Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was once there. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. Count me in there. It is a valuable place to hold all Mandrake related issues, just kinda rough getting around. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. If you will be doing a fresh install, don't worry about this one. Lilo has always provided a Windows entry - IRC even if it finds just a fat32 partition table *without* M$ installed. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread. someone else could give a go here - I use just the basics. just /, /home and one for swap (3 total) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:33:21 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I install sylpheed-claws2, will I be able to use my current Claws mail and configuration without any hiccups? when I installed claws2, it first removed my previous sylpheed install, then after installing the new version, a message popped up stating something to the effect that the new location for the config files is ~/.sylpheed-gtk2 and that you could transfer your old config files over and it would work. I passed on that myself due to a bad experience before attempting such. Wasn't much to reset up anyway. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Syslogd
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:50:12 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I prevent syslogd from showing events on the screen? Is it not normal to simply pass these events to the correct log file in /var/log ? question, can you confirm that any of the messages being displayed on the monitor *are also being logged* in /var/log/syslog ? I also had this problem on our server after playing around with vlan - although I couldn't put my finger on it that vlan or possibly vclient IRC could have even had anything to do with it. Logged myself (the only user) off, and noticed the messages kept coming. Seemed to only be firewall hit messages were showing up on the screen though. My M$ infliction - which doesn't seem to go away since I have to work with it everyday - kicked in about now and my uncontrollable urge to reboot overtook me. ;( the messages went away after that and I never bothered going back to figure it out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb question time - Is this lilo.conf you are working with on the second hard drive? Was the drive /dev/hdb when you installed Linux on it, or did you just have the drive with Linux on it in the machine when you installed it, and added back the Windows drive? Or do you have both Linux and Windows on the first drive, and you are trying to boot a second Linux install from the second drive? Mikkel Sorry for the delay in getting back to you folk but hopefully I can make up for it now. First my lilo.conf [ Note: this is on my master hdd and is booting Mandrake10 Official and then of course my WinMe which is on the slave hdd.] # File generated by DrakX/drakboot and reconfigured by SnapafunFrank. # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=windows keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux2610 root=/dev/hda5 vga=788 append= noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux-nonfb263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=linux-nonfb2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux-nonfb267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=failsafe263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2610 label=failsafe2610 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=failsafe267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz2422 label=linux2422 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2422.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only #other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 # label=linux90 # table=/dev/hdb # image=/boot/vmlinuz # root=/dev/hdb5 # initrd=/boot/initrd.img # append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent # vga=788 # read-only image=/boot/memtest-1.11.bin label=memtest-1.11 read-only Hope someone is suitably impressed ~ I can boot the lot seen here (other than the system on the slave hdd) albeit that except for linux263, the others are only to text consoles at the moment because I have yet to compile the new nVidia drivers as I have done for the 2.6.3-7 kernel. And oh yeah - haven't convinced Jan yet so the default is still Windows - got to get my LAN started so that she can play her cards on Linux without probably knowing it initially. No, she ain't dumb, I'm just being a little sneaky is all. Anyway, back to my problem. I do not believe that starting out with image=/boot/vmlinuz will not work because there is nothing in that to tell lilo to find the image on the slave (hdb) drive. Please correct me if'n I'm wrong here! To explain how I got WinMe to work you need to understand that windows must think it's in control, hence the 'map' entries - I turn things on for windows then turn them off again ~ enough to fool windows into believing it is in control. So, though starting with other- may not be the way, I need to tell lilo where to find the image I want it to use, and that critter is in the boot partition on hdb which the current system sees as /mnt/hdb2_boot . Lilo of course would see it as /dev/hdb2. Basically, lilo needs to be pointed at that partition the moment I select it as an option. What I've done in the past (not saying it is the correct way to do it, or the only way) is to copy all the necessary files out of /boot from all partitions which
Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:42:49 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old linux9.1 OS I have also installed on that hdd. Latest attempt: other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 [ My boot partition on this hdd ] label=linux90 table=/dev/hdb image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only I have tried other=/dev/hdb2 ( my boot partition on this drive ) and tried also other=/dev/hdb2 [ WinMe starts out as other=/dev/hdb1 ] I have made sure that vmlinuz and initrd.img exist on that boot partition still. I added the table=/dev/hdb but still no go. So someone want to slap me over the wrist for being dump here somewhere? I might be wrong, but isn't other used only for windows? At least all the lilo.conf's I've looked at on my systems had other=/dev/hda1 for the first line to boot into windows. I hate to take a stab at what exactly you should have in your lilo.conf, but my first guess is that the section refering to your linux install would start with something like image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux90 root=/dev/hdb ---seems like maybe a partition number goes behind? and-so-on and-so-on maybe attach your whole lilo.conf and someone might be able to help you better. Myself, I am sort of curious how you have windows working with it. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Back to the forgotten beginning ~ lilo
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:42:49 +1300 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I have two hdd's with the now slave having suffered my first attempts at Linux and of course, the last 9x going [ WinMe }. I can boot into WinMe without any hassles whatsoever but am unable to get lilo.conf right to boot into the old linux9.1 OS I have also installed on that hdd. Latest attempt: other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 [ My boot partition on this hdd ] label=linux90 table=/dev/hdb image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only I have tried other=/dev/hdb2 ( my boot partition on this drive ) and tried also other=/dev/hdb2 [ WinMe starts out as other=/dev/hdb1 ] I have made sure that vmlinuz and initrd.img exist on that boot partition still. I added the table=/dev/hdb but still no go. So someone want to slap me over the wrist for being dump here somewhere? noticed I botched that root=/dev/hdb line... didn't notice the root listing below your table entry (gotta slow down on reading!). I did manage to find my lilo.conf from my 9.1 install for an example; boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default=Mandrake9.1 keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Mandrake9.1 root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 label=RedHat9 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img append=hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows2000 table=/dev/hda I would say drop the other= line and replace it with image=/boot/vmlinuz and remove the table= line as well for starters. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:33:32 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of trying to set up an external hard drive, I misread the Seagate setup instructions and accidentally destroyed the partitions on my laptop so badly that using 'rescue' from the installation CD couldn't do good. (all my partitions were gone) I've since reinstalled Linux and tried to set the partition sizes to what they were before, in the hope that I could run some sort of file restore utility on /dev/hda6, which was where my /home drive was. (my hope was that that portion of the hard drive wouldn't be overwritten by the install) I've tried r-linux, recover and mundelete and none of them have worked. I need something a little more thorough than those three, something that will scan the drive itself instead of only checking the inodes. Any suggestions? have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bootloader
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:39:20 +1300 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install is it quite safe to allow the windows boot loader to be overwritten with GRUB or LILO? When I tried Linux a few years ago I had some problems with boot loader and ended having to do fresh install of windows. Thanks Rosemary should not be a problem, if you need to restore it back to win for some reason, something like a fdisk /mbr or something like that could be run from a win boot disk which would reload the Master Boot Record or mbr which windows uses. No fresh install of windows would be needed either. if you don't feel comfortable doing that, you could always save the bootloader to a floppy to avoid overwriting your mbr. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:12:46 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. It does have partition recovery tools on it. But I am not sure they will work after doing a re-install. I hate to say it, but it would have been fairly simple to recover before trying to re-install Linux. But it is worth a try... Under the Partition Tools section, I counted 11 programs. a few sections above that were some Seagate Hard drive utitilties as well. I know it also has some partition wipe utilities as well ;) but that's for other reasons! -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partition
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:14:09 +0100 Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: other than my unasnwered kword problem ... what is the ebst way to resize a partition and make another one? Martin, You can use MCC to setup your partitions. Open up Mandrake Control Center, Mount Points, Partitions - and adjust to your needs. I've even used it to setup fat32 partitions so as to install that other less-than-desirable O.S. (after installing MD first) - but that isn't for the faint at heart - especially in that order. I do not recall seeing your kword post, but if it was like this one, and you hijacked somebodies else's post, well your question made it to probably 50 percent or even less of the list members. Alot of the regulars here setup filters in such a way that if the subject line doesn't match the original post, the message gets dumped and never read. Can anybody clarify this statement a tad better than me? Reference this web link Martin, http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette so hopefully any of your future questions will be seen by all - and you will have a much better chance of getting your questions answered if seen by a greater number of people. Just trying to help - without sounding like a list cop I hope! Good luck -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] partition
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:59:40 +0100 Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve I tried it with MCC but I only have the one partition set up (eg swap home and /) so I think I need to resize it with the boot disk to start with -NO? you are correct, I was unaware of what number and or active partitions currently in use. You would need to use a boot disk or something like MandrakeMove or Knoppix Live-CD in order to resize, then create a partition in the free space which is normally mounted and in use by your native O.S. my kword request was I downloaded it and installed it but it wont open Sorry about this one Martin, use Sylpheed-Claws myself. Little to no KDE stuff is installed on any of my systems. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:41:17 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ easyurpmi website is no longer mirrored here. They are having to many issues and the hassle isn't worth it even after I complain and ask for a better way to sync. just seen it myself and am trying to update 10.0 official to 10.1 official. Will try browsing the mirror I am setup for on 10.0 and attempt to setup those sources manually for 10.1 but does anybody have a easier solution? anybody here use mirror.cs.wisc.edu for their source that can confirm this is the 10.1 main source for example? ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10. 1/ i586/media/main the main source address for 10.0 was the same for 10.1 up to i586, then it appears to change after that. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] easyurpmi site gone
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:36:34 -0600 Dennis Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy did I hose THAT post up. Try http://urpmi-addmedia.org Thanks Dennis I was thinking there had to be another site because they called it a mirror - just didn't know how to find out what site they mirrored. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache2
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:06:16 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:44:12 -0500 Steve Jeppesen disseminated the following: Hmm- thread hijack. It was?? Showed up as a new post for me...weird. Otherwise I woulda been *all over that shite* ;-) showed up as a hijack for me too. Might be your gtk2 version? dunno LOL! GTK version?? No, more likely it was a hijack of a post/thread I had previously deleted because *that* was in turn a hijack. yeah yeah, meant your version of Sylpheed which is using or built with GTK2... here to learn. will hush up now and go back to trolling! -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache2
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:56:03 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:41:16 -0500 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Hmm- thread hijack. It was?? Showed up as a new post for me...weird. Otherwise I woulda been *all over that shite* ;-) showed up as a hijack for me too. Might be your gtk2 version? dunno -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:57:48 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is an file index.html at http://www.mysite.org/mypage and it loads fine without the trailing / There is also an index.php file under /mypage. When I type in http://www.mysite.org, the browser appends a / in the address bar when the page loads. On another server, I have Squirrelmail running and can access that by typing http://www.mysite.org/squirrelmail. Same story, the browser appends a / in the address bar when the page loads But when I try type in http://www.mysite.org/mypage I get the error message. Obviously, something is happening on the other server if I can type the directory name without the trailing / and apache knows to look for the index.php file in that directory. sorry no fix, just saying what happens on my end; http://www.mysite.org/mypage shows what appears to be your complete web page (rm-rf) - with all the images and one link. The Unix Manual link is red. If I hold my cursor over it, it disappears (the words Unix Manual disappears, but the link still works) and; http://www.mysite.org/mypage/ shows the same web page at first glance, except it is missing the Apache, PHP and mod_ssl images. Sun's is still working though. And the Unix Manual link is blue, underlined and does not disappear when hovering over it. Not sure if any of this is caused by my browsers settings though. which is Epiphany 1.0.7. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get out of X Video Test in Installation
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:26:49 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have the problem of the X Graphical Server test freezing in the installation. This used to happen to me every time I would install a new version of MD. Live and learn after x number of times (probably 10 for me) and I eventually quit testing the xserver during install. Key here is, I never upgraded the monitor - those settings remain the same for each version of MD. Now I have the monitor specs kept within arms length and plug in the appropriate horizontal and vertical refresh rates each time, and avoid the xserver test. I just choose the custom setting during install and it provides fields for you to fill out - sorry I cannot be specific as to what that area of the install is like and what to look for, it's been awhile since that happened last. IRC though, I thought the xserver test eventually times out and puts you back to the install without freezing up. Again, been awhile so I don't know if that happens now or not. Warning though, be sure to plug in the correct values for your specific monitor. If you do not have them, go to their web site and search up their support area for your monitor. Unlike windows which trys to protect your system/monitor (can the word protect be in the same sentence as windows?) linux will allow you to fry the monitor at your discretion. Good luck -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] looking for print server distro that runs off floppy
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:52:17 -0600 evolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run it from a floppy on an old pentium. I need to share a printer with a bunch of windows boxes (samba I suppose). Is this possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am determined to use OSS in some capacity at work. do a google search for LRP - Linux Router Project. I've used a few different versions yrs ago, last I recall back then was printer support (server type) was limited. Maybe it has come a ways since then. There are many different distributions of LRP to choose from. I believe some may even refer to their versions as something other than LRP, but you should be able to discover those by going to web sites which contain descriptions of the various LRP-type distros you have to choose from. I even remember setting up a old P2 200 with two 3 1/2 floppy drives in order to include more options and features for the server. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FQDN's preventing me to connect to Todd's site?
