RE: [newbie] Setting the time
I've tried this and I get: #date -s world.std.com date: invalid date 'world.std.com' Is this an enhancement made to Mandrake 7.2?? I have 7.1 on my machine. Is that the problem? Thanks in advance, Mark -Original Message- From: Meph Istopheles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 8:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting the time Hey Fred, Does anyone know how to sync the time with an atomic clock Try this: # date -s world.std.com also my time always seems to be off by 1 hour, even if I select DST in linuxconf, any ideas? Well, I'd seen this -- some time ago -- in the linux@egroups list. I think that it turns out to be a bios thing. Have you checked to be sure the time is set correctly there? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] VPN Client software
Greets Penguin-Pals! Looking for something similar to NT2000's built in feature to VPN to our corporate network. Commercia/Share/Freeware are all fine. I'm NOT looking to do ssh/PPTP if I don't have to. I also, don't want to run linux masquerading if I don't have to as both my machines at home NT and Linux, each have their own static IP's, so don't see the need. Can any of you guru's out there help me out? TIA, __ Mark T. Wignall MES Database Administrator Xerox Corporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (503) 685-3071 (Office) (503) 703-9383 (Cell) (503) 599-6213 (Pager)
[newbie] Linux and VPN
Greets Penguin-Pals! Looking for something similar to NT2000's built in feature to VPN to our corporate network. Commercia/Share/Freeware are all fine. I'm NOT looking to do ssh/PPTP if I don't have to. I also, don't want to run linux masquerading if I don't have to as both my machines at home NT and Linux, each have their own static IP's, so don't see the need. Can any of you guru's out there help me out? TIA, Mark
RE: [newbie] un-remove
where was that tar file on tape you made the night before ;-) Short of not having thatyou're (the file) is toast. Mark -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] un-remove It was Nov 8, 2000, 17:42, when Scott D. Pletcher keyboarded: Does anyone know how to get a file back that has been deleted via "rm"? If you know what was in the file: start typing. If you can download it from somewhere: go and download. None of the above: do you have a backup somewhere? Not even that? No chance... Paul -- Coffee (n.): a person who is coughed upon. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
RE: [newbie] Logging off a user ?
kill -9 PID is the command you want to wipe out any task running. User ROOT can kill tasks not associated with this, so it woul d have to be a ROOT owned crontab entry. Also you may want to look at the grep piping into cut to get the acual PID's of the the output generated from the grep. Do a man on cut for the specifics. Lastly I wouldn't put cron entry to run every minute. Better yet is to have a shell script that runs the grep|cut as mentioned, sleeps for 1 minute, the loops back to the top. Use Cron to kickstart it for the first time, at 8:00pm or whatever once a day. The script can check to see if the script is already running, and if so, just exists gracefully so that you don't have a bunch of the same script running. Essentially use Cron as watchdog, but the script actually performs the work and goes to sleep and then works again. Cheers! Mark Wignall -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:17 PM To: Renaud OLGIATI Cc: *List Linux-Newbie-MK Subject: Re: [newbie] Logging off a user ? the answer to your question is yes, and you may want to search the archives on this one because I think something like this was covered about a month ago, but I can't recall enough of the details to relate the adventure for you. Ordinarily I would simply search my message database and forward the appropriate message(s) to you covering this subject since I keep almost all of them from the list. However, after this weekend's tragic implosion of my partition tables I've lost better than 3GB worth of data. My list archive was one of the casualties. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182469 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Wed, 1 Nov 2000 Renaud OLGIATI had this to say! Is there a way fior the sysadmin to log a user off ? My son liked Kboard so much he spent the whole night playing, and I was thinking of finding a way to keep him off the computer during the hours he's supposed to sleep. Now, If there was a way for root to terminate the session of a user, I thought I coul put in crontab a job to run every minute between the hours of 20 00 and 08 00, that would grep the output of who, and log him off if he's logged in. But can it be done ? TIA, Cheers, A worried father, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
RE: [newbie] mail redirection query
How about just a plain old .forward file to forward all mail to any other email address. Mark -Original Message- From: bascule [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mail redirection query i would like mail for root to go to me as a normal user so that i can be notified of anything i should know as and when, rather than have to remember to log in as root and check my mail, i'm not sure what program governs mail delivery on my system but there is a symbloic link /etc/aliases to /etc/postfix/aliases and i added the line root:bascule to this file and then ran postfix reload, the main reason for this is so that i can get error or other messages from cron jobs that are run as root, i had tried setting the value: MAILTO=bascule and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in /etc/crontab but neither of these resulted in mail for root going to user bascule. this must be one of the simpler tasks to configure for system mail i would be grateful for any advice bascule p.s. i have read about running the command 'newaliases' but this didn't seem to do anything either
