Re: [newbie] What kernel do I have?
Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: How do I find out what linux kernel I have? Regards Vegard type uname -a without quotes in terminal window. Mike 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 Boxed Set
Scott Manning wrote: I can get the Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official Boxed Set - PowerPack Edition for $70 even tho I use 10.1. I really just want the manuals.. is this a good idea? Thanks again Scotty I can not tell you from first hand experience, but I know someone got the manual and they were not impressed with it. It may be what your looking for but, you could also try the online documents that come with Mandrake like Howto's,manpages,info pages, Mandrakelinux documentation, Rute Users,... and Google of course for quick answers. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] The new TWiki
I went to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca to have a look around. Under the main menu there is a section called Mandrake Help I seem to be able to access all the catagories except System Administration it asks for a user id and password. Is that because that catagory is under contruction? Also when attempting to view the above page as user TWikiGuest with password guest it did not accept ID and password. I'm not interested in editing or changing content, but would like to view the content for answers from time to time. Or are we going to have to register to view the TWiki site also? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Has anybody attempted to re-add their 10.1 distro sources?
John Layt wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:52, Glenn wrote: Using urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom to add my 10.1 sources, the CD numbers get screwed up (11, 21, 31, 32, 33, 41, 51, 61, etc.) Anybody run into a fix for this? Glenn I'm not getting that problem, but something is borked in adding/updating sources. When I added a new local source, the add crashed partway through due to having a bad rpm. I deleted the bad rpm, and tried to re-add the source, but then it started giving errors about every single rpm, including those that it had previously accepted as ok. To cut a long story short, I had to delete every file in /var/cache/urpmi/headers/ belonging to the new source before I succedded in adding the source. Something seems to have regressed... John. If you use -c option for urpmi.removemedia it will clean the headers cache directory. I borked mine up before and had to remove all sources and readd them. First I urpmi.removemedia -a -c then I had to manually remove /var/lib/urpmi/list.name_of_source /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.name_of_source.cz /var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.name_of_source.cz /var/lib/urpmi/descriptions.name_of_source /var/lib/urpmi/names.name_of_source for each source, then added my sources with urpmi.addmedia All seemed to work out well, not exactly sure why :~/ I would have thought that urpmi.removemedia would have removed the entries for the sources in /var/lib/urpmi/ but it didn't and they were giving me some problems. Perhaps I needed to update the data base or something. Anyways a personal expierence, if it helps. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox Mouse Config
JoeHill wrote: Hey all, I've tried every entry in about:config I can think of, and I can't modify the default scroll, ie. number of lines. I successfully set the 'alt' modifier to speed it up, but I would like the default scroll to be a lot faster. I've tried it with 'smooth scrolling' both on and off. Anyone know which entry it is to change this? On mozilla 1.7 in the about:config mousewheel.withnokey.action default integer 0 mousewheel.withnokey.numlines default integer 1 mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlinesuserset boolean false set numlines to how many lines to scroll. also other entries in there for mousewheel with other keys Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bash Prompt
Elliot S. wrote: I am of course new to linux, I'm taking a class in which one thing we learned was to change the environmental variable of the prompt using the line PS1= I want my prompt to display my current working directory, and the way I did that in the class was add PS1=`pwd` Now the class was an older version of the bash shell running out on a free-bsd server. I tried to get my prompt on mine at home by adding the same line to my .bashrc file in my home directory. It only displays my home directory, even when I change into other directories. So can someone help with what I'm doing wrong and/or what's different than the bash at school, that makes this difficult. I appreciate all the help you've given me thus far. Thx, Elliot P.S. I'm running mandrake 10.0 Official. You can test the prompt and see what eventually you like. for example. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]# PS1= \W mike mike PS1= \w ~ ~ cd /var/log/mail/ /var/log/mail \W = the basename of the current working directory \w = the current working directory Take a look at this in your browser (if you have howtos installed) /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Bash-Prompt/index.html Or do a google search for BashPrompt howto Nice howto, I had quite-abit fun with it :-) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with Firefox Kmail
Hello, I am using Mandrake Linux 10, Firefox v. 1.0 is installed as my default browser, Kmail is my default email client. When I click on a web link in Kmail, Firefox launches but opens to a local version of the file (cached). Here's an example of what happens when I click on a link to google: www.google.com and this is what opens in Firefox: file:///var/tmp/kdecache-user/krun/2159.0.google I don't get the website, I get a locally stored version of the site and no links from the site work. It happens every time with every web link. The only way to open the web page is to copy the link and paste it into the address bar of Firefox. I never had this problem when I was using Opera as my default browser. It always opened the proper web page whenever a link was clicked. What's going on with Firefox and how do I correct this problem? Any help resolving this problem is greatly appreciated! Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] real newbie
Steve Chase wrote: first attempt at linux here, have 10.0 amd64 up and running,have rpms for video and motherboard on a cd but can not fiigure out how to install them, even have some rpms (bittorrent) on my desktop but cant figure out the basics. amd 3000+ asus k8n-e deluxe (onboard lan not recognized) msi geforce 4 4400ti wd 60 gb on ata (recognized) linux 2 seagate 80gb sata(recognized but not as the mirror the are) xp linksys lan on pci liteon cdrw/dvd Steve Well one option would be to create a directory, name it what you like, example would be Local_software. Copy your rpms to that directory. Then in terminal window as root type drakrpm-edit-media without quotes and add that directory as local media. Then you can in terminal urpmi name_of_package or use the graphical installer drakrpm (which may be easier if your new to linux) to install the rpms you like. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Confrence Bordeaux.
Stephen Khn wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 00:20, Carroll Grigsby wrote: This just in: A Polish guy in South Africa flushes ex-patriate American's toilet in Australia. Millions of bytes are transmitted in the process. Film at 11. -- cmg What's a toilet? (g) http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/browse.aspx?type=areaid=5971612f-7408-4879-81dc-42fbd01fa1c6 Illawarra No toilets were found in this area, please try the 'Nearby towns/suburbs' or 'Nearby councils'. That could prove difficult to explain. (g) Mike 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 9.1 and local area connection icon ?
Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, It makes me wonder if there is something similar to Windows taskbar icon for local area connections (speed: , sent: ___, received: ___ ) but for MDK 9.1 KDE's panel? In fact, I get something like that when a dial up connection is established, but would like to have it with LAN's connections. Any idea? Regards, Misko Open up a terminal window and type draknet_monitor Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] logrotate question
Chris wrote:
I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and mail
it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old log isn't
being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter that sends me the
output of rkhunter after its run as a cron job and before its compressed.
Below are my settings:
# system-specific logs may be configured here
/var/log/rkhunter.log {
daily
rotate 5
nocreate
maillast
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
/var/log/snort/session.log {
daily
rotate 5
nocreate
maillast
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
Any ideas?
How long have you been running the snort/session.log rotate
if rotated 5 times, once daily would take 6 days i think till last
log to expire and be mailed? Just a guess.
Mike
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Isos
Alexander Ruoff wrote: I have a problem with the Iso-Images I have for 10.1. I downloaded them with Linux and burned them with K3B. However, when updating the 2nd CD failed. First I thought that it must be something related to the update from 10.0 to 10.1 and made a clean install but than the 2nd as well as the 3rd CD failed. I downloaded two new Isos with Windows and burned them with Nero, but again, the 2nd CD failed. I managed to install 10.1 nicely within a couple of hours installing everything via urpmi (it was fun even though time consuming due to the fact that I needed gcc to compile the 855wrap and had to remember all the names of the software I wanted). Anyway, I still want to find out why those Isos I made didn't work or if this problem happened to some other people as well? Regards Alex One place to start is to compare the md5sum's of the original iso on the ftp site with the one you have downloaded to your machine, and then compare that to the cd you just burnt. I have had troubles with the cd burn gui's so I just use the commandline. cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc path_to_file.iso /dev/hdc is the path to my burner replace with what ever path yours is. Theres options for speed= and -v verbose mode, etc. read manpage for cdrecord if interested. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen lock and password not resolving
Terence Golightly wrote: List, I tried posting a thread concerning this problem last week but w/o much help. I recently changed my user password (at a moment of minor paranoia about a misperceived system compromise). Well, this is where my problem begins. From gdm I can login, and my desktop appears. Now if I want to leave my box for awhile, I click on my little gnome footprint select the lock screen icon and the screensaver comes on and if I touch a key or move the mouse a security popup appears with my username and a password prompt. I enter my password, I receive an error message incorrect password. What to do? I don't know where to begin looking. Thanks, Terry This may be of little help but I once had a similar problem and it was something to do with pam. Been a while and I don't remember the details. Check your logs I think it was the authentication log. As root type draklog with out quotes. The log may give you a clue as to what is happening. Mike 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 Apologys
aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 11:20 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 9:22 pm, aron Smith wrote: Hate to bring it up but i have another system dual booting Mandrake 10.0 and windows 2000 the display 180 X 1024 in linux is great (jetway 17 LC monitor) the best resolution I can get in Win$ux is 800 X600 is there a Generaic driver out there I can use ? If so what is the name so I can chase it down? I would think the Plug and Play monitor driver should work for you. I had a 15 tft, and it used that driver, gave me 1024x768. Mike 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 rc1 mini cd install
Tony S. Sykes wrote: I have put the url in for several different sources but it error saying it can't find the hdlist file. It is in the directory as I have checked. Anybody have any idea? Thanks, Tony. Is there a place to enter the path to the hdlist.cz? Like.. LOCATION: ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS PATH TO HDLIST: ../base/hdlist.cz I think it should automatically probe for it but, perhaps its not maybe you have to enter it manually. Note: Just a thought. I have not tried the 10.1 rc1 mini cd install myself. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] test