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:15:54 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 00:28, Steve Jeppesen wrote: this relates to the link Todd S. posted to which I cannot connect to; http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png whack TIA Steve I would tend to reckon it has everything to do with DNS; have you tried adding some of the bigger DNS's to your /etc/resolv.conf current resolv.conf; search ce1.client2.attbi.com nameserver 63.240.76.19 nameserver 204.127.198.19 I have always been under the impression that file is created by other means than directly editing it. When eth0 connects to Comcast and pulls a IP, doesn't it update /etc/resolv.conf automatically for nameservers? We have always had our broadband provided thru the same cable, they just change the name the check goes to quite often. Used to be ATT, now Comcast, but for some reason we have stayed within ATT's network apparently. Could this be out-dated info perhaps? -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FQDN's preventing me to connect to Todd's site?
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:57:08 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By putting '192.168.1.15 steve.homeip.net steve' in your hosts table you are claiming that the domain homeip.net is on the subnet 192.168.1.x so whenever you try to visit Todds site it will be looking on 192.168.1.x You do not need to declare your servers external IP address (the interface facing your ISP) in your hosts table at all.You will find the address through DNS lookup. The internal address (facing your local net) must be in a different domain to the external interface. It is quite acceptable to make up a domain name such as 'localdomain' As in 192.168.1.15 steve.localdomain steve 192.168.1.1 server.localdomain server DNS is not used to discover IP addresses in the internal network, so you must put entries in the hosts table. Thanks for your help Derek, with your suggestions I have managed to get the server to connect to Todd's site, but none of the clients can resolve his site yet. First I changed the linux systems hostnames in their respective /etc/sysconfig/network files, HOSTNAME=server.homenetwork HOSTNAME=steve.homenetwork HOSTNAME=andrea.homenetwork then I updated (and removed any mention of homeip.net) their hosts files, server's /etc/hosts; 192.168.1.1 server.homenetwork server client's respective /etc/hosts files; 192.168.1.15steve.homenetwork steve 192.168.1.25andrea.homenetwork andrea I have also logged out (to reset the hostname), logged back in and restarted the network service on all the linux systems. None of the Windows systems had any mention of homeip.net in their setups so I believe they shouldn't be the source of DNS resolve errors. It seems as if the server or one of the clients is holding onto the homeip.net domain somehow still. Is there anywhere else that domain might be listed and I need to remove it? Somehow I feel this is a easy oneugh! TIA Steve --- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:06:23 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, may have been something temporary, everything seems OK here now? for some reason I am still getting that cannot connect message. I checked my hosts file to be sure your web address wasn't listed (one of those bloated hosts files from the web which redirects alot of web addresses to 127.0.0.1). All other internet stuff is working - dns and such. odd -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:29:39 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International - if I choose US, then my right alt key no longer works, and if I choose US International, I have to hit the ' and then tap the space bar - which is getting horribly annoying. I've almost gotten to the point where I don't want to chat in IRC or even do email as it's so annoying. No where I've looked can I change this behaviour - no where I've looked can I specify what KIND of keyboard I have - HELP! I'm not getting any response here folks...wassup? when 10CE came out, I could not even get the install started - until I swapped out my M$ Intel(stupid)keyboard with a plain jane and I was on my way. that keyboard worked for me since 8.x too. Never bothered looking for a fix - just one less POS hardware towards a completely free M$ system. Might just try swapping keyboards and see what happens if ya haven't already. Only thing left is the M$ mouse...hope a security hole doesn't happen with that! like yeah right (ya never know) --- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy.
anybody find the mp3 file? I gotta get that one! Wonder how long before someone starts whining about it! On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:33:42 -0400 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think that Linspire is just trying to open some doors. Bill On Friday 23 July 2004 06:28 pm, Jeff Reid wrote: I LOVE IT!! :-) Thanks for the laugh! Jeff - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 5:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy. Friends, although it is Linspire, it´s still Linux : http://www.linspire.com/RunLinspireFlash.php Turn your sound volume up and have a good laugh. Kaj Haulrich. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:20:10 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok now I know more than I did do you know of a reference that lists all ports and their use? check /etc/services it doesn't go into great detail, but it's a starting point. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] visual linux
File System Viewer (fsv) - displays your files system as 3d blocks...not sure if it is the same program that was mentioned b4. On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:22:47 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody remember a program that gave a visual representation of your system IIRC it was about six months ago thanks smitty -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] visual linux
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:10:47 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just bear in mind that unless you can reconfigure the source code, you're not going to get it installed properly on MDK 10.0; I've done my trying for the alloted 10 minutes with no go...so I have only fond memories of surfing my file structures...unless someone's created and RPM with fulfilled dependencies...Oh Sir Robin! Charles! Someone! couldn't tell you exactly what I did, but I know I didn't reconfig any source code - fsv installed without a problem IRC, running 10.0 official here. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] testing...no mail coming thru
sympa down again? -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org 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] allow users to halt from comman line
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you allow users to halt from the command line? I've seen the click box a million times, but now i can't find it! Or, where is the config file? I just did a fairly minimal install on a box with ML 10.0, and it doesn't allow user halt by default. I get the feeling i saw it in the graphical boot setup or something like that on previous boxes, but i don't use that anymore. thanks, eric just type halt, in a terminal and it will shutdown your pc. man halt -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] allow users to halt from comman line
Sorry Eric, just woke up and didn't read thru your post completely. Never mind. Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you allow users to halt from the command line? I've seen the click box a million times, but now i can't find it! Or, where is the config file? I just did a fairly minimal install on a box with ML 10.0, and it doesn't allow user halt by default. I get the feeling i saw it in the graphical boot setup or something like that on previous boxes, but i don't use that anymore. thanks, eric just type halt, in a terminal and it will shutdown your pc. man halt -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:23:41 +0300 Klemens Arro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats with samba and shorewall? I cant use samba server or Smb4K (guess that shorewall blocks it). When I take the whole firewall down Everything (no firewall) then samba works perfectly, but then I can't share my ADSL connection. By allowing ports 193-194 doesn't help, neither by telling shorewall to allow Samba server! -- Klemens Arro Klemens, I maybe wrong, but I thought you had to open ports 137, 138 and 139. Double check to be sure -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wizdrake, where is it?
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:07:03 + KVPSTAFF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to find wizdrake...I thought I installed everything I needed for configuring things...but I happened to caLL up the server_conf_guide.pdf on the docs of mandrakes site...and it says to install wizdrake , so that I can config alot of the server stuff...I can't seem to find it...on the CD's where is it? Just go thru the steps to install software on your system using the GUI, and there will be a text field you can fill in what you want to search for, and type in wizard - should only bring up one option, install that. Sorry for the lack of terminology or program name you would use to install software - just going from memory here. Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fw: Re: [newbie] collisions reported by ifconfig
On Sat, 31 May 2003 16:03:41 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:33 PM 5/31/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Saturday 31 May 2003 2:17 pm, Steve Jeppesen wrote: Right, these ARP requests are being directed to my external interface, eth0, from the Internet - they are not entering my internal network, but I believe this is the excess traffic I see on the cable modem. I sayexcess, because I was not seeing the data lights (traffic) flash as they have been with our old IP number. But it seems unusual that my IP has to tell everybody where to go to find out who or where to be routed- mind you, the IP's doing the ARP request do seem to be coming from the same IP range, 24.xxx.xxx.xxx, mainly 24.118.xxx.xxx and 24.245.xxx.xxx -- Richard Urwin In all honesty unless you are seriously paranoid, ignore it. Rich is correct: Cable uses broadcast requests that are sent out ever few seconds to all comps on the Node that your neighbourhood is being served by thru the ISP you use. Think of it as party line telephones. You can tap into any such request figure out what everyone on the node is looking at on their comp. Some will be SETI requests, others for porn sites, still others MSN / ICQ chats...etc. Ethereal proggies like it will just tell you what is being broadcast and unless set correctly, won't give you destination IP's. Or it will give a destination IP and you can figure out which house it is from there. Its one of the downfalls of cable if you're a smart dooby with time on your hands: Its not nearly as difficult to crack as DSL can be with teh correct protocols in place. Not to say DSL is secure but its better in some ways. Oh Btw: the IP's doing the ARP request do seem to be coming from the same IP range, 24.xxx.xxx.xxx, mainly 24.118.xxx.xxx and 24.245.xxx.xxx. Thats your NODE for your neighbourhood. the 24.xxx is the actuall ISP's Block Node (given from their Tier 2 or 3 connection, usually AT T or MetroNet or UUNet). 24.118.xxx is the block node for very likely your geographic regional area. IE: Langley, Virginia. The next octet is your specic Local geo area IN Langley itself. IE: a suburb inside Langley. The last 3 are specific to your neighbourhood, with the last 1-2 numbers being for your house + the next one beside you usually. Sometimes just your own house gets 2 last numbers cause no one beside you has cable. Yeah, I thought it was no big deal. But at one time (with my old IP) I was able to look up at the cable modem and see how busy the network is (kinda both, internal and external networks) but now, forget it! Thanks for the reassurances Richard and FemmeFatale Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fw: Re: [newbie] collisions reported by ifconfig
Sorry, meant to send this to the list as well Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 20:52:38 -0500 From: Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] collisions reported by ifconfig On Thu, 29 May 2003 13:05:28 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the constant traffic try disabling your mail server. If this doesn't stop it install Ethereal (www.ethereal.com, rpms are on MDK9.x CDs) capture the traffic and see if it explains the router's data light. Send me a capture file if you want help decoding it. (Disable your mail server then too, or I'll get to see your passwords.) Sorry for not replying too quick... mail serveram not running one. What does nmap show? As for Ethereal, gotta run upstairs now and find out just who is visiting www.createafart.com LOL or is there a way to tell within ethereal's output? Am off to find a good FM so I can RTFM on ethereal! Thank you for the info on ethereal Richard, nice network monitor - from what I can tell so far, looks like alot of ARP traffic, someone/something asking who has such and such IP. ARP - should that not be directed at my IP? Thanks Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sluggish dial-up
On 01 Feb 2003 12:30:29 + Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A second request from a very ignorant newbie - how do I search the Newbie Mailing List Archives for author, or subject, or message content? Then I won't have to bother you with a lot of silly questions that I know have been dealt with before... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1w=2 Hope this much helps Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft Linux Distro, thoughts on...O.T.?