RE: [newbie] mail redirection query
in your case, log in as root, then in the home directory for root (~root) create a file called .forward (don't forget the '.' character. Then vi this file and add just the following entry: bascule mail by default will check local accounts first, kinda like dns lookups. If it can't resolve, then it forwards it on. Cheers! BTW: I think the info is in the mail man pages or maybe sendmail. Mark -Original Message- From: bascule [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mail redirection query this would work for 'internal' addresses? where would i put it and what is the appropriate man page tia bascule "Wignall, Mark T" wrote: How about just a plain old .forward file to forward all mail to any other email address. Mark
RE: [newbie] Linux on Oracle
The mount points are in support of Oracle's OFA, and not a requirement. You can have just a single mount point if you like. In my case I've just created a single mount point of /db ... in fact my first installation just did a mkdir off of root for /db. I've since changed to a whole new drive and mount for it. Mark Wignall MES Oracle DBA Xerox Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Vinayak Pai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 7:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux on Oracle hi all, thnaks for your help I am an Oracle DBA and so far have worked only on WindowsNT. Now i am trying to install Oracle8i (8.1.6) on Linux. I have got Linux Mandrake version 7.1 installed on a intel system. 300 MHz 64MB RAM The oracle Documentaion asks to create 4 mountpoints. One for the software and 3 for the database. I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question. Thanks again vinayak __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall
Hoping for some help here: I previously had the following setup within my network at my residence. 1 Linux box w/ 2 NIC cards. 1 connected to the DSL modem, and 1 to a HUB where other computers throughout the house are connected. I configured NIC 1 for the IP address given to me by my DSL provider, and configured the other NIC for the private network IP range 196.168.x.x. Next I configured IP Forwarding and Masquerading, and alas had everything set up and working perfectly. Some online games won't allow duplicate IP addresses to be seen on the game server, and as all computers within my private net were sharing the 1 IP address provided by the DSL provider, only one computer at a time to could be gaming. I've recently acquired a different DSL package, which gives me 5 static IP address, so I should be able to configure my network as I hoped. Obviously, I could have just put all computers, and the DSL modem on my HUB and life would be good from a gaming perspective, however, I would very much like to have a firewall installed that helps protect against intruders. Under this scenario, I'd have to install a firewall on each PC to gain some protection...what a hassle. What I'd like to do is configure my Linux box like I had before, but replace the Private network with additional IP's that I gained. I tried setting this up, but fell short after realizing that Linux acting as a router can't route unless there are two different networks (IP sets) to route between. Since all my machines IP's belong to the same network (IP set), I can't "route" per se. What I came across were some HOWTO's on bridging+firewall. Essentially the bridge creates a virtual NIC that binds the two together, and I place the firewall (IPchains) on this virtual NIC. I configured it, set it up, and appear to be accomplishing my goal. The firewall stuff is working on every machine, and of course gaming is now a reality. In summary, my question is this. Is this the best/only approach I can take in setting up my environment? Is there a way to accomplish this by setting up my own route tables? The reason I ask is because when everything is "idle" on my network, I see blips on the DSL modem about every 3 seconds or so. I've narrowed it down to the bridge stuff, as I can bring the bridge down, and the blipping stops. I don't know what is happening, and I don't believe that the bridge is impacting performance much, still I don't know, so I thought I'd pose the question to the experts out there. Thanks in advance, Mark Wignall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] LILO hangs
Boot from your windows startup floppy and then at the A: prompt, type SYSTEM. this will overwrite the MBR on your hard disk, by transferring the system files from the floppy to hard disk. This is NOT like formatting your hard drive, so all your files will be intact. Mark Wignall -Original Message-From: Joseph Bourque [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:32 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] LILO hangs I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system. I've reformatted my second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then hangs with just the first two letters LI on the screen. How can I remove whatever is causing LILO to start? Thank you for any help you can give. Joe Bourque
RE: [newbie] C++ program?