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Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 08:58, Thereidos wrote: W licie z pi, 27-08-2004, godz. 14:44, Hoyt Bailey pisze: On Friday 27 August 2004 00:27, Rob Blomquist wrote: snip BTW, I believe that the path /mkdev/mkdev.sh is meant to be within the source code folder, so that a program that usually runs during make or make-install is run. I finally found /mkdev.sh burried in lm_sensors-2.8.5 directory. /home/hoyt/Programs/lm_sensors-2.8.5/prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh Running the mkdev.sh allows sensors-detect to run but in the end I could not get the temp's, fans into gkrellm. The following seems to be the problem: 1. For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and done 'modprobe i2c_sensor'! 2. For older kernels, make sure you have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'! Line 1 seems important but I dont know what it means. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ locate sysfs /home/hoyt/Programs/lm_sensors-2.8.5/doc/developers/sysfs-interface There are a lot of sysfs entries but apparantly there is one missing. This is what I've got about mounting sysfs : Add as root this line to /etc/fstab sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 done than just write mount /sys [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# mount /sys mount: sysfs already mounted or /sys busy mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /sys No sys in /etc/fstab except the line above? If it complains that directory does not exists just create it (mkdir /sys) and repeat :) Let me know if it helped... [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda12 /backup ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda10 /music ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda11 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# cat /etc/mtab /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 /backup ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 /music ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11 /var ext3 rw 0 0 automount(pid4018) /net autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=4018,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 automount(pid4016) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=4016,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 Well thats what happened? This is a guess but, maybe try, as root ldconfig Also you mentioned you got sensors-detect to run but, nothing on gkrellem. Do you get an output from the sensors command? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I saw that and did as instructed the installation went well, no errors, the problem is after installation while running sensors-detect. The program cant find i2c and its there in the right place I think. Running 2.6.3.15mdk. I didnt find an rpm for lm_sensors-2.8.5. I had 2.8.4 installed but the temps showed the cpu at 1616F, thought that was a little high. Hoyt, What brand and model # motherboard do you have? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I installed lm_sensors-2.8.5.tar.gz and everything went ok (no errors). But when I run sensors-detect the following happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# sensors-detect No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them. I dont have a clue about that. Now the files are installed:[example,s] /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk/3rdparty/dxr3/em8300_i2c.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk/3rdparty/ivtv/ivtv-i2c.c and: /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-parport-light.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-15mdk/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1535.c There are a lot of them so I would guess that everything is in place and probably is in the right place but it isnt being found. Any ideas? Hoyt, how did you install the package? Take a look at the QUICKSTART file in the package. Up close to the top it mentions this * Verify you are running a 2.4 kernel, 2.4.9 or later. If you are running a 2.5/2.6 kernel, the ONLY thing you need to do is 'make user' and 'make user_install'. Do NOT follow the rest of these instructions. I installed by rpm so I can't say if this has anything to do with it but it might be worth looking at. Mike 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 sound
M.Schild wrote: On Monday 16 August 2004 06:38 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: I meant these lines in the alsamixer screen: Card: VIA 8235 Chip: Realtek ALC650 rev 3 Your output will be different of course. mine are: Card: SiS SI7012 Chip: Analog Devices AD1885 Maryse Heres mine, Card: SiS SI7012 Chip: Realtek RL5383 rev 6 But I have a different board mine is an ECS K7S5A with onboard sound and lan. Mike 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 sound
Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 07:22, M.Schild wrote: What output do _you_ get? ( I must have got my wording wrong the first time :-( ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ms]$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_RingRing.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_RingRing.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 22254 Hz, Mono What's the output of 'aplay -l' ? List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Thank you for persevering Maryse I don't know if I can be of much help,but I believe I have the same sound chip as you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]# aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 My onboard sound works (although it did not until the 2.6 kernel in mdk10.0). If there are any settings or .conf files that would be of use I'll post them back to you. Mike 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 sound
M.Schild wrote: List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 My onboard sound works (although it did not until the 2.6 kernel in mdk10.0). If there are any settings or .conf files that would be of use I'll post them back to you. Thanks. So there is hope :-) Maryse I just tried something, make a backup of your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf like cp /etc/modules.conf /etc/modules.conf.bak and cp /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.bak (just in case something goes wrong, because alsaconf writes to these files when it runs). This way you can change things back to what you had before. Now run alsaconf as root and follow the instructions. When it starts it will ask you to shut down alsa and sound, it will attempt to do it its self but its not 100% (it worked for me, without me shutting them down). If you want you can turn them off your self as root with chkconfig alsa off chkconfig sound off and check to see if there off with chkconfig --list and turn them back on with chkconfig alsa on chkconfig sound on if alsaconf doesn't restart them, it should though. Alsaconf wrote a new /etc/modprobe.conf and sound still works. You can try it and see what happens like I said you can put things back if not. Note: It will write to modprobe.conf on 2.6 kernel and modules.conf on 2.4 kernel. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] high pitched whine coming from new Maxtor!
Angus Auld wrote: I seem to be getting a very annoying, and scary, high pitched whining sound occasionally from my 3 week old Maxtor 40 GB 7200rpm drive. Should I back everything up now?! :-/ My drive mounts in a vertical position. Could that cause a problem? I could find no warnings against vertical mounting in the docs that came with it. The noise comes and goes, and just started doing so the past day or so. It has been working very well otherwise. I just found my purchase receipt.I may well need it. Anyone able to give me a prognosis? ;-) Regards. --Angus I have 30GB maxtor 7200 it made the whine noise ocasionally also. It died after a couple years, I still had their diagnostic floppy that came with the drive and ran the test phoned in the code and they sent me a new drive no charge except for return shipping on old drive. The new drive started making a noise also after a while, I read some where about 7200rpm drives running hotter so I installed hddtemp and checked it, running 55c so I seperated my drives (they were stacked too close for one thing) and put a drive cooler on it and now hddtemp reports 35c. I don't know for sure if the noise was heat related for sure, but it has been more quiet since I put a cooler on it. You could try installing hddtemp and see what your temp is. I believe its on the cd's. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] backed up files
Hello, something I was wondering about, when I create a file and modify it a backup is made automatically. I have seen it before but never wondered to much figureing it helps keep me from screwing up a lot of things. What is doing the backups? Just curious. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] backed up files
Justin Grote wrote: On 7/10/2004 at 11:33 AM, mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: m Hello, m something I was wondering about, when I create a file and modify it m a backup is made automatically. I have seen it before but never m wondered to much figureing it helps keep me from screwing up a lot m of things. m What is doing the backups? Just curious. m Mike Do you modify it with emacs or nano(pico)? if so, they automatically make backups. There's a command line switch to disable this behavior if you want it to. Hi Justin, No on nano but I do use vi in console and kwrite in kde. Both make a back up after I modify the file. I'll take a look for switchs in both and see what I can find. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TV Card recommendation
Thanks for the information, it was very helpful. I think I will go for the 350. If it doesn't work on MDK, I will just use it on my windows XP boot. Mike - Original Message - From: Scott Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] TV Card recommendation On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:47:56 -0400, Michael Adolf wrote I am ready to purchase a TV Card Requirements: Include cable ready tuner have s-video in/out accept antenna or cable PCI TVWin (TV-PVR-350) does everything I want. Is this the one to get. Any cheaper available. Recommendations?? PVR-350 contains an mpeg encoder and decoder hardware. In other words you can capture directly to an mpeg file and save a ton of processing power. Likewise you can send an mpeg file directly to the card and get video out. Again saving a ton of processing power. The catch is support. PVR-350 output is still bleeding edge. You won't easily find drivers for Mandrake. The encoder part (capture) is not so bleeding edge, but you'll still have trouble finding drivers for Mandrake. The 2.6 kernel support is still pretty fresh. You can get around the decoder (output) poor support with any number of graphic cards that have TV out. In that case the TV-PVR-250 is a cheaper option. It's exactly the same as the 350, but without the output. The PVR- 250 has been supported in the 2.4 kernel for some time now and near as I can tell, 2.6 kernel support is there too. (at least that's what I've been told, I'm still trying). You'll have to do your own leg work, it's not part of the Mandrake config tools. If you can stand living on the edge, the PVR-350 should be a nicely supported hardware before too long, but the card may sit not fully used until then. In theory, ATI TV Wonder (capture only) cards should be supported, but I've yet to produce proof of that. Stay away from ATI all-in-wonder cards (as I've learned). Win-TV GO cards are easily installed and supported well. Great if you're looking to get TV up on the monitor with a minum fuss (and they're relatively cheap). I never had much luck capturing anything to file (never tried very hard) but install and config is fully supported in Mdk. Other than these I can't comment. Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice and Club mirror Rant
Justin Grote wrote:
LW In the four years or so I've been a newbie, I haven't been this
LW frustrated. What's really a pain is that I don't really like oo but
LW I'm pretty hardheaded.
LW I have added every club mirror, made sure that they were enabled one
LW at a time, and did a rpmi.update -a --wget urpmi -v --auto-select
LW --wget
LW All updates were installed except oo, which was listed. I went
LW through the same process with each mirror, one at a time, with the
LW same result.
LW I don't expect to be spoon fed and in fact enjoy a meaningful
LW challenge, but can't stand stupidity from myself or anyone else.
LW I don't understand why urpmi can't be configured to recognize it's
LW own failure and move to the next mirror on my list and try there.
LW My two hour venture in futility could have been reduced to a simple,
LW Oh well, looks like oo isn't available right now. and gone on to
LW something less exasperating.
LW Guarantee a newbi newbi would have just assumed mdk was a screwup
LW and gone on to another distro or back to the evil empire.
LW FWIW
LW Lee
Yes, one of the things that annoys me about urpmi is that the hdlist.cz has to be
present, whereas with YUM (yellow Dog Update Manager), you can use any directory
full of RPMS and it will build the hdlist automatically, so the mirror doesn't have
to maintain an hdlist. Not that big of a deal, but it sure would be nice to, for
instance, add Florin's Mandrake Network Firewall cooker to urpmi, but I can't since
it doesn't have an hdlist :)
/rant off
I added a locale folder with rpms in it and used the graphical
addmedia to add it and it looks like it created a hdlist.cz
local_software file://home/mike/tmp/local_software {
hdlist: hdlist.local_software.cz
list: list.local_software
}
Just wanted to try it, and lists showed up in /var/lib/urpmi
synthesis.hdlist.local_software.cz
hdlist.local_software.cz
There is an option for urpmi.addmedia
-f Force generation of hdlist files.