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 07:55:47 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone heard of http://www.mslinux.org/ I have known about this site for about 2 years now and the date keeps changing. I havent looked at it for over a year and i remember that it did not have a date on it to tell you the truth. Anyone know or heard anything about it? Quote from that site We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus shipping and handling), if you order before it ships. MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means you can freely use this Software on a single machine without warranty after having paid the purchase price and annual renewal fees. If it is for real...sounds like typical M$ sh_t to me - probably a joke considering the Gates Private License bit. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:04:36 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that thought came to mind recently about not using smbusers as a name for a group but then again alot of things have passed thru my mind and am sort of feeling overwelmed about all this! When I create smbusers group on the server, I checked first to see what the gid was (507 in that case), so when I created smbusers on my p.c., I changed the gid to match. Odd thing is (I fibbed on my last post - but included it because I knew something like that had to be done) when I set hosts allow = @smbusers in smb.conf and restart smb services, the server no longer appears in the win clients network neighborhood. If I reset hosts allow to = 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 it reappears in network neighborhood...must be missing something else in smb.conf? The groups thing must be working to some degree though, if anybody creates a file/folder on the server thru nfs or samba, it shows up with them being the owner and belonging to the smbusers group. But permissions are rx - NOT rwx. I am guessing it has to do with mask or umask settings, just not to sure how to fix that yet. Thanks for trying though Anne. Any thoughts? Thanks Steve I have tried doing this, but not too sure if I did everything correctly. On the server; groupadd smbusers vi /etc/group (and add all users behind smbusers row) vi /etc/samba/smb.conf (and change hosts allow to = @smbusers) On my p.c. (not sure if I needed to but a coworker suggested it) groupadd smbusers vi /etc/group (and add only myself as a user within smbusers group) groupmod -g 507 smbusers (to match gid of servers smbusers group) usermod -g smbusers steve (steve being my user name) and just incase; usermod -G smbusers steve Are those the actual steps I need to do or am I missing something? I do not believe I need to make any changes to either my p.c. or the servers NFS settings in order to incorporate the smbusers group. After doing all of this - including Stephens suggestion - permission problems still exsist. Steve I'm a bit out of my depth here, so I'll leave it to someone else to check out your entries. One thing does occur to me though - I thought smbusers was what you might call a 'reserved' group, rather than just a user group, which was what I had in mind. I wouldn't have used that name in the groups. I don't do it c/l way, but I would have added user group netusers or something like that, and added the names. Looking at /etc/group, I see a typical entry of usb:x:43:anne,Andy,Micky,Nigel,Gillian,david I presume that the 43 is the number assigned to the group on creation. I presume you determined that before adding the line? (Don't be offended - I'm thrashing about). Otherwise, I can't think of anything else right now. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs SOLVED
Please, anybody reply if they know of problems that could arise out of this fixed premission problems. What I ended up doing, is to set create mask and directory mode to 0777 (even with public = yes) for the samba side and for NFS, I (big gulp here) ran the command umask 000 from my p.c. - what that does is basically anything I create from or on my mandrake box is to set the mask at 0777. Anybody have any advise against doing something like that? If nobody can state a good reason not to do this, I will have to set this up in my .profile from what I have read on the web. I have not even begun to look for that .profile file at the moment however. Any advise (bad or good) is very welcome! Thanks Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Documentation
Thank you for the reply! sort a thought maybe your filter/s might have run wild and tossed it! about the only thing different was I did not have a write list. I have sinced moved the printer upstairs since nobody wants to come downstairs into the realm of an alt. O.S. domain...actually they do more printing than I will ever do so it made sense. Thanks again Anne On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:10:52 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I missed this at the time. Does this help? # = # print command: see above for details. # = print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. ; print command = lpr-cups -P %p %s # using cups own drivers (use generic# PostScript on clients). # The following two commands are the samba defaults for printing=cups # change them only if you need different options: ; lpq command = lpq -P %p ; lprm command = cancel %p-%j [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes read only = yes write list = @adm root Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:56:26 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know anything about nfs really, but I just wondered if this suggestion would help. Why not make a group for those users and make your default group to be that one? I would have thought that all of them would be able to use the files then, whether locally or remote. Anne I have tried doing this, but not too sure if I did everything correctly. On the server; groupadd smbusers vi /etc/group (and add all users behind smbusers row) vi /etc/samba/smb.conf (and change hosts allow to = @smbusers) On my p.c. (not sure if I needed to but a coworker suggested it) groupadd smbusers vi /etc/group (and add only myself as a user within smbusers group) groupmod -g 507 smbusers (to match gid of servers smbusers group) usermod -g smbusers steve (steve being my user name) and just incase; usermod -G smbusers steve Are those the actual steps I need to do or am I missing something? I do not believe I need to make any changes to either my p.c. or the servers NFS settings in order to incorporate the smbusers group. After doing all of this - including Stephens suggestion - permission problems still exsist. Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs
On 27 Jan 2003 16:25:43 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a truly open/public share, you can do like this: [ddrive] comment = D Drive path = /mnt/d-drive read only = No public = Yes I changed that share to this; [shared] writable = Yes path = /mnt/shared/shared read only = No public = Yes ...that's it...but you do have to set the security level to SHARE instead of USER. And the security level has always been set to SHARE. I think the problem is since I am not using samba for my linux p.c. to connect to the linux server, NFS is keeping my permissions on anything I create into the shared directory - thus no one using samba can add anything or change what I create within the same shared folder. Is there any way to make NFS change anything I create on the linux server to a public share so to speak? Other than the fact that after I create a file or folder in the shared folder - I can go back into and chmod 0777 file/folder...but that would be a hassle to do everytime. Thanks for the help Stephen, I should have seen that one myself but ya know sometimes ppl need to just take a break from something that is not going right and come back to it later with a fresh mind set. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo got sick
Not to correct you Stephen, but isn't it something like fdisk -mbr or something? Hate to see somebody run fdisk without that mbr option and ruin their current setup.. OTH Steve On 27 Jan 2003 05:55:24 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:15, Russ wrote: Hi All, Shut down my computer last night and everything was just fine. Booted this morning and got an L followed by rows of 01. I did make a boot disk but that was before I redid my system and now Linux is on the second disk, so obviously that didn't work (I'll have to redo it for my current system. Anyone mind pointing me to the correct spot and save me a little time hunting). So then I decided to pop in CD 1 and do something there (wasn't sure what but I was going to look around). Pressed F1 for more info and stumbled onto a function that repairs Lilo. I did it and it seems to be healthy again. Can anyone shed some light on why Lilo burped? Thanks Russ Almost every time I see that error it has to do with something causing your /boot partition from being the active partition. I usually fix it with a Win98 boot disk and FDISK to reset the active partition - then after reboot, works like a charm. -- Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:50:00 +1100 5:50am up 10 days, 15:33, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.18 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT
Scroll down to the bottom, hit the back button and you will see what this is all about LOL On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:48:36 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 09:40 am, Lee wrote: http://w3.one.net/~sunlion/linuxriot.html This appears to be a bullsh*t page. Microsoft doesn't have much if any office space in downtown Seattle, their space is all in the suburbs. Besides, it never made the papers here. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problem - file/directory permissions using samba AND nfs
I have just searched thru about a year and a half worth of posts
concerning this subject, but have not found a simple way of fixing this.
We have a trusted home network, 3 Win98 clients, 1 WinME client, 1 MD
9.0 client and a MD 9.0 server/router/firewall setup. You can guess
whom the MD 9.0 client belongs to!
I have setup samba for the win clients, portion of smb.conf for shared:
[shared]
writable = Yes
path = /mnt/shared/shared
read only = No
create mask = 0777
force create mode = 0777
directory mask = 0777
force directory mode = 0777
I admit I might have gone overboard by forcing everything to 0777 but
didn't realize until tonight that nfs is in the picture and is causing
problems - but hay, it works for the win clients anyways LOL
Here is the line in /etc/exports for the shared directory;
/mnt/shared/shared 192.168.1.15(rw)
All win clients can create files/folders with no problems and other win
clients can create and or modify anything into what another win client
creates.
Problem is that if I create anything to the shared directory using
NFS, my permissions are assigned to it, and nobody else can make changes
to it.
I prefer NFS for my linux station over samba, so would like to keep
things the way they are and not switch to samba for linux to linux file
sharing.
Is there a way for the NFS exports to have say 0777 assigned to all
things created in those shares?
I have tried adding all_squash to the /etc/exports file on the server,
but that didn't help. A win client was not able to create another
file/folder within a newly created folder by my mandrake box.
The goal here is to basically make the shared resource read/writable
by all clients, no matter whom might create any shared folders or files.
Another thought is I might be able to change the line in exports to;
/mnt/shared/shared 192.168.1.(rw) {but can that be done anyways in
that format?) but am not too sure if that would work because the other
win clients do not use NFS.
Any ideas?
