[newbie] Forcing application to use SSH tunnel
As the subject reads, is there anyway to force an application to use an SSH tunnel if the application doesn't know how to use proxies? I'd like to be able to use some chat software from behind a firewall at work. The software doesn't allow for a proxy, and the address it needs to connect to is blocked. What I'd like to do is force the traffic through the tunnel to my machine at home and have it go out from there, but can't think of a solid workable way to do it. Currently I use PuTTY for the tunnel for internet/music streaming from my home machine. Any ideas? --Ryan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
6 - I spent the $170 or so bucks to become a silver club member, but not once have I received an answer from Mandrake when I found myself stuck. I was also forced to install Bit Torrent to download the new ISO's after have waited for over 2 weeks (in vain) after my request for FTP access. (I *hate* peer to peer networks and I didn't appreciate being forced to use one, even though it did turn out to be pretty fast. I consider peer to peer a security risk.) I didn't catch the beginning of this thread but I really wanted to address this part right here. Your concern with as you put it peer to peer software is indicative of mainstream feelings that certain trade union groups encourage. However, the main point that really needs to be stressed is that Bit Torrent operates so differently from most peer to peer networks that it's really misleading to put it in the same catagory, and on top of that, for linux there are several utilities that will make it EASY to prevent the kind of kruft that slips into windows software. Some of this may be over simplified for you, but I want it to hit all the main topics to the point where people searching over questions like these will find it by any of the points. For starters, a peer to peer (p2p) network is named that because it uses distributed source files on many nodes to serve files to other nodes requesting them. The two main versions of this are the Napster / Kazaa style networks where any node serves files they own to anyone who requests them and the other is the freenet style network where the network itself distributes files out and nodes may not know what files they are serving. On top of that, there are different ways of finding files. Kazaa, for example, simply passes the request along and any node can answer it. Napster, on the other hand, had (I believe, if napster didn't others did) a central database that kept track of where things are on the network and directed requests. The reason people like you are wary of these types of peer 2 peer networks is because people introduce either misnamed or infected files and put them out. People download these trojans (in the classical, and perhaps viral sense of the word) and discover they either got the wrong files, files of low quality, or perhaps a virus or adware program bundled in. In fact, it became commonplace for software producers to directly bundle the spyware into their programs. The Kazaa desktop itself is full of crap. So how is Bittorrent different? Well, for starters bittorrent isn't a network for distributing many files. It's more like a protocol designed to set up impromptu networks for quickly distributing SINGLE files. You never have to worry about a bittorrent download resulting in something other than what you tried to download, because with bittorrent you already KNOW what you are trying to get, you just don't know where you might get each peice from. Here's a simplified, although hopefully fairly accurate, description of how it works. Pretend you want to make a copy of a thesis in the library. You put your stack of papers (it's a very very long thesis) in the copier and start copying. If you are stuck at the speed one copier can copy, it takes a fixed amount of time to copy the paper. However, if the library has additional copiers, you can take peices of your paper to each copier and start them working as well. You can reduce YOUR time by distributing the COPY time to the maximum bandwidth available, here the number of copiers. When you're done, you look at your copy and compare it the copy you started with. If it isn't the same, you can determine which copier malfunctioned and only recopy those peices. Bittorrent works the same way. Mandrakesoft only has to upload to you at a certain rate, but very likely you can download far faster than that. So you download from Mandrakesoft AND from H.J.Bathoorn AND from Amy AND from JoeHill AND from Anne Wilson AND from whoever because they are very nice people willing to upload to you. In exchange, you upload the peices you've already downloaded to David Cormier, Greg Meyer, and me. In this way, you are fully using your upload and download capacity (making sure you set reasonable limits to not completely hog the pipe for your whole home network!) to download as fast as possible. When you're done, everyone has a copy exactly the same as everyone else's, and Mandrakesoft has a much much lower bandwidth bill. This probably brings you to the but how do I know part of the download. Sure, I'm TELLING you it just works, but it's not like there's some magic program that uses very complicated math to determine if a file, to a reasonable certainty, is exactly the same as another file in a different location using well known advance hash algorithms that can express the contents of a file digest in a single string, up to 128 bits? Ahem. Well of course there is. Linux isn't about just blindly trusting people to do good in the