Justin you might blank your replyto setting, I just sent a reply to
you instaed of list sorry about that.
Mike
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Re: [newbie] weird df output
Frank wrote:
Yeah, it is the way the kernel actually sees the drives or some such
mumbo jumbo. So much simpler crunched the old way.
Try:
# fdisk -l [Note-as root]
Regards
Frank
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Registered Linux User # 324213
Eric Huff wrote:
Did anyone ever come up with a solution to the screwy df output?
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part13 1.8G 1.2G 642M 66%
/stuff
I saw this go by way back when in 9.2, i ended up skipping 9.2.
I did look thru the archive. I thought someone had a fix or script
or something to make it look like it used to, but i couldn't find
it.
thanks,
eric
I'm starting to get used to the naming scheme, kinda wish it wasn't
so long though :-)
Heres a script I found in a forum post by Paul Morgan (I lost the
original post). Might need some work to line things up a little but
works ok.
#!/bin/bash
# Purpose: Convert devfs device names in df output to legacy device
names
# Invocation: mydf [DFOPTION]... [FILE]
# where DFOPTION is an option associated with the df command.
# author: paul morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 01/27/2004
IFS=X
df $*|\
while read dfline ; do
{ echo $dfline|grep -q '^/dev/.*/host[0-9]/bus[0-9]/.*'; }\
eval dfline=$(find /dev -name 'hd*' -lname ${dfline#/dev/})
echo $dfline
done
I named it mydf made it executible and put it in my /home/user/bin.
Mike
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Re: [newbie] Uninstall
OOzy wrote: How to un-install a program using rpm or urpmi? man urpme Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] clear and ls
OOzy wrote: How can I write two commands at the same time? For example, clear and ls. I would like to clear the screen before and I do ls? clear ls without quotes. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
OOzy wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 18:57, mike wrote: OOzy wrote: How to un-install a program using rpm or urpmi? man urpme Mike I did read the man pages. I also did urpmi --help; however, I could not find an option that says remove package. Install package. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi efax ftp://ftp.banjo1.org/Mandrake/release/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/efax-0.9a-2mdk.i586.rpm installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/efax-0.9a-2mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## 1:efax ## Uninstall package. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpme efax removing efax-0.9a-2mdk.i586 I probably confused you by pointing to a man page, but its a short one worth looking at. Only a couple options (which most of us will not use). Just basic urpme then package name to remove. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Copy paste
Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi Anyone having problems with copying and pasting using the middle button with KDE and Mozilla 1.6/1.7 ? Works fine with the other apps but with Mozilla i have to select the text, right click and then select copy, klipper does not catch it when i just highlight the text with the mouse. Weird thing is when i shut down Mozilla copying and pasting works for a while then stops again. Works ok here, mdk10.0 OE 2.6 kde3.2 mozilla1.6 But I did experience that problem in a earlier version of kde, mozilla, mdk. I did not find the fix :-( after moving to mdk10.0 klipper seemed to work fine with mozilla. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Copy paste
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:15:24 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike wrote: Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi Anyone having problems with copying and pasting using the middle button with KDE and Mozilla 1.6/1.7 ? Works fine with the other apps but with Mozilla i have to select the text, right click and then select copy, klipper does not catch it when i just highlight the text with the mouse. Weird thing is when i shut down Mozilla copying and pasting works for a while then stops again. Works ok here, mdk10.0 OE 2.6 kde3.2 mozilla1.6 But I did experience that problem in a earlier version of kde, mozilla, mdk. I did not find the fix :-( after moving to mdk10.0 klipper seemed to work fine with mozilla. Mike I find that I have to hold down the shift key, as well as the mouse mutton in some applications to make cut and past work. You could try that. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Always had trouble with it in oo and recently noticed that I can't always highlight and middleclick to copy and paste withing Kword. I can, however highlight and middle click from Kword to another app or cli. Lee Click on klipper and the help button--Clipboard/Selection Behavior explains some options. Mine is set to Separate clipboard and selection = is checked Ignore selection = not checked and appears to work mozilla ok but I don't use oo. Perhaps putting a check on the below option might help. Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cd mount problem
I am using dvdrip to copy a dvd and during the burn phase I get: * ERROR: Cannot open SCSI device '1,0,0' cannot open /dev/sg. * The (1,0,0) I put in as the 'cdrecord device' it stands for device location bus,target,lun I have nothing called sg in /dev Everything in /dev pertaining to the cd drive links to device: ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd (which is why I used 1,0,0) Note: it says ide not scsi, Is this the problem? (how do I fix?) fstab contains: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 fdisk -l (does not show any hdc) fdisk hdc (gives: unable to open hdc) mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom (gives ...) mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: Wrong medium type ( I have a new CD-R) in the drive) (all links to: ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd have no write permissions as do all mount points.) This is the extent of what I know. Can anyone help??? Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Dell C400 laptop
Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I thought I'd ask first :) -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SiS 7012 onboard sound with MDK10ce and a Laptop
Marc,
I have a ECS k7s5a with onboard sis 7012.
Did not work till mdk10.0 with the 2.6 kernel.
Heres some of the relevant info in my /etc.modules.conf and
/etc/modprobe.conf files. I believe the modprobe.conf file is the
important one with the 2.6 kernel, here they are if it helps.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install
snd-intel8x0 { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
remove snd-intel8x0 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; } ;
/sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]# cat /etc/modules.conf
above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
# ALSA portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
There is a lot of howto's on the k7s5a board that might help guide
you on this, on your sound chip. Just do some searchs on www.google.com
Mike
Marc Hultquist wrote:
Does anyone have any sudgestions as to how I should get my sound card
working ? One thing I noticed is that when I upgraded from 9.2 to 10.0 it
worked(didnt work in 9.2) but then I had or was forced to do a fresh install,
and well I lost the config.
I have now tried for a great deal of time to get it working, I tried all the
reccomended drivers, alsa, etc and yet still nothing seems to work, when
Linux installs it picks up my sound card fine, i know its picking up the
correct module
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lspci | grep audio
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound
Controller (rev a0)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lsmod
snd 44036 0
soundcore 6244 0 [snd]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
Any ideas ? I have tried to fiddle with the settings within xmms for example,
but to no avail :\ Kinda just one of those things I wish would work but it
just won't ! Its not the biggest thing to worry about, I just would like to
have my sound working again :\
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Re: [newbie]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, ingnore the email. It was just a test. A test for us to see whether we could ignore this mail? -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer
di di wrote: Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none would comply. I hope I could be clearer... Just to clarify a few points for anyone possibly confused - the fact that it is running on Windows, IIS5, ASP, and/or MS SQL Server doesn't make the site IE only. There are two factors that affect browser compatibility - the first is the most common stumbling point, and that's how well the website has been designed. Just like someone can write a good or bad bit of HTML, the stumbling blocks are the same with ASP because at the end of the process, the content is being served as HTML. The other (much less common) factor is if http authentication is being used. I know Mozilla supports NTLM authentication now, but I don't know how well it supports it (and any other twisted authentication schemes that MS have thought up). Quote the URL, get people here to confirm that the site is IE only, then talk (nicely) to the people who run the site asking why their site won't work with any other web browsers. -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10 - two IP addresses on one NIC?
How do I configure a NIC to have two IP addresses? The GUI-based configuration system only allows one per adapter seemingly. -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] recommended way of installing Firefox/Thunderbird?
Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 10 from the 3 downloadable CD ISOs, and so I have a cut-down install of Moz 1.6. I'm new to Mandrake (I have little bits of experience with various Linux distros and FreeBSD), I couldn't find either bit of software in the 'Control Centre' (software updating tool), and I'd like to find out the most recommended way of installing Firefox (preferably a recent build of) and Thunderbird 0.6. Any help would be appreciated. -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C
On Friday 21 May 2004 02:52 pm, Andrew Archibald wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 17:17, Mike Adolf wrote: - --- FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 5.8G 2.4G 3.2G 43% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7 49G 756M 48G 2% /home total bytes = (1510072 * 4096)/1024/1024/1024 = 5.7G free blocks =( 902426 * 4096)/1024/1024/1024 = 3.44G WHICH LOOK LIKE THE VALUES FOR LINUX ROOT (target1/part5) instead of part7, I can't see anything obvious that you've done wrong. The values do look suspiciously close to those for your '/'! At a guess you've maybe found a bug which was ironed out by the official release? Can you try upgrading to the official edition of 10.0? If it is something specific in your set-up that is triggering a bug (that hasn't yet been fixed) it would be worth reporting it to the developers. I suspect though that they'll want you to upgrade to the latest version before they'll be interested in investigating. Let us know if you make any progress! A. This is embarrassing, but I guess I have to tell! When I first ran the C prog, the statfs path arg was set to /. Then I change it to /home (to see the size of the second partition) BUT I FOR GOT TO RECOMPILE and was running the same a.out. Dah! Thanks for you time. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Checking disk size from C
Greetings If I do 'df' if get /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7 49G 755M 48G 2% /home Says I have 48G free. If I run a C program calling statfs(/home, fs), I get: type of filesystem = 61267 optimal transfer block size = 4096 total data blocks in file system= 1510072 free blocks in fs = 905771 free blocks avail to non-superuser = 829062 total file nodes in file system = 768544 free file nodes in fs= 631185 file system id = 0 maximum length of filenames= 255 3710038016 bytes left The numbers don't add up. What am I missing? I'm running 10.0 CE. Thanks Mike. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FreeCell
Marc Lijour wrote: What about FreeCell (the card game)? Do you know if it has been removed? MDK10.0 and KDE3.2 here. Open up terminal and type kpat without quotes, under settings, game type, you'll find freecell. -- Mike --- THPPFFT! --Bill the Cat, Outland --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Yet another mdk 10.0 sound problem
On Saturday 17 April 2004 12:22 am, Rory wrote: Nothing works except ksCD, and somebody wrote that it's because it cabled (but it won't work with any other dirver). Ahh, very interesting. This is *exactly* the same pattern I have. Something definitely broke between 9.x and 10.0. It is very discouraging when upgrading an OS Absolutely. The help of people on these forums has been most impressive, though. I've search MDK Bugzilla and haven't really found a bug filed that fits this problem, so it may not be seen by the developers as a priority. ~Rory If you find a solution, please post it. I will do the same. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OK...I need an external modem...any suggestions?