TIA
Steve
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Re: Sylpheed filter on color, was Re: [newbie] Commands for the Newbie List
Thanks Todd, will check it out this weekend. This will be my chance to config with spell checking to! Steve On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:45:44 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:52:45 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Using Sylpheed 0.8.5claws here. Another filter I would like to use is something like, if I have not marked (right now, by color marking) a message, I would like it to be deleted after a week has gone by since the message was received. Does anybody know how to do that? Haven't been able to figure that one out. Thanks Steve According to the announcement for Sylpheed-Claws 0.8.9, color label is now a condition which can be applied to filtering /sorting/processing. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1564452forum_id=2006 Todd -- Todd Slater Learn how to create a custom search with Mozilla/Netscape/Phoenix: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=104160169801363w=2 Got a great Mandrake-Linux tip bookmarked? Send it to me and I'll include it in my newbie tips fortune file! -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Card
I have the same exact card and it has no problems what so ever in linux. And I too purchased it for T2...but now I am addicted to Bzflags! LOL Follow the instructions on the nvidia site for installing the drivers for it and you shouldn't have any problems. If you do, write back and we can help ya out. Good Luck/ On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:49:45 -0800 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a NVidia Geforce 2 64 meg card. I have to get anther card for another of my computers. I thought about getting one that is more compatible with Linux and putting it in this machine and putting the Geforce 2 in the other. Can anyone recommend a comparable card that does good with games as well? I purchased this Geforce2 card specifically so I could play Tribes 2. Thanks Russ -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet security Mandrake 9.0
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:58:28 +0100 Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my PC, that is connected to my internet provider via an ADSL USB modem. I don't have a network, just a simple PC. The security level was put to 'high' during installation, but I don't know at all to what extend I am protected against what. But I am online during many hours a day and I guess hat this makes security more and more important. I delved through many internet pages dealing with firewall and security information but they very often deal with setting up a firewall for computer on a network. Does anyone know where to find information about configuring security on a single PC? Howdy, I recently had problems with the security level I was using (msec level 4) - that level did work for me once when I had a computer setup to only be a firewall/router protecting our local home network. No other services except Internet Conenction Sharing were supplied by that computer to the local network in the house so it worked fine. BTW, I also ran a firewall in that setup in case you were wondering. However, when I attempted to use the same computer for a firewall/router AND samba file sharing - samba was not able to share the files to the local network. Level 4 - which I believe from your post you are not using, blocks any local services from that computer configured as such to the network. From Derek J.'s post to my recent issue with msec level 4 and samba, I learned there are ways to open up services like samba...but I had no luck. Your results may vary if you choose that level. FYI, the description of level 4 in text was called Higher- just below Paranoid(level 5) The description Mandrake provides for msec levels made me think level 4 was what I wanted/needed - ie; #1 the firewall/router is a server and #2 it is always connected to the internet. What I ended up doing is dropping down to level 3 (High) and now samba is happily sharing files across the local network. Level 3 is what I use for my p.c. also and I have gotten used to any odd things there may be. To me, it is acting like a normal Linux system should, but then I have never tried level 2 so I cannot compare it. I choose to keep level 3 for my p.c. and it works for me. I would prefer to go back to level 4 for our firewall/router someday, but I am a guy who learns well from reading about success stories or well explained howto's - of which it is slim pickens for msec itself. man mseclib does give some good info though, along with the links Derek posted already (forgive me if I forgot that somebody else has posted a link) IMO, level 3 is just about right for your setup - along with a good set of firewall rules, then again - what ever works for you should be good. Just remember to keep a firewall going on your system, even if you do not have a network to protect. You need to guard against somebody gaining access to your p.c. and using it to their advantage. Just my 2 cents worth (ok, maybe 3 or 4) Good luck Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] msec level 4 and samba help
Howdy list members, I recently merged our home firewall/router and fileserver into one computer using mandrake 9.0 (with latest updates). Because I am not sure if I should use a lower level of msec, I set it to 4 because of the recommendations given during the install stating that was level to choose for a server. Now we do not have any thing secret or worth hacking into and just to be safe we are not hiding any plans for weapons of mass destruction on it either in case GWB is a member here (like yeah right!) so is it really worth while keeping it on msec level 4? BTW, we are on a cable connection here 24/7/365 and I am using Firestarter for the firewall which nmap'ing from the outside shows it is doing it's job. The problem I am having now, is that samba is installed and is allowing users into their home directories and allows other M$ clients to see the other shared folders - just not any of the files in those folders. The shared files/folders are located in /mnt/shared which shouldn't be a problem right? The samba log for moms computer shows; [2003/01/21 20:30:51, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(599) moms (192.168.1.252) Can't change directory to /mnt/shared/southpark (Permission denied) Before merging the two servers together, I had samba configured with just individual users...since this problem has arised, I have created a smbusers group and added all users to that section in /etc/group and changed ownership of all shares except homes to smbusersstill no go Just a few mins ago, I found (serious newbie here!) a file; /etc/security/fileshare.conf which has one line in it which reads; RESTRICT=yes Does anybody know if having msec level 4 interfers with file sharing with samba? If so, is it possible to change the above mentioned file to read RESTRICT=no and also be able to keep msec level 4? Or should I downgrade to level 3? Or should I just give up and go out and empty my wallet for uncle Billy and go back to M$? Smacking me upside the head and flaming welcomed here to get my senses back! BTW, with the old setup when the fileserver was its own entity, filesharing worked like a charm and I ended up reusing all the old smb conf files...modified for the new network setup...apparently not enough yet though. If I need to I can post any thing to help with this...but I believe it to be a file owner/permission problems...of which I have tried to fix via opening up ports 137, 138 and 139 on the firewall (no good) changed owner ship to smbusers (no go) and even set all shares read/write/execute (no go) TIA for any suggestions or advise Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what do I need to do to get rc.firewall loaded upon bootup?
On 18 Jan 2003 16:42:23 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or you can link the script to the rc.local - so after the rc.local fires up, it'll fire up the rc.firewall as well (I tend to put everything I want started in my rc.local as it's all in one place, easily found, and easily troubleshooted...) I tired adding /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall into rc.local...the logs indicate it started to load rc.firewall, but it konked out part way thru and sharing the internet for the rest of the house quit working. Took that entry out of rc.local, rebooted (slap my hands) and then ran /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall from a terminal and all is good again. Stephen, are you refering to linking the two files by ls -s /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall /etc.rc.d/rc.local (may be way off here!) or something like this? Thanks Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what do I need to do to get rc.firewall loaded upon bootup?
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:03:04 +1300 Sharrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # chkconfig --add /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall # chkconfig --level 345 /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall on the 2nd line starts your firewall in run levels 3, 4 and 5. HTH Sharrea Something isn't right here; [root@internet steve]# chkconfig --add /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall error reading information on service /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall: No such file or directory[root@internet steve]# ls /etc/rc.d init.d/ rc0.d/ rc2.d/ rc4.d/ rc6.d/rc.local*rc.sysinit* rc* rc1.d/ rc3.d/ rc5.d/ rc.firewall* rc.modules* Am showing a listing for that directory to show that rc.firewall is there. Maybe chkconfig has an option for stating/starting files rather than a service? Doesn't show anything in man chkconfig... Thought maybe the group (owner?) was hosed up on rc.firewall; [root@internet steve]# ls -g /etc/rc.d total 92 drwxr-x---2 adm 4096 Jan 18 02:04 init.d/ -rwxr-xr-x1 root 4321 Nov 18 21:46 rc* drwxr-xr-x2 root 4096 Jan 18 02:02 rc0.d/ drwxr-xr-x2 root 4096 Jan 18 02:02 rc1.d/ drwxr-xr-x2 root 4096 Jan 18 02:02 rc2.d/ drwxr-xr-x2 root 4096 Jan 18 02:02 rc3.d/ drwxr-xr-x2 root 4096 Jan 18 02:02 rc4.d/ drwxr-xr-x2 root 4096 Jan 18 02:02 rc5.d/ drwxr-xr-x2 root 4096 Jan 18 02:02 rc6.d/ -rwxr-xr-x1 root 9969 Jan 17 20:26 rc.firewall* -rwxr-xr-x1 root 1636 Jan 18 08:50 rc.local* -rwxr-xr-x1 root 483 Nov 18 21:46 rc.modules* -rwxr-xr-x1 root32676 Nov 18 21:46 rc.sysinit* Any comments anybody? Ugh, I know this is something that should be so simple. -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Here Here! I will gladly help M$ with this one! TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Documentation
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:15:25 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I have seen some documentation on sharing a printer with Windows, but I can't find it. I have the printer set up in samba, and it is seen on the windows box OK. Now I need to know what to do at the win98 end. Can anyone point me at suitable docs? Anne What has always worked for me in setting up network printers is to just double-click on them inside of network neighborhood, and it will ask you if you want to install the drivers for it. Anne, could you please post your printer section of smb.conf? I have set up file sharing which works great, but for some reason the printer doesn't work. At the windows end, the printer states it is offline. Thanks Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Selective download of mail/filtering on server
Dunno where I'd be without ya Todd! Am filing this away as a keeper! Thanks for finding this out, I too am using the same version of Sylpheed. Steve On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:45:52 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I lost the thread where this was being discussed, but I was poking around Sylpheed because I was pretty sure that it can do just about everything(and fast). S, under Configuration Preferences for Current Account (assuming it's POP or IMAP), you have these options: Remove messages on server when received Remove after _ days Download all messages on server Use filtering rules with Selective Download Remove mail after downloading with Selective Download Receive size limit _ KB Then, Tools Selective Download brings up a box that lets you preview new and/or all messages on the server. You can choose to delete them from the server without downloading them, or download them on an individual basis. I'm using Sylpheed-Claws 0.8.5. Hope that can be of use, I'm forever trying to preach the virtues of Sylpheed :) Todd -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ximian red carpet
I tried it back when I had Mandrake 8.2, and at first it was ok, till I noticed it completely wiped out the stock menu entries for Gnome. At the time there wasn't a fix for it, so I did a complete reinstall to get rid of it. Things may have changed since then. I for one will never give it another shot. Good Luck Steve On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:29:11 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have anyone use this? It is worth downloading? Does it play well with mandrake9? cheers, filipe -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ximian red carpet
On 10 Jan 2003 14:53:41 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being that the Mandrake menu system - for all WM's installed - excluding XFCE - are all attempting to make it so that you don't have to edit menus, you MAY loose something there - but editing a menu ain't all that hard, is it guys? One or two, maybe 10 menu entries I can handle, but it wiped out everything and replaced them with what it thought was supposed to be there. I completely changed over to Fluxbox and Roxfiler now so I wouldn't attempt it anyways. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Anne, As root, did you do a updatedb in a terminal afterwards? Somebody else had asked this, but you did not mention it here. Haven't tried Kaspersky myself. Steve On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:08:14 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone installed this? I have their windows version on all the lan machines, and wanted to take a look at the linux one. I installed, as I thought, from the Mdk discs. It said it installed, but I simply can't find it. locate returns nothing. KDE's find file finds a couple of .pdf entries in the thumbnails folder, but can't open them, saying that they are not true pdf files - if they are thumbnails, that would figure. Nothing else is found. Anne -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis
