Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:55:46 -0500 > Jack disseminated the following: > > > Joe, you really need to read more carefully. I'll let you look at my > > initial post (at the top) again so you can figure it out for yourself... > > LOL! Okay, I shouldn't o' had that last hit of acid... > > Later folks, this list is a little too OT for me. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] 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 for novice users?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Feldman wrote: > > Your hardware? Installer drops to text if it can't start X or there > > isn't > > enough RAM. > > Dell Dimension with 2.6GHz P4, 19" monitor...can normally run 1600x1200 > at 24-bit color in X, so technically it should be a problem. The > monitor is connected through a KVM switch, though. > OK, not an underrated machine then. That was my first suspicion. There is additional log information on the other VTs. > >> - If 10.1 Official might work better for my purposes, is there any way > >> to download it for eval purposes? > > > > Not as an ISO atm, unless you belong to club. The packages are > > available > > on the mirrors. > > Is there a way to do a network-based install or something that would > mimic the CD install? > Yes - nfs, ftp, http. This url is for cooker, but the techique still applies, just change to the correct repository: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo Someone else here might have a better link on the other Wiki. > > 10.1 Discovery is sort of an introductory Linux, no compilers, > > development > > tools for 1 thing, and I think it has only KDE. > > OK. So where does one actually buy a copy of 10.1 Official? I didn't > see a product by that name. > http://store.mandrakesoft.com/index.php?cPath=88&osCsid=2988c3794c8bbad98e06cd214eed3a98 I've heard download edition isos should be available for download after customers start receiving their boxed merchandise. > > It's supposed to be equivalent to 10.1 x86 download edition. > > Is that the Community or the Official? > Basically official, except PPC is not a supported platform, so you probably won't see it being referred to as an "official" edition anywhere. The PPC port was a community driven project, not by Mandrakesoft, the company. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] 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 for novice users?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Feldman wrote: > I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to > novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been > recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions. > > I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried to install but have been unable > to do so. First I got a text-based installer instead of graphical, and > the best I was able to achieve was a system that booted to a text login > prompt instead of GNOME or KDE. Then I tried the low-res graphical > install, but the best I was able to achieve there was that it would > hang at the post-install configuration. Any thoughts? > Your hardware? Installer drops to text if it can't start X or there isn't enough RAM. > Also, hoping for some clarification: > - How does 10.1 Community differ from 10.1 Official? Official has many bugfixes based on Community feedback. > - If 10.1 Official might work better for my purposes, is there any way > to download it for eval purposes? Not as an ISO atm, unless you belong to club. The packages are available on the mirrors. > - How does 10.1 Official differ from 10.1 Discovery? 10.1 Discovery is sort of an introductory Linux, no compilers, development tools for 1 thing, and I think it has only KDE. > - How does 10.1 PPC relate to the various Intel versions? > It's supposed to be equivalent to 10.1 x86 download edition. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > To do it that way you would have to do something like 'vi modules.conf' - not > for the fainthearted, if you are not familiar with vi. > > BTW, are you sure it is modules.conf you need? It probably isn't if you are > running a 2.6 kernel. Most things are specified in /etc/modules.preload for > 2.6 kernels. Modules.conf is for 2.4 kernels. > 2.6 kernel 2.4 kernel - modprobe.conf ~= modules.conf modprobe.preload ~= modules -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop hp ze4325us boot freeze solved on 10.1 community (acpi)
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Pat Patterson wrote: > This did not seem to go through the first time. > > Fixed this and thought I would report it here and in twiki. > > HP ze4325us Athlon chip, Ali chipset, Radeon video. UNknown > motherboard. > > This machine installed 10.0 great. Under 10.1 installs and freezes on > > reboot. I tried noapic noalpic noacpi nodma and none worked. What > works is: > > linux acpi=off > > Once it boots add acpi=off to lilo. > > After I got it working I did a clean install. I found out that if you > scroll down when you get to the final setup screen there is an entry > for boot. Unchecking the acpi enabled button, solves the problem. > Sounds similar to my Compaq 2100's issues. I was able to setup/load a custom DSDT, which solved the ACPI and related problems. (Although prism54 still doesn't work as I hit the usual, mfg changed internals but kept the same product number. Ndiswrapper works for me, from sourceforge.) Some help on setting up a DSDT: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/HardwareHowTo#ACPI_Custom_DSDT HTH, -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Graham Watkins wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > Stew, this bug exists in Cooker too. I reported it as bug #12129, so if you > > fix it in 10.0, please fix it in 10.1 and cooker also? > > > I've just updated Webmin on my 9.2 installation and am having the same > problem. Will there be a fix for that? > Yes, fixed across the board (except cooker which is frozen). In secteam testing should be released mid-week next week, provided I didn't break something else in the process. Tested CS2.