) If so... have you heard anyone else having the problem as I did with Postfix? keep in mind, I actually use my install to receive email for several people and relay for my home users, so I am using the mail server for what it can do, not like other 'general' users who probably use more fetchmail type scenarios. It seems that somewhere along the way, the executable 'newaliases' was using the wrong file and format, so postfix was bombing. I would suspect that newaliases was configured during install for some sendmail process or something. And my other curiosity... the "optimizations" that Mandrake does for pentiums, does that include ALL programs.. were all the files (executables) recompiled for better performance on pentiums? (amd/intel/and that other thing cyrix) ;) Thanks !! R.'Trebor' Groves Network Technician, HarvardNet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Axalon Bloodstone Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And a replacement package for the kernel problem is coming soon, right MandrakeSoft?? :) Haven't forgotten anyone i swear, I think i've just about got this stable so as i can actualy compile things with 'make -j' and know it's not gonna flake out and loose dma or irq forceing me to reboot.
RE: [newbie] Postfix mail will not deliver locally, will not error back
sendmail on or off same result I've spent most of the night here wiping the drive and reinstalling, this time with RedHat's 6.1 via ftp. funny thing... The RH install didn't go the way I say is "correct" either. I was used to the options to set my nic being present when I finished the installs, and hence would be able to surf immediately once in KDE/Xwin... however... RH didn't keep my settings for DNS, Default Route, and I'm finding that with RH, they are sticking with sendmail and they don't do a full configuration (automagically) as they had in past builds so I am unable to POP mail from the box. At this point I'm wishing I'd stuck to needlework/patch-quilts or something other than computers.. ;) After installing RH, they default to gNome, no harm intended, but I didn't want Gnome, I wanted KDE, and Mandrake's KDE default was set up nicely and all icons were good to go... RH however is trying to be like microsoft and put three icons on the desktop for RH web sites, but no Netscape icon, I'm getting off subject... sorry.. Needless to say, if anyone could come up with a "here's a real troubleshooting index" for the types of problems experienced under Postfix, I'd love to reinstall Mandrake and trouble shoot the problems through. As it is I've got real important work to do, and this "upgrade to get away from badly outdated RH5.1" has left me a week behind and wishing I could just shoot something, perhaps myself in the foot. Ending it all, I found linuxnebie.org to be great with what they have for NHF's (newbie friendly help files) but they haven't covered Sendmail, and Postfix's site is primarily a here's how you config it, now how you fix it, sendmail is similar to that, and so whoever sets up the best in the beginning is how I _HAVE_ to go just for sanity's sake. So again... Apologies for this being long winded, I have been here at the office now for just over 36 hours, two two hour naps on a cold but carpeted floor, and again... if anyone can pass along really good sites with TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS extensively covering Sendmail and Postfix, I would be really really REALLY appreciative! Thanks ALL!!! R.'Trebor' Groves Network Technician, HarvardNet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix mail will not deliver locally, will not error back On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, you wrote: I switched from RH 5.1 to Mandrake 6, then 6.1, each a clean install. under RH, sendmail seemed ok, but there were numerous hacks and bugs reported for RH5.1 so I decided to upgrade. [mega-clip for brevity] Local Mail fails to deliver. NO Error messages returned for unknown users at my computer's domain name Oh... but after I had reloaded (when I gave up on my first attempt to manually fix) I could send locally, but not from OUTSIDE into users. So if I logged into my box, opened PINE and sent a message to someone else on the system, they WOULD get the message. so delivery out bound (either from a user directly logged onto the machine, or via relays) no problem.. In bound, no delivery all the emails just stack up in the deferred folder. help... Silly question, I know, but have you double-checked to make sure that Sendmail isn't still enabled? I've read that if you have Sendmail AND Postfix (I think that's the combo) neither one will work correctly. Also, IIRC, Sendmail is ON by default in Mandrake, at least in the "custom" setup that I choose each time. Might want to double-check this. John
RE: FIXED !!! [newbie] Postfix mail will not deliver locally, will not error back