On Saturday 17 April 2004 11:26 am, Laura Callier wrote: Well, I've learned a Linux lessonI have a winmodem on my Dell 8300 Dimension desktop computer. None of the distros I've tried, including Mandrake, will accept it. So, I did some research last night and learned that an external modem in this situation is the best thing. The ones advertized at the computer store near me (Microcenter) are Best Data, Diamond, US Robotics and Zoom. Are any of these brands better than the others? This would be for dial up right now. Each brand has several types, which is confusing. Thanks, Laura Almost any newer modem with a hardware controller will work, internal or external. I recently installed and internal Best Data ISA 56k modem Model 56sf92. Mike 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 10
On Saturday 17 April 2004 12:29 pm, Rory wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 9:53 am, Ian MacGregor wrote: I have been using a download edition which I purchased from almostfreelinux.com about 3 months ago for $10.00 US. I'm familiar with almostfreelinux.com. Are there other CD-purchase sites people can recommend? I got a 4 CD set of MDK 10.0 from www.edmunds-enterprises.com for $9.96, including postage/handling. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Yet another mdk 10.0 sound problem
On Saturday 17 April 2004 12:22 am, Rory wrote: Nothing works except ksCD, and somebody wrote that it's because it cabled (but it won't work with any other dirver). Ahh, very interesting. This is *exactly* the same pattern I have. Something definitely broke between 9.x and 10.0. It is very discouraging when upgrading an OS Absolutely. The help of people on these forums has been most impressive, though. I've search MDK Bugzilla and haven't really found a bug filed that fits this problem, so it may not be seen by the developers as a priority. ~Rory I got SOUND! I played with mixing and now I have sound. I ran alsamixer, which gives you a visual (read only). It shows red, which usally means distortion, but I had to put Master Digital in the red (93) and PCM in the red (89) to get things to work. While alsamixer was running, I used Kmix to adjust levels (aumix has no control for Master Digital). Master Digital is on the Input tab (first control on left) PCM in on the output tab (first control on the left) No other controls seemed to have any effect, except CD which controls volume only when playing a CD. I now have CD, DVD audio, and MP3 (both totem and xine work fine). Hope this helps. Let me know. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Yet another mdk 10.0 sound problem
Everyone must be sick of posts about 10.0 sound problems, so here's another one. I upgraded from 9.1, where all forms of sound worked great, CD, DVD, mp3, startup and shutdown ... My card is cs4236b. On 9.1 everything only worked with driver cs4232 (don't ask me why). Now on 10.0, the default cs46xx, cs4232 and all other cs drivers, except cs4236, can not find the sound card. snd-cs4236 is the only driver that allows me to run aumix (it is not muted) and kmix. Nothing works except ksCD, and somebody wrote that it's because it cabled (but it won't work with any other dirver). I did most every thing I read on the newbie list to try to get sound working, including alsaconf, which always stated that it is configuring cs46xx driver. I think I have all the alsa modules, including alsa-util. It is very discouraging when upgrading an OS (I did install with existing partitions) to have things that use to work, not work! There has to be something wrong with linux and sound or mandrake and sound. It just should not be this difficult! When is 11.0 coming out? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvdbackup won't install
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 08:05 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:17:35 -0700 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libdvdread.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The make install placed libdvdread.so.3 (as a sym link to another so) in /usr/local/lib and this path was -L in dvdbackup compile. How can I find out why the executable can not find it? The so file has all permissions. Run: # ldconfig libdvdread.so.3 If it is then still not detected created a sym link for it in /usr/lib Charles Thanks, again Cahrles. I do not have Idconfig but after making the symlink from /usr/lib, all worked OK. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvdbackup won't install
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 12:14 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:15:24 -0700 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone explain this? urpmi dvdbackup * To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (0 MB): dvdbackup-0.1-alt1.i586 libdvdread2-0.9.3-4mdk.i586 dvdbackup is Not a mdk rpm and is not built to conform to mdk standards. It has an explicit require for libdvdread and No mdk rpm would do so but would allow rpm to, itself, define any/all libxxx requires libdvdread2-0.9.3-4mdk.i586 does not provide libdvdread. It provides ibdvdread2 = 0.9.3 and libdvdread.so.2, with the libxxx.so.x being the defining value rpm would use for its dependency check. You could do the installation using --nodeps but there is no guarantee that dvdbackup would work as there is no means of determining with which version or 'major' of libdvdread was used to compile dvdbackup. Charles Charles I located the sorce files (tar.gz) for libdvdread and dvdbackup. I configure|make|make install for libdvdread and then compiled dvdbackup (it did not have a configure). All went well until I ran dvdbackup. It gave me the error libdvdread.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The make install placed libdvdread.so.3 (as a sym link to another so) in /usr/local/lib and this path was -L in dvdbackup compile. How can I find out why the executable can not find it? The so file has all permissions. Thanks for you help, mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] zip mount question
When I boot MDK 9.1 and open my zip icon I get the error. Could not enter directory /mnt/zip fstab associates /dev/sda4 with /mnt/zip. If I umount zip and then edit fstab to change sda4 to sda, all works well after a remount using mount /mnt/zip. Hears the rub! The next time I boot, fstab is reset to sda4. The control center mount point always shows sda4, even after editing fstab and all is working. Why is it being reset at boot? Someting to do with auto detection? Mike 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? (# 2)
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 09:50 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 March 2004 06:46 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: Not necessary unless you would like to experience the thrill of building your own kernel, in which case you will want to install the kernel-source package and then follow the various instructions. The kernel SRPM will only build the kernels exactly as you see them on the mirrors. I think I leave the source build for later. These are the steps I'll follow. If something is screwed up, let me know. 1. Make sure my boot floppy works 2. Add the following to /etc/lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label=linux-old root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only ?? do I also have to run lilo to get the config to take ?? 3. Install kernel-2.4.21.0.28mdk rpm 4. reboot and... Don't forget to rerun lilo to update the boot time choices, but this should work. You might want to reboot using the item you added to lilo.conf to make sure it works before you do the new kernel install. -- Addendum to reply -- I forgot to ask in the previous reply about the following 0.13 specific symlinks in /boot config, kernel.h and System.map I did not see them referenced in lilo.conf. They will be updated when you boot into the new kernel. Gerg, So far as I can tell, the 0.28 install went well. Now I can try to install updated ATI video drivers, which is why I had to go to 0.28. Thanks for your help! mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kernel upgrade?
I am now runing kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk in mdk 9.1 and would like to upgrade to 2.4.21.0.28mdk. Rpmdrake list 5 flavors of the 0.28. under update. Standard, enterprise, secure, smp, and source. Since the machine is non-net wrokstation, I guess I would use kernel-2.4.21.0.28mdk rpm What exactly happens if I install this rpm? Does it preserve my configuration defined during 9.1 install? Does lilo get updated in such a way to allow booting to old kernel? Or should I attemp a configure and build from the source rpm according to a HOWTO? Thanks, mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem recording voice
I was trying voice recording using rec/play. Play seems to work ok since a downloaded .wav sounds good. But, rec only produces an faint static recording. Aumix seems set OK. (the button under rec column is red). One strange thing. My mic feeds through to my speakers, a loud speaker system, in effect. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel upgrade?