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1 myself and did not have the reported issue with the cron module (I also noted a problem with the backup module before the fix). -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: > > > When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find > > > that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access > > > 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following message"An error occurred > > > while loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: > > > Connection to host localhost is broken". > > > When I replace the original Webmin rpm the problem disappears. > > > Any ideas please as, If I remember rightly, the update is a security > > > issue. Thanks, > > > Simon. > > > > Confirmed. Will investigate/reissue if I can fix it. > > Stew, this bug exists in Cooker too. I reported it as bug #12129, so if you > fix it in 10.0, please fix it in 10.1 and cooker also? > OK. Cooker I would hope would go to a newer version, but I think it's orphaned with gc's departure. 10.0 issue is definitely related to the last tmpfile fix. You guys are making my day :) -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Kühn wrote: > Webmin is standalone from the entire RPM system structure - bear in mind > that it is autonomous to your distro - it is a tool that is able to > adminster almost any *nix system - and can be kept from the local > system's package database. > What? It's not independent of the rpm database if it was installed via rpm originally. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dba patch?
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Elliot Somers wrote: > I was looking over what might have gone wrong with getting the > libreadline.so.4 error when I tried to install this package. > mdbtools-0.5-1.i386.rpm > I have all the libreadline packages installed and yet it doesn't seem to > detect them. Now, there is a patch that the installation instructions say to > apply, though I am a newbie and don't know how to apply such a "patch." Can > anyone help with how one might do this, or if that might be my problem. The > website for the instructions is > http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/mdb/index.html > I am running Mdk 10.0 Official, dload version. No one on the dba-dev mail list > is answering, so if you guys know something, I appreciate it. > Everyone has helped so far as I read all the new posts. I am very grateful for > how helpful the linux community has been. > Elliot > > You'd probably have much more luck using the mandrake package, rather than some foreign rpm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmq -i mdbtools extracting mdbtools-0.5-2mdk.i586 Name: mdbtools Version : 0.5 Release : 2mdk Group : Development/Databases Size: 151954 Architecture: i586 Source RPM : mdbtools-0.5-2mdk.src.rpm Build Host: klama.mandrake.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 short answer: urpmi mdbtools -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Kühn wrote: > FYI: It is always best to upgrade/update Webmin THROUGH Webmin - > sometimes doing it outside (via RPM or what have you) can break modules > (of which cron is); therefore, when you want to update try to do so > whilst in Webmin (along with modules); you'll find that the experience > is slight more, er, happy? > Unless you hope to keep your rpm database in sync with the installed software. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: > When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that > I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access > 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following message"An error occurred while > loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: > Connection to host localhost is broken". > When I replace the original Webmin rpm the problem disappears. > Any ideas please as, If I remember rightly, the update is a security issue. > Thanks, > Simon. > Confirmed. Will investigate/reissue if I can fix it. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 & VMWare
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Paul Kaplan wrote: > Has anyone gotten VMWare 4.5.2 to run on a 10.1 host? > > It installed fine from the rpm, but when executing vmware-config.pl (as a > normal user or root) it ended with the following: > > ... > make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk' > cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o > make: execvp: cp: Permission denied > make: *** [auto-build] Error 127 > make: Leaving directory '/root/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only' > Unable to build the vmmon module > ... I was having trouble trying to use kernel-source-stripped. Full kernel source works, although some workarounds are required for udev or you have to re-run vmware-config.pl each boot. VMware Workstation 4.5.2 build-8848 -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] tar error when building root filesystem