ffice now for nearly 40 hours. I've had three 2 hour naps on the cold (but carpeted) floor, and all the while trying to find help, reading, working on an NT server, some office things, but mostly this ONE LITTLE MAIL PROBLEM!! Long series of events snipped to minimum.. Redhat's 6.1 Linux Don't bother... RH is becoming more like microsoft every day. three icons on the KDE desktop for Redhat local html files or web links. NO Netscape icon (and no I haven't figured out how to crate a link on the desktop that mirrors the icon for netscape yet), RedHat's "Premier" support looking like people will get something, when all they get is a single click to update their software packages... if you're running Mandrake 6.1 now with the default KDE, then you know there's an UPDATE link right there on the desktop that goes to a hundred or so mirror sites for you to get updates without the wait... a few more clicks than RH's, but I didn't have to pay a DIME! and then there is the way RH mangled the KDE portion of the install, some of the menus didn't have the correct icons, instead having a dot bullet, then the fact that instead of treating each desktop as it's own entity, it puts links on the "start menu" to the RedHat menus, the Gnome menus and so on. So... I was NOT pleased with redhat, but my time is just as valuable as anyone's, so I wanted to find other ways around my dislike of sendmail.. I found a config utility... its got promise, but not yet, so I won't mention its name here.. compiling problems his config script wasn't looking for QT 1.3 or newer, it had to be QT 1.3...So I had to LN to make it.. I had tried some other things, the install for this guy's SendMail Config program (KDE based) said I needed to put some path and environment statements into my .bash_profile. His install file even had it broken down for two common configs so all I had to do was cut and paste. After that I couldn't access any of the man files. So I wiped again, decided since I liked Mandrake's KDE install. Liked how it would get updates better, I would again try Mandrake. Same email problems.. This time I tried in vain to search though a custom install on anything that said "Sendmail" and tried to remove them, but damned it I could not find the actual package that installs Sendmail (which is also installed in some form by Postfix) Same email woes, no mail in, no mail out unless relayed through, which postfix does SO effortlessly, and user to user logged into the box directly was not working. Back to the error messages I was about to give up, and uninstall postfix and attempt to get sendmail, when some dim-whited light started going off again. I hadn't caused the corruption in the first place, this reinstall proves it wasn't me. Let me look at those log files again... let me look through the main.cf file .. suddenly I put two plus two together and found myself searching the hard drive for the file newaliases... Because of his, I found some other files.. one in particular, postalias. After wiping and reinstalling, my man pages worked so I started looking into this thing called 'postalias' And that's when the light bulb nearly exploded my brethren... Postalias is used to configure the 'newaliases' command. Newalias will NOT take a file argument. It simply wakes up, does it's job on a single file and goes back to the bit bucket asleep. Post alias allows you to tell newalias where the config file is that will tell new alias where the alias files are (bet you thought it was going to tell newalias that directly -- wrong!) Postalias, simply put, sets up the newalias command to know WHERE to put the alias file, AND in what kind of database format, DBM, HASH, BTree, AND lastly the name of the file you want to have the aliases in. With this information in hand, I started my rounds, and at this time.. long after you've all probably stopped reading... found the answer to the problem. Amen somebody Thanks for those that posted, your suggestions, while not right, were still logical things to try, and I'm sure that if you had that code snippet from the mail log, you'd have gotten it anyway... But Thanks still the same!! Consolidated answers: 1) check for a log file. Look in '/var/log' 2) if you see an error there, don't ignore it, don't obsess on it either, but try to figure out the error 3) in this case, it was showing that TWO things were wrong, first that the file it was using was NOT the file that "newaliases" uses, and two that the aliases.db file in /etc is NOT compatible with postfix when Mandrake was installed. 4) there should be an entry made to refer people to postalias as a file to set up aliases for your mail server. 5) don't sleep on a cold floor, carpet or not, sleep in your car or better in your bed, or better still in someone else's bed. :o) R.'Trebor' Groves Network Technician, HarvardNet
RE: [newbie] Lilo won't recognize my Linux partition.