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:47:57 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:45:36 -0500 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: trade union groups Excellent explanatory post, very good description of Bittorrent. However, I don't know if would quite characterize the RIAA and MPAA as 'trade unions', except perhaps as in the Jimmy Hoffa/Mafia way ;-) It was the most polite description I could could force myself to use. Evil thought police bastards seemed too Linux fanatic to me, although more accurate. Ryan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:04:10 +0800, frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark wrote: What is the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox, and Mozilla-mail and Thuderbird. Are the latter going to eventually replace the former? And if if not, why are the Mozilla folks promoting competing products? Miark One ofthe complaints leveled against the mozilla suite, was feature bloat, speed etc. So they split up the apps.. moz mail became thunderbird, mozilla itself became firefox, the calander app became sunbird and so on. When all the stand alones are past ver 1.0, you will start to see them bundled together to become the new mozilla suite. They can't replace anything yet because the Firefox is the only app currently nearing ver 1.0 status. Rgds Decent explanation, but it's important also to realize that they aren't competing against each other in the truest sense of the word. Advances in Firefox are brought into Mozilla and vice versa, even though it's typically Firefox that makes the advances. They are both built in the same rendering engine, so they are really more like siblings than competitors. Some people still want it as a suite. For more, it's sorta addressed in the firefox FAQ: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/support/faq.html#q1.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] what to do with non-contiguous files?
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:39:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 October 2004 10:45, Q.H. Wang wrote: Hi, Folks, Just several minutes ago, I had a power off in my institute. What surprised me was that when I tried to access some web sites (I intentionally did this to see what would happen) my laptop with MDK box (10.0) freezed. Is this normal? By the way, what should I do since I found there is 0.2% 1.9% non-continuous space or files in my root and home partition respectively? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Bests, Q.H. I will be interested in the replys you get on this since I have one part with 21 % non-contiguous files. My understanding was that it wasnt a problem. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org My understanding is that generally you don't need to defrag since ext2 is designed to avoid fragmentation (and ext3 is just a layer of journaling on ext2). However, once it DOES get that fragmented (2% isn't bad at all, but 20%?) I'd think you may start getting some performance hits from it. There is a defragger for ext2, not sure about ext3. What does fsck tell you about it? Does it offer to try and fix it? A kludge fix may help; you could mv it all to another partition and back again if you have space. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:23:17 +0200, Bela Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this is too early for 10.1, but is it possible or is it worst to migrate from the Community Edition to the Official of the same versions? What is the experoence with 10.0? Regards... Bela I can't tell you definitively, as I haven't personally done it, but I'd think Community Edition would be very close to the official release save any last minute bugs they work out before the official release. I would think you'd just need to target your urpmi sources at Official then urpmi.update -a and urpmi --autoselect ( although I'd highly consider tossing in a --test first, just to be sure). That'd grab anything but a new kernel. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Shrinking an ext3 partition
I think I have the steps down, but I wanted to verify before I tried. I've got a large hard drive (hdc) that I'm going to be moving to another system soon. It's currently mounted as /home on my system and is one large partition. It's about half full right now. What I'd like to do is resize it into several partitions without losing the data that's on it. What I'm thinking I can do is is this: 1. Set up a temporary mount point for the new /home partition and copy over the files I want to stay on this machine. 2. Unmount the temporary mount point and the old /home and modify the fstab to point /home to the new partition on another drive. -- This is where I start getting nervous -- 3. Run fdisk to set the partition size on hdc1 from 200 gigs to 180 gigs. 4. run resize2fs on hdc1 Then from that point on I should be able to put the disk in a new computer and partition the free space at the end of the drive into a new install right? The drive will have about 90 gigs of data on it which is more than all my other drives combined. Resizing the partition shouldn't touch that data as long as I don't do anything stupid like format, right? Thanks --Ryan Measuring twice... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:34:35 -0500, Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 11:06, Eric Scott wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 14:42, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 08:08, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 22:45, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 03:57 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: I am no longer an American. snip I am sorry to all my fellow Americans that things have gotten so far out of control that I cannot feel safe, feel secure or even feel the slightest bit of patriotism towards the US government. It is more obvious now than it was even merely a year ago that the America I left is not the America that is today, and there doesn't seem to be any inkling of people wanting to change, or people wanting to practise democracy in it's fullest right. I know it's entire OT, but hey, that's how I feel. And I feel sorry for those that think they are being patriotic but are being led by the nose to the slaughter. You have been paying too much attention to CBS the like we still havent given up to the neocomms. I know how you feel, as I had just about the same view a year or so ago. But I've found that if you give it a second chance... and turn a blind eye to the political corruption... America really isn't all that bad. We've got plenty of flaws, PLENTY, but all the same America is still the greatest and, relatively, one of the free-est contries on earth, and I'm sticking with it. If all else fails we can all move to Scotland. Cheers, ES I wont be around long enough to move so I'm sticking around the best country in this world. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Disneyworld? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Question about Software
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:33:50 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term web based ? Is it for web pages only? Does it require a server or will it work on a LAN? This is probably way elementary to a lot of you, sorry about that. Thanks for any reply, bj Hmm sounds like it means it runs as a webpage through Apache. Which software in particular do you mean? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Question about Software
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:02:18 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 September 2004 11:31 am, Ryan Steffes wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:33:50 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term web based ? Is it for web pages only? Does it require a server or will it work on a LAN? This is probably way elementary to a lot of you, sorry about that. Thanks for any reply, bj Hmm sounds like it means it runs as a webpage through Apache. Which software in particular do you mean? SNIP I think I found my answer, web based means it runs on a server. I was looking at running MySQL on my LAN but don't think it will work (no server here). Here is an example: UniLETIM is a web-based environment for complementary currency systems such as Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) or TimeBank/TimeDollars. It is written in PHP/MySQL. Release 0.9.1 includes new div-based XHTML/CSS layout theme, many bugfixes and it is able to manage multiple CC groups at one installation. Thanks, bj Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Keep in mind that server doesn't necessarily mean a dedicated machine. I'd wager a very large percentage of the people here are running Apache servers for at least local use and even more are running a mysql server on their local linux workstations. --Ryan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:14:45 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next time someone tries to come at you with the old 'well, Microsoft has helped the economy by creating jobs and expanding IT' crap, you can throw a number back in their face: $60 Billion. That's how much MS has sucked out of the IT industry, sitting on it's hoard like a Great Worm: http://tinyurl.com/5ford Best part: A Microsoft representative was not immediately available for comment. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 16:09:03 up 40 days, 15:54, 8 users, load average: 1.31, 1.29, 1.27 +++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth. -- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Cause Novell is the unbiased source for quotes on Microsoft! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Budgeting software
Anyone use good budgeting software for home use that works well with gnucash? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] download and install MDK 10