Sorry David and Stephen (and any other list members who are interested in seeing it) I was one of those people who went the first night it was released here in the states...and when I got the chance I checked to see if anything had been posted on the web. I realized that nobody wants to hear about a movie before they go to see it and kept any *specific* details about the movie out of my posts. I had heard about what I posted before - before the movie even came out - so I was under the impression it had been leaked out all over the place. My bad. On 05 Jan 2003 15:12:41 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 13:55, David E. Fox wrote: I had heard a cast member was going to be killed off...from the looks of it Will was going to be it. LOL I actually cried when that cast member spoiler :( We here in Australia ain't got it even coming yet - and being a Trekkie, I hope THAT NO ONE TELLS ME ANYMORE... (Dang, that's like falling in love with the town whore...you hear about it before ya gets it...) -- Sun Jan 5 15:10:00 EST 2003 3:10pm up 18:18, 6 users, load average: 1.35, 0.86, 0.79 kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com - stephen kuhn - katherine kuhn - berkeley, nsw, au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 5483808 - mobile: 0410-728-389 -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Warning to sender. ScanMail detected a virus in an email attachment you sent. You are an idiot! You have deleted a correctly-written important shell-script. You, again, are an IDIOT, IDIOT, IDIOT, IDIOT, creep. - Richard B. Johnson on linux-kernel -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - installing mdk rpm's
From Minnesota (still) here, I have considered the prospect of moving down under but seems there are some strict rules in place in which Aussies will only allow certain people to move there - something about the technical (or lack of) jobs. Not counting the cost! On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 17:49:46 +1300 Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still OT here, but I am an American who emmigrated to New Zealand and now I am also a New Zealander. I have been here 7.5 years now. I call myself a Yankiwi though I am no american patriot, I can tell you that. It seems most of the smart Americans - leave. =) Just out of interest, where are other list members from?? Regards, Jason Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 15:02, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Sab 04 Jan 2003 23:44, Aurélio Diniz wrote: TKS! Although I'm brazilian I couldn't understand your phrase right away... ;-) That's something like people from Australia They say they speak English but. ;-) No offense please! ;-)) Being an American that has moved to Australia permanently, I've witnessed and now live with different English - it ain't Yank-glish, and it ain't POM-glish...it's definitely a world of it's own... Just tell us how you (Portuguese people) call the waiter in restaurants!(survival language for non-portuguese people) ;-))) Yeah, this' gonna be interestin'! Cordiais saudações! rgs, Ricardo Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Msec security configuration
Sorry Mike S., I should have started my own thread, and it seems you have started another for your PROMISC_CHECK issue. What I am trying to do is disable password_aging while using msec level 4. Michael A. thanks for the reply, but I did read up on man mseclib first and this is how it describes the password_aging variable; password_aging(max, inactive=-1) Set password aging to max days and delay to change to inactive Of coarse at the beginning of the document it mentions this: The first argument of the functions takes a value of 1 or 0 or -1 (or yes/no/ignore) except when specified otherwise. Naturally I tried password_aging-1 first. Then I checked my logs and it appeared to not have changed. So I tried other variations, password_aging(-1) password_aging=-1 with no luck. Either it changed it one of those times, and just did not report it correctly. Does anybody know the correct way to define this variable? My other possibility is to enter it into another file (which I forget but can look it up again) but would like to try and use /etc/security/msec/level.local first since that is what man mseclib says to do. What I have done for now is to use password_aging(9) in level.local but again the logs do not show the change taking effect after restarting msec. Any advise? TIA Steve On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 00:46:54 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man mseclib It sort of went over my head but seems to have what you want. Perhaps a python eggspurt may jump in here. On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 18:01, Steve Jeppesen wrote: hehe, I was just attempting to do something like this, but from what I was reading tonight, you need to create /etc/security/msec/level.local which would contain PROMISC_CHECK=yes then restart msec by typing msec in a terminal I may be wrong in that level.local might be for a higher security level...anyone care to comment? On a side note (sorry for including my problem) I am using msec level 4, and want to disable password_aging. I have tried adding password_aging(-1) password_aging-1 password_aging=-1 to my level.local file, but none of those seem to be working - the way I am checking is cd'ing into /var/log and running grep msec messages which reports password_aging is still set to 60/30 (60 days for current, 30 for new user) Hopefully Mike, we can solve both of these questions the same manner. On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:05:52 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I want to customize my msec level 3 security settings.Specifically I want to enable PROMISC_CHECK=yes in /etc/security/msec/security.conf.How do I make these changes take hold after editing the file?Do I need to use mseclib?=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Kernel-2.4.18-8.1mdk Linux user #298896 Thu Jan 2 23:05:37 EST 2003 11:05pm up 2 days, 1:14, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Homepage: http://micronuke.tripod.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Last week's pet, this week's special. -- Michael -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Msec security configuration
hehe, I was just attempting to do something like this, but from what I was reading tonight, you need to create /etc/security/msec/level.local which would contain PROMISC_CHECK=yes then restart msec by typing msec in a terminal I may be wrong in that level.local might be for a higher security level...anyone care to comment? On a side note (sorry for including my problem) I am using msec level 4, and want to disable password_aging. I have tried adding password_aging(-1) password_aging-1 password_aging=-1 to my level.local file, but none of those seem to be working - the way I am checking is cd'ing into /var/log and running grep msec messages which reports password_aging is still set to 60/30 (60 days for current, 30 for new user) Hopefully Mike, we can solve both of these questions the same manner. On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:05:52 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I want to customize my msec level 3 security settings.Specifically I want to enable PROMISC_CHECK=yes in /etc/security/msec/security.conf.How do I make these changes take hold after editing the file?Do I need to use mseclib?=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Kernel-2.4.18-8.1mdk Linux user #298896 Thu Jan 2 23:05:37 EST 2003 11:05pm up 2 days, 1:14, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Homepage: http://micronuke.tripod.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Last week's pet, this week's special. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:08:59 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hehe, we're all newbies here (at least almost all). Perhaps others with chip in with ideas that you could try for me, but for the moment, could you please run cdroast --scanbus and post up the output? It may help to see if your camera is recognised there. I understand that others have found their cameras listed there. Anne, I tried cdroast --scanbus and; [steve@dads steve]$ cdroast --scanbus bash: cdroast: command not found Even tried to install cdroast via rpmdrake and nothing was found. Here is the out put though of cdrecord -scanbus; [steve@dads steve]$ cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 9100 ' '1.0c' Removable CD-ROM 0,3,0 3) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 250 ' '51.G' Removable Disk 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'FUJIFILM' 'USB-DRIVEUNIT ' '1.00' Removable Disk 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * Just incase, here is my fstab; /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /enddrive ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera vfat user,defaults 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user ,nodev 0 0/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 192.168.0.247:/music /music nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 192.168.0.247:/shared /shared nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0 192.168.0.247:/southpark /southpark nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 output of lsmod as root; [root@dads steve]# lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: P nls_cp437 4348 0 (autoclean) sg 31276 0 (autoclean) usb-storage51952 0 NVdriver 1065920 10 (autoclean) sd_mod 11788 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused) floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) lp 6720 0 parport_pc 21672 1 parport23936 1 [lp parport_pc] nfs67328 4 (autoclean) lockd 46480 1 (autoclean) [nfs] sunrpc 60188 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd] es1371 26568 0 soundcore 3780 0 [es1371] ac97_codec 9928 0 [es1371] gameport1660 0 [es1371] af_packet 13000 2 (autoclean) ip_vs 74328 0 (autoclean) ipchains 39656 0 (unused) 3c59x 27184 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean) nls_cp850 3580 1 (autoclean) vfat9588 1 (autoclean) fat31864 0 (autoclean) [vfat] ide-cd 28712 0 cdrom 26848 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi8212 0 scsi_mod 90372 5 [sg usb-storage sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi] usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused) usbcore58304 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) ext3 74004 2 jbd38452 2 [ext3] Here is what my /etc/modules show; # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. scsi_hostadapter Anything else I am forgetting here? What next? p.s., sorry it took so long to get back to you, was a rough day/night yesterday ;) -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
Another thought Anne, I have the Finepix S303 so I am assuming your camera is close to the same. Last night I found out the camera is supposed to be in DSC USB mode when you plug it in. I was thinking to myself that it always is in DSC USB mode so I never thought anything about it. When I was going thru the menu on the camera, I found a setting in which the USB mode could be changed to PC Cam is it possible your camera is set to PC Cam instead of DSC? Pulling straws here! Happy New Year! Steve On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:35:15 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 Dec 2002 4:32 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: Ok, my problem was that instead of /dev/sda1, it needs to be listed in fstab as /dev/sdb1...discovered that by accident after doing a cdrecord-scanbus with the camera turned on. It now (sound of knocking on wood here) remembers the settings and I have a little icon setup on my Roxfiler panel, just plug the camera in, click the icon and wait for a few seconds and Gqview pops up with the pics ready to be viewed. Sorry if this is a hijack - cdrecord -scanbus doesn't appear to see my camera at all. It's a FinePix S304 with xD memory. Anyone any ideas? Anne -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
Ok, my problem was that instead of /dev/sda1, it needs to be listed in fstab as /dev/sdb1...discovered that by accident after doing a cdrecord -scanbus with the camera turned on. It now (sound of knocking on wood here) remembers the settings and I have a little icon setup on my Roxfiler panel, just plug the camera in, click the icon and wait for a few seconds and Gqview pops up with the pics ready to be viewed. I usually do not reboot my system either (I leave it on 24/7) I had just not remembered themount -a command and thanks to windoze for starting me on this habit - I ended up rebooting. As for that move command in your script I had mentioned earlier, I think it would be best to leave it as a copy command instead. I haven't used the camera enough yet to figure out how to delete individual pics yet...I just do a format of the memory (that is how the camera lists the action) and all the pics are deleted. Again, thanks alot Todd for supplying that script! I am telling everybody that it was actually easier to get the camera working in linux compared to windoze! (Well, they don't really need to know of my noob expriences in trying to get it to work!) Only problem - more of a distaste - with windoze was all the ok or next button clicking, and of coarse the complementary Windows needs to be rebooted in order to finish installing your software thing. On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:00:32 -0500 Todd Slater wrote: Steve- comments mixed in. On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:21:40 -0600 Steve Jeppesen wrote: Thanks for the update Todd, tried the previous script out last night and it works great! 'Cept for I still have a problem where after a reboot, my system did not remember that I had the camera connected to the usb port - so I had to reboot once more with the camera connected then it worked. (Fuji Finepix A303 for those interested) I don't reboot much, and don't have any other usb devices. I leave the usb cable plugged in to the puter, then when I hook up the camera, I turn it on in play mode (ready for transfer) and run the script. It always recognizes the device. I wonder why yours forgets? Todd, is it possible to replace the copy command in your script to a move command? I would like the photos to be wiped out after the process runs. I have not looked into your script to actually see what is going on, but just noticed the pics were still on the camera afterwards. I'm not sure about that--when I mount the camera, it is read-only; I honestly haven't tried a move because I was paranoid about the script not working and losing the pictures. I use the camera's erase all feature to clear the card (mine's a FinePix 4700). I'll give it a shot and see what happens. Todd Thanks again, Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] howto configure synaptic apt-get to run as user?