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Today at 00:00, Russell W. Behne wrote: > > I'm trying to follow the instructions in > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-Root-3.html to build a root filesystem for > > a pair of boxes. Under ``3.2 Creation of the root filesystem'' it says > > to do ``tar cClf / - | tar xpCf /tftpboot - '', but I get this error > > message: > > tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > > Try `tar --help' for more information. > > Now, I can't grok any help that way. What should I do instead? Is there > > some way of gettingg this done? > > Nevermind. I've decided that since the two hosts do have small hard > drives, that I'll just put the kernel there. It'll be easier that > decrypting outdated howtos, save some space on the server, and speed up > the boot process. They both boot up fine, and I have been able to get > one to mount the home directory from the server so far. After getting > all the other remote filesystems to mount I'll have to work on getting > nis going. G'night! > Think I mentioned this before, but terminal-server (drakTermServ) sounds very similar to what you're trying to accomplish. (diskless client machines using the server's filesystem) -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] For all with usb problems
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: > From the Expert list: > > 10.1 official updates are slated to be released Nov 1. I see a kdebase > 133.1.101mdk in that tree (not publically accessible). > > But... I see people saying they have problems even at runlevel 3 and with different window managers, so I can't really imagine kdebase has much to with it. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > well, I don't have devfs. According to some bugzilla reports, quite > the opposite is needed. Warly posted something in his notes on > 10.1, saying "disable devfs, enable udev". Confusing. > > > > BTW, doesn't the box quiten down when removing the camera? > > Nope. Keeps running at 99% . > > And Anne, thanks for your support, I intend to report the bug in > bugzilla later today, but I have to pin the problem down a little > further in order to avoid too much verbosity. > > And, for the fun of it, I found another solution that doesn't burn > my CPU : > > Boot into Knoppix, where the camera shows nicely as another > harddisk, ftp the photos to my website and - being back in > Mandrake, ftp them home again. Where there is a will, there is a > way... > Still sounds to me like hotplug and friends. Before I told you how to disable hotplug with chkconfig, but I didn't mention stopping the service (service hotplug stop). It's quite rare in my experience that the kernel itself would be thrashing the machine like that. If it is, you'd see dmesg flooded with messages, but more often you'd see an oops or panic. I'd also doubt udev as a major factor. The normal "problem" with udev is the device not showing up at all in /dev. I tried several external devices yesterday, as a quick test. My Canon camera, which the kernel saw but didn't recognize as a storage device, a usb CF reader, a USB SD reader, and an external USB hard-drive. In none of the cases, did the kernel give any indication it was aware of the actual media type, aside from the identifier string of the reader device, that's pretty much the reader's job the deal with the media. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > > > As a last resort I re-installed 10.1 CE from scratch, copied > > > nothing back from my backup CDs, updated available rpms and > > > tried anew. Still staring at my runaway box. > > > > > > I have reached the point of considering a switch to some other > > > distro, maybe Fedora or Debian. > > You might try disabling harddrake and hotplug, as part of your testing. This would also help you tell whether it's the kernel or other apps dragging the box down. chkconfig --del harddrake (this will disable probing for new devices at boot) chkconfig --del hotplug (this will disable anything from running at the insertion of the device) Now you may need to modprobe appropriate modules to make the device visible in dmesg. If the box still panics, then it's definitely the kernel. You can re-enable with 'chkconfig --add foo' (replace foo appropriately) -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] 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 update source/binary mismatch
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > # urpmi kernel > Everything already installed > > Finally, I did the following: > > # urpmi kernel-2.6.3.19 > > > ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/ > 10.0/RPMS/./kernel-2.6.3.19mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm ... > > And now it's downloading the new kernel binary! What's up with that? > auto-select doesn't work with kernel binaries, but it does with kernel > source? Shouldn't the two always be kept in sync? And why doesn't "urpmi most times, yes, one would want them in sync if your intent is to build modules for your binary kernel > kernel" find the latest version of the kernel? Why should I have to specify > which version I want? Very strange. > urpmi --fuzzy kernel will return a list, if "urpmi kernel" doesn't All binary kernel packages have unique names, so you can have more than one installed at a time. (Can be handy if your new kernel won't boot your system for some reason). -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with 10.1 and wireless (ipw2100 - intel centrino)