Hmm, much trickier without a CD burner. Yes, you can download the iso from http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en-us/ but that is of marginal use without a burner. You can do a network install but again I think you'd need to burn at least one image to a cd... How big is your hard drive? You may be able to do a peicemeal upgrade by downloading the packages and then doing a peicemeal upgrade by copying packages back and forth between partitions. The restriction of needing to download with Windows with no CD burner is definitely an interesting problem. If you've got a big hard drive, there are ways to mount iso's as virtual CD's ( eg mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso ) so if you download them to the harddrive, you can upgrade on a packagewise basis, even though it may be better to find someone with a burner to burn you some distro disks, perhaps a Linux User's Group? I'm guessing from your email that you probably not in the US, are you actually in Morocco? In the US, there's the option of bookstores at colleges that often sell linux distro CDs for the cost of burning them. Not sure if foreign colleges would have a similiar thing. Let me know if this helps at all, or if you want to know more about these options. --Ryan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba and WinXP Ok, now Internet
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:04:48 +0300, EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dears, I am really happy. Even though I am a newbie, I managed to Setup a Samba server that works from WinXP. I can now access both computer from each other. I even can surf my local website in Linux from WinXP. The next step is that I would like to sign on the Internet from Linux and be able to surf it from my WinXP. How can I do this? Cheers EE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com The way I've always done this before is through iptables. See if this Howto on IP-Masqerade helps you: http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a print server
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:09:13 -0700, aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 boxes runing Mandrake 10.0 9.2 and (shhh win 98) I need to have one of the boxes act as a print server how do I set it up? TIA Samba and cups, both of which can be configured in basic ways through the Mandrake Control Center. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LAN Question
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:05:31 -0700, Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: ALL : 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 192.168.104 Sorry, I left out that the above line should be in your /etc/hosts.allow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Just wanted to point out that strictly speaking passwords aren't required. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LAN Question
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:00:09 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, This is strange. In my office I still have 2 pc's with MS on them. My laptop and my pc have Mandrake 10.0 and all are set up on my LAN. Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my laptop. They use to see each other. I have gone thru all the settings and everything seems to set correctly. Not sure why this is the way it is now. I must be missing something. Please advise and Thanks to all of you for your help. bj fyi - I have looked in drakxservices and there is smb running. This is the only one that is there. Is that correct? Out of curiousity, are they both set to try and be master? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LAN Question
Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my laptop. They use to see each other. and to clarify, when you mean see which tool do you mean? Have you tried pinging back and forth, and checked hosts.allow and hosts.deny? Are you running a firewall? I'm also not entirely sure I'm reading you right. You have four computers? We'll call them MS-01 and MS-02 as well as Laptop-MDK and PC-MDK right? Is this what you mean: Laptop-MDK can see MS-01 and MS-02 PC-MDK can see MS-01 and MS-02 MS-01 can see MS-02 MS-02 can see MS-01 MS-01 can see Laptop-MDK? PC-MDK? MS-02 can see Laptop-MDK? PC-MDK? Laptop-MDK can NOT see PC-MDK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LAN Question
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:58:56 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 02:15 pm, Ryan Steffes wrote: Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my laptop. They use to see each other. SNIP NO Firewall Sorry. and to clarify, when you mean see which tool do you mean? Have you tried pinging back and forth, and checked hosts.allow and hosts.deny? Are you running a firewall? I'm also not entirely sure I'm reading you right. You have four computers? We'll call them MS-01 and MS-02 as well as Laptop-MDK and PC-MDK right? Is this what you mean: Laptop-MDK can see MS-01 and MS-02 PC-MDK can see MS-01 and MS-02 MS-01 can see MS-02 MS-02 can see MS-01 MS-01 can see Laptop-MDK? PC-MDK? MS-02 can see Laptop-MDK? PC-MDK? Laptop-MDK can NOT see PC-MDK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com What does the following give you: 1) cat /etc/hosts.allow cat /etc/hosts.deny 2) Then look in /var/log/samba2/ You'll probably need to be superuser. With some luck, you'll have files there with the name of your other PCs. Check the ends of these files for obvious error messages. If nothing jumps out as bad, continue on. Back down a level to /var/log/ Find the IP address and names of your other computers. Try the following: grep 192.168.0.XXX *--- Insert the address here, you'll get a lot probably, look for something along the lines of connection refused or rejected. grep MS-01 * Ditto for real names here 3) If you don't see anything obvious, holler back cause aside from that, it's time to delve into your smb.conf (probably in /etc/samba2/smb.conf) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LAN Question