Merry Christmas list members, I am running Fluxbox windowmanager with Roxfiler filemanager (using a panel launcher for common apps) and my question is, how can I configure something like synaptic apt-get to run from a icon on the panel as a user? Apt-get requires root priv's to run. The icon I have now just attempts to run /usr/sbin/synaptic, which I receive a error msg stating only root can run synaptic. MandrakeUpdate requires root priv's for example, and when it is run as a user, it prompts me for the root password. Is there a script (which I wouldn't know how to create) or a link or... which I could do in order for synaptic to run? I checked my menus to see what was configured for synaptic to run, and it shows for the command to run as; kdesu /user/sbin/synaptic which does not work for the icon I created on my panel. TIA for any help or ideas Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] synaptic apt-get reports conflict between iptables and ipchains
I recently installed apt-get after reading about it through the list here. Great program, but I have not attempted to even fix the things it is reporting as broken. The main one I am concerned about is that it states there is a conflict between ipchains and iptables - which I would have thought when I installed MD 9.0, it would have stated something about those two do not go together. I did not install either ipchains or iptables -after- installing 9.0, I installed them during the main installation. If there was a conflict, shouldn't it have caught it then? I understand iptables are the most current set of firewall control varibles, and ipchains is older...so I should be able to uninstall ipchains - right? My goal is to end up configuring apt-get to automatically keep my system up to date, but before I set it up as such (if I can? LOL) I want to get my system in tip top shape. The system I am referring to here is my personal p.c. - the network itself is protected on the internet router/firewall computerwhich I think is also running ipchains along side iptables. I understand there may not really be a need to run a firewall on my p.c. - just taking the stance of it doesn't hurt to have a main firewall/router protecting the network, and on all Windoze p.c.'s within the network are running Zone Alarm as back up protection...thus I have installed (but never really changed any configuration) iptables and ipchains on my mandrake p.c. Excuse me if I give a little too much info, never sure what exactly is needed so I blab blab blab LOL TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital cameras
Anne, Sorry if you had posted this and/or noticed something like this but did you try and plug the camera into a usb slot and reboot? I had set up my fstab according to the instructions I believe Todd posted (create a fstab entry with /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat noauto,owner,ro,user 0 0) and the Newbie that I am, forgot how to restart fstab with mount -a so I just rebooted with the camera on and plugged in. Somehow my system created an entry for it automatically - BUT a slightly different entry (check below for /dev/sdb1) I am expreiencing some problems now, but will try and figure it out before I post anything specific to my probs. Just wondering if your system is doing something like this, and maybe you are not choosing the right /dev/sdxx. This sounds close to what I was asking before, but different in that if you tried booting once with it plugged in, see what your fstab looks like afterwards. It sounds as if maybe you are trying this - but try to disconnect all usb devices and see if that works. Then add them back in one at a time till everything works. Below is my fstab (sort of ugly from the copy/paste); /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /enddrive ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user ,nodev 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat noauto,owner,ro,user 0 0 192.168.0.247:/music /music nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 192.168.0.247:/shared /shared nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0 192.168.0.247:/southpark /southpark nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Any thoughts? Steve On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:05:11 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 5:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: next I have created a directory to mount the camera: mkdir -m 777 /mnt/camera As soon I plug the camera, I can mount as root the pictures on the camera: mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera And one new directory appears into /mnt/camera with a subdirectory that show the pictures. In every case I use directly an usb port, not a usb-hub. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Interval: 1ms I wonder if there is a problem with having more than 1 usb-storage device plugged in at once? While I'm trying to cover all the options I'll unplug the LS120 drive. I've been reluctant to do that because of previous problems, but I'm sure it will be sortable again. Anne I have unpowered the LS120 drive, so it shouldn't be visible to the system now. That leaves just the camera, so I expected it to be mounted as sda. So: [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/camera mount: Cannot allocate memory [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sdb /mnt/camera mount: No medium found [root@anne-linux anne]# usb-view shows: Vendor: (null) Bus: USB Location on the bus: 0:11a Description: Module: unknown Media class: Mass Storage|SFF-8070i It appears that both usb-view and MCC Hardware List are aware of its existence, but don't really understand what it is. Sadly, I'm beaten for now. Until someone has any more ideas, I'll have to give it up. I'm sickened about this, though. Slow as it was, the old camera plugged in under gPhoto. I hate going back to windows to get my pics, but I guess I have no choice right now. Anne -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Commands for the Newbie List
I filter the entire list into one folder called Newbie (orig. huh? LOL) but filter threads within? Is there another filter which can be put in place? All I do is click the subject button above all the emails, and it sort of filters by subject - not very effective though. Using Sylpheed 0.8.5claws here. Another filter I would like to use is something like, if I have not marked (right now, by color marking) a message, I would like it to be deleted after a week has gone by since the message was received. Does anybody know how to do that? Haven't been able to figure that one out. Thanks Steve On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:20:42+ Anne Wilson[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think digest mode is an option. What most of us do is filter the list's emails, so that you can decide which threads you want to follow Anne -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Commands for the Newbie List
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:01:00 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another filter I would like to use is something like, if I have not marked (right now, by color marking) a message, I would like it to be deleted after a week has gone by since the message was received. Does anybody know how to do that? Haven't been able to figure that one out. That would be more difficult, I think, since filters are generally applied only on incoming mail. I presume you are thinking about messages already downloaded? If not, KMail can filter on age in days. KMail has an option to 'apply on manual filtering' but I've never worked out how to use manual filtering :) Anne Got it to work on another, less important folder! Not too sure when it runs though. I tried to manually apply filters, and that did not work. But when I restarted (damn windoze habit!) Sylpheed, it deleted all messages that were two days old. In Sylpheed, you can right-click on the folder and choose Processing, and then it is sort of laid out the same way as creating a filter. Now I will just have to customize it so it does not delete the ones I have marked - perhaps I will have to mark them differently than with colors. Gotta Luv Linuxnow if I can get Linux to do my dishes I would be set! -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanjet 3200c almost working...
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 20:34:34 +0100 Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no need, anymore: two years after my first attempt, IT WORKS! :-D Now, apart from just one thing I can't avoid using $windows$ for... I'll be happy if there's a way to scan whitout root permission; of course Xsane prompt it is dangerous to run the frontend as superuser, but it also the only way to make it works; I was suggested to enable the net access option in dll.conf; the option is on, but now I don't know what to do :-/ Smiley (now way more :-)) Way to go! Could you take the time here and document what you did to get it working please? I have the HP 3300c and never got it to work either. I have been reading along about this, but nothing looked familier to the steps I made my attempt on about year ago. TIA if you can Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
Thanks for the update Todd, tried the previous script out last night and it works great! 'Cept for I still have a problem where after a reboot, my system did not remember that I had the camera connected to the usb port - so I had to reboot once more with the camera connected then it worked. (Fuji Finepix A303 for those interested) Todd, is it possible to replace the copy command in your script to a move command? I would like the photos to be wiped out after the process runs. I have not looked into your script to actually see what is going on, but just noticed the pics were still on the camera afterwards. Thanks again, Steve On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:53:31 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:41:47 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Todd, Sorry, I should have done a search on getpix - I would have found that you have posted this info already. I will take some pics today and try out your script tonight. p.s., I like the sound of mount /mnt/fuji too! LOL No problem. I just added the option to rename pictures using -n flag, so if you call it like ./getpix.sh -n birthday2002, pictures will be named birthday2002-001.jpg, birthday2002-002.jpg etc. Plus I cleaned up a couple of things. http://clevername.homeip.net/getpix Regarding the mounting, I read up on it and it seems that you have to use the long version (-t vfat . . . ) if you don't have an entry for the camera in/etc/fstab, but if you do have an entry in /etc/fstab, you don't need to use the long version. Todd On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:00:50 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:03:11 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have searched the archives and cannot locate who sent this script. I have a question about the part of the script which mounts the camera... CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your camera (this used to read CAM=/mnt/fuji I think) and later in the script it mounts the camera (i think) with mount $CAM Is this correct? Seems like it is missing this; -t vfat /dev/sda1 Yes, it works for me; in /etc/fstab I have: /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji vfat user,defaults 0 0 so I can mount the camera with mount /mnt/fuji (I really like the way that sounds, too). Forgive me if I have over looked something. I am off to find out what JHEAD and ImageMagick do. JHEAD can extract the EXIF data, which I always like to use for renaming pictures. I like to rename by date, but I'm working out an option for people who might like to rename by event, like NewYear01.jpg, NewYear02.jpg . . . or something. ImageMagick resizes the images (if you use getpix with the -r option), and creates the index image (if you use the -c option). HTH, Todd TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
Thanks Todd, Sorry, I should have done a search on getpix - I would have found that you have posted this info already. I will take some pics today and try out your script tonight. p.s., I like the sound of mount /mnt/fuji too! LOL On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:00:50 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:03:11 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have searched the archives and cannot locate who sent this script. I have a question about the part of the script which mounts the camera... CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your camera (this used to read CAM=/mnt/fuji I think) and later in the script it mounts the camera (i think) with mount $CAM Is this correct? Seems like it is missing this; -t vfat /dev/sda1 Yes, it works for me; in /etc/fstab I have: /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji vfat user,defaults 0 0 so I can mount the camera with mount /mnt/fuji (I really like the way that sounds, too). Forgive me if I have over looked something. I am off to find out what JHEAD and ImageMagick do. JHEAD can extract the EXIF data, which I always like to use for renaming pictures. I like to rename by date, but I'm working out an option for people who might like to rename by event, like NewYear01.jpg, NewYear02.jpg . . . or something. ImageMagick resizes the images (if you use getpix with the -r option), and creates the index image (if you use the -c option). HTH, Todd TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
I have searched the archives and cannot locate who sent this script. I have a question about the part of the script which mounts the camera... CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your camera (this used to read CAM=/mnt/fuji I think) and later in the script it mounts the camera (i think) with mount $CAM Is this correct? Seems like it is missing this; -t vfat /dev/sda1 Forgive me if I have over looked something. I am off to find out what JHEAD and ImageMagick do. TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital cameras
Anne, for what it is worth, this is what I did in order to get the .jpg and .avi files off my Fuji FinePix A303 (early x-mas gift for the family!) All I had to load was usb-storage, the same other two you have loaded; usb-uhci and usbcore were already loaded - I have no idea about usb-scsi and why it is working for me without it. I created /mnt/camera as stated before (although I am not sure if this was really needed because after a re-boot I had /mnt/removable somehow also) and then while the camera was turned on and connected to the usb port I rebooted. I ran dmesg just to make sure after the system booted up and it did id the Fuji camera. Then I mounted the contents of the cameras memory; mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera (even though while browsing /dev I did not see sda1) and all the .jpg's and 1 .avi file I took with the camera were buried in a couple of sub-folders inside/mnt/camera I have been following the list here on this subject and would not have been able to get as far as I did with out all your help list members. I plan on using the script that someone provided earlier, but noticed I will have to update it to match my requirements. That is another day in the future. Not too sure if this is any help - just pointing out what worked for me. Good Luck. Steve On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:43:54 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 4:30 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 13 Dec 2002 6:36 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Digital cameras OK - I bought the camera and went away for a few days holiday. Now I have to try to get the pics. On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 5:48 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Fuji Finepix runs fine using the usb-storage module. This is the way I configured a Fuji FinePix S602 to run under Mandrake 9.0 via usb A) Be sure you have the next modules loaded: usb usb-core usb-storage usb-scsi How do I check if these are loaded? Do lsmod in a console It seems I have usb-storage usb-uhci (unused) usbcore [usb-storage printer usb-uhci] So if I need usb and usb-scsi how do I get them running? I thought maybe the Services menu would list them and I would need to start them, but they don't seem to be there. I've no more ideas on how to go about this. I'm also very confused about how Mdk handles these special devices. I wrote to this list that I had lost my LS120 which had been sda, and it stayed lost for some considerable time (by which I had got desperate enough to start a paid Expert session, though that has not got me any replies), but coming back yesterday I find it is recognised again. There are some problems, which I'll tackle in another thread, but I can't understand what has changed. After all, I've been away and no-one else has been using the machine. So it begs the question How does a special device get recognised? What can be done to initiate this process? As I said earlier, my LS120 is sda, so I expect the camera will become sdb, but it's not there. Am I presuming wrongly? Should I be looking for something else? Anne Following a comment from John, I tried cat /proc/scsi/scsi with the following result: [root@anne-linux anne]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: CANONModel: IX-27025ERev: 1.13 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: LS-120 VER5 00 Rev: F523 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-48X9TERev: 1.0C Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Model: Rev: Type: NULLANSI SCSI revision: The final entry must be the camera, I think. Under /dev I see my Mitsumi as scd0 and the LS120 as sda. I have had no success yet with the Canon - that can wait until later. Does this output give any pointers as to where I should find it? Anne -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital cameras