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Alexander Ruoff wrote: > > The problem with ifconfig in the command line is that it doesn't show > eth1. I only get eth1 when I type ifconfig eth1... > ifconfig -a (shows all interfaces, including those that are down) -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Björn Lundin wrote: > David Johnson wrote: > > > I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 > > where eth0 shows as having [Failed] the initialization at boot time, > > but if I su to root after boot and do an 'ifup eth0' it comes up with > > no problem. > > > > Can anyone explain why this might be happening and how to fix it? > > > > Thanks > > I seem to remeber James talking about this but I can't find the thread. > It was something you put in /etc/sysconfig/network, something like > MII-???=Yes/no, but I can't remember, and google does not help. Does this > ring a bell for someone? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] daemons]# grep MII /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Home network help needed
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Ok. I'm at the point where I have the 2 extra network cards installed. > eth0 goes to my cable modem, and is the default route. eth1 and eth2 are > for the 2 kids computers. When I do ifconfig I get this: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:C0:C0:40 > inet addr:67.21.58.221 Bcast:67.21.58.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 SNIP eth1, eth2 aren't configured, they have no IP address. 3 cards on a machine to network to 2 others is kind of overkill. Each of the cards need an IP address on your machine. Then I guess you'll route each 1<->1 connection through the appropriate device. (personally I'd use a hub or switch, and only 2 cards on the server machine, routing the local subnet through eth1). -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, GV wrote: > but how should I upgrade? I mean where should I find this patch? The > default update procedure from Community 10.1 is disabled! > I could be all wrong, but afaik, the upgrade source for 10.1 CE is cooker at the moment. Kernels normally don't show up with the graphical tool. If you want to play it safe, go to a cooker mirror and just download the kernel, then rpm -ivh that file. It's not a patch, it's an updated kernel rpm, for instance (as root): wget ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i58 6/media/main/kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm new entry should be in lilo.conf, and should be available as a choice at reboot. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, GV wrote: > The openBSD machine is on a dynamic IP accessible via the Internet. The > Mandrake seats in my office. > > Now, another thing I observed. In the meantime I did install Fedora 2 in > another Notebook and everything went fine and my openBSD is indeed > accessible. When upgrading the Fedora kernel to 2.6.8.x from 2.6.5.x the > same problem occurred!!! Does this ring a bell to you? > > Where should the reverse lookup take place? On the BSD side or on the > client side? > Ahh. maybe it's the tcp_default_win_scale issue in 2.6.8.1. Update to -12mdk and try with that. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, GV wrote: > sorry for my delayed reply to this! > > Well, here are the log entries from the openBSD server: > > sshd[2121]: fatal: Timeout before authentication for x.x.x.x > sshd[9397]: fatal: Read from socket failed: No route to host > So it looks like a network issue, rather than a ssh issue. No reverse lookup perhaps? Routing setup? Are the machines on the same subnet? -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Home network help needed
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: > I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) > Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard > drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: > > 1. Both computers to be able to dual boot using lilo, Linux as > default, with a super-bare-bones Linux install, (See #3.) > 2. Use static IP addresses for all 3 machines, 127.0.0.1 for > mine, 127.0.0.11 for the first dual-boot machine, and > 127.0.0.12 for the second. That's the loopback IP you want to use for yours, a private subnet might be better, 192.168.x.x for instance. > 3. Linux to boot its files systems from my host over the > network, so on upgrades upgrading the main box will update > all 3. You could look at drakTermServ, you would need no Linux install on the cient machines. > 4. A common password system, where all passwords are maintained > on the main box. See above. > 5. Each of the 2 boxes will have it's own /home/$user directory > (to save space on the server), the main box will have all > other user directories in its /home, and /home appears > identical on all 3 boxes, so one can login on any machine. Conflicts with a terminal-server setup. Actually many nfs type setups will share /home, rather than have it on the seperate machines. If you want seperate /home, it could be done, but you'd need to keep them in sync somehow if you want them identical (rsync). > 6. Set up things to that the 2 kid's boxes have a `time window' > when they can be connected to the Internet, (not 24/7.) > 7. Limit instant messaging, as above, to certain times of the > day, and set a quota of how long per day they can use IM. > 8. Keep a watchfull eye on what they're doing, and what they're > viewing. > Probably some proxy work and logging could handle the above. I used to use a piece of software when I was an admin at a plant that tracked all the employees internet activities. (drakonian, I know, but that's what management wanted.) -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] batch image converting
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Q.H. Wang wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Is there some way can easily convert all images in a directory from one format
> to another one? I mean, just using scripts, not tools like GIMP. I found
> there is such a tool program for GIMP can do that, but unfortunately I need
> to update GIMP first. Can anyone give me some pointers? Many thanks.