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 17:40:19 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 04:18 pm, Ryan Steffes wrote: SNIP What does the following give you: 1) cat /etc/hosts.allow cat /etc/hosts.deny SNIP hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ cat hosts.deny # # hosts.denyThis file describes the names of the hosts which are # *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. # # The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that # the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular # you should know that NFS uses portmap! 2) Then look in /var/log/samba2/ You'll probably need to be superuser. With some luck, you'll have files there with the name of your other PCs. Check the ends of these files for obvious error messages. If nothing jumps out as bad, continue on. SNIP No samba2 file just samba. Samba name server LOCALHOST is now a local master browser for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.102 I don't know where this came from msdter browser and I did not set up the MDKGROUP. However that is what MS-02 sees when it looks at the network. I feel this is WAY over my head. I cannot look at the other files the command cat log.198.168.1.103 doesn't do anything. Back down a level to /var/log/ Find the IP address and names of your other computers. Try the following: SNIP Cannot get the next thing you asked about using grep to do anything except freeze up. Thanks for your help, BJ grep 192.168.0.XXX *--- Insert the address here, you'll get a lot probably, look for something along the lines of connection refused or rejected. grep MS-01 * Ditto for real names here 3) If you don't see anything obvious, holler back cause aside from that, it's time to delve into your smb.conf (probably in /etc/samba2/smb.conf) Ok, simple hope it works solution: Tell your WinXP box to join the workgroup MDKGROUP. Better solution: I'm thinking you may be greatly served by a software package called 'Webmin' which is available through urpmi (rpmdrake/Mandrake Software Center). I remember it as being a pretty easy way to configure your samba server. drakwizard has a wizard for samba, no clue on how good it is. If you want to learn solution: Open /etc/samba/smb.conf in your favorite editor find the line: workgroup = MDKGROUP change it to match whatever the winxp one has or whatever it is you actually want it to be, and /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart In Win98, go to (from memory, so improvise until you find it) Network Settings - Identification tap and find the workgroup name and change them to match the winxp settings. The thing about samba is it SEEMS much harder to configure than it is. For just sharing files on your home network, you can ignore 90% of the options. Some other settings you probably want in your smb.conf map to guest = bad user security = user Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Xorg keyboard troubles.
Searching for this came back with lots of causes in other distrobutions but I couldn't find what to DO about it. I compiled xorg 6.7.0 from the CVS tag to run the gatos drivers against. When Xorg comes up, my keyboard won't work. A hint may come from xorgconfig: xorgconfig: error while loading shared libraries: libxkbfile.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load dri # direct rendering Load glx EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol MouseManPlusPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Generic ModelName TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 Modeline 800x600 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync Modeline 640x480 25.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Radeon Driver radeon #Option DPMS Option TVOutput NTSC Option NoTV No Option ForceCRT True Option VideoOverlay on EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device device1 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth 16 #Option backingstore Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 800x600 640x480 ViewPort 0 0 # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer Screen Screen0 EndSection The only thing that comes close to an error in Xorg.log.0 is: (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option XkbModel pc105 (**) XKB: model: pc105 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled Help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Apache and mod_php