On Monday 15 March 2004 08:03 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 March 2004 03:59 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: I am now runing kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk in mdk 9.1 and would like to upgrade to 2.4.21.0.28mdk. Rpmdrake list 5 flavors of the 0.28. under update. Standard, enterprise, secure, smp, and source. Since the machine is non-net wrokstation, I guess I would use kernel-2.4.21.0.28mdk rpm What exactly happens if I install this rpm? Does it preserve my configuration defined during 9.1 install? It will change the symlinking in /biit so that the entries the installer set up will boot to the new kernel. The lilo entries point to the symlinks in /boot, so if you change th esymlinks, the entries boot whatever the symlinks point to. Does lilo get updated in such a way to allow booting to old kernel? Not on the first update. Every kernel update adds an explicit choice for itself in the bootloader menu. This allows you to boot into a previously installed kernel if the new one does not work as advertised. The only problem with this is that the first kernel install does not install itself with an explicit entry, only the symlink ones, so if you want to be able to boot the original kernel, you have to add an entry for it to lilo.conf manually. Or should I attemp a configure and build from the source rpm according to a HOWTO? Not necessary unless you would like to experience the thrill of building your own kernel, in which case you will want to install the kernel-source package and then follow the various instructions. The kernel SRPM will only build the kernels exactly as you see them on the mirrors. I think I leave the source build for later. These are the steps I'll follow. If something is screwed up, let me know. 1. Make sure my boot floppy works 2. Add the following to /etc/lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label=linux-old root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only ?? do I also have to run lilo to get the config to take ?? 3. Install kernel-2.4.21.0.28mdk rpm 4. reboot and... This seems too easy! Thanks Greg mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel upgrade? (# 2)
On Monday 15 March 2004 08:03 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 March 2004 03:59 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: I am now runing kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk in mdk 9.1 and would like to upgrade to 2.4.21.0.28mdk. Rpmdrake list 5 flavors of the 0.28. under update. Standard, enterprise, secure, smp, and source. Since the machine is non-net wrokstation, I guess I would use kernel-2.4.21.0.28mdk rpm What exactly happens if I install this rpm? Does it preserve my configuration defined during 9.1 install? It will change the symlinking in /biit so that the entries the installer set up will boot to the new kernel. The lilo entries point to the symlinks in /boot, so if you change th esymlinks, the entries boot whatever the symlinks point to. Does lilo get updated in such a way to allow booting to old kernel? Not on the first update. Every kernel update adds an explicit choice for itself in the bootloader menu. This allows you to boot into a previously installed kernel if the new one does not work as advertised. The only problem with this is that the first kernel install does not install itself with an explicit entry, only the symlink ones, so if you want to be able to boot the original kernel, you have to add an entry for it to lilo.conf manually. Or should I attemp a configure and build from the source rpm according to a HOWTO? Not necessary unless you would like to experience the thrill of building your own kernel, in which case you will want to install the kernel-source package and then follow the various instructions. The kernel SRPM will only build the kernels exactly as you see them on the mirrors. I think I leave the source build for later. These are the steps I'll follow. If something is screwed up, let me know. 1. Make sure my boot floppy works 2. Add the following to /etc/lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label=linux-old root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only ?? do I also have to run lilo to get the config to take ?? 3. Install kernel-2.4.21.0.28mdk rpm 4. reboot and... -- Addendum to reply -- I forgot to ask in the previous reply about the following 0.13 specific symlinks in /boot config, kernel.h and System.map I did not see them referenced in lilo.conf. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install
On Friday 05 March 2004 08:23 pm, David B. Carter wrote: Mike Adolf said: I have not read all the correspondence on this problem, so I may be suggesting something already tried. I also have the same sound system as you. For a long time I used 4236 driver (on MDK 91) and I could play CDs but nothing else. Once after booting I ran 'dmesg' to see any boot messages. When I booted with a failed driver (ie 46xx) the message suggested I try 4232. I did and everything is much better. xmms works, and kbootle plays DVDs with audio. I also get KDE startup and logoff sound. Try using harddrake to set this driver. That's great! I'll give it a try as soon as I get a chance. Did you run alsaconf to autodetect the card using that driver? Or did you just manually configure it and it worked? I probably won't get a chance to try it tonight, and I'm going to be out of town tomorrow, but I'll report back as soon as I try it. Thanks. I did not do anything with alsa at the time I changed to 4232 using harddrake. But, I may have worked (played) with alsa in earlier attempts on sound. Can't remember. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
--- Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan, I just turned Shorewall on after modifying the /etc/X11/interfaces and a shorewall restart from a root console. On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 07:57, Bryan Phinney wrote: Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being logged from the kernel? If so, I can probably help you to track down what is causing the entries and also help you remove them. I get the kernel martian messages but they seem to be eminating from my ISP or another source. I'll post the messages below: kernelmartian source 151.201.29.xxx from 151.201.29.1 on dev eth0 kernelll header:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:08:e3:b9:45:08:06 **Could this be my MAC address kernelShorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT=MAC= SRC=68.161.232.35 DST=68.161.232.35 DST=68.162.128.17 LEN=92 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=118 ID=64127 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=512 SEQ=40632 kernelShorewall:OUTPUT:REJECT:IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=10.0.0.10 DST=10.0.0.255 LEN=166 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 LEN=146 10.0.0.10 is designated in my hosts file as my machine name. I'm green when it comes to this security stuff. What is the 'quick' way to stop these messages and I'll look at the shorewall site unless you know of a better source on learning how to set this up better. Thanks, Terry -- I used to have a signature, but I lost it. My new one is: IIRC CRS Hi Terry, It does look like your ISP, or someone, is trying to ping you. Note after ID it has PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 - this translates into someone is using protocol ICMP to send a type 8 ping, and is looking for a responce, ICMP being the protocol for pinging. There are commonly three types of pings you may want to respond to, #s 0, 3, and 8, while the rest should be dropped, and ignored - reject may be the wrong responce, as it lets someone know that a computer is there. It looks like IP address 151.201.29.1 is trying to ping 68.161.232.35 (your cable or DSL modem?), and then 68.161.232.35 is trying to relay the ping request to both itself (note how 68.161.232.35 appears in both soruce and destination - most likely the problem here), and 68.162.128.17. Since your ethernet card is probley set up as 10.0.0.10, and connected to the modem, it is most likely seeing the ping request being retransmitted, and it should not - that should of been filterd by your ISP, or the modem. Also, it went through a protocol translation, from ICMP to UPD, and so it is no longer in the same forum as when it started. I don't think the string that starts with ff:ff: is your MAC, as it just doesn't look right. If you type ifconfig from the command line as root you will see something simular, and it may start off with a bunch of ff:, yet the last six pairs of hex code should not repeat like that. In this case you go from ff: to 00: to the six hex code pairs, starting with 08:. That 00: is a spoiler, and would not be in there, or would be consistant with the ff:. That is why I don't think it is your MAC. Also, the snippet of log shows ppp0 - so I am guessing that you are using a (A)DSL modem, as ppp0 tends to be dial-up, or a basic DSL modem, and it may just be using PPPoE, or even PPPoA (ppp and PPP = Point to Point Protocol, o = over, E = Ethernet, A = ATM switch). Since you are showing both eth0 and ppp0, a DSL modem is my choise. It seems as if the length of the message (ping) got changed. It went from 92 bytes, up to 166 bytes, and then dropped down to 146 bytes. That may be cause for concern, and why it was written to the log file as well. I'm affraid that I can't be of much help - I am using IPCop, and it uses snort with iptables, so the implentation is a bit differant. You may want to check Shorewall's web site, and see if they have an active forum, or can point you to one. It may be worth investigating. My ISP pings my DSL modem an average of every five seconds - to keep route tables updated, and I have silently dropped thous, not even logging them now. I do see stuff show up that makes me think that they are not doing a good job of dropping stuff, as I see pings to differant segments showing up. Worst comes to worst, ask your ISP to do a better job of filtering theire router traffic, and maybe even send a copy of your log files to them as proof. Hope this helps in some small way. = Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vectorlinux?
--- Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:40 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:31 pm, rhein wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? Thank you Christophe Absolutely, but on those specs a Slaclware9.1 would run acceptably (maybe even faster) too. Without the heavy weight Windowmanagers like KDE and Gnome even Mandracke9.1 will run OK providing there's not too many unnecessary services running. Good luck, HarM Slackware is a better choice. DebianAny version of Linux can run fine on the hardware you said, but yes, Slackware would be much better. Or Free BSD. If you can install Slackware, you can install Free BSD, they look the same and act almost exactly a like. -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://www.cannibalholocaust.net http://www.misfits.com http://www.onethirtyeight.com If you are an adventures type, you may want to consider Gentoo, or even a Linux From Scratch build, as you can pick and chose what to install, and have it optimized for your machine. = Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
--- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being logged from the kernel? If so, I can probably help you to track down what is causing the entries and also help you remove them. I just spent the better half of a day doing just that and since I haven't seen anyone else talk about it, didn't know if it was just me so I thought I would mention it. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Are you refering to log entries in your Intrudsion Detection System (IDS) from your internet/intranet connection? If so, then a better place to post this information may be the firewall mailing list. None the less, I would be interested, as I am a member on the IPCops.net forums for the IPCop firewall, and any insights or help is much apreaciated. = Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages
--- anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am about to block IE users from my website (using php) and wanted to get the maximum bang for buck. Please have a look at the following messages and give me your opinion on what is likely to have the most positive (deliberately leaving that for interpretation as you will) effect! -- Browser Not Supported. Unfortunately, due to issues the Microsoft Internet Explorer World Wide Web browser you will be unable to browse this site. This is an MS Internet Explorer specific problem and you will be able to navigate to this site with an alternative browser. If you do not have an snip browsers below are available for Microsoft operating systems so you will have no problems once one is installed. ...links... Browser Not Supported Unfortunately, due to security concerns with Microsoft products you will be unable to browse this web site using any version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. At this stage you are able to view the site with any of the award-winning non-Microsoft browsers you can download from the links below, even if you are using a Microsoft operating system. The Webmaster is constantly monitoring this and the situation may change in the future if security concerns with Microsoft products persist. The Team suggests you investigate one of the many secure alternative options for operating systems and has provided some links to free or low cost alternatives below. ...browser links... ...linux, bsd and ??? links... Yours sincerely, The Webmaster If you have any other suggestions or messages that would also be appropriate then by all means fire away! Cheers Anton Just an idea, on how I may word it: --- WARNING: Browser Not Supported Due to the continuing security propblems with Microsfot products in general, and Internet Explorer in perticualr, this web site does not support your broswer. Please refer to Microsoft's own security and updates page for more information - insert link here CLICK HERE close link. Also, see the links at the bottom of this page for more reports and information regaurding the security issues surronding Microsoft. With the security of this site being an upmost concern, and the responsiblility to protect both ourselves and our visitors, we would like for you to use another broswer. Links to some fine