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 22:29:22 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comments in-line snip dmesg seems to see it, it certainly lists enough devices, but doesn't seem to know much about them. The 4-port hub has printer, scanner, LS120 drive and now camera. Sorry I cannot help you here, I only have one usb device connected (camera) Because the LS120 is seen as sda I assume that this has to be sdb. Following notes sent to me by John, I created a node sdb. I rebooted with everything plugged in and switched on, but attempts to mount get [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sdb /mnt/camera mount: No medium found I am sooo much a newbie when it comes to Linux, but I was under the impression sda meant special device,... just a guess, but did you try sda1, or sda2 or 3 or 4 even? What about sdd and/or sdd1, 2, 3 or 4? I am just pulling straws here maybe. And also, maybe omitting-t vfat may have something to do with that? Maybe you have done something so you can omit -t vfat when you mount, unknown to me. The out put of dmesg should mean something to someone, so I'm going to quote the part that relates to usb: usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 5 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usbdevfs: remount parameter error usb.c: registered new driver usblp printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide2(33,65), internal journal Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1) hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 2 Adding Swap: 248968k swap-space (priority -2) hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 3 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1/1, assigned device number 4 usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x718/0x2) is not claimed by any active driver. hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1/2, assigned device number 5 printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x3304 hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1/3, assigned device number 6 usb.c: USB device 6 (vend/prod 0x4b8/0x110) is not claimed by any active driver. Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1650 usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: MATSHITA Model: LS-120 VER5 00 Rev: F523 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 ^ this looks like it sees your LS120 to me although I cannot tell why it isn't working. Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Additional sense indicates Medium not present sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 4 USB Mass Storage support registered. scanner.c: 0.4.6:USB Scanner Driver ^scanner Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Disk change detected on device 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Additional sense indicates Medium not present sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Disk change detected on device 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Additional sense indicates Medium not present sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. scsi2 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-48X9TE Rev: 1.0C Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ^cdrom If that is all dmesg is putting out, it looks like it did not find your camera - you have a Fuji also right? Here is what dmesg stated for my camera; scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: FUJIFILM Model: USB-DRIVEUNIT Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 It's clearly not happy about the LS120, which is not working as it
[newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2076592341 Check out this sellers other items using the view sellers other items link on that page Is this a person associated with Mandrake or did this person download the free thing (or even buy one set of disks) then make copies and is selling them? Hate to find out it is the the latter (not associated with Mandrake and is making a buck for themselves) What do you think? Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake
Comments on top... If this person is burning copies off a set of disks and then selling them, isn't that illegal though? I mean I will (and have) burned a set of disks from my copy, then GAVE it to a friend is ok, but selling the high number of sets of disks this person is doing is wrong, **unless** endorsed by Mandrake somehow. Just my 2 cents worth, thus the reason for the first post - I have no idea if this person is legit or not. On 06 Dec 2002 13:05:16 + Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I can say is.. GOOD! It's Free software.. it is supposed to be re-distributable. And doing it in such an easy way makes it more accessible to people. I have a friend who bought Mandrake via ebay (uk) who does not have broadband (I would have burnt them a copy of mine if they had asked!! silly). However.. if Mandrake want to make a bundle selling on ebay.. they can do that too.. given a choice I would then (if I was going to) buy from Mandrake via ebay rather than nameless-person via ebay. On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 13:00, Steve Jeppesen wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2076592341 Check out this sellers other items using the view sellers other items link on that page Is this a person associated with Mandrake or did this person download the free thing (or even buy one set of disks) then make copies and is selling them? Hate to find out it is the the latter (not associated with Mandrake and is making a buck for themselves) What do you think? Steve -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] O.T. - Looks like somebody is making a buck off selling Mandrake
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:32:00 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope...if I have understood GPL correct, you can charge money for burned copies, unless of course Mandrake has some kind of copyright rules that might in that case breach GPL. I might also misunderstand what you are saying completly LOL /Anders Nope, you understand what I am saying, I had the idea though that something like tech support or some kind of service had to be made available in order to make money off anothers effort, in effect changing a bit of what you in the end sell. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 5 stars but ...
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:57:57 -0500 Rainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by all means send the xconfig-4 script and the exact version of the tar file you used. thanks Hope this helpsGood Luck! # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of# the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work#DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Generic ModelName Flat Panel 1024x768 HorizSync 31.5-48.5 VertRefresh 40-70 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) Driver nvidia BusID PCI:0:14:0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer Screen screen1 EndSection -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 5 stars but ...
Sorry, forgot to include the version of tar files I used: Version: 1.0-3123 on both the GLX and kernel files. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk
Ok, I took my own suggestion and attempted importing the windows fonts. After some trial and error, I was able to import the fonts (and after reading your message Derek, I discovered I do not have perlftlib installed???) but now I have a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/tmp directory which appears to hold the exact same contents of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont - my question is does anybody else have this? Can I delete that directory without any problems? I was thinking that maybe during my attempts to import the fonts, somehow I imported twice, and the excess /tmp directory just contains a previous - but apparently successful import. Now the only problem is how to get those fonts into Galeon, or sylpheed. They show up in preferences for gedit, not galeon or sylpheed. What...do I have to reboot or restart x in order for them to show up? On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:13:59 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can import Windows fonts using Samba. Just mount the remote windows directory with Samba and then use the 'Advanced' button in Drakfont to point to individual font files. Or else copy the font files to any media and import from there. NOTE: There is an issue with drakfont - A required RPM often does not get installed. Before importing your Windows fonts make sure you have the perlftlib RPM installed. derek -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk
When I go back into Mandrake control center-system-fonts, they do not show up thru there. I do have the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 directories, and I was able to choose the new fonts in Gedit. Is there another place where I could check? Just thought Galeon and Sylpheed should show the same fonts as Gedit shows under preferences. On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:53:24 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just checked my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont directory, and I do not have a /tmp directory there. I have /ttf /Type1 directories in /drakfont. I don't think I had to reboot to get the fonts to show up in applications. Are they listed in your fonts list? All the best. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] using MS fonts in Mdk
Sorry for not including this earlier, but my Type1 directory is empty, ttf is full of ttf fonts (is that repetition? LOL) and my /drakfont/tmp/ contains various types of fonts, not all ttf. I suspect the import process did not complete itself. Not sure. On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:29:32 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I go back into Mandrake control center-system-fonts, they do not show up thru there. I do have the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 directories, and I was able to choose the new fonts in Gedit. Is there another place where I could check? Just thought Galeon and Sylpheed should show the same fonts as Gedit shows under preferences. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again
I am using Galeon as my web browser, and have this; galeon '%s' in my config for launching an external web browser. From what I understand, galeon launches the web browser, and '%s' adds the link you click on. Hope this works! Myself, am using Sylpheed claws version 0.8.5 As for your address problem, just a guess - but it seems you might already have a newbie entry for @tarazed.demon.co.uk in your address book. Good Luck! Steve On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:28:15 + (GMT) Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting used to Sylpheed now. It still seems a bit awkward compared with the facility of pine and there is one feature (from pine) which I really miss; the ability to double-click on a web link and spawn a browser to access it. In sylpheed the links come up in green, but nothing happens when you click or double-click on them, and there does not seem to be any way to define a default browser in the configuration menu. Perhaps somebody knows a way? The Help option does not - probably still to be written. Using version 0.7.3 under Mandrake 8.2. When I tried to send this using the alias newbie from the address book sylpheed failed to translate to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pine does alias translation without a problem, so I am being forced to revert to pine. -- Len Lawrence -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems Installing NVIDIA drivers on a DELL laptop
Go to step 2. on this page, http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123 and you will find all instructions needed for either src.rpm or tar.gz formats. And it is explained in detail easy enough for a NooB like me to understand! In fact, I bookmark that web page so I can refer to it in case I forget how to install src.rpm's or tar.gz for any install (other than Nvidia) - granted, that some tar.gz's for example do install slightly different. But, that is why there is a README file (or an INSTALL file) included in most installations that will explain what exactly needs to be done. Myself, I use vi README or vi INSTALL to actually read those files - but you may not actually need to open either of those files. Nvidia explains everything for you on that web page. Good luck and if you need any more help just ask. Steve On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:25:06 +0100 Aguet, Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so I downloaded all .src.rpm or tar ball for sources packages... but unfortunately I'm really bad at that and don't know how to compile them. if you can put me on the track, then I may success into this. TIA Peter -Original Message- From: Sekurity Wizard To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/1/2002 4:03 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Problems Installing NVIDIA drivers on a DELL laptop Make DANG SURE you're doing the compile from source option. I did, works like a charm ;) -Original Message- From: Aguet, Pierre [mailto:Pierre.Aguet;btgppt.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:39 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Problems Installing NVIDIA drivers on a DELL laptop Dear all, I'm trying to setup MK 9.0 on a DELL C840 laptop. The onboard card is a Nvidia GeForce 4 440 with 64MB DDR RAM and the LCD screen is able to 1600-1200 / 32 bit color. I downloaded the drivers from Nvidia, but I'm not able to set them up. Does anyone did this setup before? TIA Peter message.footer -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] blocking popup windows using Guidescope or Junkbusters
Hello list, I am curious if anybody is using either of these programs to block popups on a firewall/router? I am currently using MD8.2 as a firewall/router to share our cable connection with clients running MD 9.0, Win98se2 and WinMe and would like to know if anybody has any prefs or things to watch out for when installing and setting up either of those programs. My goal is to set up either of these programs on the firewall/router and have it block popups for all the clients. Is there anything else out there that someone would recommend over these programs? TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] blocking popup windows using Guidescope or Junkbusters
Thank you for your help Dave, I now have Privoxy up and running and so far so good! I did have to update chkconfig and install rpm-helper in order to install the privoxy rpm you sent me. I just have to figure out a way of using privoxy without hampering my daughters web creation process! I do not feel like adding a new allow rule everytime she creates a java script popup for her web page. Back to the books - or rather www.privoxy.org! Thanks again Steve On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 18:32:32 +0100 dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will privatly send you the rpm i have for Privoxy, Mandrake. I also had the same problem with downloading the source from the website. -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install problems of either Rox filer 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 on MD 9.0
Hello list, I made the jump up to 9.0 hoping that I would be able to install rox with no problems...however that is not the case. I downloaded both rox-1.3.3-1mdk.src.rpm and rox-1.3.4-1mdk.src.rpm (1.3.4 being a cooker package). First I ran rpm --rebuild rox-1.3.3-1mdk.src.rpm (and also tried the same for 1.3.4) and then I ran rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586/rox-1.3.3-1mdk.i586.rpm (same for 1.3.4) and received this error message from both versions; error: failed dependencies: shared-mime-info = 0.8 is needed by rox-1.3.3-1mdk Sooo, off I went in search of shared-mime-info = 0.8 and found 0.9 and installed that and still am receiving that same error message. I thought I had seen this solution in an earlier thread having to deal with Nautilus, but cannot find it. Was it an rpm -option that I could use? Or was it I had to download the rox package from the Mandrakeclub? I believe I found the rox packages at rpmfind.net. My goal is to use Fluxbox as a window manager with Rox as a file manager so I can create icons on the desktop. Anybody know of a work-around or something else I could use with Fluxbox so I can place icons on my desktop? TIA Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MD 9.0 installed without a hitch!!!