I had to recently rebuild my system as a result of my own stupidity and now I can't get php to work with apache. I don't remember doing anything other than urpmi before, so I have no clue why it wouldn't work. [07:19:31 rpms]$ rpm -qa|grep php mod_php-4.3.4-1mdk php-ini-4.3.4-1mdk libphp_common432-4.3.4-4.1.100mdk [07:19:53 rpms]$ rpm -qa|grep apache apache-1.3.29-1.2.100mdk apache2-common-2.0.48-6.3.100mdk apache-conf-2.0.48-2mdk apache-mod_perl-1.3.29_1.29-3.1.100mdk apache-modules-1.3.29-1.2.100mdk When I try and open a php file it just tries to offer it up for download. I'm not entirely sure what to look for in the conf files, but this looks reasonable: [07:25:23 conf]$ grep php * apache-mime.types:application/x-php php php3 php4 commonhttpd.conf:DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.htm Default.htm default.htm index.xml commonhttpd.conf:AddIcon /icons/p.png .pl .py .php .php3 commonhttpd.conf.orig:DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.htm Default.htm default.htm index.xml commonhttpd.conf.orig:AddIcon /icons/p.png .pl .py .php .php3 httpd2.conf:# cgi or php files httpd.conf:LoadModule php4_moduleextramodules/libphp4.so httpd.conf:AddModule mod_php4.c httpd.conf:# cgi or php files httpd.conf:Include conf/addon-modules/php.conf httpd-perl.conf:LoadModule php4_moduleextramodules/libphp4.so httpd-perl.conf:AddModule mod_php4.c httpd-perl.conf:Include conf/addon-modules/php.conf the directory that the files are in is marked executable. I'm at a loss. Any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache and mod_php
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:38:51 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:26:27 -0400 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: I had to recently rebuild my system as a result of my own stupidity and now I can't get php to work with apache. I don't remember doing anything other than urpmi before, so I have no clue why it wouldn't work. urpmi apache-mod-php -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:38:25 up 32 days, 19:23, 11 users, load average: 0.21, 0.19, 0.14 +++ Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Gandhi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com [07:55:13 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod_php no package named apache-mod_php [07:55:38 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod-php no package named apache-mod-php There's one for apache2, but not for apache. I said what the heck and let urpmi install apache2 since basically all I need the server for is mythweb and nothing changed except the packages I have installed. [08:01:17 rbsteffes]$ rpm -qa|grep apache apache-1.3.29-1.2.100mdk apache2-common-2.0.48-6.3.100mdk apache-conf-2.0.48-2mdk apache-mod_perl-1.3.29_1.29-3.1.100mdk apache2-modules-2.0.48-6.3.100mdk apache2-mod_php-2.0.48_4.3.4-1mdk apache-modules-1.3.29-1.2.100mdk apache2-2.0.48-6.3.100mdk [08:01:44 rbsteffes]$ rpm -qa|grep php mod_php-4.3.4-1mdk apache2-mod_php-2.0.48_4.3.4-1mdk php-ini-4.3.4-1mdk libphp_common432-4.3.4-4.1.100mdk [08:01:52 rbsteffes]$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache and mod_php
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:28:39 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:02:09 -0400 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: [07:55:13 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod_php no package named apache-mod_php [07:55:38 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod-php no package named apache-mod-php There's one for apache2, but not for apache. I said what the heck and let urpmi install apache2 since basically all I need the server for is mythweb and nothing changed except the packages I have installed. ...ah, yes, didn't notice you were not using Apache2. Now that you've got Apache2 running and apache2-mod-php installed, you may need to do a 'service httpd restart'. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:22:37 up 32 days, 20:07, 10 users, load average: 1.52, 0.41, 0.18 +++ Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark. -- Gore Vidal, on the bombing of Afghanistan after 9/11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Well, it's solved, but I'm not entirely sure. I uninstalled everything apache and php related that I could see, and went back from scratch and it worked just as automagically as before. I like automagical installs, when they work! Thanks for the help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] More of a poll - Software upgrades worth it?
When /. ran an article saying that Crossover Office would be supporting iTunes my last reason to hold on to Windows is fading away. Now I want to put some real effort into getting my linux box not just to the point where I like it, but to the point my wife is willing to use it. What I'm trying to do now is figure out what upgrades, tweaks, and other sort of fiddles are worth doing. One of the main problems I have with her, besides some relearning, is getting XWindows to feel as fast as WinXP. I have a couple questions I hope someone will be able to answer with all this in mind: 1) Does compiling X make a bit of difference over source? 2) Is it worth it (and as pain free as it seems) to switch to xorg for potential future upgrades over XFree? 3) Can I get the feel and look of Enlightenment and still have desktop icons, a taskbar, and the other stuff she associates with computer usability? Any suggestions or answers would really help, as well as anything additional to help the Linux box seems more friendly to her. -Ry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade and IPv6 default
I'm already running with nolapic because of some issues with my mobo not playing nice, so no luck there. There doesn't seem to me to be any disernable difference between running the one kernel and the other, it's just that the new kernel doesn't work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