award-winning broswers are provided below. Also, for your added safety, ease, and protection, we have provided links to some more secure operation systems that may be of interest to you. Links to security sites, concerning Microsoft products, and Internet Exloper: Microsoft Security Home Page: insert link http://www.microsoft.com/security/ Click Here close link TechTV Security Alerts: insert link http://www.techtv..com/securityalert/Click Hereclose link CNet|News: insert link http://news.search.com/search?q=computer+securitysearch.x=0search.y=0 Click Here close link Other soruces of security news. Links to award-winning broswers: Opera: insert link here Click Here close link Mozilla: insert link here Click Here close link Other broswers as well Links to other operating systems Linux-based: Mandrake: insert link here Click Here close link Debian: insert link here Click Here close link Knoppix: insert link here Click Here close link Other Linux-based distros go here Add other distros based on other systems here - have a look at http://www.chuug.org/resources.html for some ideas If you still wish to enter this site, using an unsecure porduct such as Internet Explorer, then we ask the following: Do not stay long, do not fill out the guest book, turn off ActiveX, be respectful of our concerns for the security of both this site, and other visitor. insert link here Click here close link to enter if you understand that you may be responsible for any damage done to this site, or the visitor, caused by your use of MS IE. - Next, I would set a cookie, and then based on the cookie I would change the headers and footers of each web page viewed to provide a security warning. Since you are using php this should not be too difficult to have it rewrite the page. Maybe something to the effect of: Header -- By continuing to use MS IE you risk the security of not only this site, but the security of other visitors to this site, and your onw security, and that of your computer. And for the footer of each page: Footer --- You may insert link to broswer problem page Click Here close link to see a list of award-winning broswers - Do NOT use the word alternative, as that makes it an option, and given a choise, people don't like to change. Just keep hammering away at the key words fine,
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
--- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:37 am, Mike Fehse wrote: Are you refering to log entries in your Intrudsion Detection System (IDS) from your internet/intranet connection? No, kernel logging of martian source packets which are packets that are expected to come from a particular route but are somehow seen or directed to an alternate one. In my case, packets bound for loopback device that somehow get directed to eth0 and are thus seen as foreign or martian. If so, then a better place to post this information may be the firewall mailing list. None the less, I would be interested, as I am a member on the IPCops.net forums for the IPCop firewall, and any insights or help is much apreaciated. Are you seeing martian source headers being logged in syslog on your system? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Hi Bryan, I use a firewall called IPCop, that was originaly based on Smoothwall. Both are Linux-based products, using iptables, squid, and snot, with some custom coding thrown in for good messure. IPCop's development team has theire web site at www.ipcop.org, while the un-official user support forum, which I belong to, is located at www.ipcops.net We have about six topics that deal with martians, and it pops up regularly, hence, my interest. Some times it is after a nasty day of mblaster, code_red, and so forth, that some of our users find the little green guys in the IDS logs. Other times, just adding a computer, or a new program, to theire LAN does the same. Since we can't always determind the problem, just adding to the knowldge base is a help. Would you mind if I added your experiance to our FAQ? = Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages
--- robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: A better alternative might be to include HTML that is standards-compliant but comes out strangely in IE, then add a note explaining why. Incidentally, MS seems to be supporting the move alternative browsers by putting a bug in IE 6.0 that prevents it viewing some sites (there's a patch, but then how many Windows users know this?). Sir Robin -- Caesar non supra grammaticos. - Suetonius Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin If I remember correctly, Microsoft at one point had special web pages just for Opera broswers, and it would shift everything to the right by 600 pixels. I can't remember if they created a frame that was that wide, or just how they did it, but turnabout is fair play, isn't it? :D = Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error
Some liberial snipping done below On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:18:10 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't exactly see a problem with a newbie using a beta or rc version of Linux. After all, I am here for the experience. I don't really ineed/i Linux. I'm 13 years old and this happens to be one of my hobbies. I'm just here to learn. What's the fun of just using 9.2? The main problem I have with the idea of a newbie using any non-stable release, weather it be alpha, beta, or a release canidate, is that it isn't completely stable. Microsoft has enought problems with theire stable releases (i.e. Windows 9x, 2kx, ME, XP, NT), that it is frustrating. If you start mucking around with something not stable, then the frustration level can raise rather fast. If you become too frustrated, then you may give up, and not return. That can be the biggest drawback to it, and the main reason I object to the idea. You don't need Linux, and I don't need a phone. Both are wants, not needs, and something we can do without. But do we really want to be without? And besides, isn't a command line a more truer form of using a computer, than say a mouse in a GUI? Linux is fun, and so is any number of other things. Linux can also be a chore, work, and a tool. You can try downloading, and installing, Gentoo. That distro is not quiet a Linux From Scratch, but pretty close to it. Not only is it fun, for being able to peer inside the workings of Linux, but it is a great learning tool as well. What is the fun of just using a regular XBox to play games with? Mdk 9.2 has enought to keep most people exploring it for a long while. Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 and HP Netserver LH+
--- Miroslav Skoric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes me wonder if somebody tried to install Mandrake 9.1 on those old HP servers LH+ (Pentium 1 133/166 MHz, 64 MB RAM)? I have a couple of them, at the moment running Windows NT4 Server, serving as PDC/BDC, DNS, WINS, file server etc. In fact, I'd like to use them for the same purpose as mentioned above but with Linux, as well as with proxy function, a firewall, LDAP, squid, Radius or whatever software - suitable to monitor the users of a corporate Internet access (client boxes for the end users are Windows 2000 Prof. machines). What I need is to get some detailed info about users activities when on Internet (ex. IP addresses of the client boxes they access from, date/time of logging a domain account, web pages they visit, amount of megabytes a user download etc. Any pointers on such tasks? The other idea is to install something almost the same, but for an intranet LAN web pages access, not for the Internet. Regards, Misko Hi Misko, If you are able to run a Windows operating system on a computer, you should be able to use Linux on it. And you may not tax the system as much, as you can install a Linux distro, and then re-compile the kernel to support only the feature you need. One suggestion, before I go any farther, is to have a look at DistroWatch.com My feeling is that you should not dedicate one machine to preforming a number of these functions. A firewall, with logging and tracking features, should be on a machine, by itself, without samba, LDAP, or anything else. If you are making a server available to the public, via the internet, then you will most likely want two DNSs - one for the public to see, and the second just for your private LAN (i.e., inTRAnet). For a firewall, I would suggest looking at CensorNet, or even IPCop and SmoothWall. I think CensorNet would better meet your needs, while IPCop can do the job, yet it would need modules/add-ons that the end users have developed. I don't see why you can't replace the NT 4.0 operating system with Linux, save some licensing cost, and go with open standards. Just my two cents, before taxes, inflation, and an empty pocket. Mike (a.k.a AWEV) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Identifying people by IP
--- Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to collect all the information possible about an Internet user, given the IP he/she is using. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul In addition to the whois suggested by others, you may want to look at the tools included with most DNS packages. Some of them can be quite helpful. One problem you may encounter is that if someone surfs to my_website.com, and you capture the IP address, and then do a look-up, you may find out that the IP address points to virtual_host.net, and not my_website.com Same thing with tracking dial-in accounts, right now the person connected to 192.168.100.1 may not be the same person 10 minutes from now, while the broadband connections tend to maintain the IP address for a longer period of time, they are still dynamic by nature. __ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?
On Thursday 26 February 2004 12:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:03 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mié, 25-02-2004 a las 11:09, Mike Adolf escribió: Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW. I wrote it with SONIC's produce MyDEV, I think! I did the What do you get when you try to browse with Linux? any error messages? Double clicking CD desktop icon produces Konqueror and dialog with error: Can't enter directory /mnt/cdrom fstab entry is: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Produces the error: mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems CD is not audio. mike You have supermount in your fstab entry with scsi-emulation. Which OS are you on ? John fstab entry was set my Mandrake 9.1 installer. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?
On Thursday 26 February 2004 05:59 am, et wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:03 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mié, 25-02-2004 a las 11:09, Mike Adolf escribió: Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW. I wrote it with SONIC's produce MyDEV, I think! I did the What do you get when you try to browse with Linux? any error messages? try, as root: umount /mnt/cdrom mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and if that does not work then what happens if (as root) mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Get the same error: - mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I'd wait until you have a distro that uses 2.6 without you having to worry about libraries, etc.. Thanks, I'll probably wait, nothing critical, just testing. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:03 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mi, 25-02-2004 a las 11:09, Mike Adolf escribi: Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW. I wrote it with SONIC's produce MyDEV, I think! I did the What do you get when you try to browse with Linux? any error messages? Double clicking CD desktop icon produces Konqueror and dialog with error: Can't enter directory /mnt/cdrom fstab entry is: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 try, as root: umount /mnt/cdrom mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Produces the error: mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems CD is not audio. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to read windows CD?
Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW. I wrote it with SONIC's produce MyDEV, I think! I did the copy by drag drop. Do some vender products write CDs, linux can't read. I'm running MDK 9.1 mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8
Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I downloaded the tar file of Firefox and I followed Robin's instructions to install it from a terminal... I don't know how but the software installed itself in my temp folder... I was not able to use the tar -zxvf command... Is it the right place or shall I move it some where else? Thank you Christophe I made a folder in my home directory called firefox and downloaded it there. You should be able to move it there from temp. I then cd to that directory and ran this command (do not leave out the last - ) gunzip -dc fir*.tar.gz | tar -xvf - Then I set up a menu item to run the command /home/mike/firefox/firefox/firefox Works fine. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Resolution Settings
I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Virtual drive and messed up the screen settings (color / resolution). Can I change that back at the command prompt? On bootup? It is very hard to see the screen at the moment. Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Resolution Settings
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolution Settings On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:58 pm, Mike Begin wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Virtual drive and messed up the screen settings (color / resolution). Can I change that back at the command prompt? On bootup? It is very hard to see the screen at the moment. Thanks, Mike Hold down ALT and CTRL and hit backspace. Then type init 3 Then xf86config Or just type mcc and use Mandrake Control Center. -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://www.cannibalholocaust.net http://www.misfits.com http://www.onethirtyeight.com Thanks for the response! When I type Ctrl Alt Bksp it takes me to the system prompt, then immediately launches KDE again?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wireless Notebook Card
Can anyone recommend a good wireless notebook card that has Linux support/drivers (Mandrake 9.2.1)? Thanks, Mike
Re: [newbie] kappfinder?