Sorry for wasting bandwidth, but just wanted to yell from the tallest building around...NO PROBS installing MD 9.0! And that was on a computer which I built from scratch a few yrs back (which I might add, I tried RH back then and could not get that working) It is a P2, 400Mhz, 128 megs - and will be doing time as a file server, 24/7/365. I am impressed! First time installing Linux (any type) without a hitch! Went out and bought a 60 gig hard drive, the salesman at Best Buy came up and asked me if I needed any help (and quite frankly, I knew what I was looking for) so I asked him what do you have that is Linux compatible Any guesses as to his reply? And the amount of time it took him to come up with an answer? LMAO That shut him up - and chased him away! So, that makes 4 systems currently running Mandrake in the house, (out of 7) of which two are dual-boot (wife's computer is one, the other is the Internet server... only reason for the net server dual-booting is because of the possibility of tech support from our ISP) Half way there to a $!ken Micro$oft-free home network! Do you Yahooo -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HOWTO compile kernel FAQ's for Mandrake on the web?
After reading up I decided not to mess with something that already works just fine ;) Thank you for that pointer Tom. Steve On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:12:44 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday September 24 2002 06:54 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: Hello all, in preparing for MD 9.0, I am looking for any howto's, faq's or anything that lists all the steps needed for compiling a kernel specifically for Mandrake on the web (or blush is the howto already on my system?) Good place to start ;) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/index.html#ku -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Mirror (d/l file size limit using MD 8.2?) (SOLVED...sort of)
I ended up using LinNeighborhood and sharing my wifes hard drive I was able to copy the last two iso files to my computerstill interested as to any suggestions to my problems though! I am thinking there might have been a timeout setting in my samba which prevented copying the files from her computer to mine. Thanks to all who replied. steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Mirror (d/l file size limit using MD 8.2?)
Does anybody know if there is a setting in MD 8.2 which limits file size when downloading? I have used Galeon and Gftp, and they both make it up to approx. 102,400,000 bytes then they just crash or exit. I have attempted CD1 and CD2 thru a couple of different mirrors - including this one provided by Michael. At first I thought it was my firewall - also MD 8.2, but on another computer in the house runing M$ 98 and using IE (may have to install CuteFTP) I am not having any issue with file size and it is still d/ling as I write this. I have plenty of space left - over 5 gigs on my harddrive so that isn't the problem. Anybody else experiencing this, or know what I can do? Thanks alot for any help provided. Steve On 25 Sep 2002 22:37:05 -0400 Michael Notforyou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://serve1.josepablo.net/mandrake/ -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HOWTO compile kernel FAQ's for Mandrake on the web?
Hello all, in preparing for MD 9.0, I am looking for any howto's, faq's or anything that lists all the steps needed for compiling a kernel specifically for Mandrake on the web (or blush is the howto already on my system?) I have found some links, but it seems each one contains different steps/commands from the other links, and I believe that each link I found is for older kernels and or other versions of linux. Am currently using MD 8.2 on a Dell Optiplex, P3-500mhz with no problems, just interested in optimizing the kernel. Can anybody point this NooB in the right direction? TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble receiving email....
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:12:30 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Maybe their reply got sent to /dev/null like all the missing posts ;-) Didn't think of that one! LOL -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No luck for linux
What did you use (exact name of program) to download those two .iso files? Wouldn't surprise me if AOL has something to do with it. What is the exact wording or the errors you get - including the exact name of something? Buying it doesn't sound like it will provide you a solution, other than using their tech support to help you get it running. I have been using Linux since 6.X Read Hat - switched to Mandrake when RH 7.2 wouldn't install (did I choose the easy route by switching dists?) and have had ocassional problems burning cd's. Most of the time it turned out to be using the wrong program to download it. BTW, been a 100% Linux user for about a year now...dumped M$ back then completey - not saying I know even 2% of what I am doing with this current O.S., just saying if I can do it anybody can! Ya just have to give the exact wording to your problems for anybody to throw you some help that might (should) help you out. Hang in there - it will be worth it. Steve On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:53:22 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh well.. I downloaded Mandrake 9.0 beta 4 CD-1, and CD-2. CD-1 burned fine at 2x but i get an error message saying: Error in stage 2 of exec or something, and then it says: cannot execute the command /something/ something/runinstall2. Fatal error in Stage 1: Not in directory Its a pain ... Im getting tired of downloading and wiating hours. I cant believe that everytime i download a file i get a different md5sum what is wrong with my computer? I think theres got to be a problem... OR maybe its my AOL!!! I downloaded the files with an FTP program thinking that would help because they said downloading files from Internet explorer messes up ISOs. I love linux and the screenshots look really nice but i dont think i can burn the CD-s. Im probally gonna have to buy it on E-bay or something When 9.0 final release comes out... -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I want to be a dialup server
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:06:20 -0400 Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not interested in getting in any trouble (and certainly not in losing my cable internet!) so I won't do anything too rotten. Still, most every ISP, broadband or otherwise, explicitly bars one from sharing their connection on a home network-- and I'm sure most all of you do that. Six one, half dozen the other to me. I won't do anything that'd risk getting caught, though, I just want to learn how to do it for learning's sake. Peace. Isaac Not too sure about any other ISP's, but AT$T Broadband knows I share with a home network. Only time I needed to disconnect the home network is when the installer came to update our 1-way cable modem with a 2-way (most common) cable modem. I have gotten online with AT$T's online chat support and always point out I know you don't support home networking (unless you pay for each additional computer) but my questions are related to that and I then just explain my problems in networking terms relitive to the computer sharing the Intewrnet connection. Get this though, I recently had problems with DHCP obtaining an IP from their server, in which I called their support line and explained that my linux couldn't obtain a IP from their server but windows could - she then asks me to boot into windows, and of coarse waiting for like 5 mins (old Pentium 200mhz) she then tells me that their network was experiencing some problems and would not be online till they were fixed. I guess it was just ideal that I was looking at that ole M$ Windblows desktop when told their network isn't working! Turned out they had just updated their DHCP servers and they were now many more hops away and I guess the LEAF Dachstein router/firewall had TTL=16 built in so I had to switch to MD 8.2 to fill the role of router/firewall for the house! Good luck, give it a chance, or ask your ISP if you want to be sure. If they do allow you, do not expect support for anything but the one computer that has the connection with your ISP. Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error message received from Cron Daemon (FIXED)
For anybody interested, after doing a google newsgroup search I was able to track down this duplicate entry for syslog. The duplication happened to be in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog so after removing the second entry all is well. Ah, the joys of Linux! Never give them up and go back to M$ Windblows! On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:36:46 -0500 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the past two days, I have received this message from Cron Daemon with the subject title Cron root@dads nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily; error: syslog:22 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] error message received from Cron Daemon
For the past two days, I have received this message from Cron Daemon with the subject title Cron root@dads nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily; error: syslog:22 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 I remember a couple of nights ago, while playing some yahoo games (java) my MD8.2 system locked up completly, ctrl-alt-del nor ctrl-alt-backspace could recover it so I had to reboot - which in turned fsck had to be run because of some errors it found during boot. That all went smooth (appears to) and mandrake fixed itself?? correct term? But now this message about duplicate entries, what does it mean? I looked thru /etc/cron.daily and did not find any duplicate entries. Contents of /etc/cron.daily; 0anacron logrotate makewhatis.cron medusa.cron msec postfix rpm slocate.cron tmpwatch There is nothing in /var/log/syslog during the time those messages were sent except for the postfix messages about sending the messages. Also appears that syslog hasn't been rotated for some time now, since Aug 4th. Does anybody have an idea what this error message means and how to fix it and also where I can find some listing of what the error codes mean? TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low-profile graphics cards
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:00:14 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Dell Optiplex GX150. It's a good machine - quiet, fast, uses only 145W at full tilt with the flat panel, runs Mandrake effortlessly - but its sole weakness is the onboard i815 graphics chipset, which has no dedicated RAM and is prone to artifacts such as black bars suddenly appearing on and vanishing from the screen. snip I am using a Dell Optiplex GX1p with a nVidia GeForce 64mg DDR PCI card and it works great. Not sure what profile it is but I imagine we have simular cases and the card fits - tight but it fits. It does seem fps is slow for Tribes2 (40 to 50 fps ave.) but the video quality is alot better than windoze running the same game. Hope this helps Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Try setting up X with known values that should work ;) and do not test it during the install. That has happened to me before with various computers - when attempting to test the graphics, the screen goes blank and never recovers. If one of the values does not work after completing the install, go in and manually edit XF86Config-4. Hint, till you are sure you have a working XF86Config-4 file, do not check the box that asks Would you like to start X automatically? during install. You can change that later when all is well. Steve On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:53:42 -0500 Gary K Stinnett Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having troubles installing mandrake 8.2 on my dell laptop (dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500) When I get to the point of setting up my graphics card for xfree the display goes black when testing. I have tried both the 3d support set up and 2d support set up Any info appreciated Thanks, Gary -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to disable eth0 in PROMISC mode
Nope, I do not have arpwatch running. Any other ideas anybody? On 22 Jul 2002 13:19:41 -0700 Seth Zirin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have arpwatch running? I thought I noticed once that arpwatch puts the interface it watches into promiscuous mode. Seth On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 15:30, Steve Jeppesen wrote: As you can see, eth0 is in promisc mode. I have tried ifconfig eth0 -promisc to turn off promisc with no luck. msec level is set to 4, and I am running prelude (which I noticed civilmee stated in another post that prelude could cause this) #1 how do I turn off promisc mode on eth0? -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to hard reset a modem from command line???
Check out this guys page. He has created scripts to do some of what you suggested - only for the Linux Router Project. Not too sure if they work for anything outside of LRP. http://65.29.126.224:81/lrp.html Good Luck! Steve On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:37:57 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am writing a script to run on one of my permanently connected dialup boxes.. it will run every 60 minuites as a crontab.. The two things I am not sure about.. if I want to issue a hard reset to the modem.. how can I do that from a shell script??? Also, what should I do to physically test if a connection is functioning properly? I could try pinging a dns server somewhere and capture the result, grep it or something, but there must be an easier way.. any ideas? (traceroute maybe?) I am gonna add alot more to the script, I want it to test the connection 5 times or more before it assumes its not working. and I want the script to count how many times it issues ifup ppp0 and not do it more then 5 times an hour.. anyone feel like jumping in with some suggestions??? :-) Here is what I have so far: #!/bin/sh # Set some variables. IFCONFIG = `which ifconfig` EXTERNAL = ppp0 # Test if ppp0 is ip: if [ ! -z `$IFCONFIG $EXTERNAL 2/dev/null | grep UP` ]; then # Interface ppp0 is up, # now see if it is working properly. # try contacting a site. ping? traceroute? other? # Yet to do that.. wondering what the best method is... else # ppp0 is down. # Hard reset the modem. (how?) # Start the ppp0 connection. ifup ppp0 fi Thats a long way from finished.. I want the scritp to test the connection 5 times or more.. (I mean try connecting to an external src) before it assumes the connection isn't working properly, its a dialup machine, so if its mailing a big file or something, it might not respond for a while.. so I don't want to assume that one test is definative. Kindest regards Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