>
"convert" part of ImageMagick
With a simple shell script you can use this app and convert a number of
files in a batch mode.
Something like (directory of .bmp files, convert to .jpg):
#!/bin/sh
for i in `ls`;do
base=`basename $i .bmp`
echo "convert $i $base.jpg"
convert $i $base.jpg
done
--
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Re: [newbie] Broadband modems
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Keith Powell wrote: > I'm lost!! > > I want to go broadband, and the ISP gives me the choice of two modems in their > broadband pack: > > Voyager 105 USB Modem > > or > > A220 PCI Modem (internal?) > One with an ethernet port is probably the easiest. The USB variant would be my second choice. There is support for some USB modems, although I don't find that one either ldetect-lst. Myself, I've always used devices with an ethernet port, along with a hardware router. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, GV wrote: > Indeed! > > Please find below the 'new' extended (3x"v") verbose output: > > debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version > OpenSSH_3.6 > debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.6 pat OpenSSH* > debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 > debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1 > debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK > debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent > Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer > Looks to be the same info as before. Again, the server logs would probably be useful. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, GV wrote: > how can I increase the verbosity level? > man pages are your friend: -v Verbose mode. Causes ssh to print debugging messages about its progress. This is helpful in debugging connection, authentica- tion, and configuration problems. Multiple -v options increase the verbosity. The maximum is 3. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, GV wrote: > in general I do have access to the OpenBSD server's logs but I'm > wondering why closing the connection with Mandrake only??? > > Could it be something with Kernel 2.6 cause, if I'm not mistaken, > Mandrake 10.1 is 2.6 - or not? > Default is 2.6, yes. > Please notice that when running Knoppix 3.6 I'm using the version with > Kernel 2.4 > Doesn't really mean a lot to me, I'm sure there are myriad other differences between Knoppix and Mdk10 also. Could possibly be ipv6 related. You could try -4 to force ipv4. Server logs are going to tell a lot more than any guessing I might do from where I'm sitting. The connection looks to be closed at that end. You could increase the verbosity also. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, GV wrote: > debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent > Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer > > As I mentioned in one of my earlier postings, when running (on the same > Notebook) Knoppix 3.6 Live, didn4t face any problem to connect! > You don't happen to have access to logs at the server end? Looks like that end is closing the connection. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MySQL 4.1 doesn't start in 9.2, 10.0 and 10.1
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Adolfo Bello wrote: > Hi: > > I've worked with MySQL 4.1 since the alpha release (4.1.0). I always > download the latest rpms from mysql.com and install them with rpm. Until > version 4.1.4 every thing was just fine. > > However, when I tried to install 4.1.5 rpms in my fully updated Mandrake > 10.0, I got an error telling me that mysql didn't have permissions to > access /root/tmp. MySQL was installed but couldn't be started. > > Humm, something wrong with this rpms. I post a message in the mysql list > and they told me to give, temporarily, 777 access to /root/tmp to start > the service, which I did. The service started but I couldn't work with > the database after settings /root/tmp permissions back to the original > ones (700). > > I went back to install 4.1.4, which I had working before, and I got the > same error. My conclusion was that something was wrong with my box. I > modified the mysql init script in /etc/init.d to start mysql as user > root and the database started working nicely. After that I installed > 4.1.5 which is now working without problem. However, running mysql as > root is not considered a good security practice. > > Then, one of my coworker, who uses Mandrake 9.2, told me that he was > facing the same problem with 4.1.5. After modifying mysql init script as > I did the data base started to work. > > Then I decided to go to a different computer and installed 10.1 CE. The > same problem with