Lexx wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 03:01, Marc Resnick wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2004 09:43 pm, mike wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: I remember once, with mdk9.2, before I reinstalled it today, I used a program that searched for stuff that wasn't on the KDE menu, but could be. I don't remember what it was called, where it was located, or anything. It's not menudrake, I know that, but I can't remember the name of it. Anyone have any suggestions, or know what I'm talking about? For kde maybe kappfinder or kmenuedit? That sounds useful. Is it already installed in KDE, if so how is it accessed? Cheers Lexx I believe kappfinder is in kdebase least it is in kde3.1 which I'm using. Its in /usr/bin/kappfinder Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Menu Config
Marc Resnick wrote: I remember once, with mdk9.2, before I reinstalled it today, I used a program that searched for stuff that wasn't on the KDE menu, but could be. I don't remember what it was called, where it was located, or anything. It's not menudrake, I know that, but I can't remember the name of it. Anyone have any suggestions, or know what I'm talking about? For kde maybe kappfinder or kmenuedit? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] CPAN (Swatch)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of robin Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 5:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CPAN (Swatch) Mike Begin wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Swatch log viewer and it tells me that I need to install some CPANs. It gives me a site of search.cpan.org. I get two errors: Calc 0 not found Parse 0 not found What does the cpan command say? Sir Robin -- The error I get when trying to install (Swatch) is: Warning: prerequisite Date::Calc 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite Date::Parse 0 not found. Thanks for the help! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Syslog
I need to setup syslog on my 9.2.1 box. My router is 10.1.1.2. Two questions: Where do I setup the ip address of the router in linux and have the linux box accept log entries from the router? Is it just the /etc/syslog.conf file? Where do the logs go once it is setup? Do I need to setup a directory or do they go to the /var/log directory? If anyone knows where there is some good docs on this, that would be great. Thanks, Mike
[newbie] CPAN (Swatch)
Hello, I am trying to install Swatch log viewer and it tells me that I need to install some CPANs. It gives me a site of search.cpan.org. I get two errors: Calc 0 not found Parse 0 not found How do I go about solving this problem? Thanks, Mike
Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update?
David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:11:13 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this thread is about to end I seem to have one more problem. I cannot find the package manager in KDE. What is its name? you mean ark? It's not a package manager in the sense I think you are using, it's an archive viewer. It can look inside RPMs and even install them IIRC. MandrakeUpdate isn't specifically a KDE app but it can be run from a KDE environment (or a gnome, or ther environment too). OK at this point I'm assuming you've set an update source and a new source for 9.2 (you're trying to upgrade to 9.2, right?) To upgrade to 9.2 is really a three stage process, maybe a four step one. 1) use Easy urpmi and select a mirror site for main, contrib, plf, whatever else you like, and follow those directions. You should then have a number of command lines to cut/paste from your browser to your root konsole/terminal, executing these one command at a time. If successful, you will have synthesis/hdlists for each one of as many sites or branches you wish. It may be necessary to repeat one or more of these steps, if there is a connection problem. 2) Actually do the upgrade to 9.2: urpmi --auto-select 3) get coffee/other strong drink (that's why I said a four step process) 4) urpmi kernel (auto-select does not upgrade the kernel. That has to be done separately). 5) (first shalt thou count to 5 ... 1 2 3 5 .. no wait, wrong grp) urpmi --auto-select --update (I think that's right, you want to install now just the updates for 9.2). I finished downloading the sources. What happened to the 39+ MB? They're probably hiding somewhere in /var/lib/urpmi. Hoyt /usr/sbin/edit-urpm-media is the sources gui /usr/sbin/rpmdrake-remove is the remove software gui /usr/sbin/rpmdrake is the gui to add software /usr/sbin/MandrakeUpdate is the gui for updates (if you want to use their sources) All of the above must be run as root or su - The gui's run from a terminal kinda helped me learn a little about what was going on. But I agree with David urpmi is the way to go and faster once you get the hang of it. urpmi,urpme,urpmi.update,urpmi.addmedia,etc. I found have some readable documentation for a newbie like me compared some of the man pages :-) Also on the kernel update you could take a look at this artical on the Mandrake site. Its a good idea to edit your lilo.conf to be able to boot to your old kernel in case something goes wrong with the new kernel installation. http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php -- Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Remote Access
Title: 9.2 update Hello, I am setting up a Mandrake 9.2 box as a syslog server and was wondering how I could gain access to that box remotely? I prefer to use SSH. Can anyone provide me with some direction? Thanks, Mike
[newbie] Syslog
Hello! I want to setup a Mandrake 9.2 box to work as a Syslog server on our network and do not know where to start. I know how to configure my routers/switches, but need help with Mandrake. Anyone have any good docs or websites? Thanks for the help. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sorry it didn't work out!
A while ago I sent mail indicating that when I did "Update" in the 9.2 installer, it all but trashed by dual boot machine. No boot window and Windows would never boot (yea I know that's a good thing) and when 9.2 booted every thing was screwed up. I got one reply which said I should have installed instead of updated. If I am using an product to take me from 9.1 to 9.2, logic tells me that the correct selection is "update". It took a lot of effort to just bring Windows back and I decided that maybe I was not ready for Mandrake-- that installer needs work, big time! I am going to give Debian a try. I know, it is more nuts and bolts than Mandrake, but I am not looking for something that's easy, just applications that work as the interface implies. I am not burning bridges. Who knows, maybe I'llreturn to mandrake. Thanks to all who gave me assistance :-) mike
Re: [newbie] kdm.log messages
Carroll Grigsby wrote: I installed 9.2 a week ago, keeping the old /home; the other partitions are all new. The past weekend was spent getting current with the updates. Everything seems to be working just fine. This morning I went through the log files. Most of them were clean, but I did find something strange in the kdm.log file. It begins with a message, The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports... This is followed by a long list of entries of the form: Warning: Symbol map for key redefined. Using last definition for conflicting fields where key refers one of a number of keys. After each list, there is a message, Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server. The same pattern is repeated a number of times. (I expect that each successive cluster marks another reboot, a frequent occurrence over the past week.) XF86Config shows the following in the keyboard section: Protocol Standard XkbModel pc105 XKbLayout en us XkbOptions I'm using a Logitech Access keyboard. It's one of those that has been tricked up for Windows with special keys by assigning special functions to the function keys; in order to have them behave as normal function keys, it is necessary to press a special F lock key. (Well, the price was right.) Google revealed one similar question on the Cooker list, but there were no replies to it. I'm not having any problems with the keyboard, other than that it doesn't spell very well. Anyone have any insight? Hi Carroll, I have the same errors as you and I have a old acer 104 keyboard. I did not have those errors in mdk9.1 (same keyboard), have been trying to figure it out but no luck so far. I have not seen any ill effects other than the output of consol F1. Would like to know why, and how to fix it though. -- Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] user menu items not available
Margot wrote: Thanks, but that isn't the problem. Perhaps I'm not explaining myself clearly... 2 snapshots attached, user and root versions of menudrake. The root version contains the list of available applications, the user one does not. I want to add some of these applications to the user menu, not the root menu - pointless having them on the root menu as I never log in as root. How do I get the available applications list into the user version of menudrake so I can then add them to the user menu? Yes, I miss understood you. I looked at my settings under menudrake for root and system and I have all applications checked under menu style. Also running menudrake as user I have all applications checked. I do seem to have everything except some legasy apps, which can be added by issueing command kappfinder I believe. As far as applications under available apps in menudrake I have none in root,system, or user. I think they end up there if you remove them or use adminitrative settings. I dont know why they dont show up in your menus if you have all applications checked in your user menudrake. Disregard this if you have allready tried this. Run menudrake from mcc and set system to menustyle=all applications then save it, and exit. Then as user open a terminal and run menudrake and set menustyle=all applications and save it. Log out and restart Xwindows. -- Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 92 iso download problem
On Monday 19 January 2004 10:09 am, Aron Smith wrote: Thanks everyone, I found some 700mb. mike On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:59:25 -0800 Michael.Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded cd 1,2,3 iso for 92. The problem is cds 2 and 3 are greater than 650 meg. Are there CDs that hold more and still writable by the same burner? Use CDRs they go to 700 MB CD/RWs top out at 650 Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 92 iso download problem
On Monday 19 January 2004 11:00 am, Poogle wrote: On Monday 19 Jan 2004 17:09, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:59:25 -0800 Michael.Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded cd 1,2,3 iso for 92. The problem is cds 2 and 3 are greater than 650 meg. Are there CDs that hold more and still writable by the same burner? Use CDRs they go to 700 MB CD/RWs top out at 650 Mike My TDK RW's say 700MB, I've never tried filling them to the max are you saying I would only get 650 on them ? Mine said 74 minutes or 650 mb. If yours says 700, they should hold that much. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi addmedia question
Did a urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp... and got the error - retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of contrib... ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/Mandrake-linux/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 9 or signal 0 retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium contrib -- Which tell me nothing! Help anyone? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo questions
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 17:38, mike wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 16:30, mike wrote: I don't know whether it will be able to set it up correctly with the boot partitions on separate drives, so you may well have to hand edit. Anne That was the problem lilo would not see the other /boot partitions, it only sees the /boot of the OS it was installed. I tried to find a way to get around it but, no luck. Had to mount my hdb drive in /mnt and add an entry in the /etc/fstab, and mount -a . Then edited my lilo.conf like below. image=/mnt/mdk9.1//boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.27mdk label=9.1mdk2421-27 root=/dev/hdb1 read-only optional vga=791 append= devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht splash=silent initrd=/mnt/mdk9.1//boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.27mdk.img Well all works now. I just won't make the mistake of running lilo on hdb again ;-) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lilo questions
Hello, I kinda borked up my workstation when I did the kernel updates. I have 2 hard drives both on the master ide channel hda and hdb hda has dual boot windows and mdk9.2 and hdb has just mdk9.1 on it. Also hdb used to be hda when its install was done thus it believes it was hda. I added a new hard drive and installed windows and mdk9.2 edited the lilo.conf on mdk9.2 to mount hdb1 (mdk9.1) on /dev/hdb1 in a /mnt/tmp directory like so. image=/mnt/tmp/boot/vmlinuz label=9.1_linux root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/mnt/tmp/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht vga=791 read-only So anyways cruiseing along at very careless warp speed updated both kernels and over wrote hda's lilo.conf with hdb's lilo.conf so was wondering can I just rewrite my lilo.conf with all the entries from both hda and hdb and run lilo and put and identical copy on both hda and hdb so I can boot hda again and not confuse the issue again? Or do I need to remove lilo from hdb? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo questions
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 16:30, mike wrote: Hello, I kinda borked up my workstation when I did the kernel updates. I have 2 hard drives both on the master ide channel hda and hdb hda has dual boot windows and mdk9.2 and hdb has just mdk9.1 on it. Also hdb used to be hda when its install was done thus it believes it was hda. I added a new hard drive and installed windows and mdk9.2 edited the lilo.conf on mdk9.2 to mount hdb1 (mdk9.1) on /dev/hdb1 in a /mnt/tmp directory like so. image=/mnt/tmp/boot/vmlinuz label=9.1_linux root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/mnt/tmp/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht vga=791 read-only So anyways cruiseing along at very careless warp speed updated both kernels and over wrote hda's lilo.conf with hdb's lilo.conf so was wondering can I just rewrite my lilo.conf with all the entries from both hda and hdb and run lilo and put and identical copy on both hda and hdb so I can boot hda again and not confuse the issue again? Or do I need to remove lilo from hdb? Mike Mike, early in your lilo.conf there will be a line something like boot=/dev/hde That is usually the hddrive on which you have your windows install, just because windows usually needs to be on the first hdd. Anyway, the drive mentioned in that line is where it's looking to start up. If you have done a default install of 9.1 and 9.2 you will have separate /boot partitions. It can only read one, and you need to know which one it is reading, or to prepare both for reading. The way you do that is to rename config, initrd, kernel and vmlinuz with the kernel version e.g. config would become config-2.4.21-0.13mdk (I think that's the stock 9.1 kernel). Then make sure that both /boot partitions contain copies of each. At present you are telling it to load vmlinuz, for 9.1. The trouble is that vmlinuz may well be pointing to the 9.2 version. Once you have copies of each in your /boot you can change these entries to version specific ones, and all should be well. If I were you I would try booting from CD1, hitting F1 where you get a chance to restore your lilo - you don't need one on each drive. That should at least get you in again, then you can look at what changes if any need making to make both versions available. I don't know whether it will be able to set it up correctly with the boot partitions on separate drives, so you may well have to hand edit. Anne Thanks Anne, that answers some of my questions. So I could boot from install cd restore my hda lilo.config, then boot to hda and then hand edit all the entries I want ie both hda and hdb and all the kernels old and new with devices like root=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb and associated partitions, images,initrd,etc. and run lilo and of course check make sure all is working. Then possible boot to hdb (9.1) and remove lilo from 9.1? Or due you just leave that lilo.config alone? What due you and the others due with 2 linux OS's on the same box as a general rule? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] newbie script help
Greetings and Happy NewYear,
I would like to write a script to accomplish a task, and then run it at
regular
intervals (I'll start another thread for that). The thing is I know zero
about
programming and in process of learning.