Try the gnu one ... it's on the Linux Install CD Mark -Original Message- From: Joe Brault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C++ program? Hello all, I have aninteresting question for everyone. I am in the process of totally converting my systems over to Linux because i'm tired of winbloze. However, In order for me to do this, I need to find an ansi-standard compliant C++ compiler that runs in Mandrake. Does such a program exist? Free is even better! :) Any help is greatly appreciated! - Joe :) - Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Charles, Thanks for the instructions! They were very easy to follow and helped a lot! Although for some reason it kept failing on the simulation of the burn process... any thoughts? - Joe :) - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? - Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Charles, I downloaded the image, and will be using NERO Burning Rom to burn my CD. This program came with my CDRW drive (Creative Labs). [snip] Did you download the ISO image? What program will you be using to burn the cd? Charles Since the install ISO is 649MB you should not try to burn it on a 650MB blank. Pony and several others make 700MB CD-Rs but be sure you do not pick up an audio only CD-R. NERO trys to make it hard to record from an ISO. There is no info in the manual or on their web site. Here is what you need to do: 1) Find the folder to which you downloaded the ISOs, right click on each and choose rename; mandrake 71-ext.iso change to mandrake 71-ext.nrg mandrake 71-inst.iso change to mandrake 71-inst.nrg 2) Launch NERO 3) Close the New Compilation window so that you have only the main window open. 4) From the toolbar along the top of the window select CD Recorder/ Choose Recorder and be sure your CD-RW is picked as the recording device. 5) From the File menu select Burn image. In the pop-up window navigate to the folder with the .nrg file and click on one and click OK 6) A Foreign Image File box will open. Click OK. 7)A Foreign Image Setting box will open. Change it were necessary to show the following values: Data mode 1; Block Size 2048: and the Swapped option should be checked.Click OK. 8) A Write CD window will open. If you have not done much burning and are not familiar with your CD-RWs abilities check all 4 boxes, test speed, simulate, burn, and finalize. By doing this NERO will auto select the burn speed.Finally in the top right of the window click the Write button and the process of burning the CD will begin. When the 1st CD is finished follow steps 5-8 to create the 2nd. Hope I have not made it seem too complicated. If you have any problems or other questions you can reply to the list or, contact me direct if you choose. Charles
RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??
Joe, It's possible that the media itself is not rated for 8x writes. I've bought cheap cd-rom blanks that claimed 6x speeds for writes, but it's a crapshoot as to when it works. I just lower the write speed to the next lower speed, and it usually works fine. Mark -Original Message- From: Joe Brault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Charles It doesn't give me a ram error, it jsut says it failed at 8x (being my speed)... - Joe :) - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Joe What message does the program give when the simulation fails? If it is failing due to buffer you may not have enough Ram avaialible. Try using Alt-Ctrl-Delete to close all your running apps except for Nero, Exlporer, and Systray . Charles - Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Charles, Thanks for the instructions! They were very easy to follow and helped a lot! Although for some reason it kept failing on the simulation of the burn process... any thoughts? - Joe :) - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? - Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Charles, I downloaded the image, and will be using NERO Burning Rom to burn my CD. This program came with my CDRW drive (Creative Labs). [snip] Did you download the ISO image? What program will you be using to burn the cd? Charles Since the install ISO is 649MB you should not try to burn it on a 650MB blank. Pony and several others make 700MB CD-Rs but be sure you do not pick up an audio only CD-R. NERO trys to make it hard to record from an ISO. There is no info in the manual or on their web site. Here is what you need to do: 1) Find the folder to which you downloaded the ISOs, right click on each and choose rename; mandrake 71-ext.iso change to mandrake 71-ext.nrg mandrake 71-inst.iso change to mandrake 71-inst.nrg 2) Launch NERO 3) Close the New Compilation window so that you have only the main window open. 4) From the toolbar along the top of the window select CD Recorder/ Choose Recorder and be sure your CD-RW is picked as the recording device. 5) From the File menu select Burn image. In the pop-up window navigate to the folder with the .nrg file and click on one and click OK 6) A Foreign Image File box will open. Click OK. 7)A Foreign Image Setting box will open. Change it were necessary to show the following values: Data mode 1; Block Size 2048: and the Swapped option should be checked.Click OK. 8) A Write CD window will open. If you have not done much burning and are not familiar with your CD-RWs abilities check all 4 boxes, test speed, simulate, burn, and finalize. By doing this NERO will auto select the burn speed.Finally in the top right of the window click the Write button and the process of burning the CD will begin. When the 1st CD is finished follow steps 5-8 to create the 2nd. Hope I have not made it seem too complicated. If you have any problems or other questions you can reply to the list or, contact me direct if you choose. Charles
[newbie] PPP (Patch Program Please)
Can someone help me locate the #()*)@ Patch program? I realize I'm a newbie, and niavely thought that if the install program installes the patch-install script located in /usr/src/Linux/scripts, that it would also install the related patch program, presumably in /usr/bin. I've did an install 3 times now, with varying options selected, the latest being the "Automated" choice which should have done most everything. After each installation, I've issued a find . -name patch* from the / directory, only to find everything BUT the patch program itself. Mark Wignall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