You could also go into FDISK once you have the system booted off the floppy and make sure one of the partitions is set as bootable. I ran into the same situation three times when I loaded and reloaded one of my systems with RedHat 5.1 and 5.2. I've not had it happen yet with 6.0 but I've only loaded it on two machines so far. -Trebor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Axalon Bloodstone Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 5:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo won't recognize my Linux partition. On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ty Mixon wrote: Well, got to playing around again. Found out that I can't use the newest svga server for X-windows. Oh well! Anyhow, the real problem is that I can't get Lilo (via linuxconf or klilo) to recognize that /dev/hdc1 is my root partion. It boots fine from a floppy (albeit slowly). Any ideas? TIA! dmesg|grep hdc # says? and whats the exact error lilo says -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Postfix mail will not deliver locally, will not error back
I switched from RH 5.1 to Mandrake 6, then 6.1, each a clean install. under RH, sendmail seemed ok, but there were numerous hacks and bugs reported for RH5.1 so I decided to upgrade. The first time I used mandrake 6, with Postfix, it seemed like all was well and running fine however, I started getting messages from friends that they were not getting mail to me or responses from me. I went through and manually configured all the options in postfix (the ones it supposedly figures out) and the problem got worse, then worse still so that I could not mail from one user to another ON the machine, and relays from one user to another didn't work either, along with sometimes getting mail, sometimes not. I wiped reinstalled, and the problem wasn't much different. I can relay through my box, the intent I wanted, but I can not receive mail on the machine. I finally received a little help from weise (maker of postfix) that at least showed me there were mail errors... postfix/local[3606]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/aliases.db: No such file or directory of course the message is kindof false. the aliases are there... however I found that when I added new aliases, the "Newaliases" command would not operate on /etc/postfix/aliases, but instead operated on /etc/aliases. No problem I thought... Change Main.cf (postfix config file) and tell it the file is actually in /etc right?? wrong... different error (don't have it at this time) but it said it was an incompatible format or something similar to it, with a .dbm extension mentioned. Anyway.. I'm trying to install RH6.1 now to see if there is any difference. Has anyone had this kind of problem? Local Mail fails to deliver. NO Error messages returned for unknown users at my computer's domain name Oh... but after I had reloaded (when I gave up on my first attempt to manually fix) I could send locally, but not from OUTSIDE into users. So if I logged into my box, opened PINE and sent a message to someone else on the system, they WOULD get the message. so delivery out bound (either from a user directly logged onto the machine, or via relays) no problem.. In bound, no delivery all the emails just stack up in the deferred folder. help...
RE: [newbie] tgz files
Yes, they are the same. It was just someone's shorthand instead of typing the full ".tar.gz" :o) R.'Trebor' Groves Network Technician, HarvardNet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric L. Damron Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 9:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] tgz files Are tgz files the same as tar.gz files? If not how do I decompress them? Thanks
RE: [newbie] Lilo
it is possible that your partitions are set in such a way that your Linux partitions are above the 1024 cylinder limit? it sounds likely, if you bought one of the retail versions of Mandrake, see if it has Partition Magic SE (special edition because they limit the size and number of partitions that you may create). With Partition Magic SE, you could create a 1.5gig partition, it would defragment and MOVE your data so that there is a slice of free space at the beginning of the drive for the boot and lilo. at least that's what it did on my laptop 8 gig drive. R.'Trebor' Groves Network Technician, HarvardNet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Lilo To whom it may concern, I am running windows 98 on my machine with a 8 gb hard disk. I used fips to create a new partition (2 gb). Now my set up is 6gb and 2gb. I used disk druid to delte that partition and create two more the size of 1872 mb (linux native) and 128 mb (swap). I recently tried to install linux mandrake 6.1 but failed. When prompted if i would like to create a boot disk, i said yes but an error message came up that asked if wanted to go to the previous step, retry, or go into the install menu. I hit retry several times and used different floppies but i kept getting the same error. I decided to move on. when trying to set up lilo, i recieved the same error again, no matter what i set as the default os and no matter which partition i decided to set up lilo on (linux native or master boot record). Does any body have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Jas