I have a stand-alone firewall (mdk9.1) with no X installed, and a wireless
card and my access to the internet is from a access point else where.
I would like to get the info from /proc/net/wireless (on the firewall)
like below.
~$ date cat /proc/net/wireless
So after a while I came up with something like this below
#! /bin/bash
#Take wireless link readings from /proc/net/wireless and output to
#file wireless_stat
{ date; cat /proc/net/wireless; } wireless_stat
--
That seems to give me what I want and I like to set it up to run every 5
minutes with cron.hourly (next thread).
Now every 24 hours I would like to take the file wireless_stat and
tar/gzip it
up and start a new one like below.
~$ tar -c -z -f wireless_stat1.tar wireless_stat
then run
~$ rm -f wireless_stat; touch wireless_stat;
How would I write a script that it would increment the the archived files
like logrotate does? For instance.
~/tmp$ ll
-rw-rw-r--1 mike mike 3084 Jan 4 08:44 wireless_stat
-rw-rw-r--1 mike mike 359 Jan 3 19:33 wireless_stat1.tar
Then 24 hours later this.
~/tmp$ ll
-rw-rw-r--1 mike mike 3084 Jan 4 08:44 wireless_stat
-rw-rw-r--1 mike mike 359 Jan 3 19:33 wireless_stat1.tar
-rw-rw-r--1 mike mike 359 Jan 3 19:33 wireless_stat2.tar
This where I'm getting stuck would this be a loop? or a statement?
Would it be a (if, while, for,)? I have a book to help, but I'm afraid
my brain is stuck in a (loop) of not understanding and can not
progress... :-)
Any guidance would appreciated,
Mike
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Re: [newbie] newbie script help
Paul wrote:
Hi Mike,
Your script to 'logrotate' the files could look like this:
#!/bin/sh
filetest()
{
if [ -f wireless_stat$1.tar ] ; then
mv -f wireless_stat$1.tar wireless_stat$2.tar
fi
}
cd /directory where your files are
filetest 4 5
filetest 3 4
filetest 2 3
filetest 1 2
The filetest function takes 2 arguments, being the oldest and one
newer file (you can expand this check to as many as you like, but if
you want to keep things around forever, this would not be the best way
to do it).
To run this thing, put it somewhere and let root's cron take care of
things.
Paul
Thanks Paul!
I think I understand the function is to take the oldest which is the
first argument
if it exists rename it to the second argument. So it cd's to my file
directory and
sees if wireless_stat3.tar it would filetest 3 4 (rename file3.tar to
file4.tar) and
2 to 3, 1 to 2. Yes, I was wondering how to keep it from running
forever. I see
now by what you have in your script.
Now to put it all together could I do something like this?
-
#! /bin/bash
tar -c -z -f wireless_stat1.tar wireless_stat
something()
{
if [ -f wireless_stat1.tar ] ; then
rm -f wireless_stat; touch wireless_stat;
fi
}
filetest()
{
if [ -f wireless_stat$1.tar ] ; then
mv -f wireless_stat$1.tar wireless_stat$2.tar
fi
}
cd /home/mike/tmp
filetest 4 5
filetest 3 4
filetest 2 3
filetest 1 2
-
Mike
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Re: [newbie] newbie script help
Paul wrote:
On 01/04/2004 07:30 PM, mike wrote:
I think I understand the function is to take the oldest which is the
first argument if it exists rename it to the second argument.
Yup.
So it cd's to my file directory and
sees if wireless_stat3.tar it would filetest 3 4 (rename file3.tar to
file4.tar) and
2 to 3, 1 to 2. Yes, I was wondering how to keep it from running
forever. I see now by what you have in your script.
Good! :)
Now to put it all together could I do something like this?
I'd suggest this:
#--start script
#! /bin/bash
filetest()
{
if [ -f wireless_stat$1.tar ] ; then
mv -f wireless_stat$1.tar wireless_stat$2.tar
fi
}
cd /home/mike/tmp
filetest 4 5
filetest 3 4
filetest 2 3
filetest 1 2
tar -c -z -f wireless_stat1.tar wireless_stat
if [ -f wireless_stat1.tar ] ; then
rm -f wireless_stat; touch wireless_stat;
fi
#--end script
First you define the function (it is only defined, not run), then you
cd to $HOME/tmp. Then cycle the backup tar-files. That way you move
the existing backups out of the way, preserving the old #1 as #2 and
getting rid of old #5 in the process. And then you build the new
stat1.tar after which you create a clean stat-file. Do you see the
logic in this?
I believe I do now, I had things reversed, I should of taking care of
moving my backups
to make room for the new ones before deleting the first file, else lose
data!
Also I noticed that I was trying to make a function out a if statement (
something() )
which was not necessary, probably not right either *grin*
And the #--startscript, #--endsript to know when the script begins and ends.
I should also add some comments about what its doing for my sake.
I hope this is clear enough.
Yes, again thanks Paul!
You walked me right through it, easier than I thought it would be.
I'll probably post back on the running the cron part but, I'll research
it a bit more before I panic. :-)
Mike
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[newbie] Camera Question
I have a new Pentax Optio 555 connected to my USB port. Windoze sees it but on linux both FLPhoto and GTKam say camera not detected. In GTKam the list from Add Camera did not list any Pentax. Any suggestions? Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Camera Question
On Friday 02 January 2004 07:10 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 05:45 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: I have a new Pentax Optio 555 connected to my USB port. Windoze sees it but on linux both FLPhoto and GTKam say camera not detected. In GTKam the list from Add Camera did not list any Pentax. Any suggestions? Well, my digital camera is a USB mass storage device. Plug it in and you can map a drive to the USB device and then download the files from the /mnt/camera device. If you have a Multifunction printer that can read smart media cards, like the HP PSC 950, you can put the flash card into the printer and then run Mtools File Manager and download the photos with that. Thanks to all, It seems the problem was due to how I started the process. The first time I connected it to linux I booted before I turned the camera on. I reversed the process and booted with it already on and linux gave me a new Hard Disk (sda1) mounted at /mnt/removable All pictures now just appear as files in a folder--too easy! Aron, I think the optio 555 only has one format, USB mass storage. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation
Mike, go to rpmfind and copy/paste the filename I gave you. It will link you to a source that offers the rpm. Simply save it to a temp directory. You can install it from there. Anne Got it, and installed it. Now all I have to do is read it! Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] financial app
Johan, Try jGnash http://jgnash.sourceforge.net/ a platform independent Java .jar file. It has some of the same stuff as gnucash. I have it on my windoze partition so I can access from windoze or mandrake. Mike - Original Message - From: Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 11:02 AM Subject: [newbie] financial app Hi, Any known financial app for linux except gnucash, please Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation
On Saturday 27 December 2003 04:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 19:35, Mike Adolf wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 04:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 01:22, Mike Adolf wrote: Went to the Welcom to MandrakeGalaxy screen and press documentaiton icon but only got: Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/Starter.html/index.html does not exist. Why don't I have this? Can I get this index and related pages somewhere? Tried google with no luck. Maybe you didn't elect to install docs? Anne Hi Anne, There are many (457) dirs in /usr/share/doc just not mandrake/en. Can I run the installation disk again and just install documentation? I looked in rpmdrake but nothing jumped out? Mike Use MCC SoftwareManagement rpmdrake to install mandrake_doc-en-9.1-2mdk Anne I checked each rpmdrake(+) source I have configured (all 3 install CDs, plf and textstar). None had mandrake_doc-en-9.1-2mdk on them. Only cd2 came close with mandrake_doc-drakxtools-en-9.1-2mdk. What distribution bundle is suppose to contain mandrake_doc-en-9.1-2mdk? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