mysql. Again, modifying mysql init script solved the > situation. > > Decided to go deeper into it, I installed mysql in a box running Debian > 3.0r2 using the generic Linux installer. No problem whatsoever. Then I > tried installing mysql in 10.0 using the same binary and I got the same > problem. BTW, Debian has no /root/tmp at all. > > At this point, I believe that there is something in Mandrake causing the > problem but I have no idea where to start looking at. > > Can I just remove /root/tmp and try to start mysql again? Has anybody in > this list tried to install MySQL 4.1.4 or 4.1.5 in 9.2 or 10 fully > updated or in 10.1 CE without update? > > Can some body give me a hint about where the problem might be? > Sounds like the init script is picking up root's TMPDIR TMP variables. You might try unsetting these in the init script, rather than running MySQL as root. You'll note the mandrake package defines these vars in "start": TMPDIR=/tmp export TMPDIR TMP=/tmp export TMP -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Security Updates
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Margot wrote: > For 10.1 Community, same as for 10.0 Community, there are *no* > 'update' sources. Updates for Community are found in 'main', not in > a separate source. > > Go to easyurpmi, select 10.1 Community sources for 'main', > 'contrib', 'jpackage' and 'plf'. > > Every day, open a root terminal and do this: > > urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum && urpmi --auto-select > You currently see updates hitting community main? I was under the impression that that is static atm. Went through this last night with a support person and it looked like the hdlist on proxad was dated Sept15. Thanks, -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, GV wrote: > The firewall isn't a problem as the same Notebook (with the same eth > card etc.) does make the connection without a problem when running > Knoppix 3.6 Live Linux on it!!! Besides, no firewall is activated on my > Mandrake box. The "known_hosts" file was also deleted but no effect! > > I think it should be something with the 10.1 distro > > Any people from Mandrake ever heard of this problem?? > Well, I'm from Mandrakesoft, and also happen to maintain openssh. I can assure you it's working for a variety of connections (although I don't have accounts on any BSD boxen). I'd need to see the whole post of the -v session. You could also try to force protocol 1 (-1). -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Thereidos wrote: > W li6cie z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 00:09, Stew Benedict pisze: > > Duplicate your current lilo stanza you use to boot, and add "5" in the > > "append=" line, giving it a new label (don't forget to rerun lilo after > > editing) > > So it would look like this: > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label="linux" > root=/dev/hda7 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="5 devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent" > vga=788 > read-only Except if you already have a "linux" entry, you'd want to name this one differently. Name is arbitrary, "linux5" would work. Then make whichever one you want the default at the top of lilo.conf. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with detecting modem, ScanModem
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Vlada wrote: > > Mandrake 9.1 cannot detect my modem intel(r) 536EP V.92 > I downloaded ScanModem, to detect what modem I have. > After unpacking and addint +x permition when run from console ./ScanModem > there is a massage: > WARNING: lscpi not found - exiting > Please install the package: pciutils > > How to install this package? > What else shoud I do to make my modem work under linux! > > urpmi pciutils (as root) -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 15:21, Thereidos wrote: > > W liÅcie z wto, 05-10-2004, godz. 23:10, Hoyt Bailey pisze: > > > Couldn't you set things so your father logs in to run level 5 while > > > you can log into run level 3 I have no idea how to do that > > > however. > > > > I don't think this is possible. Or maybe? If this is possible to run > > linux exclusively in runlevel 5 typing 'linux 5' when lilo shows up, > > right?, it might be possible to add new entry to do exactly the same. > > > > Thought how to do that? > Frankly it is beyond my talent but if you can set stanzas in lilo to > boot linux, failsafe, etc. Then it is possiable. May be a little > complicated but possiable. > Duplicate your current lilo stanza you use to boot, and add "5" in the "append=" line, giving it a new label (don't forget to rerun lilo after editing) -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
